Announcing getmployd

TL;DR: I've been working on getmployd.com as a means to help everyone build a better resume so that they get noticed, get more opportunities and get interviews. Head to https://www.getmployd.com to check it out. Feedback welcome.

I've seen a lot of resumes. A lot of very similar resumes. These documents that candidates pass around as a representation of themselves are nowhere near a true representation of their experience and impact. They're filled with buzzwords, jargon and long indecipherable lists. After a while, you get good at sifting through the noise to work out whether the person possibly has the experience you're looking for. It should not be this hard.

Let's cover why a resume matters. Unless you are one of the gifted few that network, network network, then you will need to go through a recruiter to get an interview for a job. The hiring manager for that job is most likely going to hire a handful of recruiters to source candidates. We can expect the hiring manager to be extremely busy and not able to spend all their efforts on sourcing candidates. This also means the recruiter cannot send every resume over to the hiring manager, as they are meant to be helping the manager screen candidates. The recruiter most often will tell the hiring manager that they'll get some resumes (usually 5) and only a subset (usually 3) will get an interview, from which the recruiter expects one person to be hired. Let's look at that from the candidate's viewpoint. The recruiter will pass on their resume to the hiring manager, and there is a 40% chance they will not get an interview based on what the hiring manager thinks about their resume. Terrifying, right?

There are a lot of very talented people out there who struggle with resume writing. Marketing themselves is not their day job, so when it comes to writing a compelling resume, understandably, these documents fall a bit short. For those that can afford it, there are professional resume writing services to help them. Unfortunately, not everyone with skills has the means, and it's for those individuals that I'm creating this service.

How do we make it better? Talking to recruiters and reading articles like this, it is clear that candidates need to be better at explaining what they've done, rather than what they've used. Intuitively this makes sense, you as a hiring manager have a problem to solve, you want to find someone that has faced the same or similar problems in the past so that you can make use of their experience. This is what getmployd tries to coach candidates on. Their resumes get analysed, and they are given coaching tips to improve the impact of their resume. It's still up to them to use their own words to describe what they've done, and they do that with some helpful guidance.

It's early days and there is still a lot of work to be done, but I encourage you to take a look. If you do end up using it, I would love to hear if it has helped you. I'd also love to hear if the number of approaches and interviews increased or decreased as a result. 

Sugendran

https://www.getmployd.com