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Page Headers | NoBSJobSearchAdvice.com

May 18, 2019May 18, 2019 by Jeff

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EP 1154 Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter explains why you shouldn’t use a page header on your resume and offers other advice to help you avoid making mistakes.

Summary

I just got a resume from someone who made such a dumb mistake and it's so unnecessary to make this mistake. I thought I would do a quick video for YouTube about it.

So back in the Stone ages when I first started recruiting people would indicate the page number for each page of their resume. So, it might, flush left, have their name; flush right it might say, page 2 of 3. The reason for that was people received resumes in the mail and you wanted to make sure that if the pages were separated from one another, you could easily compile them and puts them in right sequence. That's the reason for that from the Stone Ages.

Online, WHO CARES! Really, who cares now that I am now up to page 2 of 3? But here's why you should care and not do it any longer. And that is because everyone's system is formatted in a different way and, although on your screen, it may be page 2 of 3 or 1 of 2 as in this case, what unfortunately happens way too often is that the page break on my side shows that there are 10 lines of page 1 on page 2, that that I’ve got the guy’s name flush left and flush right page 2 of 2.

Why would you put yourself in the position of having some potential mistake occur.

I don't think embedding is going to help because embedding is one of the biggest annoyances recruiters have because, so often, what you've embedded can't be parsed and thus we can't get it into our systems to be able to find you in the future.

So, number 1, forget about the page numbering system. It's a throwback that's completely unnecessary. As a reminder, because I have done videos about this before, do not embed anything in your resume. It causes way too many inconveniences for the reader for their legal obligation to track your resume.

Understand, firms have tracking responsibility and if they don't comply, they can be in violation of federal law. Recruiters want to track everything however you think we can sit there and type in everyone's name, address and phone number and make sure (because this happened earlier today) that your ZIP Code is on the resume so we know where you are? That’s because if you want to search for you in the future, let’s say I have a search for and SAP person with experience with a particular module in a particular location, unless I have the ZIP Code I can’t find you.

That’s because the way the search runs is do I really want to talk to all the people in Dubuque with that background? No, I want to talk to the ones in Florida with that background and I use ZIP Code to be able to find you.

So those are come up a couple my pet peeves that got triggered by this mistake that someone made by numbering their pages.

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 what more than 40 years. He is the host of

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One Page Resumes or Longer Resumes? | JobSearchTV.com

May 16, 2019May 16, 2019 by Jeff

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I was having a conversation with a pro resume writer today who advocated for one page resumes.

Here’s my thinking.

Summary

I was speaking with a professional resume writer today who is going to appear on my podcast, “Job Search Radio” and the subject of resume length came up in our conversation. She is a big proponent of the one-page resume and her position is that, in her format, where she's got a two column resume, that (#1) is what the document should only one page and that (#2) is your address and such should be on the bottom.

Here’s my thinking. I’m not a big fan of this concept. I’m supposed to see a copy of her template later today. I may change my mind. If so, I will do another video on this, but my belief about resumes is, frankly, the resume should be as long as it needs to be. I'm not looking at a 10 page resume; they never need to be that long. After all, who needs to know what you did back in the Stone Ages?

What you need to think about is “what's going to make case for your candidacy with this employer? What's going to demonstrate that experience and that you faced a particular problem, the actions that you took, the results that you achieved and some measure of what the impact was of your work period” so problem-action-result-measurement / metrics. Something that demonstrates your work is of value to your organization in terms of money saved / money earned or comparing you with others to show that you are an extraordinary employee. Other than that, the length is irrelevant.

I do want to encourage the more relevant stuff to be on the top of page 1 or early on page 1 because, frankly, most people or never going to get further than page down one and maybe page down two. That's it. If they ever print that out, which is a minor miracle that happens, they are not going to see it.

The “however” is, if they are interviewing you, they are going to scroll your resume, looking for additional value and, as such, yes, they may find something more than two-page downs along the way. However, you need to keep the relevant data as early on page 1 as you possibly can for a couple of reasons. Number one is employers skim resumes. Recruiters skim resumes. You want them to be able to find the relevant information quickly on page 1.

Number two. Applicant tracking systems. Often, they try to figure out relevance by how early in the document you demonstrate the experience. So, if it's on page 3 , they think it's antique information, so you always want to get up is early on page one as possible to avoid rejection without human intervention by a system that's been trained to evaluate not just simply whether the skill appears in the document, but by how early it appears in the document in order to determine relevance.

