How to Optimize Your Profile with Skills and Experiences

Struggling to hear back from recruiters? Boost your chances with these 10 game-changing tweaks! What if I told you that the challenge lies in the one thing that connects you to recruiters? Your RESUME! Having conducted numerous resume review mentorship sessions, I've spotted common pitfalls. Here are my top 10 suggestions to overcome them: 📜 Trim the Fat: Keep your resume concise and skimmable. Recruiters dedicate an average of 6 seconds to skimming it. Your aim must be to captivate them with a single glance. 📜 Power of Bullet Points: Swap paragraphs for clear, concise, and impactful single-line bullet points. If they become lengthy, consider splitting them into two. 📜 Show your Impact: Utilize the 'STAR Method' to quantify your impact. Space on your resume is limited, so use it judiciously. Employ tangible, quantifiable metrics to showcase your actual impact rather than just listing responsibilities. 📜 Keywords are the Key: Incorporate role-specific skills and keywords aligned with the job. The more your keywords match, the higher your chances of getting noticed. 📜 Tailor your Resume for Every Role: Align your skills and experiences with the job description and requirements. Employ Word Cloud apps to extract essential keywords from the job description and integrate them authentically into your resume. 📜 Transferable Skills Matter: Highlight your versatile skills and unique experiences, even if they don't precisely match the job requirements. These highlights make you stand out. 📜 Simplicity Speaks: Forego fancy formats and fonts. Opt for a clean, standard .doc format. Pro Tip: LaTeX templates work wonders for maintaining a consistent, clean format. 📜 Structure Matters: Place your best projects at the top and other achievements in reverse chronological order. Recent graduates should prioritize their education and showcase their GPA. Ensure you provide clear start and end dates, organization names, and locations for each experience, whether personal projects, education, professional experience, or volunteer work. 📜 Master the One-Pager: Aim for a one-page resume if you possess less than a decade of professional experience. 📜 Narrow your Field to Improve your Chances: Craft a laser-focused approach that stands out in a competitive job market. Remember, your resume is a highlight reel, not your life story or a thesis! Keep details minimal and impact maximal! Pro tip: Optimize your LinkedIn profile and include as many details as you'd like. (Stay tuned for my LinkedIn Optimization guide!) ⭐ Bonus tip: Get a referral! That's the best way to get noticed and hear back from recruiters. What other resume tips do you swear by? #ResumeTips #CareerAdvice #JobSearch #ResumeWriting #GetHired #AmazonJobs #AWS #CareerSuccess #LinkedInOptimization #JobMarket #ProTips #hiring #recruiters #opentowork #mentorship #beavailable

"Why does my Resume never get a callback?" This is what a client of mine asked on a call. He was depressed from the constant rejections. I saw his Resume, the problem was clear. 🚫 His Resume was too generic, did not stand out at all. "But Rohit, how do I make it stand out?" Well, let me tell you how. 1. Use a Unique Value Proposition (UVP): ↳ Start with a headline that encapsulates your professional identity and unique value. ↳ Make it memorable and specific to your strengths. ↳ This UVP sets the tone for your entire resume. 2. Quantify Your Achievements: ↳ Numbers speak louder than words. ↳ Use numbers to demonstrate your accomplishments. ↳ Whether it's sales increased, costs reduced, or projects led, quantification makes your impact clear. 3. Leverage Keywords Strategically: ↳ Identify and use keywords from the job description. ↳ This ensures your resume aligns with what the employer is seeking and passes ATS scans. ↳ Keywords bridge the gap between your skills and job requirements. 4. Highlight Transferable Skills: ↳ Clearly identify skills that are valuable in many contexts, especially if changing industries. ↳ Show how these skills apply to the position you're applying for. ↳ Transferable skills demonstrate versatility and adaptability. 5. Use a Professional Design: ↳ Opt for a clean, professional layout that makes your resume easy to read. ↳ Avoid excessive ornamentation but consider subtle design elements that reflect your personal brand. ↳ A visually appealing resume can make a strong first impression. 6. Focus on Problem-Solving: ↳ Highlight specific problems you've solved in previous roles. ↳ Describe the challenge, your action, and the outcome. ↳ This approach shows your ability to think critically and achieve results. 7. Customize the Resume for Each Job: ↳ Tailor your resume for each application, emphasizing the experience and skills most relevant to each job. ↳ Customization shows you've taken the time to understand the role and company. ↳ This effort can set you apart in a crowded applicant pool. ✅ Do this and your Resume will stand out in this competitive job market. --------- Follow me for daily content to 10x your Job Search! #Resumewriting #resume #resumetips #resumewriter #resumewritingservices #jobsearch

90%+ of recruiters use LinkedIn to find talent, so if you don't have a presence here, you are seriously crippling your career. Over and over again, I have heard executive clients say that they "hate social media" and don't feel comfortable being here. You don't have to post. You don't have to comment. You do need a optimized profile. This is so much easier to do than you think it is - I promise. I'm going to walk you through what to do and I guarantee you can make a ton of progress in under an hour. Here are the 6 biggest LinkedIn mistakes I see: 1. No details in Experience section: Please don't leave your experience section blank. Recruiters can't guess what you do by your title. If you want recruiters to find you on LinkedIn, share your quantified results and the scope of the work that you do. 2. Skills section isn't updated: You can share up to 100 skills and their is no downside to adding more skills. Make sure to reorder your skills so that your most valuable skills are shown first. (I've seen too many profiles that show Microsoft Word - the reader assumes that you know this, so what you add in can be as important as what you leave out). 3. Headline is ambiguous: My headlines are typically a title/skill/keyword combo. Please be careful with value statements - they can be useful, but I don't want you to confuse the reader, so please don't be creative for the sake of being creative. 4. Unclear About section: A recent study shows that only 3% of profile viewers click through the About section, so you want to write something compelling that prompts the reader to want to read more. If you have strong experience, it makes sense to lead with that in your intro. 5. URL isn't customized: A customized LinkedIn URL looks cleaner on your resume - it will take you under a minute to do this. Check out "Public profile & URL" on the right hand side of your profile and go from there. 6. No profile picture: I get that you want to be private, but I've talked with numerous HR leaders lately and with the uptick in hiring fraud lately, people want to know that they are talking with people. Add a picture (or fix your privacy settings so that you can be seen). Updating your LinkedIn profile is important for workers of all ages and stages, but it's especially important for executives as recruiters often source executive talent through LinkedIn search and you want to make it easy for them to find you. What is the biggest LinkedIn mistake that you see? #gethired #getahead ♻️ Repost to spread the word. 🔔 Follow Colleen and Ageless Careers for more tips.