Is your resume blending you in?

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Is your resume blending you in?

There was a time a simple newspaper ad in the classifieds cost $1,300 and yielded at most 12 to 15 resumes. Today any online ad averages about $100 per ad, and can yield 500 to 5,000 resumes a day.

Today the ads cost far less and the volume of resumes received is overwhelming. Following traditional formats can "blend you in" with the thousands of others who are following the same outdated methods. Some say this has made it harder to find employment. That having too many applicants applying for the same jobs is making it difficult to be noticed. But the opposite is true, and this gives you the edge.

Pretend for a moment that you have 5,000 sheets of paper scattered on your desk. If there was a bright red paper shuffled among them, how quickly would you pull out the red one? Of course the red one is noticed more quickly. If you had only fifteen resumes, and five positions to fill, you would scrutinize every resume very closely. But when there are 5,000 resumes and the same five positions, you only look for those that stand out. Think about being caught in a blizzard.

You look up and all you see are snowflakes. How do you distinguish one flake from another? You don't. Eventually you are tempted to give up trying. Now imagine that suddenly from among the flakes, a bright yellow tennis ball falls directly in front of you. Your eye is automatically drawn to the tennis ball—it is instantly distinguished from the flakes.

Employers today are experiencing the same predicament of thousands of resumes that all look the same. Resumes that are properly formatted and contain the right content stand out immediately, as does the tennis ball among the snowflakes. This is where you have the edge.

You must become the tennis ball among the snowflakes. Every employer is eager to find the best talent. Maintaining their competitive edge depends on it. Employers eager to fill their open positions with the right talent instantly contact applicants they identify as a match. Every hiring manager craves to be recognized for being the one who found the right talent. This achievement, especially if achieved before the position close date, can be highly rewarding. This is an important realization. Becoming the tennis ball among snowflakes or the red paper among thousands of white ones will instantly turn you into the sought-after candidate.

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Your resume has a job to do. Is it doing its job?

Today your resume has only one job to do.

Would you agree that the objective is NOT to just create a resume but to create a resume that works?
How do you define "A resume that works"?

• A. A resume that works gets you a job
• B. A resume that works gets you an interview
• C. A resume that works gets the phone to ring
• D. None of the above
  
  

The answer is C.

A resume that works can only get you a phone interview. It does not take a genius to see that times have changed. There was a time a resume was only a complementary piece. After the interview, it was used to complement your conversations with the hiring manager. Today it is the centerpiece.

It is the reason employers choose you over another. It is a tool you use to document your story (background, soft and hard skills, experience, strengths) and communicate it to the employer. Here are some choices to assist you with your resume.

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