resumes its what we're talking about in today's video you know so many of you
have said Jason I have sent hundreds of resumes out and nobody's calling me back
what do I do I've been reading resumes now for over
15 years of an hiring project managers for for 15 years and I've seen a lot of
resumes so today this the topic of today's video the point of today's video
is to help you fix your resume woes once and for all because I'm going to give
you an inside view of what hiring managers look for when they look at
project manager resumes
alright let's get started resumes is a meaty topic so we have a lot to cover
today first we're gonna do a bit of a perspective exercise I'm going to tell
you about the number one thing that most people get wrong about resumes and it's
the the primary reason your resume is not getting read then I'm going to
follow it up with 8 tips just general tips on how to make your resumes a
thousand percent better and then I'm going to get into eight steps that you
can follow to prepare a resume that will get you the interview but before we get
into that I have a little announcement to make
I'm right now putting together a project management we'll call it a project
management 101 course right now the working title is the scheduling master
class although maybe I could use your help to figure out what the the real
title should be for this thing but I'm putting together a course it's based on
a course that I have traditionally delivered live and in-person
and it's it's traditionally been a three day long full day bootcamp if you will
for folks who are just getting started out in a project so it takes you through
the process of establishing yourself as a leader building your project team you
know putting your project plan together by doing a WBS and network breakdown
putting it all into Microsoft Project doing the resource scheduling to make
sure that nobody is overloaded it talks about how to do effective status
meetings it talks about how to get the right how do you know you're getting the
right status information because you know everyone says yeah we're doing fine
it tells you all about how to report this information and package this
information back to your executive team it's everything you would need to know
if you've just been assigned a project it's especially handy for those
accidental project managers and what I mean by accidental project managers it's
people who have been just assigned or not project managers bye-bye
you know profession or trade but like someone has given them a project once at
a run with it and they want to do an awesome job but they don't know how this
course is perfect for them so this will be the first time I have pulled all of
my material that I normally would give in this in-person training into an
online course and I am just getting to the point where I think I'm almost ready
I'd like to pilot it so that I can test it I want to make sure that it all works
because this is the first time I'm doing all of this online and with video and
all that wonderful stuff so if you're interested in I'm looking for volunteers
to be a part of the pilot group if you're interested in being them being
able to participate in the pilot I'm gonna offer it coming up very soon it
begins on June the pilot begins on June the 1st if you're interested I'm gonna
put a card in the upper right hand corner here of the screen you'll see it
flash just now if you don't see it just click the little eye icon up in the
upper right hand corner and if you don't see that just put your mouse over the
screen and it will pop up and then click the card and you can go to the sign up
screen or you can add yourself to the list of people who are interested I'm
going to charge a whole whopping $5 to people to participate in the pilot so if
it sounds interesting to you and you'd like to be a member of the pilot group
please click on the card and put yourself on the list okay so let's talk
about that number one mistake that people make with their resumes and here
it is the number one mistake that people make is that they fail to recognize that
the resume is a piece of marketing material it is not simply a place for
you to record all of your employment history a lot of
people would say that sounds a little bit crazy Jason like my whole life
that's that's how what I believe the resume is is to put all of my experience
so that people know whether or not I'm the right person for the job and what
they end up doing is they end up listing their where they worked their title and
their responsibilities and I have to say as as a portfolio lead
or someone who would hire project managers within a PMO that's really not
that useful for me I know what a project manager does and great that the job
description that you put there matches the role but it tells me nothing at all
about why you're the right person for the project management role that I have
available right now what I need to know as the hiring manager is what makes you
different from the next person what I need to know is what experiences have
you had and what have you learned from those experiences that will be
beneficial to the projects that I would put you on if I were to hire you as my
next project manager I can't tell you how many times people have said to me
you know Jason I sent out all these resumes but you know these people they
don't bother to bring me in for an interview to get to know me to see if
I'm right for the job and what I have to say to them is you're not quite getting
an understanding the situation that the hiring manager is in in order to be
successful at putting out resumes and getting a response you first have to put
yourself in the shoes of the hiring manager so let's do that for just a
second because I think it's really going to help you draft a much better resume
so let's take a moment to understand the world of the hiring manager what's going
