Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a career and leadership coach who worked as a recruiter for more than 40 years. He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with more than 1400 episodes and his newest show, “No BS Coaching Advice.” He is a member of The Forbes Coaches Council. “No BS JobSearch Advice Radio” was recently named a Top 10 podcast for job search. JobSearchTV.com was also recently named a Top 10 YouTube channel for job search.
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EP 1392 “The two question exercise” and how it will improve your resume in a few seconds. An interview with Lauren Milligan.
ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a career and leadership coach who worked as a recruiter for more than 40 years. He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with more than 1300 episodes and his newest show, “No BS Coaching Advice.” He is a member of The Forbes Coaches Council. “No BS JobSearch Advice Radio” was recently named a Top 10 podcast for job search. JobSearchTV.com was also recently named a Top 10 YouTube channel for job search.
Are you interested in 1:1 coaching, interview coaching, advice about networking more effectively, how to negotiate your offer or leadership coaching? Connect with me on LinkedIn. Then message me to schedule an initial complimentary session.
JobSearchCoachingHQ.com offers great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.
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EP 1392 “The two question exercise” and how it will improve your resume in a few seconds. An interview with Lauren Milligan.
ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a career and leadership coach who worked as a recruiter for more than 40 years. He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with more than 1300 episodes and his newest show, “No BS Coaching Advice.” He is a member of The Forbes Coaches Council. “No BS JobSearch Advice Radio” was recently named a Top 10 podcast for job search. JobSearchTV.com was also recently named a Top 10 YouTube channel for job search.
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Resumes. Can't live with them. Can't live without them. I have done a lot of videos about writing resumes but I want to offer a few basic points that would coalesce some of those ideas.
Never ever use a template. Templates make you look ordinary; it cheapens the look of the document. Follow the format but you don't actually want to use one. One reason not to use a template is because, if you're going to submit a resume through an applicant tracking system, some have trouble parsing fields in templates. It also becomes more difficult for third-party recruiters to do editing.
"What do you mean? Why can't they just do copy and paste?"
It's because the frames that certain fields are put into make it hard to do that. In addition, you're also asking people to waste time they don't really have.
So, ditch the templates.
Next, instead of listing, "Objectives," just know that no one really cares and if you want them to care, put it into your cover email (you don't send a cover letter as a separate attachment. You put it into the message area of an email). You use that to talk about some of the things you are looking for in a job.
If you are used to using objectives, replace it with, "Summary." Make sure the summary is keyword rich, specifically with the right keywords for the type of role that you perform and the kind of successes that you've had. Again, when people are looking for resumes on job boards, when they are searching for them in applicant tracking systems or on LinkedIn if they are trying to find you, they are searching by keywords. They are not simply scrolling through resumes.
When writing your resume, don't just simply focus on your responsibilities, focus on responsibilities AND results that you have gotten, quantified by money saved were money earned.
These are a few the small changes I want to encourage you to make to your resume. So, to summarize:
1. Get rid of templates
2. Replace objectives with keyword rich summaries
3. Spent time on responsibilities and results, the impact of what you did, quantified by money saved and money earned.
ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a career and leadership coach who worked as a recruiter for more than 40 years. He is the host of “No
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with more than 1200 episodes and his newest show, “No BS Coaching Advice” and is a member of The Forbes Coaches Council.
Are you interested in 1:1 coaching, interview coaching, advice about networking more effectively, how to negotiate your offer or leadership coaching? Connect with me on LinkedIn. Then message me to schedule an initial complimentary session.
JobSearchCoachingHQ.com offers great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.
If you want to know how to win more interviews, order “Winning Interviews.” You’ll learn how to win phone interviews, in-person interviews, the best question to ask on any interview and more.
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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a career and leadership coach who worked as a recruiter for more than 40 years. He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with more than 1300 episodes and his newest show, “No BS Coaching
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Advice.” He is a member of The Forbes Coaches Council.
Are you interested in 1:1 coaching, interview coaching, advice about networking more effectively, how to negotiate your offer or leadership coaching? Connect with me on LinkedIn. Then message me to schedule an initial complimentary session.
