I listened to your vids and fixed my resume as recommended and I got 3 interviews within 1 week when before I didn’t get any bites! Thanks for the great advice it helped a ton
And there it is: the major misunderstanding between recruiter and applicant. When I apply for a new job I will never be a perfect fit. Because if I were, that would mean it's basically the job that I'm already doing. But I'd like to learn something new, or I'm not interested. And additionally, how am I supposed to be a perfect fit when companies throw everything in this job description that they've ever heard of? Like, not older than 40 with 20 years of experience in this job and additionally 10 years abroad...
If you're recruiting for a CEO of Company X, the best candidate has 10 years of experience working as the CEO of Company X. This is the problem with most recruiters and hiring managers, they don't look for candidates that can become the CEO of Company X but for a profile that already is CEO.
In my experience, there is no silver bullet when it comes to resumes--- every recruiter is difference and each has his or her preferences when it comes to resume review.
I got hired recently to a great job with awesome salary. The thing is that when I submitted my resume I didn't feel fully competent in the job role: maybe 70%overlap and slightly less years of experience than required. I had also several submissions for some jobs that I was a "perfect" (or even overqualified) fit with specialization in the exact field and I could have contributed from day 0, but for those I always got automated rejection. I kinda feel that when applying you need to shoot slightly higher of your paygrade and overqualification is even worse than slight underqualification...
I like reading economics and overqualification is one of the most ridiculous things I have heard, apparently being acomplished is a bad thing lol, I once read in university on something they gave us to read rhat between three candidates we shouldn't hire the one that was the most qualified because "he will be bored because it's too easy" lmao, imagine that, you need an accountant but you don't want an accountant with 10 years of experience because he will be too bored in an average accounting job lmao, according to that logic experienced or acomplished people can only be high level managers or something, never employees, it defies all logic to not want experiwnced and qualified workers because they will "be bored" lol.
While I learned some great information in this video, I also learned everything wrong with why recruiters/companies are missing out on great candidates.
Tailoring a resume to every single job opening when you have to apply to 100 of them or get contacted about 100 different jobs is exhausting. Each recruiter wants to see a certain set of words and makes you end up lying about skills just to get noticed and then if you don't get the job, you end up adding and adding everytime. Thats how the resume ends up being so long..
I had different resumes for marketing and sales jobs, "marketing resume" focused on marketing experiences and "sales resume" on sales (duh). Otherwise I didn't bother with tayloring a resume, I bring everything relevant up on the cover letter/email/whatever. Most places don't even send a "thank you for applying" back to you, so why should we go through all kinds of hoops for even simple jobs?
But what if not one application fits the perfect candidate. Do you hire no-one or drop your expectations and make it near enough is good enough. There are no "perfect" candidates, because everyone has flaws.
In one of your videos you mentioned someone who applied for 1,000 positions as a test. I have that beat. I’ve probably applied to well over 1,200 and to date have had TWO responses that weren’t rejections. I had my resume written (and rewritten) by the service that offers a ‘free resume appraisal’ on many of the job board sites, along with a ‘professional LinkedIn page overhaul.’ I have about 30 years experience in Advertising/Marketing Production, with over 10 of those as management. I took my last employer from a manual process (job folders in racks, tracked at best in spreadsheets by coordinators) to a workflow based around a page tracking app, written in-house, monitored by a host of scripts/apps (which I wrote) that were triggered by specific document statuses to perform tasks that had previously required the direct attention of the Production staff, that basically shepherded files from inception to release. And if you read my resume, you’d never know that’s what I did. It was as if, like mall haircuts, they only had a small number of options available to them and just picked one, dropping my info in wherever it seemed to fit. In the past, when looking for work, it was rare I didn’t find a freelance position within a week which typically turned into permanent employment within a couple months. It is extremely frustrating to receive rejections saying my skills do not align with their needs, even when those positions are basic production work. I have had to move out of my place in Dallas, put everything in storage and relocate to my brother’s house in rural Florida to continue my search. I have no more funds. My cards are maxed out, my checking account and my wallet both contain less than $20 each. I’m attempting to rewrite my resume myself and have no idea what I’m doing. I’ve watched many of your videos on TH-cam, and found them enlightening. If I had the money to buy your packages, I would, but alas, I do not. I’m not the type to ask for handouts but this is what I’ve been reduced to.
Barry, thank you for sharing your story and here's the deal, WE CAN DO THIS!! I too have the weight of the on me and seriously about to be living in a dang tent if I don't get it together. Let's look in the mirror, remind ourselves how good we are at what we do and let's take these great tools Sean is offering to turn some wheels. Hell - let's work together. Hit me back here if u would like to connect. Sean, love your content man, I'm like Barry, I don't want a handout but I could use a helping hand which I will gladly pay it forward to another in need once I secure my next great role!! Let's DO THIS!!
@@EmmaDee I know it is very hard to ask for help but I believe that as long as we do it with the intention and willingness to do the same when opportunity arises. I wish both of you every success. Best........😊
@avernvrey7422 It also gives away their age, and sadly, that makes a big difference. I'm 46 and recently made a new email address that didn't include my year of birth.
Fun thing is when recruiters reach me out themselves they usually offer me positions which fit me much worse than the ones I am applying for myself. Still getting rejected very often though but I suppose it is just because of these finicky keyword filters lazy recruiters use nowadays. I am surprised you didn't say anything about them by the way.
It happened to me last week. A recruiter contacted me about a position that I didn't think I fit very well, missing some essential skills and experience. I checked her profile and she was recruiting for multiple positions. I messaged her that I would also be interested in that other position where I literally ticked all the boxes. She replied I'm not fit for that one and insisted I should interview for the one I knew I wouldn't get. Bitch, have you even read my resume...
@@RiannaNicole much appreciated! I came across this channel shortly before I got laid off June 1 this year. Bought the LinkedIn program and got an offer the day after, then another a week later. Now I have four different income streams so I'm a huge fan of this channel.
Hey Sean, thanks a lot for offering the free copy of resume rocket fuel. I would like to get a copy because I am currently in the process of starting my career in IT and struggle with my resume and interviews. I'm beginning to implement what Bryan says, but I think an organized course would be helpful! Thanks again for what you're doing!
I could use help so bad. I've got a lot of pride but I must swallow that pride right now, because I'm about to be homeless. I don't know what to do because panic has set in now.
In my experience recruiters reaching out via LinkedIn are always offering a lateral move. Almost never a pay raise or any type of promotion. Could be useful for people trying to get out of a toxic workplace. For those looking for a promotion best chance is internally, then move outside the company.
I always ask for compensation range if it's not offered up front. This is 2022. When they don't respond, you know everything you need to about the position/employer.
I got most of my pay raises by moving jobs. But it's almost impossible to get a promotion this way. These days recruiters are contacting me about jobs below my experience level, but for the same pay. I'd rather take a promotion with paycut. I don't want to be stuck in the same role for the rest of my career.
Really let this sink in..The hiring process or lack of process is broken. You have to convince someone to get access to food, water, and shelter through a job resume. So if you get rejected you are essentially making it very difficult for people to get these things. I thought we evolved pass this nonsense especially if we claim we are the leader of the free world. So if you applied to 500 jobs you seriously think that customizing to each job takes very little time? That's not the problem nor is it something that busy hardworking Americans can do all the time. People need to think much deeper. You seriously think that would change people's bias? The real problem is that people are greedy and don't allow opportunities for their fellow man. Seriously there are other things to be more critical of. Let's get pass this nonsense of competing for food. Food, water, shelter, etc. were meant for all people. Why do we allow such nonsense to exist for these things that were basic rights for all? You have to jump through a shitload of basically worthless systems and processes that can't seem to provide for the hardworking American.
Hi Sean, I just got laid off for the 4th time in 6 years and looking to switch industries and hope the resume rocketfuel will help. If someone more in need can use it more, completely understood. Otherwise, this will really help with my next career. Thank you
I'll tell you this, this video doesn't work for every line of work out there. Cybersecurity, every job I've ever gotten, I've applied for myself. I've been contacted by countless recruiters on LinkedIn and Indeed who were functionally worthless. They didn't have any clear understanding of what my skillsets represented in the Cyber job space, and I'd be getting people reaching out for roles of all levels. I'd ask if they had reviewed my LI profile and seen my stated skillsets and experience level, and half of them would just never respond again. These days, I just tend to ignore contact requests. My CV speaks for itself, and I am able to choose the roles I want to pursue. I usually enjoy your advice, but I kind of feel like this is an overly broad brush being used in this video.
I had a resume rewritten by a professional. I do get lots of rejections, but I've also been offered several jobs and am currently under consideration for one high-level executive position.
I have found that the happiest workers are ones who work for themselves, who offer a service direct to the customer. I know a builder, a mechanic and a computer repairer who work for themselves, and they enjoy their jobs. It is rough when you first start but if you do a good and honest job, and offer a service which will always be needed, then you build up a loyal client base, who will call you when they need you. These guys are now busy, because customers are happy with their service. They don't have to work for someone else, or send resumes or jump through hoops. They only need to please the customer. I wish I could find what skill I could offer to clients, and I would consider doing this too.
Thanks for your video! I Had thought to make for my students brand new CVs, but I will create better linkdeem profiles instead! Thanks for your insight!
