Mistakes in your résumé can damage or even kill your career. Because a sub-standard résumé can prevent you from ever being called for a job interview.
With no job interview, no career.
But don’t worry! If your résumé isn’t 100% perfect, you’re not alone.
And in fact if somebody else has these mistakes, then you have an advantage.
Here is the third of five articles talking about the biggest mistakes in a resume.
Mistake #3: Focusing on responsibilities instead of results.
While it’s important to tell the reader what you’ve done at each job, it’s far more important to spend most of your time talking about what you accomplished and how you made yourself valuable to past employers.
It’s easy to do. Just think back on your daily duties. What good things happened when you did your job well? Write them down! Focus on results. The more specific, the better!
Never saying this:
Responsibilities included (but were not limited to) implementation of policies and procedures, training of new employees, interfacing with subordinates and vendors, and light correspondence duties.
Say this:
Worked with staff and vendors to increase product turnover by 15% and sales by 23% in five months. Also trained 14 new employees, five of whom were rapidly promoted.
Action Item:
Go through each and every line in your resume and make every statement into a results statement. If you can use a percentage or a dollar figure , then use it.
If you can’t find a number – then make it clear what change was implemented.
Just remember, any number you put in your resume – you will be asked to describe and detail during the job interview.
What do you think the single biggest thing that slows down your job hunt?
Its not what you think.
Its not that there are no jobs out there.
Its not that people are not calling you back.
Its the fact you are not taking positive action every single day.
Everyday there are more articles posted here. And most job hunters do not know how to make use of them. They don’t seem them as practical or they say “Its not for me!”. I could not disagree more strongly.
I was wondering why they thought that way, then I figured it out.
Lets start with what I know, I get calls, e-mails, and people contact me on LinkedIn.
I have helped people from United States, Canada, India, France, England and almost every other county in the world.
Job hunters live in big cities and small towns. I have spoken to both men and woman. I help people with college degrees and post-graduate degrees. People who earn $50,000, $75,000 and many who earn over $100,000 a year.
I am asked daily to help people find a job. And I really want to help. I really want 10,000 people writing a testimonial that I helped them find a job. I am betting that it will get me on Oprah. This is my selfish reason for helping you get a job.
Each of the people who ask me for help are very good at what they do. They are executives, they are managers and they are technical experts. They work in the back office, they are in operations, they are in sales, they are in marketing, they are in legal.
I have been asked for help from people in many different industries.
All these job hunters need help and I have given it. ZaleTabakman.ca has hundreds of articles with different practical alternatives to “Click and Apply” job hunting. I am going to add articles daily until I reach my 10,000 testimonials.
Here is the answer to the question about why they say “This won’t work for me!”.
The one thing that is always missing in everyone who asks for my help, is that they do not have a good detailed and powerful job hunting plan.
Once you have a plan, its an almost an instant change in attitude and effectiveness.
The difference is phenomenal between job hunters with a plan and job hunters with out a plan.
It doesn’t matter if you have 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, and even 26 years of experience.
The results is a difference in months of unemployment and a serious reduction in stress.
A job hunting plan you can trust in significantly reduces the time you are unemployed and the amount of stress you feel when you are unemployed.
A job hunter with a plan knows what to every day at job hunting, every tactics and tips I provide can be used and evaluated.
- Job hunters with a plan know what to do everyday.
- They can predict how long the job hunt will take, because they know what they have to do.
- A job hunter with a plan can decide which tips are appropriate for them.
- They know who to contact on LinkedIn, Facebook, or any where else.
- They know what to say when contacting somebody on LinkedIn to get the person to help them.
- They know where to network.
- They know what to say when they are networking.
- They know what to expect when networking.
- They know how to change a resume for a particular job.
- They know how to write a perfect cover letter.
- They know what to say in the job interview.
You must have a job hunting plan.
I want you to watch the following video and make sure your plan includes everything you see here.
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I’m very tempted to check this and are these all for $50 (as seen on videos)?
Yes.
The package is excellent.
Zale