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Today, I want to talk with you about your resume. There are a lot of people I know to create these beautiful documents and hire people who do great work for them. Then, they send the same resume out over and over again, blaming the resume for the problem. The resume is the problem, but. The resume is not the cause of the problem. I want to give Jenny Foss at TheMuse.com credit for this title. She used the article that she did called, "Six Job Search Tips That Are So Basic That People Forget Them." It is a good article. And, she is right in saying that it is basic stuff. The basic stuff I want to remind you about is (this was one of her headings) your resume is not a tattoo. What Do I Mean, "Your Resume Is Not a Tattoo?" It is not something that is in ink that can never be changed (by the way, you can change a tattoo, but that's a different conversation). We tend to think of a resume as being a document -- period. The same is true of your LinkedIn profile, too. But there are times to change a resume because you want to emphasize one component of your experience or another. This will be true of your LinkedIn profile, too, if you want to draw in certain types of work. Don't just treated it as A DOCUMENT. If anything, what you should be doing is uploading this enormous one onto job boards and, in the more recent years, emphasize things that you have done into greater length and minimize the older work. After all, how interested are you going to be in doing work that you did in the Stone Ages? You want to be doing work like your more current work. Focusing on the current stuff. Make it very long and detailed. Uploaded it to a job board. Then, when you are submitting a resume for a job, when you are a hunter applying for positions or networking with individuals, you want to tailor your resume to what that firm or hiring manager is looking for. Turn your resume into a living breathing document, rather than having it become a "one-size-fits-all" document – – because one size doesn't fit all in resumes. You may have heard me say many times that, like the broken watch that is right twice a day, you will get some interviews from that one resume but miss out on far more. That's because you know what you've done and your resume doesn't say clearly enough for anyone else to know it. After all, the reader doesn't know you and if you have done X for that firm, you have probably done Y too, unless you tell them, unless you put it in your resume. Unless they can find that doing keyword searching in your resume or on your LinkedIn profile, they are not going to believe you have that experience. Make the fit obvious. Adapt your resume to particular needs and then send it out.
ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a career and leadership coach who worked as a recruiter for more than 40 years. He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with more than 1300
Jeff Altman – , The Big Game Hunter – Job Hunting Coach – Job Search Coach
episodes and his newest show, “No BS Coaching Advice.” He is a member of The Forbes Coaches Council.
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These are is a slightly different questions and I want to address both of them. They asked of me independently and I think each should be addressed in of themselves.
So, first of all, let's start with a resume. How you get your resume noticed? Normally, when someone says that to me, they are usually in the phase of posting it on job boards but let me just work with the assumption that, maybe, it's not just a job board. Maybe what you've done is contact the hring manager, you have mailed delete it to he or she; maybe you're in a situation where you have it on a website. You want to make sure that it's noticed. Just how do you do that?
Understand who the user is? Who is the person who is looking at the resume In order to figure out how to make it noticed. Since the person who is looking at the resume is someone who's trying to hire someone , that's your way of understanding it.
You need to have a resume that demonstrates your (#1) fit for a job; (#2) is keyword and SEO rich in order to demonstrate that you have the skills that they are looking. So that's the obvious one and the easy to control.
How to get your LinkedIn profile noticed is a little bit different because people look at LinkedIn profiles for different reasons. Number one is they are curious. They are curious because you've done something on LinkedIn that piques their interest. For example, you've written a blog article. You posted something in a group. There is something that you found on the web that you shared on your on your homepage in the feed there and your followers decided to share it or they just decided to look at it of themselves because they aren't really close to you so what you are doing is thinking of LinkedIn as a marketing vehicle.
In the case of a resume, as my friend, Perry Newman, says, you are the you wants to be hunted there. So you're submitting something to apply for a job. You are the hunter.
On LinkedIn, you are the person who wants to be hunted. You have to do things that make you attractive. So like the job board scenario, like the other ones I mentioned, you, yes, you do want to have a profile is keyword rich. You want that so that it attracts the recruiters amongst the users.
But if you want to find the hiring managers reaching out to you, if you want to build your network and develop relationships, the actions that you take in other places will draw people to you. So following a particular firm, joining a particular group and participating regularly, writing articles for LinkedIn normally will increase your traffic, particularly, if in your signature, you include your LinkedIn profile and encourages people to reach out to you.
Again slightly different motivations and the results will cause you to increase your traffic.
Hope you found this helpful and have a great day. By the way, I want you to do is visit JobSearchCoachingHQ.com. I'm the head coach there. I'll answer your questions there. The site has curated information to help you find work.
ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a career and leadership coach who worked as a recruiter for more than 40 years. He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with more than 1300 episodes and his newest show, “No BS Coaching Advice.” He is a member of The Forbes Coaches Council.
Are you interested in 1:1 coaching, interview coaching, advice about networking more effectively, how to negotiate your offer or leadership coaching? Connect with me on LinkedIn. Then message me to schedule an initial complimentary session.
JobSearchCoachingHQ.com offers great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.
If you want to know how to win more interviews, order “Winning Interviews.” You’ll learn how to win phone interviews, in-person interviews, the best question to ask on any interview and more.
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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a career and leadership coach who worked as a recruiter for more than 40 years. He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with more than 1300 episodes and his newest show, “No BS Coaching
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Advice.” He is a member of The Forbes Coaches Council.
Are you interested in 1:1 coaching, interview coaching, advice about networking more effectively, how to negotiate your offer or leadership coaching? Connect with me on LinkedIn. Then message me to schedule an initial complimentary session.