I would also like to leave a comment about Brian’s course, I bought a year ago. I have redone my resume using Brian’s tips and tricks. I also took all his advice about interview. I was changing jobs almost year ago and his course and TH-cam videos helped me to land current job. I am also using all tips to get next promotion. Thank you🙏
I recently hired for a role and had over 700 resumes. I spent 4-5 hours sifting, and found some good candidates. But do the math - 4 hours is 240 minutes, divide that by 700 resumes. If I couldn’t figure out someone’s skills and relevant experience in about 15 seconds, it was onto the next. Not to mention that about 500 of the submissions were either not qualified or had different experience and it was totally unclear why they wanted the job I posted.
This video shows a lot of what's wrong with recruiters today. As a manager I would much rather have someone who's interested in joining the company, shown by them taking the time to apply for the job. Instead of some random person from LinkedIn who will only be interested in cashing in. Also as a hiring manager I am much more interested in your personality then your actual skills. If you have the basics then we can teach you the rest however we cannot teach you to have a nice attitude.
If you’re an engineering manager hiring a senior full stack developer, you wouldn’t care that they don’t have the technical competence to code properly as long as they take an interest in the job?
@@ALifeAfterLayoff of course there are some positions that needs to have a certain skill level and I also mentioned that you need to have the basics :-). However I find it that newly graduates often write just as good code as those with 10 years experience and often have more creative solutions and often more up to date on technology. Also today where working in agile teams is the norm, then you would rarely need someone to have in depth knowledge of the full stack. When you add the person with the right attitude and willingness to learn they will within the first 3-6 month develop a good understanding of product that the team is supporting. Where 100% skill match can be a necessity, is when you are hiring a lone wolf to keep an old system alive until it can be phased out. I do enjoy your video's but this one just really hit on one of the things that struggle with a lot when it comes to our recruitment team, they think too much in 100% solutions rather than presenting someone that can fulfill let's say 70% of what you need.
I agree. A resume or an interview caters to those who are charismatic, or are good at lying. But will the "perfect candidate" hired constantly be late, have drug or alcohol problems that start to affect their work, do they stay past quitting time to finish the job and meet deadlines? Can they be relied upon? What sort of person are they? How do they work with others? These methods of hiring are based on what you know, not who you are. You are right. It is easier to teach skills than personality. I also think that the actual employer needs to have a greater say, as they are the one you work for, who is paying you, and may have to fire you. The recruiters and hiring managers have no consequence of a bad hire.
Robert Lee. I've been unemployed since March. I've applied to at least a couple hundred jobs with only rejections. I'm going to have a hard time feeding my one year old, two year old and six year old kids this month.
"Hey, so we think you're a perfect fit for the company and you fit pretty much all the criteria we're looking for, but unfortunately we'll have to reject you because we prefer to wait for someone else who's an even more perfect fit for the role that might never actually come along"
How would you respond to the common concern out there that placing your location on a resume could be prejudicial? We would like to think there isn't discrimination in recruiting in 2022, but a person who lives in an underserved community may feel like their address could filter them out of a job consideration prior to being able to present themselves in an interview. I see both sides of the argument. As someone who hasn't ever had to feel like my location would need to be obscured, I never personally omitted my address, but I've heard the concern and I don't feel that it is unfounded. I'm curious to hear your thoughts.
People who live in a Sun City development told me they got another address for job applications because they could not get any interviews because Sun City is a retirement community. They got a Postmates mailbox that gas a real street address.
The full address is unnecessary. Name of city and state is enough. A lot of jobs are 100 percent remote. But they do need to know your general location. One reason is state employment laws. Beyond city and state, why would anyone want to know so much about you even before they talk to you?
I've been working as a project manager for a small company for a few years and I'm about to graduate with a Computer Science degree in the next few months. As someone in my 40s it would be very helpful to have something as the Resume Rocketfuel to help write and tweak my resume for the career change I'm working towards. Whoever gets it though, good luck.
Not only your resume. You need to make sure that your LinkedIn profile is as good as it can be. A recruiter who is interested would spend a few extra minutes looking at your LinkedIn profile.
This mans' advice is spot on. Source; I've been on the other side of this as the person providing answers for an in-take call, drafting a job description for a position we needed filled.
I’m new to this channel and the timing could not be more perfect. Clearly I have had my head in the sand. I’m in my mid-50’s, been with my current employer for 18 years, need to learn how to move to a yes pile quickly. Despite stellar employment record and perfect attendance… all signs lead to I’m about to be RIF’d..💡
You need to make your LinkedIn profile as good as it can be. Recruiters and managers who find your resume acceptable will spend a few minutes on your LinkedIn profile. Do not lose out with a good resume but subpar LinkedIn profile. Does your field have certification? Even passing a portion of the certification process strengthen your resume a lot.
My is always a one page. I change it a little bit of what ever job I'm seeking. So that one page is be more effective. I sometimes add a cover page, If I think it's needed. Put out 6-12 resumes out there. Depends how the market is. I just send out 6 and already got a interview coming up. 9 out of 10. I usually nail that interview. So this coming interview seem to be promise to me.
After having bought Bryan's courses, I've got to tell you they are gold, they pay for themselves after a while. You can tell from Bryan's other videos that he knows what he is talking about, but the most important aspect of his courses is how well he communicates his experiences when it comes to selection processes and career development. The course definitely delivers on content and presentation. I've taken many courses online, and found it hard to find good courses that get these elements right. Give it a chance, it'll help to steer your career in the right direction.
@@d-8664 lol, I dont know him, I recommend him because it helped me to get a job abroad which I know would be difficult otherwise, but I get the point that my comment could sound like those fakes testimonies with 5 stars, the course isnt Perfect, I just might have the luck to have it when I need it which made the difference in my case.
Most of my career I was in call center management. Then, I had 4 major back surgeries. At age 60, I find what I thought were 'great skills' now seem outdated. Literally hundreds of resumes send out with just a few rejection letters. I am looking for any advice you can offer! Sean, I would be grateful for a copy of your book to get me back on the right track. Wishing you much success with it!
I sympathize. Things are very metric driven now. KPI's etc snd it's not just call center. Deskside too. It's become boring really. anyway, I wish you luck with the job search and your back. titanium is tough, going in especially. Oh yeah, check out Job Scan. It compares job descriptions to your resume and gives adjustment advice to make it work. I know of one person that it made a huge difference.
I feel your pain (three heart attacks and gimpy leg full of screws) employers just see me as a liability unsafe to stack toilet rolls that could drop dead at any minute.
@@Jon6429 Yeah, it's funny how as we get older and our knowledge base increases, we become less valuable in the marketplace. When I was hiring, I would love to find someone like myself! Still interested in learning, years of building various skills, an always on-time. Now that kind of person is seen as a liability, not an asset. Thanks for your reply!
If you haven't yet found the content creator and career coach Andrew LaCivita, I highly recommend him. Good content, excellent advice, and he provides both free templates on a few topics and a few paid products and services. th-cam.com/users/andylacivita (Bryan, if you're reading this, sorry for being a shill for another recruiter. Just felt Jim might appreciate being introduced to another high quality channel. Thanks for making great content that helps people.)
I like the idea of a short resume, but for those of us who have had 8+ jobs over a 20 year career what should we do? Do we only focus on the most recent 5-10 years or 2-3 jobs and omit the rest? It would be good to see a sample of an ideal resume that does catch the eye of a recruiter as a reference.
Most of the recruiters are lazy. He said it himself. HR departments are usually the first line of defense in employing real talents. Aaron Clarey has a lot of videos about this topic.
Great questions Andrew. I’ve got 30+ years and damn it’s difficult shortening it. It will come to the point I put one or two points on each position. Personally I think recruiters and HR departments these days are lazy. Recruiters shouldn’t have their jobs made easy by applicants. It’s their job to check each application to find the right person.
@death to the suburbs They can tell my age anyway. Besides if they discriminate that way they’ll do it anyway once they meet you. In the software development example having project management experience is actually beneficial if you’re going to work at a company that still uses antiquated project management because it demonstrates knowledge of the project process.
Focus on recent years. I have 23 years dental assisting experience but I only have listed my current job of one year and my prior job of 13 years. Combine your experience and state precise skills and how they benefited your company. Think of it as a teaser of your decades of work; you can fill in the rest when a recruiter or employer shows interest. Oh, and my resume is one page.
I got 20-years of experience all to fit onto two pages not hard if it's a targeted resume. Meaning I only put on the resume what is relevant to the role I'm applying for. Ergo I don't have just one resume but each one is unique. But the best way to get a job is by a referral that way you avoid the initial HR and resume screen out.
Well thanks to Sean! I’m unsure what it is but I would take whatever help I can get! I am on the job search. My field that I have my BS in is Mental Health. I had an AMAZING interview today and I mean it went well. I was super excited, but now I’ve decided not to get excited. I have learned by experience in this job search that when I get excited about something and I’m like, yep! Nailed that. I usually end up being heartbroken, when I don’t end up getting it. I am praying and leaving it to god! It’s the perfect job fit for me, like it is seriously perfect. It’s with a very great company in our area and it’s also a brand new program they are starting. The building it will take place in has gotten a complete facelift and it looks brand new! It’s beautiful. I will be so excited if this does happen for me because I will be starting along with everyone when they open the facility! So I won’t feel like “the new girl” you know how that feels when you go into a new job. I just really want to work and I have resources I have spent so much of my own money on I want to share with future coworkers and clients! Send me good vibes!
An interview is a sales call. Good performance gives you confidence. You should remember that interview, take what you can from it. Do not get beaten if you do not get the job. You do not know your competitors. There is always better fitting people out there. Be positive. You will be fine.
