| THINK
ABOUT IT
The
#1 Reason for potential interviews being missed and potential
job offers being lost is the resume!
Your resume is one of the most important documents you own. Birth
and marriage certificates are important. Certainly your educational
degrees are significant. However, all of these are documents,
created once to be unchanged through time, exist only to prove
certain events took place.
Your
resume, on the other hand, is an ongoing chronology of your working
life. It is a road map pointing out where you have been, stops
you have made, the objective of your journey and the route you
choose to follow.
Your
resume is a living document – an evolving and growing record
of each success and failure you have encountered. It is your statement
of what you can do and the yardstick by which your new employer
will measure you in your new job.
Considering
the importance of your resume, do not let it get stale. If you
don’t already have it up-to-date, update it NOW. Do not
wait until your job is lost or that new opportunity shows up.
Then it may be too late. Review it frequently with an eye on tomorrow.
Remember,
your resume is one of hundreds, if not thousands, that someone
has to sort through every day. The garbage can or delete key is
only two seconds away from that first glance.
So,
how do you escape this fate and stand out from the rest? Not by
being fancy, crafty, or slick, but with a straightforward format
that is easy to read and shows quickly and clearly how you can
help your potential new employer.
Remember,
the reason a hiring manager is looking at resumes is
BECAUSE HE OR SHE HAS A NEED.
It
could be the need to:
-
INCREASE
– profit, satisfaction, confidence, convenience,
productivity, pleasure
-
IMPROVE
– customer relations, employee relations, image,
status, earnings
-
PROTECT
– investment, self, employees, property, money
-
MAKE
– money, satisfied customers, good impression, space
-
REDUCE
– risk, investment, expenses, competition, worry,
trouble
-
SAVE
– time, money, energy
or, even more likely, a combination of several of these.
HOW
DO YOU MEET THOSE NEEDS?
…If
your resume addresses those needs both figuratively and quantitatively
as related to your industry
IT WILL BE READ
…If
your resume reveals the results of applying your skills to satisfy
a need
YOU WILL GET THE INTERVIEW
If
you can show success--
YOU WILL GET HIRED.
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