on in their life right now because I firmly believe that if you understood
this you would be able to write a resume that gets their attention
if you're applying to a job in a larger organization that has a PMO chances are
the hiring manager is going to be a portfolio manager that is a project
someone who who manages multiple project managers to deliver on a portfolio of
projects for an organization that portfolio manager might may have a
portfolio of 10 40 a hundred million dollars worth of project investments
that's a lot of a lot to oversee they may have two ten fifteen different
project managers working for them to deliver on this portfolio this managers
day is probably filled from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. completely full of meetings I
know because I've lived this so they're in a meeting after meeting after meeting
after meeting and every night they probably go home and think to themselves
at some point I need to actually get some work done not sure how I'm going to
do that because I'm in back-to-back meetings all day but at some point I'm
gonna need to get to some work done and their anxiety levels are high because
their work their to-do list just keeps getting bigger and bigger and it's not
actually they're not actually able to make any progress against it many of you
can relate to this you don't have to be a portfolio manager to have a day in the
life that looks just like that but understand that your hiring manager
probably has this going on in their life right now to make matters worse there's
one thing I know for sure about this person and that is that this person is
short-staffed that's the whole reason why they've got a a job posting out
there that you are now replying to they have projects in their portfolio that
they do at they have more projects in their portfolio than they have project
managers to manage them and so what does that really mean what that means is is
that this portfolio manager is probably in even more meetings to keep things
moving on those projects that he or she does not have for
managers for so it further compounds the issue that they're being pulled in a
hundred different directions so they put out a job posting and what ends up
happening is is they're going to get I guarantee you anywhere between 100 and
600 resume responses from that posting given the situation that they're in
their deepest hope their deepest desire is that they will be able to very
quickly skim through the resumes pick out about three to five of them that
they think might be good candidates have three to five interviews again these
three to five one-hour interviews have to be fitted to this already packed
meeting schedule and they better damn well at the end of those three to five
interviews with the time invested have a really great candidate that will help
them alleviate some of the pressure so when you're out there submitting your
resume and you're lamenting the fact that well you know if they only just
took the time to get to know me if they could have at least just called and
interviewed me then they would have understood would you have to what you
have to understand is that we don't have time to interview hundreds of people in
order to figure out whether or not those people might work out really our only
choice is hiring managers is to bring a stack of resumes like this home and to
do our best to go through as quickly as possible in one evening and pull the
three to five resumes out that we think might be promising but it's a hard thing
to do because almost every resume in the pile is going to list where they worked
the job that they did title for the job and the actual responsibilities which
again we know we know what the responsibilities for that job title are
very hard to know whether or not a person is going to be the right person
for the job just based on the resume so you have to understand that and so I'll
go back to my earlier comment your resume is actually a piece of marketing
material now what is Marketing all that marketing is all
about standing out in in an out of a bunch of noise and getting a person's
attention so that you can deliver a message that is all marketing is and
there is a lot of noise out there in this particular process because you are
one of a stack of hundreds of resumes now a lot of hiring managers will
leverage their HR departments to help them weed out some candidates and
they'll pretty they will have some pretty ruthless criteria that they ask
the HR folks to follow keep in mind the HR folks probably don't know a lot about
project management so they're literally just looking for specific keywords and
if those keywords don't exist in the resume then they're they're fitting the
herd so to speak they're pulling those resumes out and then making this stack
this stack so that the hiring manager at least has a chance in hell of getting
through all of them to further illustrate my point just a little bit
more and then we'll move on to the the eight tips that I have for you I'm going
to give you an example of two different advertisements and tell you what's in
each ad and then I want you to tell me which one is more appealing which one
catches your eye just a little bit more or your ear so just because I know I'm
going to sort of tell you about two different ads okay so you tell me which
one you think is more appealing so let's pretend there's a computer company
and computer company a puts out an ad and it says we're a computer company we
do research and development we source parts from suppliers we put all of those
parts together and make computers we established a distribution network by
our computers so that that's a advertisement number one here's
advertisement number two as a computer company were focused
mainly on students and schools we found ways to keep things affordable because