This idea of a "good recruiter" or prototypical recruiter is a fallacy. People's average experience with recruiters not knowing what the hell they're looking for is what good recruiting looks like. That's the reality. I've never understood this idea of a good, fill in the blank. If everyone's general experience is negative, then that is what "good" recruiting looks like. The average = the good. I've talked with numerous recruiters that have no idea what any of the words in the job posting mean and are calling me to see if I'm a good fit. They're literally asking me if I know the what the skills are as they're "just a recruiter".
Yeah I've never known even one who's barely competent in where I am. They are so bad that they can even screw up simple admin processes and it is awkward when facing the hiring mgr. Both external and internal recruiters are really some of the worst people around. I can't say the same for other countries though, at least this fella appears honest and brings up some good points
If ur just of out college, no one really wants you, and the way you get hired is by sending out your resume to a thousand places, and maybe one of those is down on their luck and hires you.
after 26 years at the same company, I'd be grateful for resume help in crafting a rockin' resume, its time to explore the landscape - (aka rocket fuel!)
If you're looking for video topic suggestions, how about advice on how to organize a job search or do a side hustle when your current job involves long hours and/or is very stressful so you don't have time or energy to work on it. I've heard that vacation time is a good time to work on it. I've also found caring less about my current job and just doing what I can, within my limits, I am less exhausted after work. Hopefully I won't get fired but then they are slowly firing employees that have been there a while so I suspect I'm on their the "To be Canned" list
Firstly, Bryan, thank you so much for making these videos and doing what you do. I wanted to know, what would you recommend for formatting a resume with a fair amount of actual current experience bound to an NDA? Would being parenthetical within a current responsibilities section as [NDA], for instance, be advisable? Also, I wanted to say thank you to Sean for your generosity - I think that's very admirable of you.
Some recruiters don't know entirely what they're talking about. If they're hiring for all sorts of positions within a company, they might have a general overview of each position, but they do not know the exact relevant details/experience to fish out from a candidate. I speak from experience as a not so experienced job searcher, spent a few months interviewing for dozens of companies, finally got decent amount of offers but not until very recently. I was interviewing for a lot of IT support, product/software support, and customer support positions (generally all within same remote technical support sphere). You as a candidate have to be aggressive and fight to keep the conversation onto your relevant work experience that would apply well to the position. Recruiters were often times not particularly technical, that only happens for the 2nd and 3rd round interviews when you speak with your possible coworkers or tech leads. So you have to emphasize soft skills, versatility, ability to learn quickly, etc... When recruiters do have some knowledge about what the role is, you have to bring up relevant experience or skills, even if you lightly touch upon it, many times they won't dig deeper into your skills. Also know your audience. I made the mistake of responding to a "challenging time at work" question for an email software company with hardware experience story, as I was telling the truth about a challenging time, however physical on location hardware support experience isn't really relevant to a remote email security company, so I should have "lied" and played up a more software issue I dealt with to make it seem complicated, but it would have been more relevant. As for resume length, 2-3 pages is fine, they often use tools to search through key words within a resume, and unless you're willing to make a custom resume per each job listing, having something somewhat larger helps ensure you'll have key words. If you did many roles at a company, you want to be detailed and spell out what you did, even if it's 5-6 lines under a position instead of 3-4 shorter ones. ALSO! (last point I swear), by the time you're at a 2-3 round interview, they're also looking for "fit" meaning if they can get along with you, so be friendly, make jokes if the opportunity presents, etc...sometimes you'll get to talk about interests outside work, so connect with the recruiters or managers as best as possible. Fit is a massive thing, and really if you have a set level of knowledge and experience, you can be taught everything you'll do at a job, so the bigger factors are if the managers or employees like you.
A resume expert told me 2 to 3 pages, max, depending on how many decades of experience you have. I have 20+ years of experience and keep it to 2 pages.
I have a bit of an issue with the old "2 page resume" paradigm... In Canada's capital, many of us have been consulting for decades... A 2 pager isn't even going to be looked at when the statement of work you are replying to is 5 or six pages and requires detailed proof of experience with specific Projects referenced... 2 pages is what the Canadian government would expect to see from a youngster fresh out of school looking for their first position. It's not going to be taken seriously when you have 3 decades of increasingly demanding projects across several dozen contracts...
You kinda addressed this, its miscommunication between the hiring manager and recruiter but yeah, when I see a job asking for 20 years' experience in Windows server 2022, I pretty much cross that job out....
I am quittting my current horrible job and moving to a really nice company with better position. I had very hard time and conflicts and my workplace honestly has psychopaths and even convicts, I am now worried that my ex-colleagues will try to ruin my new job by contacting my new employer or sending them any info. The only way they can track me down is through LinkedIn and I am trying to have a good use of LinkedIn and build a good network but I am not sure how to do this. I am thinking to be on invisible mode and block all my colleagues from the last job, I am not sure if I visit their profile they might see it if they have the gold membership? I dont want to miss out on LinkedIn benefits because of people full of hatred. I appreciate any advice!
Once I hire someone, if I was to receive some email or phone call about an employee, I would either 1) ignore it 2) talk to the new employee about it or 3) if it is claiming some criminal behavior, I would do a google search and then talk to the employee depending on what turned up. I would never go hunting on social media, although I don't care about political views, an employer who cared about that might go looking there. If it is a sensitive position (about 30% of my hires) I would have already done a background check (with the employee's permission) and I would ignore any incoming stuff like this.
@@simongsmith no criminal record. I used to hang out with a colleague in good intentions and he recorded me on video having arguments and shouting and after some time I found out that this colleague is actually not stable and hating everyone and going online paying for services to get sensitive info about other colleagues and leaving them sticky notes on their lockers with bad words. I am just worried he might send deceiving info to my new employer or LinkedIn connections or send them that video of almost a fight. I am maybe worrying too much now, I just want to find a way to keep using LinkedIn while not showing something on my profile only to my connections.
I applied for a Supervisor position. I got an email I was rejected because my resume. That being said, 8 ppl who had less work experience as me got that position! That really hurt so I need to improve on my resume....this is the same resume I used to get the entry level at this same company ( I just added more work experience since being in this company for 14 yrs)
I deserve the free copy because I have a lot of community service experience and would be a great fit for any company. I have been out of work for years.
It seems strange that so much emphasis is placed on tailoring a resume for an applicant tracking system (ATS), considering that only a small percentage of resumes (5%) are actually selected for review from job postings and inbound corporate recruiting efforts. I get the bigger point but sometimes the advise overlaps and contradicts from many of the experts. The topic Bout job titles is absolutely correct. Unique does not make you stand out.
Hi Brian, can you please make a video about portals where you have to split your resumee up into sections : enter your first work experience, enter your second work experience, enter your first skill, enter your education, etc. Does this format require a specific treatment ?
Quick question - I’ve always believed in customizing your resume for the job, but how do you handle inconsistencies between the customized resume and your LinkedIn profile? In particular - rebranding titles for cross-functional teams.
Dont use linked in and stop updating it now. In the future, you can easily say its not something your prioritize or maintain Only scrub tier companies would have an issue with this. Imo, linkedin is an unfair way to track and gatekeep candidates. This is coming from someone only a couple years out of college who was told for years that linkedin is "sooooo important"...its simply not. The skills you have are. Dont let people in HR that dont know what your job does tell you what skills you have based off poorly based assumptions based that they made because of a couple words on a social media website Im about a year in and it has given me versatility in interviews that hiring managers appreciate. They get to learn more about you because some numbnuts in hr didnt auto reject you
But Beady, isn’t the advice you’re giving directly contradicting the advice Life After Layoff is giving? He says that the vast majority of hirings are outbound hirings, yet you advise to neglect LinkedIn in favor of Inbound Applications.
So, job seekers are told to reach out to recruiters via LinkedIn etc., after submitting their application, yet the biggest problem job seekers suffer from is recruiter ghosting. I have even responded to recruiters who reached out to me and guess what, no response. The sheer lack of professionalism from recruiters and HR is the biggest issue followed closely by poor job descriptions. It’s an absolute mess and no surprise Americans are dead nearly 10 years earlier than many other countries.
I'm a 15 year enlisted Army special operations veteran who recently medically retired. I was accepted to an Executive MBA program, but I want to break into the job market and would love to have the resume rocket fuel to help me build a great military to civilian resume. Thanks for the opportunity!
I was always curious how a corporate recruiter, as a non technical person is able to select the right candidates, and now that you told us that specific key words for a specific position matters, what would be the advantage to have a corporate recruiter versus an A.I. Software? It might be that A.I. would be much better and faster in selecting the right candidates for inbound application and as it is very likely that corporate recruiters do not bother to search outside of inbound application, what is the future of this job? Nothing personal, no reason to be upset about it. Thank you!
AI is only handful of years away Form taking 90% recruiting/hiring jobs. ☝️looking forward because recruiters act like experts when they’re not. This whole video was basically him talking about his/their biases and uses tech. Lolz
I AM DESERVING of Sean's donation because despite me being college educated, life circumstances have made me unqualified for jobs that require college education. And that is because I never got a chance to get my foot in the door for some white collar job so I can build some experience. And then, I can't get my foot in the door because hiring manager see that I only have experience in low paying jobs so they quickly discard my resume. After I graduated from a physical therapy program 11 years ago, I had to work in restaurants to make ends meet while doing my coursework necessary to obtain my PT license. However, working in a restaurant environment is highly stressful and as a result my performance in my classes was severely compromised. So I decided to give up after having tried for four years. I kept working in restaurants and after a while I switched to warehouses. I avoid telling people that I am a college graduate but the fact that I am more educated than my supervisors and managers shows in the way I carry myself. Also, I am popular among my colleagues which only adds to the frustration of my superiors. And so do my strong work ethic and high productivity. So, long story short, all these years I have been going from termination to termination to termination. Therefore, I have been unable to keep a job for long enough to get promoted to a managerial position or to at least build some serious marketable skills. I don't want to give up. I want to do whatever it takes so I can finally get what I deserve...
