Avoid Underselling Yourself On Your Resume To Find A Job In Q1 2021

There's a good chance you undersell yourself on your resume, and it's slowing down your job search. Your underselling resume is one of the things that causes you to lose interviews when you're qualified, fail to advance, and allows someone else to get the offer when you're a finalist.

Even job seekers who are certain their resume sells themselves well, from the employer's point of view almost always still undersell themselves, causing a drag on their search. This includes resumes created by outplacement, certified professional resume writers, high volume "resume mills", and job board resume services (These sources write resumes that undersell candidates) or advised by most career coaches/authors.

How do I know you're underselling yourself on your resume? Almost everyone does. As a recruiter, I review hundreds of resumes every day, and nearly every one of them undersells the job seeker who applied.

Guess what I do when I see a qualified candidate who doesn't undersell themselves? I forward that resume to my client, because I know the employer will be interested to talk to them. The undersellers get the discard pile - They're not who my client wants to see, and they'll represent me poorly if they can't sell themselves well.

In addition, job seekers who undersell themselves on their resume, also almost always undersell themselves in their verbal communication (during interviews), even those who think they're interview gods and goddesses.

This is the #1 way I see almost all job seekers undersell themselves:

Focusing Employers On Responsibilities/Job Descriptions/Qualifications/Tasks Undersells You: Almost all resumes (including yours) focus readers on the specific items that undersell the job seeker. You don't mean to and you probably don't even realize you're doing this. It's an ingrained habit, reinforced by the career advisers you rely on. But look at your resume critically, and notice that all of the places your resume fails to show your reader if you were a success or failure, but it forces them to guess. That's called underselling yourself and it's what most job seekers have been taught to do.

If you present employers any sort of risk (including: short or long term unemployment, over 40, career/industry/location change, career gaps, "bouncy" recent career path, remote positions), forcing your reader to guess at your success or failure magnifies that risk, and causes you to be passed over. Think about it this way, when employers have many choices because so many job seekers are in the job market (employers expect 10-20 qualified candidates competing for each interview spot), why should they give you an interview or advance your candidacy, when they have others who can clearly show success? Why risk hiring an underperforming candidate?

Of course, you know you aren't an underperformer, but employers don't know this ... because you haven't made it clear to them.

To solve this, you need to overwhelm employers with impact and success. Those are the resumes/interviews that impress, advance, and get you hired.

You would already be doing this if you knew how, but no one has taught you.

Why not let me show you how to overwhelm employers with the success and impact you've provided past employers, so you can land your next job by Q1 2021? While we're at it, I'll teach you ways to accelerate your job search, so you stop trying to land a job just by applying to more jobs and hoping to get lucky.

This is the 3rd recession I've recruited/coached through, so I've seen first hand what resume and job search strategies succeed during recessions. I've also seen mistakes candidates make, causing their recession job searches to fail. I've been through this before and know what works and what doesn't.

That's why numerous job seekers who work with me have already gotten job offers this March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, January and February - every week since mid-March.

As a top national recruiter who reads hundreds of resumes per day, who has helped hundreds of thousands of candidates in their job search, and seen thousands of employers' job search processes from the inside, I've got a different perspective than most career coaches.

I see that most job seekers do essentially the same things, even when they think they are job searching differently. I see the mistakes that almost every age 40+ job seeker makes that make them lose great opportunities. I also see most job seekers were taught search methods that eliminate them from consideration, because they conflict with the employer's hiring process.

But I've been teaching job seekers to overcome ageism for 13+ years by using non-traditional resume/job search strategies that demonstrate impact rather than just being average. I'll show you how to beat ageism and find a great job during the recession by understanding employers' point of view and hiring processes ... and using this understanding to beat your competition.

(I'm not just a career coach. I've also been a top national recruiter for the last 16+ years ... so you'll get advice from a different perspective - an insider's point of view.)

Let me show you what you can do now to change your job search and resume so you can beat ageism during the recession, even if you're also between jobs, trying to change careers, industry or location, if your industry is in decline/consolidation, trying to overcome long term career gaps, family leave, find a remote job, turnaround your job search or other tough to solve job search problems.

Join me Friday 3/5/21 at 11:00am ET/8:00am PT, for my Resume Revolution! webinar (enroll at https://bit.ly/3aXQRnx at no charge) to learn how to beat ageism and find your next job by year end.

Want to see how well this can work for you?

"Great cutting edge advice on your resume, the cover letter dilemma and everyone's job search issues and questions. I guarantee you will hear something new in Phil's webinar that you can use in your job search today - information which you have not heard anywhere else! You will not be disappointed." - S.M.

"Phil has a great grasp on the practicalities of recruiting from the employer perspective, as well as the changing trends in seeking out the next opportunity including the use of social media. I have many takeaways from this webinar and recommend this as a must attend!" - F.E.

"This is straight talk from a guy who has the experience, research and contacts, and the know-how to help us maximize our opportunities. He doesn't pitch gimmicks or shortcuts; he gives guidance, answers questions about the job market and how our resumes are handled, and gives tips that help us get the results we want. Well worth it!" - J.M.

"Amazing info shared by Phil in the Resume Revolution Webinar! Who knew that I was wasting my precious time by relying on job boards?? (well, Phil did, of course...)" - S.H.

"His advice on my resume improved my response rate to easily 7/8 for every 10 sent, and I can say the resulting response was directly responsible for helping to find and land my current engagement." - D.M.

You'll Learn All This At Resume Revolution!

* Actionable tips to beat ageism and find a great job fast

* How to double your interviews and resume response rate

* Current job market and recession outlook

* What's different about this recession

* How to optimize your job search and resume to today's market realities

* Why things that worked during a strong job market won't work today

... plus

* Come for the Webinar - Stay for the Q & A with job search experts

Enroll now at https://bit.ly/3aXQRnx , or find our future webinars at https://ResumeWebinar.com .

P.S. I've launched the National Unemployment List and invite you to add your name if you're unemployed, affected by temporary closures, had your hours reduced, or have been laid off. The National Unemployment List will be distributed to employers, hiring managers, internal and external recruiters, to help everyone get back to work quickly. So add your name to the National Unemployment List at https://bit.ly/NationalUnemploymentList.

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