Your Resume, The One Everyone Says Is Great, Keeps You Unemployed

You've had your friends look at your resume ... and they say it's great!

You've had mentors review your resume, and they've said you're good to go.

Even recruiters have said that your resume looks good.

Here's why the resume everyone says is great, keeps you unemployed:

1. ?Your Friends Don't Know What Makes A Great Resume: But they do know what their average resume looked like. And their average resume got them a job (when they were currently employed and/or searching in a less competitive market than 2024).
2. Your Mentor Didn't Offer You A Job, Did They?: When your ex-boss or friend who is in HR tells you your resume looks good, that means it looks like other resumes they see. Not terrible, but at best qualified (and with all the qualified candidates searching in 2024, qualified = average). If your resume was really that awesome, wouldn't they have offered you a job?
3. "Your Resume Looks Great" Means That It Looks Average: In 2024, employers expect 5-10 qualified candidates competing for each interview spot (So if they are trying to fill 10 spots, they expect 50-100 qualified candidates). This makes your resume that appears qualified, appear average. That makes you average and unemployed, a bad look when employers have many qualified choices.
4. You Need A Higher Goal Than "Looks Good" When You're Unemployed: Unemployed candidates present higher risks than currently employed candidates. Even if you were let go in a big layoff and it wasn't your fault, employers know that average/below average performers are often included in layoffs and when it was a candidate's fault, guess what they say? To overcome hiring manager risk of average/under performance, your resume has to overwhelm your reader with success, mitigating the risk you present as an unemployed job seeker.

So how can you elevate your resume from being seen by employers as qualified/average, to one that makes hiring managers think "I don't care that you're unemployed, I need you on my team"?

During my next free Resume Webinar - Beating Unemployment, I'll show you how to change your resume, interview and job search strategy to one that proves success and wins jobs more quickly when you're unemployed. While we're at it, I can teach you how to turnaround a difficult job search, making it so quick that you can beat unemployment faster in 2024.

Join me for my next free Resume Webinar (enroll at https://x.resumewebinar.com/Registration for no charge) and learn how to accelerate your job search, so you can find your next job faster in 2024.

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