If you have to send your resume to a company rather than them soliciting you, chances are you won’t get the job?! Wow! Times have certainly changed since I last searched for jobs 15-20 years ago. I got laid off 4 years ago from a company I spent 17 years with. Would still be there if I had chosen to relocate with them 2,000 miles away. I’d be afraid to have to look for a job these days.
One problem is that the recruiter is often a victim of bias. They believe that resumes from applicants are not likely to be the candidate so they take from their search what they didn’t accept from the application.
I’ve flipped the narrative. I don’t care what my resume looks like and I will flat out tell employers in interviews my resume looks the way it does because I fire employers who don’t appreciate me and the now hiring signs outside of everyone’s business right now says I’m not wrong. I will tell them I don’t lose jobs I move on because the company sucks🤷♂️. I’m candid, I don’t mess around with people. If you want your business to rot with a bad staff go ahead and skip over me I really don’t care. I am employed right now. My work and attendance stands on it’s own. Employers better get with the program if they want to keep people like me because I know we’re not a dime a dozen anymore.
Watching this, I am now convinced recruiters are a waste of time and money. They don't actually know about the jobs they are hiring for, so they can't tell an outstanding applicant from an average one, and have no clue about industry specific requirements...As a scientist, it is required to put a list of every publication you have. After a few years, that takes several pages, for no other reason than it has to be cited properly. Nobody thinks anyone, even the hiring manager is going to read every line of that, they are going to count the publications and make sure they are properly cited for integrity. Furthermore, certifications count and take up space. When I need to list my certifications that can take a page or more! Do you honestly think I want to spend time typing all of that stuff out? Especially basic stuff that everyone in the industry must have to work legally? Do you honestly think I think it will help me get a job? It's an industry requirement. I would love to cut my resume down to a page, 2 at max. It would save me a lot of wasted time and useless effort...Of course then I won't meet the minimum requirements or key word searches...
Why do they put so much emphasis on a particular brand of a given technology? In the fields of data engineering, there are so many software stacks that do the same thing. Yet postings emphasize that you must have x years of experience with this particular software package. I'm not going to learn them all, I can't. Isn't it better to look for somebody that understands the process and can learn the software on the fly?
@death to the suburbs except when they use phrases like "hard requirement" or "must have" for an individual Piece Of Software (POS) within the listing. I'm finding stuff like that is way too common and shows that managers lack understanding of the huge diversity in the software available for this type of work.
Sean - we have 3 kids under 5 and are trying to get back to family in southern New Jersey. Been looking for 7 months and can’t seem to get past the few recruiter screening calls I get.
I am confused. We have learned to customize our resumes to the job description, but that would require applying to a specific posting. In this video you said incoming is less effective and outgoing is better. But how can we customize our resume if we don't know the job we will be contacted for by the recruiter? I know I am missing something here. Thanks in advance!
I should have added that always include a covering letter as a carefully crafted brief letter allows the option to use a generic one page resume Best.....😊
My respect for you dropped dramatically listening to this. It makes you sound like just another toxic human relations officer with a minimal grasp on reality when it comes to hiring people that can become a high quality employee.
With generic titles, would removing junior/medior/senior make sense as well? Companies have different scales, so junior in one company might be a senior in another, so i generally exclude it
I have nine employers on my résumé but most of them are one-liners after the company name. I deleted one of those seventeen-year-old call center jobs, it is not relevant. The most recent ones are those that actually could land me a job, and in great detail. I try to keep it at 4-ish bullet points though. I would love if this channel could give me a brutal review if I submit my résumé. Edit: the point about making your work title a bit more "fancy": I speak three languages fluently and I recently had to translate my résumé into English. I took the liberty to translate my work title into "Communications & media relations specialist and social media consultant". This is not a lie by any means title-wise but sounds a lot more fancy in English, to be fair
I wonder if this is the same in Australia, because I've never heard of anyone being "found" by a recruiter. It's always through applying for jobs. I work in the Pharma manufacturing industry, so maybe it's different for us grunts at the coalface.
I think resumes are very outdated. Maybe good for young people with less experience. My resume is very short with links to various projects. All what matters is what you can or can not do. I know resumes are read by robots. But those jobs in big conglomerates who operate as hired-by-robot-work-as-robot are not for me
The problem I have with the recruiter/hiring manager perspective can be summed up with a star trek quote, "We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile." Even thou the model is one sided and unfair. You will conform to the resume mill/recruiter model or starve to death. Resistance is futile. Apparently, resistance is not futile thus the need to reinforce the futility part with youtube videos.
@death to the suburbs I pulled all my web and data skills off the market last September. I've had a long successful career. So, I decided to give someone else a shot. Of course they eliminated the position and dumped my work load onto everyone left. Standard operating procedure. I even retired early. We fundamentally disagreed over work at home. They need me more then I needed them. I can go back to work with a phone call and a commitment to a hour commute each way. Irreconcilable differences. Over the decades, I witnessed hundreds of good programmers and highly skilled software engineers fail out of the labor market. The sickness is the system. Finding work shouldn't be this hard and this is nothing new. This labor market has been dysfunctional as long as i've been in this business. Trying to second guess the recruiters and hiring managers is an exercise in futile anxiety. Sometimes there is no logic in how they make hiring decision and two levels of this is excessive. Recruiters and hiring managers are fallible humans with emotional problems and some even have god complexes. You can't make sense of nonsense. There is no magic pill you can add to your resume and get hired. In my experience, dumb luck gets you hired and cow cow/brown nosing skills can't hurt. There is nothing wrong with my attitude. It is well earned in a dysfunctional system over decades.
10:08 - But do I need to enter my full address or the city and state is enough? Asking because they don't need to know my full address until they decide to hire me right? Any decision they need to make based off of my location prior to hiring, can be done with the state and city only. I don't see reason to enter my house number and street on a job application that I'm not even sure if it's a scammer that can attempt to break into my house while I'm sleeping.
I listened to your vids and fixed my resume as recommended and I got 3 interviews within 1 week when before I didn’t get any bites! Thanks for the great advice it helped a ton
That is awesome!
I've never had problems getting an interview, but the last 4 interviews I got they ghosted me the moment I expressed any interest about the job.
what did you change?
And there it is: the major misunderstanding between recruiter and applicant.
When I apply for a new job I will never be a perfect fit. Because if I were, that would mean it's basically the job that I'm already doing. But I'd like to learn something new, or I'm not interested.
And additionally, how am I supposed to be a perfect fit when companies throw everything in this job description that they've ever heard of? Like, not older than 40 with 20 years of experience in this job and additionally 10 years abroad...
HR is usually full of BS but you have to play the game to climb the ladder.
If they said no one over 40, you could just sue them because that is illegal
If you're recruiting for a CEO of Company X, the best candidate has 10 years of experience working as the CEO of Company X. This is the problem with most recruiters and hiring managers, they don't look for candidates that can become the CEO of Company X but for a profile that already is CEO.
And if everybody does that, there will soon be no CEOs left, due to deaths.
Yup
Oh Cock You're right
It's safer, become the person who could become C-suite, it is competitive.
Exactly because companies are too cheap to invest in new talent
In my experience, there is no silver bullet when it comes to resumes--- every recruiter is difference and each has his or her preferences when it comes to resume review.
I think his perspective is more towards corporate and tech jobs.
I got hired recently to a great job with awesome salary. The thing is that when I submitted my resume I didn't feel fully competent in the job role: maybe 70%overlap and slightly less years of experience than required. I had also several submissions for some jobs that I was a "perfect" (or even overqualified) fit with specialization in the exact field and I could have contributed from day 0, but for those I always got automated rejection.
I kinda feel that when applying you need to shoot slightly higher of your paygrade and overqualification is even worse than slight underqualification...
😂 they rather have someone they can pay less than too much...
And that as someone in your same place
I like reading economics and overqualification is one of the most ridiculous things I have heard, apparently being acomplished is a bad thing lol, I once read in university on something they gave us to read rhat between three candidates we shouldn't hire the one that was the most qualified because "he will be bored because it's too easy" lmao, imagine that, you need an accountant but you don't want an accountant with 10 years of experience because he will be too bored in an average accounting job lmao, according to that logic experienced or acomplished people can only be high level managers or something, never employees, it defies all logic to not want experiwnced and qualified workers because they will "be bored" lol.
While I learned some great information in this video, I also learned everything wrong with why recruiters/companies are missing out on great candidates.
Take this with a grain of salt.
Different careers require different resumes.
An character artist resume is MUCH different than a salesman’s resume.
You def need to tailor your resumes to jobs. Underrated tip imo.
@The Sight of Sound well, ok, than a resume for An HR position… there…
Tailoring a resume to every single job opening when you have to apply to 100 of them or get contacted about 100 different jobs is exhausting. Each recruiter wants to see a certain set of words and makes you end up lying about skills just to get noticed and then if you don't get the job, you end up adding and adding everytime. Thats how the resume ends up being so long..
I had different resumes for marketing and sales jobs, "marketing resume" focused on marketing experiences and "sales resume" on sales (duh). Otherwise I didn't bother with tayloring a resume, I bring everything relevant up on the cover letter/email/whatever.
