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The modern 21st Century Resume used in today's incredibly competitive job market for professional white collar jobs that required advanced education and experience:
Two pages long (in most cases unless you are just out of college)
Key Words linked specifically to the skills needed for the job for the Applicant Tracking Software
Social Network (LinkedIn) address listed
Accomplishment Statements vs. a list of tasks
Career Headline vs. a Career Objective
Statement of qualifications in bullets near the top
Written specific to an actual job
Able to be scanned by a computer and then if it passes that, ability to get sell yourself in a ten second scan
Shows how your knowledge and skills in technology have added valuable to previous employers and solved organizational challenges
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The old fashioned 20th Century Resume (still be used foolishly today)
Jam everything in to one page no matter how many jobs you have
No Key Words or skills list
Lists every task they did in every job
Career Objective
Subjective statements saying how wonderful you are
Written for jobs in general
Written with the expectation that the hiring manager will read it thoroughly.
Last edited by Office Politics; 11-01-2014 at 12:21 PM..
I haven't updated my resume in years. Social media has completely replaced it. I use Facebook, Ning, Linked-In. And I'm a dinosaur when it comes to that stuff. The only time I've even used a resume, which was years out of date from when I was working in a completely different industry, was when doing a contract job for the government. They needed a resume so I just gave them what I had which said I worked in accounting =D
The modern 21st Century Resume used in today's incredibly competitive job market for professional white collar jobs that required advanced education and experience:
Two pages long (in most cases unless you are just out of college)
Key Words linked specifically to the skills needed for the job for the Applicant Tracking Software
Social Network (LinkedIn) address listed
Accomplishment Statements vs. a list of tasks
Career Headline vs. a Career Objective
Statement of qualifications in bullets near the top
Written specific to an actual job
Able to be scanned by a computer and then if it passes that, ability to get sell yourself in a ten second scan
Shows how your knowledge and skills in technology have added valuable to previous employers and solved organizational challenges
--------
The old fashioned 20th Century Resume (still be used foolishly today)
Jam everything in to one page no matter how many jobs you have
No Key Words or skills list
Lists every task they did in every job
Career Objective
Subjective statements saying how wonderful you are
Written for jobs in general
Written with the expectation that the hiring manager will read it thoroughly.
Frankly, I preferred the 20th century resume. The list of accomplishments crap is so easy to B.S. that if I did the hiring, I would immediately ask for references on anything that looked suspicious.
Frankly, I preferred the 20th century resume. The list of accomplishments crap is so easy to B.S. that if I did the hiring, I would immediately ask for references on anything that looked suspicious.
I agree. The bias in the poster was so amazingly obvious.
I love how he thinks that just putting a bunch of keywords makes your resume better. It makes it look even more generic than normal.
I love how he thinks that just putting a bunch of keywords makes your resume better. It makes it look even more generic than normal.
It looks worse to a human, but not to a computer. I've seen people literally just shove a "Keywords" or "Skills" section at the end of their resume, shoving tons of search terms into it. It probably does get them past some computerized filters, but it looks like crap to the human who then reviews it. I think the key is to get the search terms in your resume in a meaningful way.
It looks worse to a human, but not to a computer. I've seen people literally just shove a "Keywords" or "Skills" section at the end of their resume, shoving tons of search terms into it. It probably does get them past some computerized filters, but it looks like crap to the human who then reviews it. I think the key is to get the search terms in your resume in a meaningful way.
could always "frame" the resume with the keywords... but people really include a "search terms" section on resume? HAHA, never even thought of that, does that even look professional?
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