we understand the financial pressures that students face we found a way to
stay relevant through the economic downturn of 2008 and we've discovered
creative ways to provide high-touch service in a market where margins are
getting pretty thin we're passionate about students and education and we've
dedicated ourselves to providing the right tools at the right price for
education please buy our computers so what do you think about the difference
between those two ads now if you're being honest and I hope you I hope you
are ad 2 is definitely more appealing if you happen to be a student or perhaps
someone associated with education ad number one is very similar to what we
see in a lot of our resumes basically a list of all the things that we do ad
number two it talks about what they do but it talks about the challenges you
might even can even maybe even be able to infer some of what they've learned
right like in order for a computer company to have high-touch service in
today's world they they probably had to think outside of the box like it gives
you a lot more to think about and it it gives you a sense that they're
passionate about what they do this is how we want our resumes to feel and
sound and so we'll talk a bit today about how do you do that how do you make
your resume stand out in that way so that a person who reads it would say
yeah you know what that that's for me I think that is a good candidate for the
open rule that I have before we proceed to the eight tips that I have for you
though I'd like for you to leave me a comment below are you guilty of writing
resumes where you just put your responsibilities would you like to
perhaps get better at that tell me a little bit in the comments
below what your experience resume experience has been and whether or not
you have fallen victim to that misconception that a resume is actually
just a document where you list your experience and also if I just if I if I
sort of given you a bit of a lightbulb moment there don't forget to give me the
thumbs up with that let's talk about the tips for res I have for you for resume
writing tip number one is the one that drives me crazy the most is please do
not carpet-bomb your resume out to hundreds
of different job ads it's obvious to those people who read the resume that
you have just blasted it out to as many people as possible and the reason for
that is is because I don't see anything in the resume that's specific to the job
that I'm offering and sometimes I will even see people with progressive
experience that doesn't actually make any sense for the job that I'm offering
so I know those people are out there just o open job probably pays about what
I'm looking for send send send send if you're carpet bombing the the world with
your resume then you've adopted the wrong tactic and you're probably one of
those people that says I've said my resume to a hundred people nobody's
responded that's because they know that you're spamming the entire world with
your resume because it doesn't say anything specific that would appeal to
that particular manager who has that particular role open so that leads to my
next tip which is if you're not going to carpet-bomb
what are you gonna do you're going to actually be very specific well and
you're gonna be laser-like focused on specific jobs that are in line with
where you are in your career right now and will help support you in your
journey to advance in your career you will get far better results if you spend
the majority of your time searching for the just the right opportunity and
applying to that those few opportunities and I'm talking to a handful five maybe
ten but the perfect opportunities and then crafting our resume that markets
you as the perfect person for that perfect opportunity
that's what job hunting should be about not just spamming the world with your
resume and hoping for the best that never works out and and I'm telling you
on the other side of it like it is completely obvious that's what you're
doing and it's a complete turnoff so be laser-like focused and then you tailor
your resume to the specific job opening the third tip that I have for you is yes
a cover letter is important it is not dead I know in this day and age where
you know we're used to communicating with far less words than we used to use
letters are kind of a thing of the past but when it comes to job searching a
letter that summarizes why you should be considered with it goes a long a long
way for a hiring manager now I've met some hire managers say I don't read
those things but the majority of the hiring managers that I know and I myself
can tell you that we read those cover letters now they should only be a
paragraph or two long treat the hiring manager like you would any executive out
there they don't have a lot of time but thought one or two paragraphs should
truly summarize exactly why you're right for the role and why the role is right
for you and it pulls the reader in to the resume because once they've read a
compelling cover letter they say well I want to learn more so let's dig into
that resume and see if we agree with you that you're the perfect person for the
job so cover letters are important number
four yes listing your education is important and
you should do it but dates on that education are not required
I'm going to say that although it isn't fair I know from personal experience
that ageism is still very much alive and well out there and if you have you know
your degrees and your education and it shows that you got those degrees in
education 40 years ago if it's a more junior role that you're applying for
it's going to be a turn-off for a lot of people
it really shouldn't be a factor it shouldn't be a factor at all but I'm
telling you like based on experience with family and friends the deep in my
gut I believe that that ageism happens and so to avoid any of that my
