Speaking as a first person in a resume, and other resume tips from Richard Rose

[GON]

Earlier this Sunday morning I came across a short FaceBook video by Richard Rose. I tried to find one of his videos on youtube but was unsuccessful.

Richard Rose four resume tips:

• Don't speak in first person on your resume.
  • First person words include: I, me, mine, we, our, us
    • I was surprised to see "we" as being a first person word (trick bullet from me)
    • Should have posted " It was surprising to see "we" as being a first person word
• Don't include your full address on your resume
  • Employer may google your address and judge you on your residence
    • Google search might even have prior resident pictures you could be tied to
• Don't post any job prior to 2002
  • This will identify your age bracket, and nobody wants to hire an old person
• Don't post dates of your education on your resume
  • Another age identification giveaway

 

[supton]

Don't post any job prior to 2002

I'm hosed--the only job I've had in my career was started before that!

 

[Dave Hess]

Don’t brag about an irrelevant trash degree from a terrible degree mill and expect big $$$$.

Don’t think you are #Special just because you are posting crap on 7 different social media apps.

#YouAreNotWonderful

 

[CKN]

I don't believe personally that most of us on here have a clue about what job seekers face in today's hiring climate/interview process and some of the questions poised-nor would many of us be prepared to (correctly) answer.

#WeHaveNoClue (for the most part).

 

[andrew_j]

I followed his advice and got 5 interviews shortly thereafter. I removed experience and dates beyond detailed address info.

 

[AZjeff]

My daughter says you now have to construct your resume to get past the AI the HR departments are using to filter applicants. I guess there are Apps for that.

This might apply to jobs that are getting nationwide applications. No idea who Richard Rose is.

 

[GON]

My daughter says you now have to construct your resume to get past the AI the HR departments are using to filter applicants. I guess there are Apps for that.

This might apply to jobs that are getting nationwide applications. No idea who Richard Rose is.

Richard Rose is also someone I never heard of. I have listened to a few of his resume tip videos, and they made a lot of sense, and brought awareness to issues I wasn't aware of-- that might make a difference when applying for jobs.

Just did hasty research on Richard Rose-- he is a Canadian. Guess I will not look to Richard for employment advice but instead look to Richard Rose for expertise on the following: hockey, moose, northern lights, maple syrup, poutine, and polar bears.

 

[andrew_j]

A friend who is engineering manager and actually reviews what HR does (they miss people) gave me a link to him when I was job seeking.

 

[CKN]

My daughter says you now have to construct your resume to get past the AI the HR departments are using to filter applicants. I guess there are Apps for that.

This is correct. But if there are a 1,000 resumes received -and the A.I. filters it down to 100-you have a 1 in 100 chance of landing the job.

 

[Leo99]

I hire about one person a year. The resumes used to come to me via an HR program but now we have an HR person to screen them for me. If we use AI, it's only screening out spam because I get about 70-100 applicants. HR narrows it down to about 20 after I work with them to let me know what I'm looking for.

It is easy enough to Google someone's address if I know their name and city. One applicant from India included his address so I Googled it and learned a lot about Indian housing. We don't care about ages if you're a good fit. Career growth is an interesting thing. I know several people that are working at lower positions in their late 50s/early 60s than at their peak. There are only so many positions at the top of the pyramid once you get laid off. I don't care about verb tense. What I do care about is honesty and transparency in the 30 minutes that I talk to a candidate. I ask them what is your biggest weakness and tell them to give me a real answer. To me, it's a very insightful question. I want to know what they think is their biggest weakness to see if they are self-reflective and I want to see if they can give me an honest answer. Not some Internet response like they're a perfectionist or work too hard. I'm very big on honesty and transparency. I might not hire someone that says they don't know the answer to the question that I'm asking or they don't have any experience in that area but I'm going to tell HR to keep them on the good list. I'm going to ask what you did before 2002. I'm going to see you on screen and have some idea of your age and want to know your life story.

 

[ripcord]

I guess I'm unique in that I've very rarely gotten a job offer (especially one that I've accepted) other than through word of mouth via people I know or have worked with in the past. My first tech job was one I got because a buddy got me an internship out of school and promoted me to the boss. Subsequently, I got leads from people I knew and sent resumes directly to the manager (not the HR manager) where I wanted to work. Only once that I can remember I got a job via a temp agency recruiter who reached out directly to me and that job turned into a full time position after six months or so.

Work your contacts when you want a job.

 

[GON]

I ask them what is your biggest weakness and tell them to give me a real answer. To me, it's a very insightful question. I want to know what they think is their biggest weakness to see if they are self-reflective and I want to see if they can give me an honest answer.

In the last 24 months I was on numerous interviews and was regularly asked "what is your biggest weakness".

My response to the question was I am a poor quitter. I don't like to quit on anything, ever. Sometimes it is better, smarter, wiser to quit/ cut bait and move on. I used repairing a dishwasher as an example. It might cost more to repair then replace a broken dishwasher, and also the inconvenience of dishwasher out of service time. A poor quitter forgets their mission and doesn't know when to cut bait. The mission is to have a dishwasher up and running and operational as soon as possible and cost effective. The mission is not necessarily the repair of a broken dishwasher.

 

[02SE]

Reading this thread I realized I've never had an employment résumé.

 

[andrew_j]

The landing of 5 interviews for me was less about submitting the resume and more about simply making a direct connection to recruiter with resume attached and in a couple sentences why I was right for job.

 

[WeyounDS9]

I regularily get interview offers on a professional employment network I am on (without actually looking for a job).
About 50% are such poor fits they border on spam.
But the other 50% are right in my wheelhouse.

 

[doitmyself]

Gon's info are basic rules of thumb to get your resume past the first round of cuts. I imagine that the resume and interview process varies widely depending on the career. My advice is to learn to "read the room" * and adapt your resume as required.

* "Essentially, it's about being socially perceptive and adapting your communication to fit the situation".

 

[KrisZ]

Try to please the AI, so include as many buzz words as you can.