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Your resume summary is prime real estate when you write your resume.
That's why you need to make sure that it is lit,
which is exactly what I'm going to teach you about in today's video.
If you stay all the way to the end,
I actually have a free resume template for you to download.
If you're ready to write your LIT professional summary,
click that like button and let's get right into it.
The lit resume summary formula is. Label, Ideals,
and the Triumphant Talking points.
Let's deep dive into what each one of those are.
Let's begin with your label. Your label is actually pretty straightforward.
It's the job title that you are actually applying for.
This is super simple if you are currently doing that role in another job to
proclaim yourself as such.
I know that some people feel a little bit weird if they are transitioning
to a new role to declare themselves as already encompassing that role.
But the thing is, if you don't declare that label for yourself,
others are not going to perceive you as actually owning that label and that job
title. The thing is if you don't claim that label for yourself,
other people are really going to struggle to see you having that job title.
That's why it needs to occupy prime real estate on your resume within your lit
summary.
That's why it needs to occupy prime real estate when you write your resume.
For example, if you are a digital marketer,
this is a great place to name your niche.
So while your professional title might be digital marketer,
depending on the role that you are actually applying for,
you might say social media manager or email marketing manager.
No matter what it is,
you want to make sure that this is tailored for each application that
you are actually submitting so that it reflects the role that you are actually
trying to achieve. Once you've done that,
you are going to move into the second component which is your ideals.
All ideals are are really key words and adjectives that you would use to
describe yourself. They may also be the values that are really important to you,
or things that you are actually known for or you want to be known for.
Another way to think about it is think of the words that people would use when
they're describing you.
If you really have no idea what your ideals are,
I do actually have a great video which I'll link in the description bar down
below. That is going to help you uncover your ideals
and the words that you're going to integrate into your LIT resume summary.
Ideally you are going to have three to five ideals or keywords that you are
integrating.
And they really should be the same words that are used in job description
for the job that you are actually applying to. For example,
if one of your keywords is inventive,
and the word innovative is used repeatedly in the job description of the job
that you want,
you want to integrate the word innovative into your resume in place of
inventive. The reason why I would swap those out is
they're essentially getting at the same thing,
but you're optimizing your vocabulary to the vocabulary of your dream company
or the company that you're applying to work with.
So let's just say when you look to the job description that they have
collaborative,
attentive and customer centric as three keywords that they use repeatedly in the
job description. And for the purpose of this example,
let's say that you are already using collaborative on attentive.
Score! but you're not matching on the customer centric.
However you do describe yourself as service oriented.
When we peel back the layers of the onion on both of those terms,
they're really getting at the same thing.
They're both getting at putting the needs of the customer first
to make sure that client satisfaction is paramount.
So in this case you would be totally cool to swap out service oriented with
customer centric, because they are saying the same thing.
They're parallel enough that your values and the things that are important to
you
and the things that you are known for do map directly to what the hiring company
is actually looking for.
With our ideal squared away we are going to transition into our triumphant
talking points.
Your triumphant talking points are absolutely the accomplishments that you are
known for. What are you famous for?
Why does your boss's boss's boss know your name? And whenever possible,
when you are developing your triumph and talking point for your resume summary,
you want to make sure that you're incorporating metrics.
You know that I love when you bring receipts.
The reason why this is so important,
especially right here is is again,
because this is the very top of the resume,
and it likely is going to be surrounded by at least some white space.
It is highly scannable.
Which means that the recruiter and your interviewer are going to
have their eye drawn to whatever you actually feature in your resume summary.
So when you integrate a triumph, a talking point,
something that you're super excited and you know is going to titillate them in
the interview,
it is going to actually help not only make you stand out as a candidate,
but it is also going to help you frame the conversation that you have
when they bring you in for an interview.
So when you are customizing your resume,
before you put the application in for a job,
I want you to really stop and think about your triumphant talking point
that you're including in your resume summary. Ask yourself,
based on the job description and the research that you've done on the company,
is this something that is going to make them stop in their tracks to call me
right away because they know that I am perfect based on this one thing. Okay,
maybe not based on the one thing,
but think about something that is going to grab their attention sufficiently
based on what they know they need for them to pay attention to the rest of your
resume, and not just do the six second scan that recruiters are known for.
So what does this look like when we actually tie it all together? Well,
I don't want to leave you hanging.
So let me actually just read off an example to you,
and let me put it up on screen.
Look, even if you know nothing about client experience,
you already know that that is a super impressive and attention grabbing resume
summary. And that is why you need it to be LIT.
And this is a standard that you are working for.
If you haven't already downloaded my free resume template,
I actually give you the verbiage template to create your lit summary.
You can get yours at capdecasolutions.com/resume
The thing that I love most about the LIT summary formula,
it's not just another 'blah, blah blah, pass me over' invitation.
It is something that is going to hook and it is going to convert them
from looking at your resume, to getting you on the phone,
to inviting you in for an interview. If you play all your cards right.
However,
for this to really work and to make sure that they're going to be calling you,
you need to make sure that the rest of your resume is incredible and full
of AWEbombs to figure out the step by step process to do that,
and find out what an AWEbomb is, check out this video right here.
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