Most places don't even send a "thank you for applying" back to you, so why should we go through all kinds of hoops for even simple jobs?
I’m glad someone finally say it is better to have simple look resume unless you are applying for creative position.
The best way to get hired, is not through experience or even being able to do the job, It’s by lying.
I feel like this is the only way. Lol!
Or through your "network" (corporate-friendly speak for nepotism).
Network.... Who you know... Or how u look. If you're a decent looking lady you can go places that men don't
But what if not one application fits the perfect candidate. Do you hire no-one or drop your expectations and make it near enough is good enough.
There are no "perfect" candidates, because everyone has flaws.
@@rejectwokeness1314 I have always said, the good looking people get all the breaks, and get doors open for them .
Please thank Sean/Shawn for his kindness. Someone will benefit greatly. And thanks for the video, Brian. 🙏👏
In one of your videos you mentioned someone who applied for 1,000 positions as a test. I have that beat. I’ve probably applied to well over 1,200 and to date have had TWO responses that weren’t rejections. I had my resume written (and rewritten) by the service that offers a ‘free resume appraisal’ on many of the job board sites, along with a ‘professional LinkedIn page overhaul.’
I have about 30 years experience in Advertising/Marketing Production, with over 10 of those as management. I took my last employer from a manual process (job folders in racks, tracked at best in spreadsheets by coordinators) to a workflow based around a page tracking app, written in-house, monitored by a host of scripts/apps (which I wrote) that were triggered by specific document statuses to perform tasks that had previously required the direct attention of the Production staff, that basically shepherded files from inception to release.
And if you read my resume, you’d never know that’s what I did. It was as if, like mall haircuts, they only had a small number of options available to them and just picked one, dropping my info in wherever it seemed to fit.
In the past, when looking for work, it was rare I didn’t find a freelance position within a week which typically turned into permanent employment within a couple months. It is extremely frustrating to receive rejections saying my skills do not align with their needs, even when those positions are basic production work.
I have had to move out of my place in Dallas, put everything in storage and relocate to my brother’s house in rural Florida to continue my search. I have no more funds. My cards are maxed out, my checking account and my wallet both contain less than $20 each.
I’m attempting to rewrite my resume myself and have no idea what I’m doing. I’ve watched many of your videos on TH-cam, and found them enlightening. If I had the money to buy your packages, I would, but alas, I do not. I’m not the type to ask for handouts but this is what I’ve been reduced to.
Barry, thank you for sharing your story and here's the deal, WE CAN DO THIS!! I too have the weight of the on me and seriously about to be living in a dang tent if I don't get it together. Let's look in the mirror, remind ourselves how good we are at what we do and let's take these great tools Sean is offering to turn some wheels. Hell - let's work together. Hit me back here if u would like to connect.
Sean, love your content man, I'm like Barry, I don't want a handout but I could use a helping hand which I will gladly pay it forward to another in need once I secure my next great role!! Let's DO THIS!!
"30 years experience" There's your problem. Too much experience.
@@EmmaDee I know it is very hard to ask for help but I believe that as long as we do it with the intention and willingness to do the same when opportunity arises.
I wish both of you every success.
Best........😊
I think it's ageism that you are struggling with and recruiters think you are too expensive even if you aren't
@avernvrey7422 It also gives away their age, and sadly, that makes a big difference. I'm 46 and recently made a new email address that didn't include my year of birth.
As a newer Recruiter, I love your insight on the industry and working with hiring managers!
Fun thing is when recruiters reach me out themselves they usually offer me positions which fit me much worse than the ones I am applying for myself. Still getting rejected very often though but I suppose it is just because of these finicky keyword filters lazy recruiters use nowadays. I am surprised you didn't say anything about them by the way.
It happened to me last week. A recruiter contacted me about a position that I didn't think I fit very well, missing some essential skills and experience. I checked her profile and she was recruiting for multiple positions. I messaged her that I would also be interested in that other position where I literally ticked all the boxes. She replied I'm not fit for that one and insisted I should interview for the one I knew I wouldn't get. Bitch, have you even read my resume...
Bruh. This video and channel is one big shill for LinkedIn. Can’t wait until AI takes all these pointless, shortsighted and biased recruiters jobs🤌
Sean Mysel.... THAT'S MEEEEE! Thanks for the shoutout Bryan :)
Thanks Sean!
thank you so much Sean! You are amazing on your offer!
@@RiannaNicole much appreciated! I came across this channel shortly before I got laid off June 1 this year. Bought the LinkedIn program and got an offer the day after, then another a week later. Now I have four different income streams so I'm a huge fan of this channel.
Hey Sean, thanks a lot for offering the free copy of resume rocket fuel. I would like to get a copy because I am currently in the process of starting my career in IT and struggle with my resume and interviews. I'm beginning to implement what Bryan says, but I think an organized course would be helpful! Thanks again for what you're doing!
I could use help so bad. I've got a lot of pride but I must swallow that pride right now, because I'm about to be homeless. I don't know what to do because panic has set in now.
In my experience recruiters reaching out via LinkedIn are always offering a lateral move. Almost never a pay raise or any type of promotion. Could be useful for people trying to get out of a toxic workplace. For those looking for a promotion best chance is internally, then move outside the company.
It’s a struggle recruiters deal with too. Laterals are a hiring manager bias “we want someone who’s already doing this role”.
I always ask for compensation range if it's not offered up front. This is 2022. When they don't respond, you know everything you need to about the position/employer.
I got most of my pay raises by moving jobs. But it's almost impossible to get a promotion this way. These days recruiters are contacting me about jobs below my experience level, but for the same pay. I'd rather take a promotion with paycut. I don't want to be stuck in the same role for the rest of my career.
@@milobem4458big diff between job promotion and role changes. Big.
Linkedin Sucks.
Really let this sink in..The hiring process or lack of process is broken. You have to convince someone to get access to food, water, and shelter through a job resume. So if you get rejected you are essentially making it very difficult for people to get these things. I thought we evolved pass this nonsense especially if we claim we are the leader of the free world.
So if you applied to 500 jobs you seriously think that customizing to each job takes very little time?
That's not the problem nor is it something that busy hardworking Americans can do all the time. People need to think much deeper. You seriously think that would change people's bias? The real problem is that people are greedy and don't allow opportunities for their fellow man. Seriously there are other things to be more critical of. Let's get pass this nonsense of competing for food. Food, water, shelter, etc. were meant for all people. Why do we allow such nonsense to exist for these things that were basic rights for all? You have to jump through a shitload of basically worthless systems and processes that can't seem to provide for the hardworking American.
Hi Sean, I just got laid off for the 4th time in 6 years and looking to switch industries and hope the resume rocketfuel will help. If someone more in need can use it more, completely understood. Otherwise, this will really help with my next career. Thank you
I have no objection. I'm 100% in favor of you getting the program. :)
Great. I tried to add my contact but TH-cam won't let me. Please lmk the best way to reach out. Thank you
@@seanmysel5823 sir, how would I be able to getting someone to take a look at my resume?
I'll tell you this, this video doesn't work for every line of work out there. Cybersecurity, every job I've ever gotten, I've applied for myself. I've been contacted by countless recruiters on LinkedIn and Indeed who were functionally worthless. They didn't have any clear understanding of what my skillsets represented in the Cyber job space, and I'd be getting people reaching out for roles of all levels. I'd ask if they had reviewed my LI profile and seen my stated skillsets and experience level, and half of them would just never respond again. These days, I just tend to ignore contact requests. My CV speaks for itself, and I am able to choose the roles I want to pursue.
I usually enjoy your advice, but I kind of feel like this is an overly broad brush being used in this video.
I had a resume rewritten by a professional. I do get lots of rejections, but I've also been offered several jobs and am currently under consideration for one high-level executive position.
Hope you landed that job!
I have found that the happiest workers are ones who work for themselves, who offer a service direct to the customer.
I know a builder, a mechanic and a computer repairer who work for themselves, and they enjoy their jobs.
It is rough when you first start but if you do a good and honest job, and offer a service which will always be needed, then you build up a loyal client base, who will call you when they need you. These guys are now busy, because customers are happy with their service.
They don't have to work for someone else, or send resumes or jump through hoops. They only need to please the customer.
I wish I could find what skill I could offer to clients, and I would consider doing this too.
Thanks for your video! I Had thought to make for my students brand new CVs, but I will create better linkdeem profiles instead! Thanks for your insight!
I would also like to leave a comment about Brian’s course, I bought a year ago. I have redone my resume using Brian’s tips and tricks. I also took all his advice about interview. I was changing jobs almost year ago and his course and TH-cam videos helped me to land current job. I am also using all tips to get next promotion. Thank you🙏
I recently hired for a role and had over 700 resumes. I spent 4-5 hours sifting, and found some good candidates. But do the math - 4 hours is 240 minutes, divide that by 700 resumes. If I couldn’t figure out someone’s skills and relevant experience in about 15 seconds, it was onto the next. Not to mention that about 500 of the submissions were either not qualified or had different experience and it was totally unclear why they wanted the job I posted.
This 100% ^^
Just out of pure curiosity, what kind of role and in what part of the world gets 700 candidates?
@@dan-nutu probably a business related position
@@dan-nutu big name Fortune 500 companies get 100s of submittal per job posting.
They wanted the job posted for money.....DUH! Why are you working your job?
This video shows a lot of what's wrong with recruiters today. As a manager I would much rather have someone who's interested in joining the company, shown by them taking the time to apply for the job. Instead of some random person from LinkedIn who will only be interested in cashing in.
