The Snowball Effect by Andy Bounds

Author:Andy Bounds
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2013-02-18T05:00:00+00:00

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When you want to get a job interview

When I left university, like many students, I didn’t have a job. I was also – again, like many students – totally broke, so was living with my parents.

While I was still job-hunting, I remember watching my Dad review applications for a very senior position in his office. And I was amazed – and a bit gutted, to be honest – how quickly he reviewed people’s résumés that they’d taken ages to write.

I mean, he read everything in there, and treated all the résumés fairly. But it was all just so quick. And it struck me how a recruiter’s first read-through is often a filtering exercise, which puts people into one of three groups – extremely impressive; definitely not; everyone else.

Twenty years on, and I’ve helped hundreds of people secure senior jobs by ensuring their résumé goes into the first group. This chapter contains my top tips to help you do this. To make things as “real” as possible, I’ve included “before and after” excerpts of Carl’s résumé (he’s one of my customers) whose revised résumé led to an interview panel saying it was the best they’d ever read and that it “was like reading a story”.

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