Are you looking for a job? Tough to do without a resume. Now I have read, okay, let me be fair, I have looked at least 25,000 resumes. A lot of my career has been as a recruiter. So I have looked at all these resumes. And so I just want to pass along some tips to you that might be of help. The very first one is, notice I said, I look at resumes, I don't read resumes. Nobody has time to read resumes. So when you are writing a resume, you write a resume for people who are not going to read it. So what that means is you have to less words, make them a little bigger, make them simple and easy. Don't have a phrase that goes to a second line. Just make it so they can just see bullet points and they go, I am interested in that. It's almost like little miniature billboards when they see the paper.
Well what do the billboard say? Well the first thing that you might guess, would be your name. But if your name is William Fitzgerald Qualowich III but everybody calls you Willy. Just put Willy Qualowich. Put the name that you use. So they don't have to make an adjustment when they interview from this really long name, to something that's really very simple. So that's the first thing is your name, nice and simple.
Secondly, is your e-mail. The ideal e-mail address to have underneath your name has your name. So it says willy.qualowich@figureoutmail and the reason you want to do that is a very subtle way to repeat your name that is your brand and you are reinforcing it and they will also think that's pretty clever.
And then lastly you want to put your phone number best is the cellphone, if you happened to have one. Use the cellphone because you will typically be the one to answer it and you will be able to get it more times than not. So you want to use the cellphone and that's it. No address? Well, sometimes yes. But these days with the privacy issues I frankly recommend that you consider your name simple, your e-mail address simple, the one phone number make it easy for them to get right to the main event and the main event is really about you and there are two parts.
What are you looking for and what have you got? The what are you looking is in the objective or summary line and all you really need to put is the kind of job you are looking for, the kind of industry you want to work in, and then finally the location. So if you want to be a Sales Manager in the retail business in Atlanta, Georgia that says it very quick and you can get all of that on one line.
Now of course, the main event is what do you bring to the party? And there are basically three things, one of course, is the experience you have. Two is the education, but let's not forget the skills that you possess and most importantly the accomplishments, the results. Most recruiters believe the best predictor of future performance hopefully really good performance is past performance.
So in your resume, you seasoned every work experience with both accomplishments and results because resumes that show results will bring results. Well what kind of results? Well, the resume by itself will not get you the job, but it's tough to get the interview that will get you the job without the resume.
So resumes are really key. Resumes are really important but they need to be simple, widened for people who don't read and make it an accurate reflection of who you are and what you have to deliver and it will help deliver to you the job that you want.