recommendation to you my YouTube viewer and subscriber is you don't need to put
any dates on that stuff it's not relevant the only thing people need to
know is what did you study and what did you learn
tip number five along the same vein is tip number four one of the things I
recommend that people do is they only put the last five to ten years of
relevant experience on their resume if you have 20 or 30 or 40 years of
relevant experience I would suggest that you leave it off and that it's something
you talked about in the interview because ten years of relevant experience
should be more than enough for any job that you might be applying for so to
eliminate any chance whatsoever of ageism getting in the way of you getting
that interview and getting that opportunity to sit in front of somebody
and showcase what you have to offer I say list just five to ten years it
should be more than enough for you to get the interview that you're after tip
number six we do not need to see your personal interests and what you do after
work on the resume I know a lot of people have said in the past that maybe
it makes you more personable or perhaps you'd maybe the the the hiring manager
might have a similar interest to you and therefore they might hire you and maybe
there might be a hiring manager out there that this would work for but I can
tell you that for myself and for any of the other hiring managers who are living
the nightmare of not having enough people to get the job done I'm not
entirely it's not that I don't care that you like to play tennis it's just
something that I'll probably learn once you get the job it's not something
that's going to get you the job and it kind of is a waste of space on the
resume so you don't need to put your personal interests on the resume as far
as I am concerned tip number seven I see a lot of people listing references
directly on the resume this is absolutely not required I would only
need to see references if I've decided that I wanted to move forward with you
I'm certainly not going to if I don't have time to read every single resume
and if I don't have time to interview every single person that applies I
certainly will not have time to call all of the references when in time when the
time comes and it looks like you might be a good fit for the role that's when
we will ask you for your references but you do not need to put those on the
resume the eighth and final tip that I have for you is about resume length now
a lot of us have had conflicting information about how long a resume
should be I'm here to tell you that the resume should be as long as it needs to
be you've got a certain message that you need to deliver and that takes two pages
or three pages you know as the case of my resumes seven pages that's fine it
doesn't really matter what matters is is that the person is interested enough to
keep reading it if it's seven pages of of total blase like job role job
description information it's a complete waste of paper but if it's seven pages
of here's all the wonderful valuable stuff that I've learned over the years
that can help you deliver on your project portfolio then it's definitely a
good read I wouldn't want anybody to paraphrase them or to try and heart
really hard to paraphrase their experience down such that it fit on one
page again the cover letter pulls me in and the first experience r2 gives me a
general sense as to what I might see in the rest of the pages and the resume if
you've done a poor job there and the cover letter and the first page and the
other pages won't get read if you've done an awesome job there and the other
pages will get read that's pretty much as simple as that so don't stress about
the size of the resume or the length of the resume the resume is as long as it
needs to be and that's pretty much the rule of that I follow when it comes to
resumes now I'm going to take you through the eight steps that you need to
go through in order to create a resume and cover letter that gets noticed and
gets you the callback for the interview also don't forget to down your checklist
which will be available to you I'm going to put a link here another card so click
on the eye icon here in the upper right hand corner and you can download a
checklist that you can use to help you prepare and tailor each resume for each
job opening that you have selected that you'd like to apply for alright so step
number one if we're not carpet bombing for the world with our resume then what
we're doing is we're finding those specific jobs that are right for us and
we're applying to those so step number one's quite simply go find those jobs
now in a previous video I talked about there's a couple different ways for you
if you're just getting started out in your career to get started and that was
either find a small company and grow within that company and become
well-rounded and vidual but kind of scary because you
have to learn everything on the fly or go to a large company and start from the
bottom and work your way up the benefits there are you've got lots of really
experienced people around you that you can learn from so make you just make
your choice what kind of organization do you want to work for and then go and
find those organizations go to the job pages to those for those companies see
if they're offering any jobs for project managers going directly to each
company's job board or Help Wanted page on their website yields the best results
one tool that you can use is come as a as a job board called indeed.com or you
can use if you're in Canada Aleut ax e LUT a dot CA and what those things I
call those sites aggregators what they do is they have bots that go out to
company websites and mace they find job descriptions and they scrape that
information and then they put it in their search engine so that you can find
them I find I find a lot of new companies that I didn't think about when
