Welcome back to #RecruitingWoes Blog!
We’re glad you joined us for our second post. Today we continue our look at resumes. Your resume is the first impression a recruiter gets of you. (We will almost always go and Facebook you if something seems off.) Overall, you have ONE sheet of paper to make us want to hire you. That’s a lot of pressure, I know, but stay with us, we’re gonna walk you through a few more tips to ensure that yours is not the resume dumped in the incinerator at the end of the day.
First, let’s take a
look at the MOST important thing – YOUR
NAME. Your name is the very first way you were identified as an individual
and as a person just after being born (or whenever your parents got around to
naming you). Your name is THE representation of you. HOWEVER, your name may be
sabotaging you. If your parents gave you a name like “Apple” – looking at you Gwyneth,
or North (seriously West family? Seriously?!), you may find yourself pondering
whether or not to put Apple Paltrow on your resume. Our advice is no. Do you
have a middle name? A professional nickname? I know it sounds harsh, but it is
difficult to convince a client that “Apple” is a responsible, professional
candidate.
Second on our list
today is related to the name issue. YOUR
EMAIL ADDRESS. Your email address says SO much more about you than you
think it does. There are two main issues we run across with people’s email
addresses:
- It is unprofessional. JoanieLovesChachi4Eva@gmail is NOT a professional email address. Stick with your name. (please see previous discussion topic as it relates to this as well). Stick with numbers that aren’t 6 and 9 in that order at the end of your name. You can use almost any combination of your name and find a way to create an email address out of it. Please do this. Immediately.
- Your email server. I know, I know, you’ve had your email foreeeeever and that’s the one you can remember the password to and that’s how everyone knows to contact you. Create a job search email account. Not only will you be able to remedy displaying your love for 80s sitcoms in your email address, you will also not be alluding to your age and lack of tech savvy. Anyone with a Hotmail, AOL, or some other email address that came out when your computer still said “You have mail” as an email came in, needs to get a yahoo or a gmail immediately. An AOL or Hotmail address says “My kids set this up for me in 1996 and I haven’t been able to figure out how to make a new one since”. You don’t want that. No one wants that. Especially if your kids DID set you up with it in 1996. Have them create you a gmail account. Today.
Last in our whirlwind
of resume tips is the section of your resume stating - YOUR HOBBIES. In short, delete it. THIS second. But here’s why – NO
ONE CARES. Seriously. Unless your hobbies are “getting up extra early to be the
first person in the office”, “working overtime while being paid salary because
I love my job”, “being a workaholic”, etc. don’t include a hobby section. And
if those are your hobbies, STILL don’t list them. No one likes a brownnoser.
Your hobbies have NOTHING to do with your professional life (unless
you’re one of the lucky few that has made a hobby into a career). You like to
go muddin’ on the weekends?! No one cares as long as you show up on time Monday morning.
You like to take long walks on the beach? Great. Do it on your own time. I
don’t even want to hear about it.
Thanks for checking us
out this week, we’ll be back with more tips and stories with humor and a just
touch of hatred.
Trust Us. We are the experts.
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