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Even if you're staying in the same industry, you need to tailor your resume to match the keywords in the job listing qualifications or you risk having a resume that will never even get to a human being, let alone the right person.
You give great advice again and again. Just looking at the job postings in the same industry. They may share some keywords. It's never a 100% match.
Even if you're staying in the same industry, you need to tailor your resume to match the keywords in the job listing qualifications or you risk having a resume that will never even get to a human being, let alone the right person.
Constantly tweaking your resume can lead to typos, mistakes, or quite honestly, BS that shouldn't be there.
Look at the job posting and tailor the range to the requirements and expectations of the job. What the OPP is saying is that they use the same general resume for ALL jobs rather than one for sales, one for customer service, one for customer service & sales, one for management, etc.
I only apply to GIS jobs, so my resume is "tailored" to GIS jobs. I only adjust it slightly for certain jobs.
The OP didn't say how a resume should look, he just said how it shouldn't.
Sort of agree with "SweepTheLeg": it's very time consuming to alter your resume to match perfectly to every application you enter. There is, at some level, a shotgun approach that is necessary, but hopefully, the jobs you are applying for have at least one similarity, ie, sales, accounting, etc...
What is expected of employees these days, and potential employees, is possibly more competitive than it's ever been. Getting a job and keeping a job IS a person's #1 asset.
All of this largely due to the employment environment we live in. As I've mentioned before, in a good job seekers market, resume can be a blank piece of paper, and employers will LOOK for a reason to hire. That is not the world we live in right now.
Sort of agree with "SweepTheLeg": it's very time consuming to alter your resume to match perfectly to every application you enter. There is, at some level, a shotgun approach that is necessary, but hopefully, the jobs you are applying for have at least one similarity, ie, sales, accounting, etc...
What is expected of employees these days, and potential employees, is possibly more competitive than it's ever been. Getting a job and keeping a job IS a person's #1 asset.
All of this largely due to the employment environment we live in. As I've mentioned before, in a good job seekers market, resume can be a blank piece of paper, and employers will LOOK for a reason to hire. That is not the world we live in right now.
It's extremely time consuming! But as you point out, this is a highly competitive workforce and with the software in place knocking out a large percentage of applicants because their resumes do not match up with their qualifications, the only way you're going to increase your odds of landing a job is to tailor your resume so it gets through the system.
To me, the refusal to do that because it's too much trouble or takes too much time, is illustrates the type of employee that person would be.
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