I go to indeed and in luta but then I typically then try to go to the directly
to the company's website and apply through their system sometimes you also
will have it's kind of funny what you'll see is you'll see the recruiter a
recruiter listing in luta or indeed and then maybe two or three down below it's
the exact same job descriptions like is oh somebody cut and paste with it but
it's for the actual company just go directly to the company in that case and
then and then submit your resume there that's what I would do once you find the
jobs that you want to apply to and I would recommend that you find maybe
between five and ten jobs and it could take you a several days to to pull all
of that together but once you do and you've got five or ten job descriptions
in your hands and you want to apply to them
the next thing you'll want to do is to read those descriptions a couple of
times and what you're looking for is what kinds of challenges might
that employer be experiencing right now that they need your help with now this
could be very difficult and this this exercise sometimes it yields results
sometimes it doesn't what I typically do is I grab my highlighter and I start
highlighting things that that might reveal what some of their challenges are
maybe their challenge is that's a larger project or program than they within
their organization are used to handling that might come through in the text
maybe the issue is there's an external vendor they've never dealt with before
or maybe they have an issue because they're trying to implement technology
that they don't have a lot of familiarity with or perhaps they have an
issue with difficult stakeholders sometimes that information can be
implied or inferred in the job description grab your trusty highlighter
try to read between the lines a little bit and then make notes and highlight
wherever you think there might be an indication that there's a special need
and if there are any then you're in luck it's done so always a case a lot of
these job descriptions are cut and pasted cookie cutter and they don't tell
you a whole lot which is part of the problem but if you do happen to find
some of those statements in there that are unusual then highlight them and
you're going to use them in subsequent steps to tailor your resume some other
ideas on what you might potentially look for are any mentions of sizes of
projects mentions of project type an environment type like they might be very
specific you know of having a person a person who has worked in a particular
kind of environment you know highlight all of those statements another thing
you might be able to do get a little background on on what some of the
company's current challenges are is to a bit of reconnaissance on LinkedIn again
we've only picked 5 to 10 opportunities here that we're interested in so we can
we know have the time to do a bit of reconnaissance
we can figure out who works within that department via LinkedIn they may list
what you know some of their colleagues are you might be able to get an idea as
to some of the structure you might even happen to know someone who works at that
company and LinkedIn will tell you if you're connected to one of those people
now if you're maybe you know two connections removed maybe you can get an
introduction and have coffee with someone again this is the beauty of
narrowing your selection of which opportunities you want to go for it down
to you know five to ten now you don't have forever to do this research but
it's very important that you at least try another thing you could do is you
can go directly to the company's aboutus webpage they might have their company
history they might have press releases they might have if they're a public
company you know various and you will reports and other things that you can
read to give you a little insight as to how does this company intend to
differentiate itself is it branching off into new areas like the finance industry
it happens to be branching off into AI of all places right so the these but
reading press releases and things will help you understand that if nothing else
it might give you a little something to talk about when you get in for the
interview and it is very impressive when we're interviewing people and we can
tell that that person is interested enough in our company that they've taken
the time to learn a little about what that company is doing the direction it's
heading what what is its strategy for the year ahead all of these things could
be very useful to you as you tailor your cover letter and your resume and respond
to those particular job openings step number three is to prepare your resume
to get through the HR filters what I want you to do on any of the job
descriptions or the help-wanted ads that you have I want you to scroll right down
to the skills section the skills and requirements section and see what's
listed there if they are requiring a four-year degree or if they are
requiring a specific kind certification or a requiring previous
experience with a specific type of technology mark those things down I'm
assuming because you've selected this job opportunity that you meet those
criteria but what you have to remember to do is to make sure that for the
inexperienced HR person you need to have those things those keywords showing up
very prominently in your resume so that you don't get the they you know the HR
filter issue where it doesn't even get to the hiring manager
they've weeded it out so look at that that there's the skills and requirements
section and make sure that you have each of those things represented in your
resume so that you can at least be reassured that you're going to be handed
off to the hiring manager for a review step four is where it all comes together
so you've done your research on the company you've gone through the job
opening in great detail detail several times to figure out if there's any
