Posted on 06/30/2023 9:04:28 AM PDT by CaptainPhilFan
FReepers, a dear family member has been given 2 weeks notice.
Anyone have a recommendation for a seriously good resume writer, who knows current lingo and style and has the ability to highlight skills without writing a novel?
This person is greatly talented in many computer, tech, IT things but has some trouble sorting out his resume.
I appreciate any suggestions you might have, whether it's a person or a program.
Hoping to encourage him to get as many applications out in the next 2 weeks while he still has the job.
Many thanks.
Thank you. I believe he has both, I think Dice hasn’t been helpful, but thank you :)
Thank you. Great insight - not at all fuzzy :)
I’m going to send him the link to this thread and let him read it all, too.
Nowawdays if you are using the job boards, LinkedIn, Dice, Indeed, Monster, and Ziprecruiter, you need a resume 1-4 pages with the right keywords and other formula. There are websites that will score your resume. These are imporant, helpful, but not an end all. I use several, such as Resume Worded (https://resumeworded.com/).
Please make sure there are NO mistakes. Have at least 2 other people proof-read it. And yes, agree with 1 page.
In IT my biggest complaint are Indian recruiters, calling from India. I swear, probably 90% of recruiters are Indian. They never get me work and I suspect the steer it to fellow Indians.
All of my successful work has come from non-Indian recruiters. Just my experience.
I apply to both, just in case.
BTW, a lot of job postings are not real, they are just collecting information. Also, ignore the offered hourly and annual rates, they are always negotiable.
Lastly, be current with applicable laws.
So much more I could share but I'm late to an appointment.
Sorry, one page won’t work for most people unless you are directly out of school. 1-2 page for many, but 3-4 or more may be necessary. Depends on the skills, your job history, and what is needed to share your story. And the applicant scoring programs won’t penalize you for length, but keep in mind that the first page must give enough interest-grabbing detail for the human to look at the subsequent pages.
I appreciate all of this good insight.
It’s very tough out there. And yes, those friggin indian recruiters - I know he doesn’t bother to take their calls anymore except when he feels like playing with them.
Thank you! I’ll see if he wants to make contact.
Begin the resume with a section labeled ‘objective’, then lie by writing. DEI statement. The rest of the resume need not have any meaning. (Only semi-serious about this)
LOL! You may be 100% correct in this. Write it on rainbow paper, too.
I helped a IT friend with his resume a few years ago.
I said not
To waste too much time on the languages you know. So does everyone else.
Instead we focused on what he accomplished.
His resume showed an 18 month project with a major highly work retail company that allows homos in the women’s room. I asked what his project was.
It was to redesign some program that every store used daily that would crash frequently requiring several hours to fix.
He made it so it never crashed and saved several hours a day per store.
We added that to his resume. He got the next job he interviewed for.
For every bullet point, ask “so what?”
In the tech industry most resumes will get pre-screened before anyone’s eyes will see it. I recommend creating several versions depending on the job they are applying for. Not everything needs to be on the resume, but the information that meets the jobs requested requirements should be. Everything must be accurate and true. If anything doesn’t check out, you will never hear a peep again from the employer.
Now as to online. In LinkedIn put as much as you are comfortable to share about your skills and experience. You will get many contacts from recruiters, so you need to figure out which ones are just collecting resumes and who has real jobs. If you get contacted by a company, it should be real and you should try to continue the conversation.
On-line job boards (Indeed, Dice, etc.) have the ability to upload your resume for quick applications. The also have search-bots Those can notify you as soon as a position is posted. I’ve had luck applying within minutes of a posting. One time I got an interview scheduled at about 6:00 on a Sunday. They posted the job, I got notification, I applied, and they called all within about 1/2 an hour. They were impressed that I found it, was ready to apply, and had qualifications they were looking for.
Last piece of advice. It will be a grueling experience, don’t let rejection get you down. It’s typical to only get a handful of hits in 3-6 months of searching. Also, most companies make you apply on-line and basically upload your resume. I copy and paste it in, but always include a word document attachment with a cover letter when applying.
They WILL discriminate.
Yes, absolutely, DEI is so embedded in the application process, some sites require you to list pronouns, they all want to know your race, sex, and so forth.
Quantify and qualify
Active verb tense
>Sorry, one page won’t work for most people unless you are directly out of school. 1-2 page for many, but 3-4 or more may be necessary. Depends on the skills, your job history, and what is needed to share your story. And the applicant scoring programs won’t penalize you for length, but keep in mind that the first page must give enough interest-grabbing detail for the human to look at the subsequent pages.
The problem is that HR professionals take maybe 10 seconds to read your resume and, guess what, if it has a staple or paper clip in it, it’s probably going in the trash.
The best thing you can do is (1) precall and get a NAME to send the resume to directly, (2) talk to that person before you send the resume, and (3) email the person afterwards.
Keeping your name in their mind works wonders.
A 2-week notice of being fired?
Usually accounts are locked and person is walked out the door...
I know. Thing is, this week he led 2 training sessions to teach people ABOVE him how do their jobs better. They may be hoping to get more out of him, but it may also be his piss poor manager forgot to tell him what’s expected of him now.
Agree. I also remove graduation/degree and professional registration, licence & certification years from the engineer resumes I manage to avoid age discrimination.
“For every bullet point, ask “so what?””
THIS@
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