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Transcripts
So this data analyst has
gotten zero interviews in eight
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:months of applying for jobs.
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:So we're gonna talk about why this
is the case and how they can fix
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:it and how you can fix it if you're
struggling to land interviews
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:If you are struggling to land
interviews, it's not you.
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:You're not the problem.
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:It's likely something that's
either your LinkedIn or your resume
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:that's not optimized, that is not
actually getting you in front of
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:hiring managers and recruiters.
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:It's not getting you past the
applicant tracking system,
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:and it's keeping you stuck.
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:You might think that you suck.
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:You might think that your skills suck.
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:You might think that you're not cut
out for data analytics, but you are.
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:You just need a good resume.
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:And today, we're gonna be
looking at a not so great resume
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:and how we can make it better
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:one of the easiest ways to make
your resume better is just to
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:start with a really good template
with built-in good structure.
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:So I actually have a free template
for you to download and just use, and
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:just trust me, I have been helping
people land data jobs for five years.
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:This resume really works.
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:You can go to
datacareerjumpshot.com/resume
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:or find the link in the show notes
down below to get that resume.
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:this resume is going
to do wonders for you.
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:It's gonna save you a lot
of time, and it's 100% free.
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:So go grab it right now
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:We'll be reacting to a video that was
done by a gentleman named Headless
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:Headhunter, that is a mouthful, uh,
from a data analyst resume that he got
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:submitted to him on his YouTube channel.
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:I'll have a link to his channel in the
description down below, and if you're
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:listening on the audio podcast, I'm
gonna try to do my best to describe what
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:this resume looks like and what we are
looking at throughout the entire process
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:Avery Smith-2: All right, here we go
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:Avery Smith's screen-2: Recruiter
here to review your resumes.
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:The resume we have up first is a
data analyst, and this person has
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:been applying for eight months
and has gotten zero interviews.
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:So this is a real stinker of a resume,
and I'm here to tell you why it's bad,
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:how to fix it so that you can get a job
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:Avery Smith-2: Just one note, just
because, you know, they haven't been
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:able to land a job in eight months
doesn't exactly mean the resume is bad.
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:That's probably one of
the things it could be.
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:But if you only applied for eight
jobs in eight months, you're also
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:not likely to get any interviews.
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:So it also depends on, you know, how
many applications you've sent out.
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:If you sent out, you know, hundreds of
applications and you have no interviews,
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:then yes, definitely a problem.
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:But just remember that, like,
it's not just your resume,
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:uh, that gets you interviews
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:Avery Smith's screen-2: Uh, that is
my job as the headless headhunter.
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:So what do we need as a data analyst?
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:We need degree, industry, SQL
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:Avery Smith-2: Okay, so he's going
over the qualifications that a
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:data analyst needs, needs, and
he's saying degree in industry.
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:I don't know what industry means.
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:Uh, degree, yeah, you can argue like
having a degree is helpful, but I don't
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:know if he means a data analytics degree
'cause there's not very many of those.
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:I don't have one of those.
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:Um, so I'm not sure what he means there.
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:But yes, there are m- there's not a
ton of data jobs that you can land
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:if you don't have a college degree.
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:It's possible, but it's a lot more work
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:Avery Smith's screen-2: Data
visualization, Tableau, Power BI, Looker.
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:Influence stakeholders.
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:Explain technical concepts
to non-technical people and
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:non-technical stakeholders.
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:You absolutely need that.
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:Your job is to convince Bob, who
cannot turn on his monitor, why you
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:have SQL in what you do with the data.
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:That is your job, and you need
to show me that in the resume
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:Avery Smith-2: Uh, very important here
that like, yes, being a clear communicator
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:is an important job as a data analyst.
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:Um, and you need to be able to explain,
you know, complex things, numbers, uh,
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:to non-technical people in a simple way.
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:Um, I know he's just going this off
the cuff where he's like, "You need to
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:explain to Bob why we're using SQL."
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:And to be honest, most of the time you'll
be working at a larger company that
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:already decided they're using SQL, and
it's not really your job as like a junior
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:or intermediate data analyst to be like,
"We should switch to something else."
