#JobSearch #Friday ACCOMPLISHED OVER 50 JOB SEARCHING PROFESSIONAL? DOES YOUR RESUME DEMONSTRATE ACHIEVEMENT?

By RecruiterGuy | March 25, 2022

With over 40 years of Expert Professional Recruiting Experience, I have read over 400,000 resumes through the years. How much time do you feel I spend on my first pass of your resume?

In 1993, I hired a Jr. Recruiter, Andrea (she left us way too soon – RIP Andrea). One morning, without my knowledge, Andrea timed how long I spent on each resume from a stack of over 126 resumes. When I finished reviewing the resumes, I had the resumes in three stacks – Definitely Interested, Definitely NOT Interested, and the Painful “Take Another Look” stack.

She found that I spent as little as 2 seconds on a resume – those went into the Definitely Interested and Definitely NOT Interested stacks. She told me that I spent as long as 12 seconds reviewing a resume and those found their ways into the Definitely NOT Interested and the Painful “Take Another Look” stack.

I averaged 6 seconds on my first pass of a resume to determine which stack it would go. Most of the Painful stack joined the Definitely NOT Interested stack. The Definitely NOT Interested resumes were sent to HR for candidate notification.

What Did I Look For In The Resumes?

Did the candidate have the right experience (these were IT Candidates)?
Did their Career Progression make sense?
Were there spelling or grammatical errors? (Not good!)
Most importantly, What were their accomplishments? If you are ever going to promote your Accomplishments, NOW is the TIME!

These Are The Resume Conventions

Center Your Name at the top
Center your Town, State
Center your Phone Number alongside your Email Address with 3 spaces between them
Center your LinkedIn URL
Summary of Accomplishments directly below your LinkedIn URL
Start with your most recent position and work backwards.
Describe your responsibilities and accomplishments in Third Person, Past Tense, including today’s responsibilities. Drop the pronouns and begin each sentence with an Action Verb (Past Tense)
Write your duties and responsibilities in paragraph format
Bullet point your accomplishments below your responsibilities
After your Experience, add your Educational background with most recent degree first.

My books contain a comprehensive Step (Chapter) on your Resume.

Would You Like To Know A RecruiterGuy Secret?

If you Network your way to an interview, you may finetune a previously created Resume AFTER you set the interview and learn more about the position.

Okay, I will give you a Second SECRET. If you network your way to an interview, you just bypassed the deadly HR Applicant Tracking System software.

Keep these points in mind when you create or update your resume.

You Got This!

Have You Completed The Homework from Steps One and Three?

Develop Stories demonstrating your Skills, Attributes, and Experience from your lists in Step One. Remember to use the 4 Ws when creating your stories!
Develop a list with a minimum of 500 names of people that you know – Family (sometimes, that will give you 100 names), Friends, College, High School, Former Coworkers, Recent Coworkers, People from your social communities (softball, bowling, church, etc.)
Created your “Here I AM!” speech?
Maintain a Positive Mental Attitude.

You Are On The Way To A New Career!

The next steps will move you along your journey. We needed to give you a solid foundation to work from.

When you read Expect Success! The Science Of The Over 50 Career Search, you will notice QR codes. Most of these QR codes are links to some of my 130 TV interviews that are pertinent to our conversation in that Step. You will see me in action.

My passion is to help you succeed in your search. You Got This!

I am Passionate To Help People Find Their Dream Jobs!

How many other Career Coaches have written 97 consecutive weeks of #JobSearch #Friday Thought Leadership Blogs and THREE Career Search Books? All of you are on my mind!

My most recent book discusses the 4 different areas of Science that impact your search. You have the power to control the Science for your Benefit. Expect Success! The Science Of The Over 50 Career Search.

You can do this!

Networking is the best practice to find a new career! I wrote my books to duplicate my efforts to assist you in your search. My expert experience as both a Recruiter and Career Coach gives me a perspective few professionals have. My Salary Negotiation script solves that pain point for most career seekers.

My third book on Finding A New Career – Expect Success! The Science Of The Over 50 Career Search Is NOW at Dolly’s Bookstore in Park City, UT, Weller Book Works in Salt Lake City AND Amazon https://amzn.to/3rVVRAe and Barnes & Noble https://bit.ly/3ABu8c5 ! This book is written to coach Career Seekers 50 and older to identify and land your next position. All three of my books include stories of professionals, like you, who found success in different aspects of their search. This is Mark Victor Hansen’s (“Chicken Soup For The Soul”) endorsement of my book and me – “You get what you expect in life. It’s true scientifically and theologically. Bill Humbert now shares irresistibly compelling insights on how to use it to achieve every good thing you want.” MVH

To take charge of your career, please immediately click on this link to my second book, Employee 5.0: Secrets Of A Successful Job Search In The New World Order – http://amzn.to/2D9w39f My book contains the 12 Steps to find a new career in a nice, orderly fashion that follows your sales process. According to a newspaper review, “It is refreshing to find an author who speaks With you and not At you!” It also has the stories of people who did well – and some who did not. You may learn from both sides.

If you feel the need for professional Career Coaching, my business has 3 different packages. I work closely with Professionals in all three packages. The primary difference is the time and personal requirements.

My Talent Attraction business model is to work with one company at a time and charge a flat monthly fee. This enables me to become part of a company’s team for short or long periods. Therefore, I know what is going on behind the curtain that candidates and authors outside of my field cannot see.

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