The Resumes and CVs – Exposed

Everyone who really likes their resume raise your hands. Now, everyone who feels theirs is really better and different from everyone else’s raise your hands.

When those two questions are asked, the results are always the same. A fair number will raise their hand in response to the first question. A few or less will raise their hand to the second. Isn’t that odd in this day and age when you can find truckloads of information about that special resume, or advice from experts, all claiming your resume will be special, unique to you?

Resumes have been around for decades. Resumes are the accepted and habitual standard for presenting your credentials in a potential employment situation. Everybody uses them. Everybody is continually trying to find the best one that will get the attention they want from a potential employer.

There is a complete industry of those who believe they are experts in writing resumes, and they probably are experts in that traditional format. At the same time, they simply take the same information you had on your previous resume and rearrange it in another format. They may change some wording to make it read better or make suggestions about how to express your experience better. Some may go as far as to replace the standard format with one built on action terms or vague suggestions. The bottom line is it is still the same, a resume. It does not express your qualifications in a different light that a hiring manager would sit up and take notice.

The problem is a two way street. Hiring managers and HR professionals would love to see something that would make their task easier. For decades we have heard a continual cry of dissatisfaction with “resumes”. To review mountains of resumes that very quickly all start to look alike is not advantageous to anyone. You and all other job seekers get frustrated with the lack of response and the negative responses received. The prospective employers get frustrated, because the start to believe there is no well qualified individual that will solve their problem.

When an interview is obtained, it is difficult for those conducting the interview to look carefully at the resume and ask effective questions. Too many times the questions asked can be answered by the resume had the interviewer read it. Time may have been a factor, but the information may have been a factor as well. The information did not tell them anything different than the prior resume.

How do you change this? Can it be changed? It would appear that decades of use have cemented resumes to be the credential presentation tool forever. It has conditioned job seekers and prospective employers both into expecting a resume, in the expected format, with the expected information. And, no one is really excited about any of it.

There are a couple of factors that can show the resume trap can be changed and a welcome change it is!

The first factor is that job seekers want to send their resume to anything that remotely looks like a potential job for them. They know very little real facts about the position other than what a job posting explains or what a job description reveals. Ask yourself the question; “How can a hiring manager get anything concrete out of a generic resume that is sent for any job?” Sure, you can tailor to the position description as some would advise you. However, it is still only a resume for any job no matter what anyone tries to claim. You know that to be true, because you get the same results, little or no response.

This leads to the question of how do you change that situation? Before we answer that, consider the potential employer.

The second factor is the employer’s perspective. The hiring manager is expected to ferret out of a sea of sameness the one or two that meet the multi-dimensions of their unique position. Every position is different from every other regardless that the title may be the same and the job description is very similar. The challenges are different and the culture is different among other factors. How can a hiring manager know anything about a candidate, if all they see is a resume based on a one dimensional description? This one dimensional resume causes a lack of response. If there is a response it may be an unproductive (dreaded by everyone) telephone interview.

How do you resolve this situation? It has to happen like this:

The job seeker needs to know to what industry and companies are they best suited and therefore should contact.
Skilled research is required to learn and understand what might be a fit.
Effectively executed contact with companies and associations is necessary to learn important information that focuses your search.
Developing a presentation format of your credentials that matches a company’s needs for the position you want.
Finally, you now stand out among others in the industry where you will be best recognized for your talents and accomplishments.

There is a great deal more to this, but to be very elaborate would take volumes of pages.

What this type of strategy does is change the process completely. It puts you in charge. It empowers you to present what the prospective employer wants (provided you match, and your research will tell you that).

Career Talk Guys have decades of success helping candidates master this process and get the job they want. This process places you in the position the obtain job you want With the employer who most values your abilities to contribute.

We teach people the skills to present their professional abilities in the manner the hiring manager desperately wants to see. This revolutionary, but highly effective means of presentation creates a confidence in gaining results you simply lack when suing a standard resume We train you in the skills to conduct the process of a job search throughout the process and ending in your first day with your new employer. But, if you do not choose us, find someone that can teach you these skills. You will never regret it and it will change your odds dramatically and positively impact those to whom you present your credentials.

Career Talk Guys are not resume writers. We have 50 years of combined experience of learning what employers seek in a qualified candidate. We are masters at conducting skilled research into new opportunities. Our experience is unmatched at the creation of interviews. We know what it takes to prepare the professional and employer to meet and achieve mutual success. Now, we are making those skills and techniques available to anyone who is tired of a lack of results applying the old school, worn-out practices centering on a resume.

We changed the process for your success.