I’ve seen some messed up resumes in my time. I’ve coached potential employees on what to do to clean up their resumes, I spent a little extra time on the phone getting to understand skill sets, and I’ve discovered there are wonderful people out there that bring revenue and positive impact to the company they work for.

I am a big believer that awful resumes often times belong to incredible employees. On this episode of The Rebellious Recruiter with Daava Mills, I’ll talk about how to look through messy resumes and discover “WOW” employees.

Daava's Rebellious Recruiting Notes:

• There is an entire generation from the latter half of Gen X through the first half of Millennials that have never been properly trained on how to write a resume. 
• Emotional Capital is the building block of an employment relationship. Stay tuned for an upcoming series that will break this process down in detail. 
• There are a million reasons why a person has a terrible resume, and it's the job of the recruiter to find out why, to look for signs of whether the candidate has the skills for the position, and is worth pursuing.
• Take the time to provide feedback and offer pointers for a terrible resumes, not only are you building emotional capital with the candidate, you will learn from their response if this is a candidate that you want for your organization, either now or in the future. 

As always, you can email me at daava@millsgroupllc.com with your thoughts or questions. I may use your subject matter in upcoming shows.

Episode Links:

The Mills Group

The Ideal Team Player by Patrick Lencioni

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