particular things that they're struggling with you've looked at their
skills section you know that you can help them that your experience actually
will go a long way towards helping them deliver on whatever projects they have
now is the time to go through your job experience section by section job or
employer by employer and make sure that you're highlighting the skills that
would be very useful for that particular job when you look at the bullet points
that you have in those sections where you described you know the job itself
here are some questions you can use to help you re-evaluate what you've got
there some of the things that that we look for
when we're looking for project managers as information on the size and scope and
environment that you were working in so if you are working in a company of 8,000
people then you may want to mention something about the size right of the
stakeholder groups and some of the projects that you were in you may want
to mention environments like if it was a you know Microsoft shop versus something
else when you you may want to mention some of those things so that the person
reading the resume can get a sense as to okay
yeah they have worked in an environment that's similar to mine they may not
necessarily always know based on the employers name what goes on at that
employer what that employer is all about so this is especially true if you're not
working if your previous experience isn't from like some a well-known
company like IBM or you know Bank of America or something like that so put
some things in there that describe the projects and the environments that
you're familiar with other things that we want to know about are you know the
size and complexity of the projects that you've managed so mentioning numbers
like you know projects with a total project investment up to 20 million 40
million or 250 thousand whatever it is mention the size of the project it's
very important again for the project the the the hiring manager to know the size
of those projects I know that cost isn't always a great indicator of complexity
but it certainly is the most accepted way of doing it quickly so we want to
know relative size if there's any other information that that that lends itself
to helping us understand the complexity that kind of information is very useful
as well make sure also that your bullets talk a little bit about what you have
learned what challenges you've faced now this can get a little bit tricky and it
takes a little bit of copywriting acumen to get to get this right
you know we can't be seen as sharing all of our previous employers dirty laundry
so instead of saying something like it will learned how to deal with difficult
stakeholders thereby calling out people at your previous employment play
employer were difficult you could say something to the effect of expanded
stakeholder management skills to address the specific needs of the project that's
more than enough to get it to pique the interest of an experienced a hiring
manager the fact that you needed to expand your skills to ensure the success
of the project means there's something that we might be able to talk about in
the interview and it'll help me I mean I would probably would take a note if I
saw that comment to say let's talk about what kind of expansion you're talking
about here because I'd like to know what did you learn in that situation so being
able to articulate what you learned and the challenges that you faced those that
is some of the most important information you can include on a resume
and finally for each section where you highlight your experiences we want you
to put down any evidence that you have that your efforts were appreciated so if
you won some sort of an award like a quarterly or annual award for your
performance putting that there also is very helpful because again that's the
kind of thing we would talk about in the interview you know why did you win that
award what what what did you do that that warranted that kind of recognition
this is the kind of thing we want to see that your previous efforts were
appreciated might be a bit difficult if one of the reasons why you're looking is
that your previous efforts are not being appreciated but if you happen to have
evidence that it was putting you in the resume is a really great idea don't
forget to do that next step number five after you've gone through section by
section and you've highlighted the things that you've learned and the
challenges and all the environmental type information you are now ready to
write a summary you will put it a top of the resume and
that summary will list the things that makes you the best candidate for that
role I've seen some people use like an objective statement or whatnot and those
objective statements can work providing that your objective isn't generic like I
want to leverage my unique set of skills to make a big difference for company XYZ
which I see that all the time if the objective is actually really quite crisp
which is looking to to work for an organization where I can be with other
more experienced PMS and build a career such that I can become a senior PM in a
year or two and the open position is a PM role that sounds pretty good it tells
me that you'd be motivated in the role that I have available that kind of thing
as an objective would work but I much prefer the summary the summary is like
it's an executive summary it's all the reasons why you are an excellent
candidate for the role go back through your job history and highlight the
points that you think are the most important would be the most impactful
for this employer to see and bring those together and summarize them such that
all of those salient points are right at the top of the resume like I said a
resume is a piece of marketing material and as with all marketing you have just
