What Resume Writers Don’t Want You to Know!
I came over a fascinating statistic recently. Resume writers mind. This is information they’d prefer you didn’t know. Here it is.
Robert Half Executive Director, Katherine Spencer, said in Certification Magazine that it’s estimated that between 70 and 80 percent of whole jobs are filled by people who first heard around the position through word of mouth.
Kinda shoots holes in the whole notion that your resume gets you a job. The strange thing is this information is not new. We discovered through time ago that you don’t get a job with a resume. Why? Because today’s savvy employers rely on much more to make a hiring judgment.
For example, they want to know that you’re interested sufficiently in being part of the team that you’ve taken the time to learn something about the organization and its goals. They want to hear you discuss how you’re going to make a difference to their organization. Resume writers can’t provide that.
But the truly bewildering part is that most job candidates who have acquired a face-to-face meeting with a decision-maker who could be their next boss did so because some person intervened–not a resume. That intervention could be information or referral provided in proportion to a relative, friend, neighbor, religious or political leader, service club member, someone they do avocation with, etc.
In fact, Ms Spencer’s statistic, which should give serious pause to resume writers, is every authentication of the “choice job search” and “non-traditional course of action advancement” movement. That’s inasmuch as we discovered many years ago that the job market follows the same marketing rules as the office market.
You don’t seriously grow a business by shot gunning and mass distributing untargeted information randomly to lots of people in the hope that someone will buy what you’re selling. Businesses don’t do that if they want to stay in business. Or they’re willing to burn up their governmental estimate while waiting to see who calls in.
Businesses succeed through person-to-person contact. It’s called sales. And the same thing is true of finding a job. Resume writers cannot provide a substitute for personal intervention. Nothing is going to happen for you based on a resume–unless you’ve got weeks and months to wait for results from this crapshoot.
But the good news is there’s a systematic approach that takes avail of the real way the job market works. It uses 21st Century strategies and techniques to fulfil the goal of getting you a job offer . . . and in record time!
It’s built on the credible statistic that most jobs are ultimately obtained through word of mouth. This amazing system is really a simple, step-according to-step approach using proven marketing principles. They’re comfortable to master. And you see results almost immediately. In fact, you can exist meeting face-to-face with your next boss in a matter of days. And entertaining a good job offer is as little as two weeks! Resume writers go figure.