JobSearchCoachingHQ.com offers great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.
If you want to know how to win more interviews, order “Winning Interviews.” You’ll learn how to win phone interviews, in-person interviews, the best question to ask on any interview and more.
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Today, I want to talk with you about your resume. There are a lot of people I know to create these beautiful documents and hire people who do great work for them. Then, they send the same resume out over and over again, blaming the resume for the problem. The resume is the problem, but. The resume is not the cause of the problem. I want to give Jenny Foss at TheMuse.com credit for this title. She used the article that she did called, "Six Job Search Tips That Are So Basic That People Forget Them." It is a good article. And, she is right in saying that it is basic stuff. The basic stuff I want to remind you about is (this was one of her headings) your resume is not a tattoo. What Do I Mean, "Your Resume Is Not a Tattoo?" It is not something that is in ink that can never be changed (by the way, you can change a tattoo, but that's a different conversation). We tend to think of a resume as being a document -- period. The same is true of your LinkedIn profile, too. But there are times to change a resume because you want to emphasize one component of your experience or another. This will be true of your LinkedIn profile, too, if you want to draw in certain types of work. Don't just treated it as A DOCUMENT. If anything, what you should be doing is uploading this enormous one onto job boards and, in the more recent years, emphasize things that you have done into greater length and minimize the older work. After all, how interested are you going to be in doing work that you did in the Stone Ages? You want to be doing work like your more current work. Focusing on the current stuff. Make it very long and detailed. Uploaded it to a job board. Then, when you are submitting a resume for a job, when you are a hunter applying for positions or networking with individuals, you want to tailor your resume to what that firm or hiring manager is looking for. Turn your resume into a living breathing document, rather than having it become a "one-size-fits-all" document – – because one size doesn't fit all in resumes. You may have heard me say many times that, like the broken watch that is right twice a day, you will get some interviews from that one resume but miss out on far more. That's because you know what you've done and your resume doesn't say clearly enough for anyone else to know it. After all, the reader doesn't know you and if you have done X for that firm, you have probably done Y too, unless you tell them, unless you put it in your resume. Unless they can find that doing keyword searching in your resume or on your LinkedIn profile, they are not going to believe you have that experience. Make the fit obvious. Adapt your resume to particular needsand then send it out.
ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a career and leadership coach who worked as a recruiter for more than 40 years. He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with more than 1300
Jeff Altman – , The Big Game Hunter – Job Hunting Coach – Job Search Coach
episodes and his newest show, “No BS Coaching Advice.” He is a member of The Forbes Coaches Council.
Are you interested in 1:1 coaching, interview coaching, advice about networking more effectively, how to negotiate your offer or leadership coaching? Connect with me on LinkedIn. Then message me to schedule an initial complimentary session.
JobSearchCoachingHQ.com offers great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.
If you want to know how to win more interviews, order “Winning Interviews.” You’ll learn how to win phone interviews, in-person interviews, the best question to ask on any interview and more.
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I'm back with an almost stupid resume mistakes people make way too often. Now, understand, I read a couple of hundred resumes a day. I have to do the quick and even if I did them slowly it wouldn't matter with regard to this mistake.
What's that mistake? Easy. You are being vague in your resume and not being clear about what you've done that relates the position that you applying for.
I had a situation yesterday. The guys sent me his resume. It was okay. As I'm talking to the guy, he tells me he interviewed with my client the year ago for job completely unrelated to what I'm looking for now.
There is a message in that.
Where is his real strength? This resume suggests one thing; his previous resume suggested something different. This goes back to that sort of thing where, yeah, bots every firm has an applicant tracking system where they’re reviewing whether or not you've applied to them before what happened.
And that's what happened with this firm. They said, “He only has about 2 years of experience. According to his resume, but we saw him a year ago for this type of role. How strong you really be?”
So, recognize that your vagueness is no longer an asset for you. Your vagueness is going to cost you. The fact that you tailor resume . . . If you don't take into consideration the fact that you applied to the firm previously is good to cause you to get rejected anyway.
Wherever you are in your career, you have to be crystal clear about what you've done and how you went about doing it. Money saved; money earned. Without covering that, basically you are throwing out a vague resume. It is going to get you rejected or worse, ignored.
ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a career and leadership coach who worked as a recruiter for more than 40 years. He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with more than 1300 episodes and his newest show, “No BS Coaching Advice.” He is a member of The Forbes Coaches Council.
Are you interested in 1:1 coaching, interview coaching, advice about networking more effectively, how to negotiate your offer or leadership coaching? Connect with me on LinkedIn. Then message me to schedule an initial complimentary session.
JobSearchCoachingHQ.com offers great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.
If you want to know how to win more interviews, order “Winning Interviews.” You’ll learn how to win phone interviews, in-person interviews, the best question to ask on any interview and more.
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