I'm reworking my resume to fit your template i tend to get caught up on
trying to craft the perfect language before moving on and constantly
uh question whether it's highlighting the right things best practices or
strategies or tips for writing bullets to get this done and not drag the
process on love this okay write the damn thing okay
use the sentence formula i give you throw it together
fast okay super fast watch it take the template put your
stuff in okay just version one get it down
all right then go back sleep on it don't like you write it in an hour all right
sleep on it go back to it and look at it all right
now get take another iteration did i did i answer the questions ansi was in andy
was asking me the seven different ones for a bullet
did i did i market myself effectively do i really need this in here
does this tell me anything or add anything if i didn't know what i did
what would this look like i'd give it to my wife i'd
give it to my boyfriend i'd give it to my girlfriend i give it to my dogs
just look at it right what is what kind of stories this tell
and then tweak it and then send it okay it is the for 90 of you the magic
is not in the resume it's where you get your resume and to whom you get your
resume most of my community okay like
demographically the age brackets of the people in the
premium programs meaning so the people that we actually
have record of the people that come the people that tell me how old they are
what they do all that good stuff 90 of you the resume is the least of your
of your worries it really is it's the tactical
steps that you take in getting your resume to the right person
where people are falling short now there are people in my
or in my premium programs that are college students and young professionals
that don't have as much tenure they're not in the late 30s to late 60s
demographic or they're not very senior that's okay too
all these principles still apply and everything i'm telling you about getting
your resume to the right spot still applies okay applicant training
systems are awful all the time to everybody
they're especially awful to everybody right now
so you're sweating this you're sweating this you're sweating this
what you need to do is you need to get a good draft and you need to start testing
it you need to get it out but it if you're sending it into uh through job
scan and you're you're looking at it okay if you're getting
good matches cool if you feel like you're marketing
yourself based on your accomplishments not your activities
good if the language is not perfect don't worry about it don't worry about
it if you get it to the to the people that
are actually looking at it you're gonna be fine
you'll be okay okay it's it's how enticing is it in the
way in which it matches what they need at the moment you
would be amazed you would be absolutely amazed
at what the what we see as recruiters when we would recruit people and the
resumes that they would have and how awful they
were and when we would what we would hand them we would not
edit them or some of them they if they would say look i want to
rewrite my resume what would you do here's a template here's what i would do
then they rewrite them that's fine but the ones that don't want to take the
time they want to take their their old resume and i'd hand it to my
client my client would look at it now don't get me wrong it's calibrated
and adjusted because i handed it to a client who trusts me
but the client will look at it and i they still have to have the right
content in there enough that the client will say oh yeah we want to talk to this
person but the client recognizes that if i have
what i need and they've made a compelling case
even though it's not perfect i'm still going to want to talk to the person
because i'm not going to want to miss the chance of
and pass up on somebody who could have been great for what i need
there's so many things that contribute to whether you get that interview and
yes everything that i'm telling you goes
under the bucket of this is what's in your control
but there are a lot of things that are not within your control you don't know
how badly they need you or that position is
desired you don't know what the priority of that position
is you don't know if they're just looking to replace somebody you don't
know if they've been without somebody for three months and now they all want
to kill each other because they're doing extra work
you have no idea what's happening over here
okay so then it becomes well is it good enough and are you hitting the right
person at the right time a lot of those things
are totally in your control this is totally
in your control because what you should be doing is sending your
resume out right the job searching challenge tactics and then what happens
over here is that totally out of your control
it's totally out of your control so for all you
procrastinators perfectionists and any of you
get it down get it going see what happens
and if you're going the job search challenge route to circulate the resume
you're going to have a lot better luck you really will
you really will
you