Also as a hiring manager I am much more interested in your personality then your actual skills. If you have the basics then we can teach you the rest however we cannot teach you to have a nice attitude.
If you’re an engineering manager hiring a senior full stack developer, you wouldn’t care that they don’t have the technical competence to code properly as long as they take an interest in the job?
@@ALifeAfterLayoff of course there are some positions that needs to have a certain skill level and I also mentioned that you need to have the basics :-). However I find it that newly graduates often write just as good code as those with 10 years experience and often have more creative solutions and often more up to date on technology. Also today where working in agile teams is the norm, then you would rarely need someone to have in depth knowledge of the full stack. When you add the person with the right attitude and willingness to learn they will within the first 3-6 month develop a good understanding of product that the team is supporting.
Where 100% skill match can be a necessity, is when you are hiring a lone wolf to keep an old system alive until it can be phased out.
I do enjoy your video's but this one just really hit on one of the things that struggle with a lot when it comes to our recruitment team, they think too much in 100% solutions rather than presenting someone that can fulfill let's say 70% of what you need.
I agree.
A resume or an interview caters to those who are charismatic, or are good at lying.
But will the "perfect candidate" hired constantly be late, have drug or alcohol problems that start to affect their work, do they stay past quitting time to finish the job and meet deadlines? Can they be relied upon? What sort of person are they? How do they work with others?
These methods of hiring are based on what you know, not who you are.
You are right. It is easier to teach skills than personality.
I also think that the actual employer needs to have a greater say, as they are the one you work for, who is paying you, and may have to fire you. The recruiters and hiring managers have no consequence of a bad hire.
Robert Lee. I've been unemployed since March. I've applied to at least a couple hundred jobs with only rejections. I'm going to have a hard time feeding my one year old, two year old and six year old kids this month.
"Hey, so we think you're a perfect fit for the company and you fit pretty much all the criteria we're looking for, but unfortunately we'll have to reject you because we prefer to wait for someone else who's an even more perfect fit for the role that might never actually come along"
Another phenomenal video
Excellent video with super useful information, as always👍
Really find your videos insightful.
I'd like to add that CV length does not apply to certain roles such as science and technology.
You're Awesome keep up the good work. Very informative and accurate.
How would you respond to the common concern out there that placing your location on a resume could be prejudicial? We would like to think there isn't discrimination in recruiting in 2022, but a person who lives in an underserved community may feel like their address could filter them out of a job consideration prior to being able to present themselves in an interview.
I see both sides of the argument. As someone who hasn't ever had to feel like my location would need to be obscured, I never personally omitted my address, but I've heard the concern and I don't feel that it is unfounded.
I'm curious to hear your thoughts.
I don’t even put my full address on my resume anymore. I just put City, State & Zip Code and that’s been enough.
Me too.
People who live in a Sun City development told me they got another address for job applications because they could not get any interviews because Sun City is a retirement community. They got a Postmates mailbox that gas a real street address.
City and state. That’s it.
The full address is unnecessary. Name of city and state is enough. A lot of jobs are 100 percent remote. But they do need to know your general location. One reason is state employment laws.
Beyond city and state, why would anyone want to know so much about you even before they talk to you?
People hire people that they like...... Relatable and can instantly connect and create rapport.....
That's why decent looking ladies can go places.
I've been working as a project manager for a small company for a few years and I'm about to graduate with a Computer Science degree in the next few months. As someone in my 40s it would be very helpful to have something as the Resume Rocketfuel to help write and tweak my resume for the career change I'm working towards. Whoever gets it though, good luck.
Not only your resume. You need to make sure that your LinkedIn profile is as good as it can be. A recruiter who is interested would spend a few extra minutes looking at your LinkedIn profile.
This mans' advice is spot on.
Source; I've been on the other side of this as the person providing answers for an in-take call, drafting a job description for a position we needed filled.
I’m new to this channel and the timing could not be more perfect. Clearly I have had my head in the sand. I’m in my mid-50’s, been with my current employer for 18 years, need to learn how to move to a yes pile quickly. Despite stellar employment record and perfect attendance… all signs lead to I’m about to be RIF’d..💡
You need to make your LinkedIn profile as good as it can be. Recruiters and managers who find your resume acceptable will spend a few minutes on your LinkedIn profile. Do not lose out with a good resume but subpar LinkedIn profile.
Does your field have certification? Even passing a portion of the certification process strengthen your resume a lot.
My is always a one page. I change it a little bit of what ever job I'm seeking. So that one page is be more effective. I sometimes add a cover page, If I think it's needed. Put out 6-12 resumes out there. Depends how the market is. I just send out 6 and already got a interview coming up. 9 out of 10. I usually nail that interview. So this coming interview seem to be promise to me.
After having bought Bryan's courses, I've got to tell you they are gold, they pay for themselves after a while. You can tell from Bryan's other videos that he knows what he is talking about, but the most important aspect of his courses is how well he communicates his experiences when it comes to selection processes and career development. The course definitely delivers on content and presentation. I've taken many courses online, and found it hard to find good courses that get these elements right. Give it a chance, it'll help to steer your career in the right direction.
Are you getting paid to say this?
@@d-8664 lol, I dont know him, I recommend him because it helped me to get a job abroad which I know would be difficult otherwise, but I get the point that my comment could sound like those fakes testimonies with 5 stars, the course isnt Perfect, I just might have the luck to have it when I need it which made the difference in my case.
@D. Seriously? 🤦
@@d-8664 I think alot of people in the comment section are. lmao...
Hi Bryan! Nice of u to visit and recommend ur own videos and products. 😑
Most of my career I was in call center management. Then, I had 4 major back surgeries. At age 60, I find what I thought were 'great skills' now seem outdated. Literally hundreds of resumes send out with just a few rejection letters. I am looking for any advice you can offer! Sean, I would be grateful for a copy of your book to get me back on the right track. Wishing you much success with it!
I sympathize. Things are very metric driven now. KPI's etc snd it's not just call center. Deskside too. It's become boring really. anyway, I wish you luck with the job search and your back. titanium is tough, going in especially. Oh yeah, check out Job Scan. It compares job descriptions to your resume and gives adjustment advice to make it work. I know of one person that it made a huge difference.
I feel your pain (three heart attacks and gimpy leg full of screws) employers just see me as a liability unsafe to stack toilet rolls that could drop dead at any minute.
@@nokoolaid Thank you, James, for the insight. It is much appreciated!
@@Jon6429 Yeah, it's funny how as we get older and our knowledge base increases, we become less valuable in the marketplace. When I was hiring, I would love to find someone like myself! Still interested in learning, years of building various skills, an always on-time. Now that kind of person is seen as a liability, not an asset. Thanks for your reply!
If you haven't yet found the content creator and career coach Andrew LaCivita, I highly recommend him. Good content, excellent advice, and he provides both free templates on a few topics and a few paid products and services. th-cam.com/users/andylacivita
(Bryan, if you're reading this, sorry for being a shill for another recruiter. Just felt Jim might appreciate being introduced to another high quality channel. Thanks for making great content that helps people.)
.. im not buying any of your advice but i can’t stop watching your videos
I like the idea of a short resume, but for those of us who have had 8+ jobs over a 20 year career what should we do? Do we only focus on the most recent 5-10 years or 2-3 jobs and omit the rest?
It would be good to see a sample of an ideal resume that does catch the eye of a recruiter as a reference.
Most of the recruiters are lazy. He said it himself. HR departments are usually the first line of defense in employing real talents. Aaron Clarey has a lot of videos about this topic.
Great questions Andrew. I’ve got 30+ years and damn it’s difficult shortening it. It will come to the point I put one or two points on each position. Personally I think recruiters and HR departments these days are lazy.
Recruiters shouldn’t have their jobs made easy by applicants. It’s their job to check each application to find the right person.
@death to the suburbs They can tell my age anyway. Besides if they discriminate that way they’ll do it anyway once they meet you.
In the software development example having project management experience is actually beneficial if you’re going to work at a company that still uses antiquated project management because it demonstrates knowledge of the project process.
Focus on recent years. I have 23 years dental assisting experience but I only have listed my current job of one year and my prior job of 13 years. Combine your experience and state precise skills and how they benefited your company. Think of it as a teaser of your decades of work; you can fill in the rest when a recruiter or employer shows interest. Oh, and my resume is one page.
I got 20-years of experience all to fit onto two pages not hard if it's a targeted resume. Meaning I only put on the resume what is relevant to the role I'm applying for. Ergo I don't have just one resume but each one is unique.
But the best way to get a job is by a referral that way you avoid the initial HR and resume screen out.
A CV (résumé) should be two pages. Max.
CV Curriculum Vitae is not exactly equal to Resume. Resume is usually shorter. But true, it is better to have everything short.
Your videos are amazing! Such great content!
Well thanks to Sean! I’m unsure what it is but I would take whatever help I can get! I am on the job search. My field that I have my BS in is Mental Health. I had an AMAZING interview today and I mean it went well. I was super excited, but now I’ve decided not to get excited. I have learned by experience in this job search that when I get excited about something and I’m like, yep! Nailed that. I usually end up being heartbroken, when I don’t end up getting it. I am praying and leaving it to god! It’s the perfect job fit for me, like it is seriously perfect. It’s with a very great company in our area and it’s also a brand new program they are starting. The building it will take place in has gotten a complete facelift and it looks brand new! It’s beautiful. I will be so excited if this does happen for me because I will be starting along with everyone when they open the facility! So I won’t feel like “the new girl” you know how that feels when you go into a new job. I just really want to work and I have resources I have spent so much of my own money on I want to share with future coworkers and clients! Send me good vibes!