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:And to be honest, what
are you gonna switch to?
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:Like everyone uses SQL.
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:So didn't love his example here.
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:I'm being nitpicky, but I just
wanna, you know, bring up a point
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:here that recruiters, they have to
know everyone's job inside and out,
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:and that's absolutely impossible.
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:So like just know that recruiters kinda
know what they're talking about, but
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:not exactly, because he has to know all
the details of a data analyst, of an
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:accountant, of a financial professional.
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:Uh, you know, maybe he
does nursing, I don't know.
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:Like rec-recruiters work for so many
different roles that they have to know,
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:you know, these different role types
and they often don't a hundred percent
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:Avery Smith's screen-2: I wanna
see how you solved a problem
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:with data, not what the data is.
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:This is another big one that data
analysts get wrong all the time.
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:Also, I do more than tech resumes, such
as like software engineers, data analysts.
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:I do like accountants and everything
else, but the tech market is so incredibly
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:terrible that like 50% of the resumes sent
to me are tech, but I do do more than tech
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:Avery Smith-2: So once again, he's
just proving the point here that
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:recruiters, they often do lots of
different types of roles, and it's
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:impossible for them to know, you
know, the ins and outs of every role.
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:So when you're, when you're-- when
recruiters are reviewing your resume,
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:they don't know everything, and so you
have to work really hard to try to make
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:it as easy as possible for them to know
what you're talking about, and we'll,
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:we'll get to this here in a second
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:Avery Smith's screen-2: But a common
data analyst problem is they always
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:tell me how they got the data when
nobody cares how you got the data
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:Avery Smith-2: I just
don't think that's true.
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:Like, how many of you guys…
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:Let me know in the Spotify
comments and the YouTube comments
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:that, like, are you putting how
you got the data on your resume?
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:I think a lot of data analysts don't
talk about how they got the data.
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:I think they talk about
how they analyze the data.
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:A lot of the times, data
analysts don't get data.
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:Uh, like it's already in a database,
so why would they, you know, list
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:that as one of their responsibilities
or one of their bullet points?
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:And if you did get the data on your
own, I think that's really impressive
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:because getting data is really difficult.
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:Like, if you web scraped data from
the internet, you know, that's hard
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:to do, and that deserves a bullet
point, and that's useful for a lot of
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:different industries, a lot of different
companies, a lot of different jobs.
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:Um, so I don't really get why he's
saying, like, "Don't talk about, you
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:know, where you got the data from."
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:I don't think we are.
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:And two, if you did get the
data in a unique way, I think
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:that's worth pointing out.
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:So I don't, I don't get his point here
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:Avery Smith's screen-2: No one cares
if you used a Monte Carlo simulation
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:to flip-flop the floop flop and
the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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:All they-
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:Avery Smith-2: I, I think if you listen
carefully, he's like, "No one cares
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:if you did a Monte Carlo simulation,"
which is one way to generate data.
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:Like, if you don't have actual
data, you can simulate data, you
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:know, and run, you know, hundreds,
thousands of different simulations.
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:Monte Carlo is one, one way to do it.
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:Um, but where he's just like flip-flop,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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:I think that's what recruiters read when
they see a data analyst resume, is they
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:see like one word they know, like Monte
Carlo simulation, and then it's just like
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:blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and it's
just like a bunch of jargon for them.
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:So you just have to keep that in mind,
that recruiters don't know all of
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:data analytics jargon that's going on
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:Avery Smith's screen-2: They care about is
what you did with it, not how you got it
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:Avery Smith-2: I do think this point is
really important, that what you do with
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:the data is the most important thing.
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:It is more important
than, than how you got it.
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:Um, and we're not just analyzing
data for analyzing data's sake.
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:We're not doing it for funsies.
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:We're doing it for a purpose.
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:And so it's really important to try to
illustrate why you did what you did.
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:Like, how are you helping the
business in the big picture?
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:Avery Smith's screen-2: I need to
see how you solved a problem with
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:the data, not what the data is.