a few moments to catch a person's interest those first few centons will
either draw the hiring manager in and get them to invest more time and looking
at those other bullets that you just worked so hard on or or it will turn
them off and and then you've missed your opportunity so that summary is so
important it's what actually gets them to read the rest of the resume spend
some time on it the next step after you've written the summary is to write
the cover letter the cover letter in the summary are going to be very similar to
one another it's the same kind of information it's just that the summary
is kind of written in third person about about you and
you know candidate with this much experience blah blah blah blah
the cover letter is more first person in the cover letter you're going to say
things like you know where you saw the the job posting you know why you're
interested in the job posting and the company if you were referred you'll want
to mention the name of the person that referred you and then you'll go on to
talk about a lot of the stuff the same stuff that you talked about in the
summary but rewording it a little bit to be more in the language that you would
normally see in a letter again that cover letter should only be a couple of
paragraphs at most not too many because you you you don't you you're gonna lose
interest if it's way too long make it short
make it punchy and and get it done but you do have to write a cut up cover
letter to be taken seriously by a lot of hiring managers and then there's the
final step and it's one that most people forget to do even I forget to do it from
time to time and that is after you've gone through and you've overhauled your
resume and tailored it to the position you've done your summary and you've done
your cover letter the next step is to walk away from it all for 24 hours and
then come back to it and then go through and read it again what you'll find is a
whole bunch of mistakes that were not visible to you the day before you're
gonna go oh my goodness there's a whole word missing here what the hell was I
trying to say there look at all these spelling mistakes how did I not see this
I guarantee you and so it's so very important for you to walk away for 24
hours come back with a fresh set of eyes and do a final set of edits
after that you're ready to apply now depending on the company that you're
applying to you may have to convert all of this to text and upload it into a
system you know or upload a PDF or what have you or even email in some cases
people are still accepting email email it to particularly email address once
you're done editing you're ready to send so in short if you
have the right perspective and you understand that the resume is for
marketing not just listing your job your job duties over the last X number of
years and you don't carpet-bomb but you get
very specific and targeted on the jobs that you want to apply for and then you
spend now that you've narrowed it down you can afford now to spend the time to
tailor the resume and the cover letter to the job and you're featuring
information that's important like what if your what is your what have you
experienced what challenges have you overcome if you put in the effort and
the time I guarantee you you're going to get interviews you won't be saying Jason
I sent a hundred resumes out and did a didn't get a call you're gonna say I
sent out five and three of them have asked me back for an interview I
guarantee it because no one else is taking the time to put together the
right message so that they can get noticed everyone else is just doing that
carpet bombing and hoping for the best don't be that person be the person who
was very intentional with their marketing message that they wanted to
put in front of a very specific person do that and you will get an opportunity
to sell yourself in person okay so I have homework for you I want
you to click the I icon in the upper right hand corner and I want you to
click the card so that you can download your resume preparation checklist then I
want you to go online I want you to find companies specific companies that you're
interested in working for I want you to find positions that are that are very
specific to your career goals that you know for sure that you can make an
impact in and then I want you to take that checklist and use what you've
learned today to craft the right resume a tailored resume and a tailored cover
letter for each of those five positions do that and I guarantee you you're going
to get a phone back or an interview and if you get an interview I want you to
post in the comments below that you did it and you've got the interview I want
to hear from you and your story will be inspirational for those who are
struggling and trying to get noticed in a sea of people who are trying to get
jobs as project managers finally I just want to encourage you one last
if you found this information useful and you'd liked you think other project
managers would benefit from it interact with this video we are notoriously bad
as project managers for interacting with videos so please press the like button
give me a comment tell me what was the most important thing you learned today
you know what are you going to apply what are you going to do differently on
your resume tomorrow or if you already have a job you're not out there looking
maybe you can share with the audience what are some of your experiences do you
have any tips in addition to the ones that I've given that might be useful for
the audience please we'll leave those tips in the comment below with that I
want to thank you very much for sticking with me this afternoon I hope you found
this was time well spent and with that I want to say goodbye and
we'll see you in the next video
For more infomation >> Probamos el Mercedes-Benz Clase A 2018, donde la realidad aumentada es ya una realidad - Duration: 10:48. 
