Marketing Your Expertise: Resume Tips & More

This is part 4 of a 4 part series filled with #jobsearch tips from the perspective of a Talent Sourcer/Recruiter:

Marketing

When you are trying to make an impression, it is essential to know your audience. For example, as a Talent Sourcer, knowing what my target audience is titled and where they hang out are both critical to know how to sell my career opportunity. It also helps me know which forums to best advertise in to capture this ideal talent.

As a Job seeker, Recruiters and Hiring Leaders are your audience. Think of your Resume as an opportunity for you to shine, a highlight reel of what you bring to the table, including your passions, skills, education and more.

The kicker? You are encouraged to make your unique qualifications stand out in a limited amount of space, assuming your Resume is one of hundreds a Recruiter must quickly read through a day. But how do you do that?

Make sure your Resume is proof-read, clearly reflects your desired career, and highlights skills requested in the job listing (see qualifications section). That will make it that much easier for the person reading your resume quickly, to key in on you as a possible match.

Here are some tips to make sure your Resume doesn’t get looked over:

• Tweak your resume to match the job requirements, even including similar terminology, if you do meet said qualifications.
• If you have a varied background, highlight the more relevant experience required of the job you are applying to
• Try and keep your resume under 2 pages by condensing irrelevant/repetitive jargon. If you find that to be an impossible feat, make sure it easy to read, making visible important highlights and avoiding large paragraphs/summaries
• Don’t be afraid to stand out from the crowd, a little research into your professional network matching your expertise, may give you a few ideas to give you an advantage
• Expertise listed in chronological order is the majority, make it easy for the Recruiter and follow suit ??
• Avoid making spelling mistakes and grammatical errors in your Resume/Professional Profile

Trying to discreetly look?

Instead of putting your resume out there, start researching to narrow down your favorite companies, connecting with their Recruiters and staying in the know with their new job listings.

Seek out your trusted connections, let them know what you are ideally looking for in your next career and ‘keep an ear open’ if they hear of anything. Most importantly, try and not be afraid to say “yes!” to employment conversations (practice makes perfect!). Often, it takes a few discussions to yield a perfect match.

Finding a new opportunity doesn’t have to be stressful. For the social job seeker, enjoy meeting new people as your grow your network, see where it takes you! For the introverted seeker, setting up automated searches, allows you to stay in the know while discreetly keeping an eye out on those opportunities that interest you most.

Your dream career is out there, build that door, what are you waiting for?

See full Article here: https://medium.com/@whatyouseetoday/if-you-could-source-your-dream-job-like-a-recruiter-talent-sourcer-would-would-you-31cbe019213e