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:I need to see MS Excel, yes, really,
macros, pivot tables, VLOOKUP,
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:Word, Python, R, multiple projects
and deadlines, and nice to have is
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:cloud AI and security clearances
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:Avery Smith-2: So, uh, he
kind of went through the
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:qualifications a little bit more.
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:He said Microsoft Excel, macros,
pivot tables, and VLOOKUP.
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:So I think this is really funny because
number one, I don't really think a lot
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:of people are using macros anymore.
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:They've always kind of sucked.
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:Um, they take a lot of effort to code,
and they're very slow and not very robust.
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:Uh, I think Python in Excel has
really taken over most macros.
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:Uh, pivot tables are still the king.
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:We still use a lot of pivot tables.
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:Now, notice VLOOKUP here, and all of
you guys probably who are listening
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:and, you know, have touched, you
know, Excel, you're like, "Oh, I
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:know VLOOKUP, but XLOOKUP's way
better or INDEX MATCH is way better."
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:And yes, that might be true, but my
point here is, remember recruiters,
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:they don't know the difference between
VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP like you do.
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:And if you're unfamiliar with it, it's
basically the exact same thing in Excel
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:except for XLOOKUP's a lot easier.
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:VLOOKUP, you have to like be a little
bit more specific with what, what data
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:you're actually trying to look up.
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:It's basically a way to search a
large data set, and if you know key--
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:one key value, you can get its pair.
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:Um, but my point here is like they're
looking for VLO-- the recruiter's
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:looking for VLOOKUP on your resume.
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:Um, and maybe even an applicant
tracking system, ATS is, is as well.
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:So even though you might not use
VLOOKUP and you know XLOOKUP is
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:better, it might be worth having
things like VLOOKUP on your resume.
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:Um, also, I don't know when he's
saying, uh, bullet point of Python/R,
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:multiple projects and deadlines.
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:I think deadlines is interesting.
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:I don't know.
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:He didn't really expand on that.
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:I think that's interesting.
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:Nice to have Cloud.
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:Yeah, it's nice to have.
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:It's not listed in very many,
uh, data job descriptions.
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:AI, this is in twelve percent now.
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:Uh, security clearance, obviously,
that's not something you can
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:really just go out there and get.
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:So, um, those are some nice to haves.
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:Avery Smith's screen-2: So
I only have twenty seconds
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:to find what I need to find.
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:If I cannot find it in twenty seconds,
your resume is yeeted and deleted.
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:I wish that was not the case,
but unfortunately, that is
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:just how little time recruiters
actually have to view your resume.
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:So, uh, we'll-
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:Avery Smith-2: I li- I like what
he just said, you know, 20 seconds.
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:I think that's even…
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:I think a lot of people
say it's like seven seconds
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:Avery Smith's screen-2: I be able
to find that in twenty seconds?
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:Probably not, 'cause they've been
doing this for eight months and
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:has gotten zero interviews, so I'm
expecting to find nothing in this.
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:But let's see how bad
this resume is, and go.
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:Oh, my God.
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:Uh, cannot use anything here.
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:Cannot use anything here.
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:Uh, so then we go down to
here is designed and built an
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:executive reporting dashboard.
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:Okay.
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:Data quality, KPIs.
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:Ha, this is irrelevant to leadership.
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:Could assess status,
analyze, informed, hot dog.
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:Uh, hot dog, hot dog,
hot dog, hot dog, uh-
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:Avery Smith-2: And when he's saying
hot dog here, he explains this later
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:in the episode, it's basically not what
he's looking for is what he's saying.
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:. Um, kind of a weird way of
expressing it, but just, just say
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:it's-- just think it's not good
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:Avery Smith's screen-2: Time.
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:Oh boy, this is a bad one.
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:All right, I understand why
you're getting zero interviews.
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:So there's a lot of this that's wrong,
and I'm gonna go through it one by one.
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:So first things first, your
formatting is atrocious.
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:This is the formatting you wanna use.
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:You can find it in the link below.
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:It's free.
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:Use it.
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:This is what it looks like.
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:This is how it should be.