An interview is a sales call. Good performance gives you confidence. You should remember that interview, take what you can from it.
Do not get beaten if you do not get the job. You do not know your competitors. There is always better fitting people out there. Be positive. You will be fine.
That is cool, Sean!
This idea of a "good recruiter" or prototypical recruiter is a fallacy. People's average experience with recruiters not knowing what the hell they're looking for is what good recruiting looks like. That's the reality. I've never understood this idea of a good, fill in the blank. If everyone's general experience is negative, then that is what "good" recruiting looks like. The average = the good. I've talked with numerous recruiters that have no idea what any of the words in the job posting mean and are calling me to see if I'm a good fit. They're literally asking me if I know the what the skills are as they're "just a recruiter".
They're like car salesmen or real estate agents. Close the deal, make a commission, move on.
Yeah I've never known even one who's barely competent in where I am. They are so bad that they can even screw up simple admin processes and it is awkward when facing the hiring mgr. Both external and internal recruiters are really some of the worst people around. I can't say the same for other countries though, at least this fella appears honest and brings up some good points
If ur just of out college, no one really wants you, and the way you get hired is by sending out your resume to a thousand places, and maybe one of those is down on their luck and hires you.
after 26 years at the same company, I'd be grateful for resume help in crafting a rockin' resume, its time to explore the landscape - (aka rocket fuel!)
Internal employee recommendation is by far the best for the seeker.
Yeah, ugly truth but it is the truth. Thanks! Your content is so helpful to me ❤
TWENTY PAGES?! Did the person go all the way back to their first lemonade stand when they were 5 years old? 🤣
If you're looking for video topic suggestions, how about advice on how to organize a job search or do a side hustle when your current job involves long hours and/or is very stressful so you don't have time or energy to work on it.
I've heard that vacation time is a good time to work on it. I've also found caring less about my current job and just doing what I can, within my limits, I am less exhausted after work.
Hopefully I won't get fired but then they are slowly firing employees that have been there a while so I suspect I'm on their the "To be Canned" list
I just made a video about this. On time management.
Firstly, Bryan, thank you so much for making these videos and doing what you do. I wanted to know, what would you recommend for formatting a resume with a fair amount of actual current experience bound to an NDA? Would being parenthetical within a current responsibilities section as [NDA], for instance, be advisable?
Also, I wanted to say thank you to Sean for your generosity - I think that's very admirable of you.
Some recruiters don't know entirely what they're talking about. If they're hiring for all sorts of positions within a company, they might have a general overview of each position, but they do not know the exact relevant details/experience to fish out from a candidate. I speak from experience as a not so experienced job searcher, spent a few months interviewing for dozens of companies, finally got decent amount of offers but not until very recently. I was interviewing for a lot of IT support, product/software support, and customer support positions (generally all within same remote technical support sphere). You as a candidate have to be aggressive and fight to keep the conversation onto your relevant work experience that would apply well to the position. Recruiters were often times not particularly technical, that only happens for the 2nd and 3rd round interviews when you speak with your possible coworkers or tech leads. So you have to emphasize soft skills, versatility, ability to learn quickly, etc...
When recruiters do have some knowledge about what the role is, you have to bring up relevant experience or skills, even if you lightly touch upon it, many times they won't dig deeper into your skills. Also know your audience. I made the mistake of responding to a "challenging time at work" question for an email software company with hardware experience story, as I was telling the truth about a challenging time, however physical on location hardware support experience isn't really relevant to a remote email security company, so I should have "lied" and played up a more software issue I dealt with to make it seem complicated, but it would have been more relevant. As for resume length, 2-3 pages is fine, they often use tools to search through key words within a resume, and unless you're willing to make a custom resume per each job listing, having something somewhat larger helps ensure you'll have key words. If you did many roles at a company, you want to be detailed and spell out what you did, even if it's 5-6 lines under a position instead of 3-4 shorter ones. ALSO! (last point I swear), by the time you're at a 2-3 round interview, they're also looking for "fit" meaning if they can get along with you, so be friendly, make jokes if the opportunity presents, etc...sometimes you'll get to talk about interests outside work, so connect with the recruiters or managers as best as possible. Fit is a massive thing, and really if you have a set level of knowledge and experience, you can be taught everything you'll do at a job, so the bigger factors are if the managers or employees like you.
"Length does matter" - Brian
A resume expert told me 2 to 3 pages, max, depending on how many decades of experience you have. I have 20+ years of experience and keep it to 2 pages.
I have a bit of an issue with the old "2 page resume" paradigm...
In Canada's capital, many of us have been consulting for decades... A 2 pager isn't even going to be looked at when the statement of work you are replying to is 5 or six pages and requires detailed proof of experience with specific Projects referenced...
2 pages is what the Canadian government would expect to see from a youngster fresh out of school looking for their first position. It's not going to be taken seriously when you have 3 decades of increasingly demanding projects across several dozen contracts...
Love the advice.
You kinda addressed this, its miscommunication between the hiring manager and recruiter but yeah, when I see a job asking for 20 years' experience in Windows server 2022, I pretty much cross that job out....
I am quittting my current horrible job and moving to a really nice company with better position. I had very hard time and conflicts and my workplace honestly has psychopaths and even convicts, I am now worried that my ex-colleagues will try to ruin my new job by contacting my new employer or sending them any info. The only way they can track me down is through LinkedIn and I am trying to have a good use of LinkedIn and build a good network but I am not sure how to do this. I am thinking to be on invisible mode and block all my colleagues from the last job, I am not sure if I visit their profile they might see it if they have the gold membership? I dont want to miss out on LinkedIn benefits because of people full of hatred. I appreciate any advice!
Once I hire someone, if I was to receive some email or phone call about an employee, I would either 1) ignore it 2) talk to the new employee about it or 3) if it is claiming some criminal behavior, I would do a google search and then talk to the employee depending on what turned up. I would never go hunting on social media, although I don't care about political views, an employer who cared about that might go looking there. If it is a sensitive position (about 30% of my hires) I would have already done a background check (with the employee's permission) and I would ignore any incoming stuff like this.
@@simongsmith no criminal record. I used to hang out with a colleague in good intentions and he recorded me on video having arguments and shouting and after some time I found out that this colleague is actually not stable and hating everyone and going online paying for services to get sensitive info about other colleagues and leaving them sticky notes on their lockers with bad words. I am just worried he might send deceiving info to my new employer or LinkedIn connections or send them that video of almost a fight. I am maybe worrying too much now, I just want to find a way to keep using LinkedIn while not showing something on my profile only to my connections.
I applied for a Supervisor position. I got an email I was rejected because my resume. That being said, 8 ppl who had less work experience as me got that position! That really hurt so I need to improve on my resume....this is the same resume I used to get the entry level at this same company ( I just added more work experience since being in this company for 14 yrs)
I deserve the free copy because I have a lot of community service experience and would be a great fit for any company. I have been out of work for years.
Resume is to get you to the interview. It's like the first lable of a product where you can write whatever to sell.
It seems strange that so much emphasis is placed on tailoring a resume for an applicant tracking system (ATS), considering that only a small percentage of resumes (5%) are actually selected for review from job postings and inbound corporate recruiting efforts.
I get the bigger point but sometimes the advise overlaps and contradicts from many of the experts.
The topic Bout job titles is absolutely correct. Unique does not make you stand out.
It’s the way most people look for jobs.
I have a 4 page resume, it's essentially a CV so I'm guessing I should cut it in half?
I just graduated from University with a business finance degree.🎉 I haven't gotten anywhere with recruiters. Just one long rejection after the next.
Hi Brian, can you please make a video about portals where you have to split your resumee up into sections : enter your first work experience, enter your second work experience, enter your first skill, enter your education, etc. Does this format require a specific treatment ?
Life After Layoff, please do a video outlining how to get recruiters to come to US rather than US going to THEM. Thank you.
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I received some comments from recruiters before. I need to improve my resume.
Quick question - I’ve always believed in customizing your resume for the job, but how do you handle inconsistencies between the customized resume and your LinkedIn profile? In particular - rebranding titles for cross-functional teams.
Dont use linked in and stop updating it now. In the future, you can easily say its not something your prioritize or maintain
Only scrub tier companies would have an issue with this. Imo, linkedin is an unfair way to track and gatekeep candidates. This is coming from someone only a couple years out of college who was told for years that linkedin is "sooooo important"...its simply not. The skills you have are.
Dont let people in HR that dont know what your job does tell you what skills you have based off poorly based assumptions based that they made because of a couple words on a social media website
Im about a year in and it has given me versatility in interviews that hiring managers appreciate. They get to learn more about you because some numbnuts in hr didnt auto reject you
But Beady, isn’t the advice you’re giving directly contradicting the advice Life After Layoff is giving? He says that the vast majority of hirings are outbound hirings, yet you advise to neglect LinkedIn in favor of Inbound Applications.
Good advice
So, job seekers are told to reach out to recruiters via LinkedIn etc., after submitting their application, yet the biggest problem job seekers suffer from is recruiter ghosting. I have even responded to recruiters who reached out to me and guess what, no response. The sheer lack of professionalism from recruiters and HR is the biggest issue followed closely by poor job descriptions. It’s an absolute mess and no surprise Americans are dead nearly 10 years earlier than many other countries.
I'm a 15 year enlisted Army special operations veteran who recently medically retired. I was accepted to an Executive MBA program, but I want to break into the job market and would love to have the resume rocket fuel to help me build a great military to civilian resume. Thanks for the opportunity!