At the end of the day, length isn’t that important. Demonstrating the fit really is. Demonstrating that you are qualified really is. That involves, as I've been saying, it may involve a longer resume. It certainly involves tailored resumes, not just simply sending the same generic resume over and over again to every job you apply for as though that one resumes is going to get you in the door. After all, has that been working for you guy? Sister, are you getting results? Probably not.

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 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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Make Your Résumé Stand Out | JobSearchTV.com

May 3, 2019May 3, 2019 by Jeff

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter offers a simple suggestion to make your résumé stand out from others.

Summary

I want to talk with you today about updating your resume. Now, I'm not talking about changing fonts or things like that. But think in terms of what would be attractive to someone looking at your credentials that would cause you to stand out.
Now, if you think of some of the things that are available on LinkedIn, for example, you have the ability to connect SlideShare presentations, you can refer to books you've written or read, even refer to a whole host of additional places where you have a digital footprint, why not include a link to SlideShare presentations on your resume? Why not reference your YouTube videos and your channel on your resumes? You have a footprint that allows people to get a clearer picture of you and your credentials than any sort of two-page resume can do.
Now what to do with it, you might just simply, at the end of your resume, have a section that talks about your digital footprint. You can refer to it as I hadn't really thought about this, you can refer to this as "More Information." I think that's a simple way to do it. "For more information, go to my channel on YouTube, and then, have a URL that takes people there for "View My SlideShare presentations," and they obviously have to be good or else who's sending them to your death.
So, recognize that there's more that you can be doing with your resume at this time that's going to give people a sense of what your real capabilities are.
Have you ever spoken at a conference? You can have a copy of the speech there. You can also have a link to your website, where there is a portfolio of your work available. Think creatively about the things that you're doing online. They're useful for an employer or recruiter to find out about you, and then have links on your website that is going to direct people there so they can have that "aha moment" about you and your credentials.

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JobSearchaGram: Resumes

April 20, 2019April 20, 2019 by Jeff

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A short video about resumes.

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The Story Behind The Story in Your Resume | NoBSJobSearchAdvice.com

March 5, 2019April 5, 2019 by Jeff

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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 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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The Story Behind The Story in Your Resume | NoBSJobSearchAdvice.com

March 5, 2019March 5, 2019 by Jeff

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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 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.

If you have questions for me, call me through the Magnifi app for iOS (video) or PrestoExperts.com (phone)

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3 Tips About Resumes| JobSearchRadio.com

February 13, 2019February 13, 2019 by Jeff

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Here are a few reminders you can use when writing your resume.

Summary

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

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.

If you have questions for me, call me through the Magnifi app for iOS (video) or PrestoExperts.com (phone)

Connect with me on LinkedIn. Like me on Facebook.

Join and attend my classes on Skillshare. Become a premium member and get 2 months free.

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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.

Would you like to talk through a salary negotiation or potential negotiation you’re involved with? Order and schedule time with me.

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You, The Product and the Importance of Resume Differentiation | NoBSJobSearchAdvice.com

January 20, 2019February 5, 2019 by Jeff

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EP1350 “Me, too resumes” often are resumes that fail to get results.

Summary

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Advice.” He is a member of The Forbes Coaches Council.

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Your Resume Is Not a Tattoo | NoBSJobSearchAdvice.com

January 15, 2019February 1, 2019 by Jeff

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EP 1345 I think people make this mistake, way too often and cost themselves opportunities.

Summary

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.

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episodes and his newest show, “No BS Coaching Advice.” He is a member of The Forbes Coaches Council.

If you have questions for me, call me through the Magnifi app for iOS (video) or PrestoExperts.com (phone)

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of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.” If you are starting your search, order, “Get Ready for the Job Jungle.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

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Would you like to talk through a salary negotiation or potential negotiation you’re involved with? Order and schedule time with me.

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How Do I Get (My Resume/My LinkedIn Profile) Noticed? | NoBSJobSearchAdvice.com

January 3, 2019January 23, 2019 by Jeff

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EP 1333 How do I get my resume noticed? How do I get my LinkedIn profile noticed? Similar questions with slightly different answers.

Summary

How I get my resume or LinkedIn profile noticed?

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.

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