Does Your Resume Pass the 10-Second Test – 95% Don’t. How Can You Can Be in The Top 5%
Ken Zwerdling - CEO, MBA
Global Executive Job Search Coaching and Executive Career Coaching, Job Search Strategy & Management, Interview Preparation - We Help Serious People Find Serious Jobs.... All Over The World!
A few weeks ago, while preparing for a move, I came across my original resume from 1984. It was crafted on a typewriter on beautiful non-erasable paper during my final semester of college. Back in those days, resumes were sent by postal mail as there were no personal computers and of course, no internet.
Over my 40-year career, I have been in hundreds of interviews, hired hundreds more while working for my 4 companies and several Fortune 500 companies, as well as placing hundreds more around the world as a global recruiter. In addition, I have personally reviewed over 500,000 resumes, bios, and profiles, written hundreds of resumes, reviewed over 100,000 job descriptions, and personally written several hundred more. In addition, we have completed tens of thousands of job applications for our clients. We can also help build out your online profiles so companies, hiring managers, and recruiters can find you.? We also set up new job opening alerts, so you are applying to positions that are 2-3 days old, not 2-3 weeks old. We can also directly reach out to the leading companies and recruiters in your industry along with assisting you in preparing for interviews and negotiating job offers.
Today almost all LinkedIn Profiles are visible to companies and recruiters, or in response to jobs posted on the major job boards (LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, Monster, CareerBuilder. I can honestly say that over the past 30 years I have personally reviewed a few hundred of thousands resumes and profiles. What I have found is a recurring theme. Over 95% of them do NOT PASS the 10-Second Test. That means the typical recruiter, HR representative or hiring manager spends less than 10-seconds reviewing your profile to determine if they wish to read more and dig deeper or hit the proverbial delete key.
So, how to you make it past the 10-second rule? Resume writing and applying for jobs today is so much different than it was 30 years ago.? There are now applicant tracking systems, parsing software and keyword searches. If I am a hiring manager or HR representative, I am looking for key pieces of information in your resume to determine if want to spend more time and look further. Applying for a job today is a process. And each step is a process. If you do not make it pass the first step (10-second rule) and make it to the next step, you are finished before you even really get started. How do you get from your resume to an interview and to an offer of employment?? It all starts with your resume and profile.? If what the reviewer is looking for is not easily found at the top of your profile, they will not dig further to look for it.
Here Are 30 Reasons Why Your Resume Does Not Pass The 10-Second Test?
1.?? Most resumes will be scanned and skimmed and won’t be entirely read if the reviewer can’t immediately find what they are looking for.
2.?? Too many tables or crazy fonts that create problems for Applicant Tracking Systems
3.?? Not describing what your companies does (products, services, revenue, number of employees, types of customers, locations
4.?? For each position you don’t have a narrative section first,
5.?? For each position, you don’t effectively describe your roles and responsibilities
6.?? For each position you don’t describe your quantifiable and measurable accomplishments and achievements
7.?? Your overall content is not relevant
8.?? Poor formatting, not visually appealing, not enough whitespace, and using fonts that are too small
9.?? Inaccurate dates and not including the months as well as the years
10. If you are over 50, not including dates from 80’s and 90’s
11. Unprofessional email addresses
12. Missing contact information
13. Too many buzzwords
14. Not understand how companies, hiring managers and recruiters interpret your information
15. Not including the budgets, direct and indirect staff that you oversee and where that staff is located
16. Inconsistent verb/tense usage
17. Ignoring soft skills
18. Not showing both short narratives and bullet points for each position
19. Not having a Professional Summary that can stand on it’s on detailing who you are, what you do, and what type of position you are seeking
20. Your descriptive paragraphs are too long
21. You have spelling, grammatical and formatting errors
22. Not enough relevant keywords
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23. Including too much personal information
24. The reader (company, hiring manager, recruiter) has too many questions or is confused
25. Resume is too short or too long
26. Not listing your technology and software experience
27. No including your education or certifications
28. Not showing your visa citizenship status
29. Not telling the full story
30. Being able to everything in a 2,3-,4- or 5-page resume, condensing that into a 2-3 paragraph Professional Summary and then consolidating that into a 120-character headline
31. Don’t Meet the Minimum Requirements (Title, Industry, Years of Experience, Salary, Geography
32. Not treating your resume as a marketing document, that serves one purpose (To Get an Interview)
About Global Expansion, Inc.?
Global Expansion, Inc is We are a 5+-year old Global Job Search & Career Coaching company helping Executive Level Job Seekers find their next role, all around the world. We ARE NOT Recruiters. Our clients are not companies, they are individual job seekers like you. We don't have ?open job requisitions that we 're trying to fill. We actually work in reverse.
?Over my 40-year career, I have been in hundreds of interviews, hired hundreds more while working for my 4 companies and several Fortune 500 companies, as well as placing hundreds more around the world as a global recruiter. In addition, I have personally reviewed over 500,000 resumes, bios, and profiles, written hundreds of resumes, reviewed over 100,000 job descriptions, and personally written several hundred more.
In addition, we have completed tens of thousands of job applications for our clients. We can also help build out your online profiles so companies, hiring managers, and recruiters can find you.? We also ?set up new job opening alerts, so you are applying to positions that are 2-3 days old, not 2-3 weeks old. We can also directly reach out to the leading companies and recruiters in your industry along with assisting you in preparing for interviews and negotiating job offers.
Our clients work with us in different ways. First, we can help you put all the pieces together for a comprehensive job search in preparation for YOU to manage the day-to-day activity of your own search for the next several months.? Or we can also act as your Personal Job Search Concierge and manage your all job search activities on a daily (even hourly) basis for 4 months. For this service we work on a Success Fee Model. If we find you a new position, we will collect a fee. If not, no fee is charged.? We also have a rush – premium service if you are interested.?
If you would like to learn more about how we can help with your job search, I recommend scheduling a Free – No Obligation call to discuss your background, experience, and the types of positions you are seeking.
?Here is a link to our calendar for the next week.
Regards,
Ken Zwerdling - CEO, MBA, Global Career Coach
Global Expansion, Inc.
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