Believe it or not, military backgrounds have priority over degrees on job hunting especially with state service.
Don’t waste ur time. Either start ur own business or work for govt.
I was always curious how a corporate recruiter, as a non technical person is able to select the right candidates, and now that you told us that specific key words for a specific position matters, what would be the advantage to have a corporate recruiter versus an A.I. Software? It might be that A.I. would be much better and faster in selecting the right candidates for inbound application and as it is very likely that corporate recruiters do not bother to search outside of inbound application, what is the future of this job? Nothing personal, no reason to be upset about it. Thank you!
Also in that case there’d be no more concern about resume length.
@@ian1352 True !
AI is only handful of years away Form taking 90% recruiting/hiring jobs. ☝️looking forward because recruiters act like experts when they’re not. This whole video was basically him talking about his/their biases and uses tech. Lolz
I AM DESERVING of Sean's donation because despite me being college educated, life circumstances have made me unqualified for jobs that require college education. And that is because I never got a chance to get my foot in the door for some white collar job so I can build some experience. And then, I can't get my foot in the door because hiring manager see that I only have experience in low paying jobs so they quickly discard my resume.
After I graduated from a physical therapy program 11 years ago, I had to work in restaurants to make ends meet while doing my coursework necessary to obtain my PT license. However, working in a restaurant environment is highly stressful and as a result my performance in my classes was severely compromised. So I decided to give up after having tried for four years.
I kept working in restaurants and after a while I switched to warehouses. I avoid telling people that I am a college graduate but the fact that I am more educated than my supervisors and managers shows in the way I carry myself. Also, I am popular among my colleagues which only adds to the frustration of my superiors. And so do my strong work ethic and high productivity. So, long story short, all these years I have been going from termination to termination to termination. Therefore, I have been unable to keep a job for long enough to get promoted to a managerial position or to at least build some serious marketable skills.
I don't want to give up. I want to do whatever it takes so I can finally get what I deserve...
My name is Nick Politis
Hello Sean the hiring manager an the recruiter need to specify exactly what you are looking in the add so you can find the right person for the job.
Do you sometimes search for recent college graduates in your criteria? Sometimes I feel we are unwanted.
The Meta is currently experience over degrees.
Your best bet is to get hired though a graduate scheme
If you have to send your resume to a company rather than them soliciting you, chances are you won’t get the job?! Wow! Times have certainly changed since I last searched for jobs 15-20 years ago. I got laid off 4 years ago from a company I spent 17 years with. Would still be there if I had chosen to relocate with them 2,000 miles away. I’d be afraid to have to look for a job these days.
I was always told that method of finding a job had a low success rate, because any job like that generally gets hundreds of applicants.
A harsh reality.
Not true. I was able to get a job by submitting a resume on the website and not dealing with an external recruiter.
@@zuzanazuscinova5209 I’ve never dealt with a recruiter in my life!
One problem is that the recruiter is often a victim of bias. They believe that resumes from applicants are not likely to be the candidate so they take from their search what they didn’t accept from the application.
I’ve flipped the narrative. I don’t care what my resume looks like and I will flat out tell employers in interviews my resume looks the way it does because I fire employers who don’t appreciate me and the now hiring signs outside of everyone’s business right now says I’m not wrong. I will tell them I don’t lose jobs I move on because the company sucks🤷♂️. I’m candid, I don’t mess around with people. If you want your business to rot with a bad staff go ahead and skip over me I really don’t care. I am employed right now. My work and attendance stands on it’s own. Employers better get with the program if they want to keep people like me because I know we’re not a dime a dozen anymore.
Watching this, I am now convinced recruiters are a waste of time and money. They don't actually know about the jobs they are hiring for, so they can't tell an outstanding applicant from an average one, and have no clue about industry specific requirements...As a scientist, it is required to put a list of every publication you have. After a few years, that takes several pages, for no other reason than it has to be cited properly. Nobody thinks anyone, even the hiring manager is going to read every line of that, they are going to count the publications and make sure they are properly cited for integrity. Furthermore, certifications count and take up space. When I need to list my certifications that can take a page or more!
Do you honestly think I want to spend time typing all of that stuff out? Especially basic stuff that everyone in the industry must have to work legally? Do you honestly think I think it will help me get a job? It's an industry requirement.
I would love to cut my resume down to a page, 2 at max. It would save me a lot of wasted time and useless effort...Of course then I won't meet the minimum requirements or key word searches...
Why do companies take so long to make hiring decision? Even negative or positive, why string folks along?
It's all about urgency. If the position is not that urgent why not wait to see if anyone better comes along?
Same reason people string others along in dating.
Do people seriously submit 9-page resumes? WHY? That's ridiculous. I cut and cut until mine was down to one page.
If recruiters were good enough to know what these jobs actually do, they wouldnt be recruiters. But thank you for the insights
Many recruiters earn north of 200k. Especially in tech.
@@ALifeAfterLayoff Yet they spend less than five seconds looking at resumes. Really earning their money.
"We don't know anyone who knows you" - it's probably not the resume!
I'm 55. I can't change my age. I can change how I show an employer I'm more than how many trips around the sun I've had.
Why do they put so much emphasis on a particular brand of a given technology? In the fields of data engineering, there are so many software stacks that do the same thing. Yet postings emphasize that you must have x years of experience with this particular software package. I'm not going to learn them all, I can't. Isn't it better to look for somebody that understands the process and can learn the software on the fly?
@death to the suburbs except when they use phrases like "hard requirement" or "must have" for an individual Piece Of Software (POS) within the listing. I'm finding stuff like that is way too common and shows that managers lack understanding of the huge diversity in the software available for this type of work.
Sean - we have 3 kids under 5 and are trying to get back to family in southern New Jersey. Been looking for 7 months and can’t seem to get past the few recruiter screening calls I get.
I am confused. We have learned to customize our resumes to the job description, but that would require applying to a specific posting. In this video you said incoming is less effective and outgoing is better. But how can we customize our resume if we don't know the job we will be contacted for by the recruiter? I know I am missing something here. Thanks in advance!
20 PAGE RESUME !!!??
I should have added that always include a covering letter as a carefully crafted brief letter allows the option to use a generic one page resume
Best.....😊
My resume is directed by Steven Spielberg
My respect for you dropped dramatically listening to this. It makes you sound like just another toxic human relations officer with a minimal grasp on reality when it comes to hiring people that can become a high quality employee.
Such a weird, intentionally vague comment. What part of the video did you disagree with exactly?
Ironic
With generic titles, would removing junior/medior/senior make sense as well? Companies have different scales, so junior in one company might be a senior in another, so i generally exclude it
It could backfire on you. Senior titles imply levels.
I have nine employers on my résumé but most of them are one-liners after the company name. I deleted one of those seventeen-year-old call center jobs, it is not relevant. The most recent ones are those that actually could land me a job, and in great detail. I try to keep it at 4-ish bullet points though. I would love if this channel could give me a brutal review if I submit my résumé.
Edit: the point about making your work title a bit more "fancy": I speak three languages fluently and I recently had to translate my résumé into English. I took the liberty to translate my work title into "Communications & media relations specialist and social media consultant". This is not a lie by any means title-wise but sounds a lot more fancy in English, to be fair
I wonder if this is the same in Australia, because I've never heard of anyone being "found" by a recruiter. It's always through applying for jobs. I work in the Pharma manufacturing industry, so maybe it's different for us grunts at the coalface.
Ikr. This video/ channel is 1 big shill for LinkedIn. Can’t wait until AI takes all these pointless and shortsighted and biased recruiters jobs🤌
I almost fell for an employment scam last year and am now wary of unsolicited offers
I think resumes are very outdated. Maybe good for young people with less experience. My resume is very short with links to various projects. All what matters is what you can or can not do. I know resumes are read by robots. But those jobs in big conglomerates who operate as hired-by-robot-work-as-robot are not for me
The problem I have with the recruiter/hiring manager perspective can be summed up with a star trek quote, "We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile." Even thou the model is one sided and unfair. You will conform to the resume mill/recruiter model or starve to death. Resistance is futile. Apparently, resistance is not futile thus the need to reinforce the futility part with youtube videos.
@death to the suburbs I pulled all my web and data skills off the market last September. I've had a long successful career. So, I decided to give someone else a shot. Of course they eliminated the position and dumped my work load onto everyone left. Standard operating procedure. I even retired early. We fundamentally disagreed over work at home. They need me more then I needed them. I can go back to work with a phone call and a commitment to a hour commute each way. Irreconcilable differences. Over the decades, I witnessed hundreds of good programmers and highly skilled software engineers fail out of the labor market. The sickness is the system. Finding work shouldn't be this hard and this is nothing new. This labor market has been dysfunctional as long as i've been in this business. Trying to second guess the recruiters and hiring managers is an exercise in futile anxiety. Sometimes there is no logic in how they make hiring decision and two levels of this is excessive. Recruiters and hiring managers are fallible humans with emotional problems and some even have god complexes. You can't make sense of nonsense. There is no magic pill you can add to your resume and get hired. In my experience, dumb luck gets you hired and cow cow/brown nosing skills can't hurt. There is nothing wrong with my attitude. It is well earned in a dysfunctional system over decades.
10:08 - But do I need to enter my full address or the city and state is enough? Asking because they don't need to know my full address until they decide to hire me right? Any decision they need to make based off of my location prior to hiring, can be done with the state and city only. I don't see reason to enter my house number and street on a job application that I'm not even sure if it's a scammer that can attempt to break into my house while I'm sleeping.