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Resume Success - David J. Gardner

Have you ever wondered what REALLY happens to your resume when you send it off to a company?

You may think that it goes directly to the employer you want to work for but it usually doesn’t. It goes to a company, agency, or outsourced recruiter.  The recruiter has the power to dump your resume in the garbage or give you an interview.  They can shortlist you with praise, meet you, and get you in front of the hiring manager or dump you into a corporate slush pile.  They are the gatekeeper, and their job is to surf through the multitude of applicants to find the few they will contact.

Because they don’t know you yet they have ONLY ONE WAY to evaluate you, only one way to decide if you get the interview or the boot:

Your RESUME.

Recruiters come in all shapes and sizes; some are managers, some are junior generalists, some recruit part time in a human resources department, and others recruit full time independently.  They all have their little quirks and personal opinions about resumes, which can make it all seem so arbitrary and luck-driven. When you talk to one alone it seems as though they evaluate resumes by feel, by their gut.  But when you talk to a LOT of recruiters you begin to realize that there are patterns in their opinion.  In fact, if you speak with enough of them and ask enough questions you begin to find that there are unsaid RULES that they all silently follow to choose which resumes will get the interview.

And many of them are NOT the rules found in the largely outdated information on resumes on the market today.

Recruiters are frustrated by the poor quality of the average resume. In fact, only 5% of resumes submitted to top companies are considered excellent. People just don’t seem to get it!  The challenge is that while great recruiters know exactly what they want to see and how they want to see it, it’s not their job to help you fix your resume! 

So you’re left with generic online templates, cut-rate ‘certified resume preparers’, and blind luck to have success with your resume. Most resume books come from either resume professionals with no recruitment experience or from one person who worked long term at one company.

No more.

I have spent months interviewing recruiters from Fortune and Maclean’s magazines ‘Top 100 Companies to Work For’ in the US and Canada to find out what THEY look for in a great resume. I also went to the recruitment agencies to receive feedback from professionals with background in over 20 top agencies. I have personally evaluated tens of thousands of resumes as a recruiter.

In short, I KNOW what top companies want to see in your resume.  I asked them.

How would you like to have the wisdom of over 50 recruiters with more than 600 years of recruiting experience in top companies from virtually every industry helping you build your resume?

How would you like to have recruiters who personally review over 761,000 resumes a year for top employers on your shoulder, guiding you as you create the resume that will put you in the top 5% in your industry?

Now you can.

Find out more about RESUME SUCCESS! Insider Secrets to Building the Resume that Top Companies LOVE

  

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David J.Gardner


David J.Gardner is a published author, speaker, workshop leader, recruiter, and sought after Resume Expert. His much-anticipated book, 'RESUME SUCCESS! Insider Secrets to Building the Resume Top Companies LOVE!' is completed and in editing for its April 2010 release!

"your resume is the most important professional document in your life. You can't afford for it to be anything less than OUTSTANDING!"

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Canada's Surprise 43,000 New Jobs a GOOD Thing??
February 05, 2010  Total Comments(0)  |  Add Comments
The Good News?  It was expected that there would be about 15,000 new jobs added in January 2010...and instead there was 43,000! The Bad News?  The majority of these new jobs are part-time positions, and youth employment... And that means....? Businesses in Canada, still stung and cautious following the recession of 2008-2009, are slowly beginning to hire…or more accurately RE-hire. The current surprising explosion of part-time roles is a boon for those excited to join or rejoin the workforce but it does not accurately reflect the state of full-time professional positions in the country. An increase in hiring is certainly a step in the right direction!!  However, these are not NEW jobs so much as recovering jobs, especially in the youth sector.  CLC Senior Economist Sylvain Schetagne compared these numbers to those of October 2008: ‘Since that month, 341,900 full-time jobs have been lost by working Canadians. Half of these lay-offs occurred for those in the 15 to 24 age group. They lost 170,400 out of the 341,900 full-time jobs lost since October 2008. The unemployment rate among 15 to 24 year-olds wen...more
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