Use the Magic Resume Calculator to save time, and don’t worry how your few resumes are formatted. Today, employers waste your time and theirs, too, simply because they can. Back before we had the Internet, phones, and reliable mail, people had a great incentive to pursue only jobs for which they were recommended: They couldn’t afford to waste their time. Your competitors will almost always come in second.ĭisclosure: I didn’t invent the Magic Resume Calculator. What matters most to an employer or headhunter reading a resume is that it came via a personal introduction from someone we trust.
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(See the section of How Can I Change Careers? titled “Put A Free Sample in Your Resume.”) In general, a resume by itself is a dumb piece of paper (or e-mail), no matter how it’s formatted.
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(This is how to profitably use the 95% of your time saved.) Figuring that out is your challenge don’t make it mine. The hard work lies in editing your message down to only the information that will matter to me.
Be ready to discuss the work I need done, exactly how you’ll do it, and how the outcome will be good for me. A very helpful book is Milo Frank’s How to Get Your Point Across in 30 Seconds or Less. My advice: Whether you’re calling an employer or submitting a proposal about a job, learn how to make a compelling presentation, and make it brief. You have to explain it to us quickly and clearly. Why? Because we don’t have time to figure out what to do with you. If your cover letter is a boring, empty pitch about how available you are, and your resume is a recitation of your experience, I won’t spend any time on it. Is the information useful? Let’s say you get my attention through someone I know. That’s how hiring managers and I save 95% of our time.Ģ. I won’t open your resume, and what’s in it doesn’t matter. In a contest between a trusted referral and your blind resume, you will always lose. So, why not do it? Because it’s really stupid. I know, I know: It’s just so much easier to send resumes out in bulk anywhere you find jobs posted…. Because this requires real work and effort, most people skirt past it. This single piece of advice is lost on almost everyone. Get the point? Don’t send a resume to someone you don’t know who doesn’t know you. I’ll bet you don’t pick up hitchhikers, or give telemarketers your credit card number, or ask strangers for money. Make contact through someone the hiring manager knows. My advice to job hunters: Get introduced. The people I’m most likely to talk with have been referred to me by other people I know and trust. That’s not to say I like unsolicited phone calls. I have no time to waste with people who have not taken the trouble to track me down and talk with me before they send me a piece of paper. Is the sender someone I know? If not, it gets deleted. Here’s what matters most to me when I receive a resume:ġ. You could put it in the body of an e-mail, in an attachment, or on a piece of paper. To a smart employer (where a human is doing the reading), formatting doesn’t matter if the information is valuable. That is, if you really want to compete for a machine’s attention.Īs a headhunter, what matters to me is whether your resume demonstrates your ability to do the job and to add profit to the company’s bottom line. So your first step is to call the company and ask exactly what format the machine prefers. When you submit a resume, whether via e-mail or on paper, it’s reasonable to assume that an employer will shove it through resume scanning equipment. Obvious, huh? Well, then why aren’t you already doing that? How to format your resume To maximize your chances of success, send resumes only to people you know who know you.
The Magic Resume Calculator tells us you can save 95% of your time by sending out 95% fewer resumes. Now let’s consider the next number: What percentage of the time did you submit a resume or application to someone you actually know, who knows you? I’m guessing maybe 5%. Pretty pathetic, eh? Yah, that’s why you’re so frustrated, and it’s why you’re asking for advice. I’ll stick with 95% for this example, based on my experience with all the job seekers I know. What percentage resulted in no job offers? The Calculator needs to know the number of resumes you’ve already sent out, and the number of job applications you’ve completed, in the past several months.
Nick’s Replyįirst let’s use my Magic Resume Calculator to figure out how many resumes you should send out. When you reply via e-mail to a job ad, what is the preferred method of sending a cover letter and a resume? A formatted document, or plain text? Many don’t specify. In the DecemAsk The Headhunter Newsletter, a job seeker asks how to format a resume for best results:
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