Why I Immediately Threw Your Resume in the Trash (and I'm hiring, and I'd really, really, really like to hire you)
Lyssa Myska Allen
Creative + Technical Marketing Leader | Helping brands build communities, drive engagement, and unlock sustainable growth | Global Digital Strategy Innovator | Passionate about tech, real estate, and travel
I'm hiring for a social media manager (yes, still, please apply), and if you applied, I probably threw your resume in the trash. I've thrown 95% of the resumes I've received in the digital trash bin for one simple reason: you failed to list your social media handles.
Let me repeat: I'm hiring for a social media position, and the applicants are not putting their social media handles on their resumes.
Want to demonstrate to me that you get social media? That you understand how to use it to connect to audiences, to share and engage, to support and promote our brand? What better way than to show me how YOU use social media to connect to your friends, to share and engage, and to support and promote yourself?
Where are the 140-character resumes?
Where are the links to portfolios instead of resumes?
In fact, even if I ask, don't send me a resume at all—send me your website, with your portfolio, and all your social channels, all in one place.
This is true of any industry—a graphic designer wouldn't submit a Word resume; an engineer wouldn't submit an infographic resume. Tailoring your resume to your industry demonstrates that you get it. I really don't care what your background or pedigree is, all I want is someone who gets it.
Show me that you're good at social media by showing me your social media.
image: an old resume of mine. it ain't perfect, but it has my social media on it!
Sr. Executive Recruiter, Talent X @ ? Meta
8 年This is a great post in that it lets people know two things. One: stop mass applying to thousands of jobs without putting effort into differentiating your resume or approach to making contact with the recruiter to show you actually care about landing the position and Two: It lets people know it's okay to break the "rules" It's difficult for me to even say that there are rules but so many people arbitrarily live by them by assuming what's appropriate and what is not. It's so refreshing when I can tell a candidate put a little more effort into being creative with the way they present themselves virtually.
hard worker
8 年nice perspective
Web Development & User Experience Geek
8 年Agree to a degree, however if i see they have 10k of followers and 20 posts a day across their own SM and only 2k of followers on a company they've worked for in a comms position, they're not getting the job!
Senior IT Communications Coordinator at Skanska
8 年Good points! I think this also applies to companies that I'm looking to outsource to as well. I need examples of your work, graphics, content, social media pages you are managing for clients, results, etc. Many of them do not have this information in a concise, readily available format.
President at Energy Hire | Driving profitable growth and market share | Marketing | Operations | Product | Fortune 100 | HP, and AutoZone
8 年Of course now that this is out in the open, perhaps the ideal candidate will revise their approach and give you what you want. If you naturally had someone do just as you seek, they'd be exceptional, different and perhaps better. The reality is that people, even in a highly desirable area such as social media probably still follow the conventions of normal hiring processes. So, while someone may not be giving you exactly what they think a typical recruiter or hiring manager seeks, they may very well "get it."