Resumes, always back to resumes? The team goes into resumes, keeping it short and snackable. Welcoming our developer, Josh Hlibichuck, Careers and Coffee talks about 'what should be in a resume that get's a manager's attention' talking keywords and objectives.

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All right, welcome. careers and coffee, a late afternoon version

of careers and coffee. So I'm not drinking coffee anymore

today. I don't know about you loser, Josh.

I've had all my coffee for today. Yeah.

Yeah, I got that done pretty early. So we are here we have

Josh Hlibichuk with us today. He's our developer at corridor

careers. Welcome, Josh to Careers in Coffee.

It's good. It's good to be here.

Good to have you.

So today, I thought we would just talk about resume writing,

and and dig a little deeper on that.

So Liz, since you have been a manager for a while and have

undoubtedly looked at quite a few resumes in your life, what

would you say are some things that you look for in a strong

resume?

Well, I'm probably a little different than normal managers.

But I try to have a really open mind when I look at resumes just

because I work in a career space. So I might be a little

bit more flexible and open minded than a typical manager,

who's not aware of their own bias and things like that. And

I'm not saying I'm perfect either, because I'm not. But

when I look at a resume, organization is great if it's

easy to find kind of what the skill set is of the person. And

if they have an objective, you know that some what they're what

kind of job or what kind of career path they're interested

in, that is helpful to me to understand if they might be a

good fit for the company.

And where I'm trying to take the the team or whatever, to see if

those two things align. part and parcel with a resume is the

cover letter. And the cover letter, we went into a little

bit of this on our Ask the Expert in career week with our

panel, they talked about how the cover letter is an intro to your

resume, and should be just a summary where you kind of talk

about what you're trying to accomplish and how you might be

a good fit for the company.

So I look at those two things kind of hand in hand, a great

cover letter might make up for maybe less than ideal resume.

And vice versa, a great resume might make up for a less than

ideal cover letter. Because somebody might be really good at

documenting their work history and their kind of focus in a

resume, but not so great at a cover letter.

Right? Yeah. That's a really interesting point that you bring

up. Josh, I want to ask you-was mentioned having an objective,

is that something that you have seen on resumes or that you

think is part of a nice looking resume,

I think it can help especially when you're trying to customize

a resume to an employer, it really gives them a perspective

of who you are, and the kind of position that you currently hold

and also are looking for, it's easy to be, it's, it's really

easy to be very generic with this. So if I would do it, it

would, it would have to be very targeted for the employer that I

am applying to. And I'd keep it you know, simple, but get the

message across. And there are some great examples to online of

objectives and in different templates and, and it kind of

resume blogs, I'm sure we have a resume blog post, somewhere on

the corridorcareers.com/job-tips section. So definitely check

that out.

But I think in objective, you know, is a good a good section

to have, especially as it allows you to maybe target some of

those keywords to that you hear about the ACS systems, wanting

to see if it's not something that fits in somewhere else

neatly into your resume, that might be another section that

you can take advantage of.

Now, that's interesting. You mentioned the keywords. So we

talked about this a little bit. And if there's a real specific,

if you're applying for a specific job, and you want to

tailor your resume to that specific job, it doesn't hurt to

kind of, you know, I personally, I would maybe print off the job

description and then take a physical highlighter and

highlight keywords that kind of stand out to me, and then add

those to my resume. If they're relevant. Like if I have that

experience, I want to make sure that I'm not using a different

term for the same experience that they're looking for. Before

I turn my resume and that's what Josh is talking about. Is the

code reading your resume, not a person right, Josh?

Yeah, for sure. Exactly. And that's a really good points you

because whatever they have set up in their system for the code

to read is probably going to match very closely to what's in

the job description too. So that's a really, really good

Point.

Cool. Well, just a few tips for resumes, we will link in the

show notes to those resources Josh was mentioning, we have a

whole topic page of blog posts about resumes. We also have a

resume builder on corridor careers the Josh handbuilt.

Yeah, it's it's not gonna have a lot of the bells and whistles

you see on some of these custom templates, you can download

online. But for somebody who's just you know, you don't have

anything to start from, it's a really great resource to go in,

enter your information, it guides you through the whole

process, start to finish with your skills, your work,

experience, education, if that's applicable, and helps you get

some that you can at least start with to take to employers to

say, here's what I here's what I've done, here's what I can do

for you.

Awesome, hope people do that it's free to use. All you have

to do is create a user account on Corridor Careers, which is

also free and then also signed you up for our newsletters,

which we would hope that you want if you're looking for a

job. But that's that's our careers and coffee tip for

today.

All right, well, thanks a lot guys. Appreciate it. And thanks

for tuning in. As always, you know, leave leave comments and

questions. You can reach us, email us at

contact@corridorcareers.com And we'll see you next time. All

right, have a good week, everyone. Take care.