Comments on: Know Thy Resume (and how I biffed an interview) http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/2007/10/23/know-thy-resume-and-how-i-biffed-an-interview/ advocacy for the job seeker Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:23:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Jason Alba http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/2007/10/23/know-thy-resume-and-how-i-biffed-an-interview/comment-page-1/#comment-83052 Jason Alba Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:17:33 +0000 http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/archives/948#comment-83052 Thanks Liz, I totally agree with peppering the resume with keywords like this. As a hiring manager, when I see a listing of industry or business buzz words it's kind of a turnoff, because I expect the person to be hot stuff. An exception, I think, would be things that I had like bilingual... that's not necessarily a keyword that all candidates better have. As far as being a change leader, I don't know ... I do take pride in the few e-mails or calls I have received from people that tell me that they had been neglecting their careers until they read a few months of my blog... and now they are getting their career strategy in order! That's pretty cool. Thanks Liz, I totally agree with peppering the resume with keywords like this. As a hiring manager, when I see a listing of industry or business buzz words it’s kind of a turnoff, because I expect the person to be hot stuff. An exception, I think, would be things that I had like bilingual… that’s not necessarily a keyword that all candidates better have.

As far as being a change leader, I don’t know … I do take pride in the few e-mails or calls I have received from people that tell me that they had been neglecting their careers until they read a few months of my blog… and now they are getting their career strategy in order! That’s pretty cool.

]]> By: Liz http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/2007/10/23/know-thy-resume-and-how-i-biffed-an-interview/comment-page-1/#comment-83046 Liz Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:02:36 +0000 http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/archives/948#comment-83046 A lot of resume writers recommend including the list of key words like the one you have listed at the top of the resume clip that you show in this post. I don't recommend doing that because the reality is that potential employers want to hear about tangible examples of times that you have used skills (in this case change management) rather than just seeing a list of words that pertain to stuff that you may have done. I think if you write a resume that focuses on accomplishments and you integrate key words that are relevant to each accomplishment into the document it helps you to think about the specific examples you can use in an interview so you don't get tripped up by questions like the one your interviewer asked. The funny thing about this story is that Jibber Jobber is leading change for employees/job seekers/networkers/ and entrepreneurs. You are a change leader! liz A lot of resume writers recommend including the list of key words like the one you have listed at the top of the resume clip that you show in this post. I don’t recommend doing that because the reality is that potential employers want to hear about tangible examples of times that you have used skills (in this case change management) rather than just seeing a list of words that pertain to stuff that you may have done.

I think if you write a resume that focuses on accomplishments and you integrate key words that are relevant to each accomplishment into the document it helps you to think about the specific examples you can use in an interview so you don’t get tripped up by questions like the one your interviewer asked. The funny thing about this story is that Jibber Jobber is leading change for employees/job seekers/networkers/ and entrepreneurs. You are a change leader!

liz

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