For more infomation >> Detenido el responsable de Desarrollo de Motores de Porsche por riesgo de fuga - Duration: 4:17. 
For more infomation >> We Cure Your Bad Math Marks Today - StudyPug Online Math Help
For more infomation >> #TheOpenHouse - Thot leaders - Duration: 5:43:14. 
For more infomation >> 손흥민과 호날두, 마침내 비견되는 월드클래스 - Duration: 9:17. 
For more infomation >> Вязание крючком. ТОП. РАЗБОР УЗОРА+СХЕМА+ВЫКРОЙКА - Duration: 10:59. 
For more infomation >> Các vấn đề thường gặp khi đốt sùi mào gà | Phòng Khám Phú Cường - Duration: 11:27. 
For more infomation >> Chrysler PT Cruiser 1.6i Classic - Duration: 1:10. 
For more infomation >> Citroën C3 1.4i Caractère, NL, BOEKJES, ECC, CRUISE, AUDIO, PDC ... BIJZONDER COMPLEET - Duration: 1:12. 
For more infomation >> Toyota Yaris 1.0-16V VVT-I TERRA | Stuurbekrachtiging | Trekhaak | Radio/Cass. | - Duration: 1:07. 
For more infomation >> Solas Shamrock City : And I born to die (Sub. español) - Duration: 4:42. 
For more infomation >> Logan - The Girl with the Hat on 8 News Now - Duration: 2:10. 
For more infomation >> Hyundai i10 1.0I I-MOTION COMFORT PLUS Clima, 5 Drs., Cruise Control, MP3, USB, Bluetooth - Duration: 1:09. 
For more infomation >> Demons Inside Audiobook- Part 2: Possession - Duration: 21:10. 
For more infomation >> '86분' 손흥민, '9분' 라멜라보다 평점 낮다 - Duration: 4:41. 
For more infomation >> The Voice Kids | Now United - Summer in the City [FULL HD] - Duration: 3:10. 
For more infomation >> 張柏芝直播卻被問「王菲是不是好媽媽」？以為會拒答沒想到「她說了一句話」讓人超意外！ - Duration: 5:33. 
For more infomation >> The Mookie Show S2,E89 - Duration: 20:50. 
For more infomation >> How To Get Free V Bucks 🚀- Fortnite Hack 2018 (PS4/XBOX/PC/iOS) - Duration: 10:29. 
For more infomation >> EASTER WEEKEND part 2 / WATERS BREAKING PRANK / AUSTRALIAN FAMILY VLOG - Duration: 13:41. 
For more infomation >> 투박했던 손흥민, 특별한 내용은 없었다 - Duration: 4:03. 
For more infomation >> 古天樂酒後吐真言：如果當年不跟她分手，我的孩子都可以打醬油了！ - Duration: 7:03. 
For more infomation >> Why Haven't You Started?
For more infomation >> Guerra Iminente e Avisos de Arrebatamento/Jesus Fala sobre Direitos Autorais - Duration: 27:55. 
For more infomation >> 5 modos de eliminar o excesso de sal e gordura no nosso organismo - Duration: 8:27. 
For more infomation >> Fiat Scudo 12 2.o panorama executive dc 5 zirts 2 x schuifdeur clima - Duration: 1:11. 
For more infomation >> NBA Playgrounds 2 - Trailer de Anúncio | Switch - Duration: 1:03. 
For more infomation >> Hojas de guayaba para el cabello maltratado - Duration: 7:35. 
For more infomation >> BIMOUD - CONSUMIDO (Prod. LaPildora 💊) - Duration: 3:16. 
For more infomation >> É verdade que amamentar ajuda a perder peso? - Duration: 7:02. 
For more infomation >> Wild Guns: Reloaded - Trailer de Lançamento | Switch - Duration: 1:08. 
For more infomation >> Elimina la cera de los oídos con estas 6 soluciones naturales - Duration: 6:39. 
For more infomation >> Belissima - Capitulo 195 - 21.04.2018 *Ultimas Semanas - Duration: 55:15. 
For more infomation >> Abertura da 3ª Temporada de Sou Luna (1080p) Legendado em PT-BR - Duration: 1:01. 
No comments:
Post a Comment