Comments on: No One Cares About Your Resume, and Why You Should

By: Ryan @ Planting Dollars

Ryan @ Planting Dollars — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:17:25 +0000

I agree with this post. After sending hundreds of resumes into black holes throughout my young budding career I’ve seen zip worth all the time and effort.

It’s super annoying filling out each individual company’s form too. Nobody has the same format and everyone asks a bunch of questions which eliminate you from even getting looked at.

Pointless.

By: Elizabeth Johnston

Elizabeth Johnston — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:24:26 +0000

Resumes only became customary after World War II, as a means for employers to eliminate unqualified candidates among scores of GIs looking for new jobs. Not much has changed. Nowadays, nearly every individual, starting a job search, begins by developing a resume, but decision makers only spend and average of ten seconds scanning them. A resume cannot do the heavy lifting in a job search. Its purpose is strictly to function, in conjunction with a follow-up call, as a marketing tool to initiate a conversation with the decision maker. Your goal should be to present your background and accomplishments in a visually appealing, reverse chronological order, with dates, succinctly and honestly. Stay away from functional resumes, extensive formatting and leaving dates off to hide age.

By: sham

sham — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:47:25 +0000

what do you say when someone says “send me your resume and i’ll look it over and forward it to HR”

i don’t know whether to just say thanks for your help and i know there’s no guarantees, anything will do.

i don’t know.

By: On Hiring « Better Than Yesterday

On Hiring « Better Than Yesterday — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:08:54 +0000

[...] tons of resume- and cover letter-writing advice out there – and even some criticism of the value [...]

By: On Hiring « Diana Beth

On Hiring « Diana Beth — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:40:38 +0000

[...] tons of resume- and cover letter-writing advice out there – and even some criticism of the value [...]

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:43:52 +0000

Daniel….from your comment above…my future resume!
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=“Joe+Wunderlick”

Haha! It just might work!

By: MyOnlineCareerSpace

MyOnlineCareerSpace — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:58:46 +0000

A resume in combination of other accents like a video resume, testimonials and references, and photos can be powerful. There are many sites that offer this type of service to put it all online… and that is the ‘new’ resume.

By: 10 Biggest Resume Mistakes

10 Biggest Resume Mistakes — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:56:27 +0000

Whether important or not, doing a resume, and doing it well, is the primary start for any job seeker. At least it will help to focus and job effort by enhanced awareness of probable job offerings to shoot for, and to provide a launching point for interviews.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:53:43 +0000

I completely agree. I will look at friends resumes, but other than that I don’t care. If I can’t find you in google (and I don’t mean your facebook page), you probably haven’t done anything interesting. You have to stand out, having your resume go into a pile of other white pages doesn’t make you stand out.

By: Ryan Stephens

Ryan Stephens — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:30:19 +0000

Honestly, I don’t even believe in resumes anymore. I suspect for some professions they’re necessary, but because of your first 5 points, I don’t even see a point.

When people send them to me, I don’t read them. I really don’t. Take a chance. Send me a colorful venn diagram or something and I MIGHT take a peak. Otherwise, I put your name in Google and see if you’ve done anything interesting, wrote anything interesting, what kind of initiatives you’re taking to brand yourself.

Again – I’m a little “newer” career-track than most with social tools/marketing/et al, but yeah that’s my $.02