Your Resume Is Not About Getting The Job (Its Something Else)

Your resume is not about getting the job (it’s something else)This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules -- .The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security.Top 10 Posts on CategoriesThe next post here on Friday is going to be an excellent infographic about the resume. It has great statistics, good pointers, what recruiters think…in, short, something you should take a look at. And you knew there was a but, right?It’s this: the embedded title of the resume is about how your resume lands you a job. Have a great resume = get a great job.It’s totally false. Unintended. But false.Think about what you have to do to get a job. The typical search process, greatly simplified, is that you create resume -> submit resume  (business networking, j ob boards, or other) -> have phone interview -> have face-to-face interview -> get a job offer.Yes, you can have 27 interviews and maybe some of them are on video, but what I want you to pay attention to is where the resume sits in this process. It sits at the beginning of the process. Getting a job offer is at the end of the process.That “interview” thing sits between submitting a resume and getting a job offer.Your resume doesn’t get you the job. And that’s a problem because too many people think all they need to do is have a fabulous one  and the world is their oyster.And while you need to ensure the resume represents your work compared to the job description, the next step after submitting a resume is…have an interview. Not get the job.When you look at the actual search process, it becomes clear that unless your resume can secure a job interview, you’ll never have the opportunity to get the job. And that is the only purpose: to get the job interview.When you don’t believe that, you end up not paying attention to the other job search skills needed at this point: interviewing skills. Typically, both phone and face-to-face interviews.Because we don’t interview for jobs very often, our interviewing skills are optimistically rusty or incredibly poor. We typically don’t know how to describe our job skills, accomplishments, and how we fit into teams â€" and especially don’t know how to describe these using stories that really get us to the job offer.And if you count on your resume as the artifact that will push you over the top, well, you’ll lose.Your resume, then, represents your work. You, however, need to be able to describe your work. You need to tell the story of  how your work helped the business achieve their business goals.Your resume is important; getting the interview, in my mind, meant I could get the job because I know how to interview.But the resume never got the job.  It, instead, opened the door to the job. Once that door opened, I graciously thanked it  for doing excellent work and then started the interview process.  The rest of the work was on me.This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules â€" .The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. policiesThe content on this website is my opinion and will probably not reflect the views of my various employers.Apple, the Apple logo, iPad, Apple Watch and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. I’m a big fan.Copyright 2020 LLC, all rights reserved.