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:This ain't it
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:Avery Smith-2: So for those of you
who are listening via the podcast,
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:he's, he's showing the resume on the
screen, and he's showing, you know,
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:a template that he really likes.
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:And I think the big thing for, for what
this resume is doing wrong and what
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:he thinks they should be doing better
is essentially have more white space.
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:Because this is like-- like the
professional summary is one, two,
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:three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
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:It's eight lines straight of just text
where you can't really scan it, and then
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:it goes straight to core skills, uh, which
is just like a bunch of keyword stuffing.
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:Um, and then even the bullet
points in the, uh, professional
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:experience is pretty long.
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:Like each bullet point looks to be
one, two, three lines, one, two,
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:three lines, one, two, three lines.
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:So it's just a lot of block text going
on, and it makes it really hard to
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:scan anything in those twenty seconds.
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:There's lots of information in
there, but it's not really digestible
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:for someone like a recruiter
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:Avery Smith's screen-2: This is bad.
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:This is really, really, really bad.
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:So first things first, your
formatting is atrocious.
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:Uh, I don't know if you graduated or
not, I can't even find your degree, which
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:is why your degree needs to be up here.
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:Second off, um, nothing…
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:There's a reason, like, if you look at
this, you're like, "Well, hold on, Lee.
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:What are you talking about?"
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:Everything you want is
in these two sections.
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:Avery Smith-2: Just, just a note
where he's like, "I can't even
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:tell if you've graduated or not."
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:Well, if you've been a data and business
analyst with six-plus years translating
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:complex operational data, you've either
been-- you know, you have a, a degree,
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:like you landed a job, uh, with a
degree, or you landed a job without
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:a degree and now you have experience.
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:So I'm not sure why he's saying the
education section's so important.
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:I know a lot of you guys listening
are career pivoters, and you have
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:a degree, but it's not in data
analytics, it's not in statistics,
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:it's not in computer science.
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:Um, and so I don't necessarily think you
have to have it on the top of your resume.
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:If it's helpful, sure, but like
eventually, your professional
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:experience trumps your degree, right?
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:Like my undergraduate degree
is in chemical engineering.
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:I haven't really worked as a
chemical engineer for a long time.
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:Like should I put that
on top of my resume?
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:I don't think so
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:Avery Smith's screen-2: Why did you
highlight all this stuff in red?
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:This is exactly what you're looking for.
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:Uh, it's not what I'm looking for.
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:I'm looking for
qualifications, not keywords."
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:So if I was-
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:Avery Smith-2: Now, n-notice
what he's saying here.
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:I'm looking for
qualifications, not keywords.
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:One important thing I would say is, while
an applicant tracking system, a lot of
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:the times, is just looking for keywords.
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:So just know that your
resume serves two purposes.
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:One is convincing an applicant
tracking system that you're a worthy
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:candidate, and two is convincing a
human that you're a worthy candidate,
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:and those are two different tasks.
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:Avery Smith's screen-2: If I was looking
for keywords, then yeah, everything
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:here would be what I'm looking for.
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:Power BI, Excel, Jira, SQL, R,
Python, uh, Databricks, uh, AWS.
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:If I was keyword hunting, then a
skill section would be relevant.
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:But I'm not keyword hunting,
I'm qualification hunting.
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:And what a qualification is,
is a keyword plus, the plus
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:is important, how you used it
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:Avery Smith-2: Okay.
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:So a, a qualification is a
keyword plus how you used it
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:Avery Smith's screen-2: Plus
where you used it, which is skills
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:Avery Smith-2: Plus where you used it
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:Avery Smith's screen-2: section,
professional summary, do not show.
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:And the non-technical reason
you did it to help the business.
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:Now
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:Avery Smith-2: Okay, so let's, let's,
let's go through that one more time.
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:So a qualification is a keyword plus
where you used it, plus how you used it,
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:and then what purpose you used it for.
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:Um, so I think what he's trying
to say is like, you know, SQL.
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:He wants to see SQL in
this role right here.
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:A bullet point like, you know, uh, used
SQL to, um, analyze four hundred thousand
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:rows of data to make ten thousand--
save ten thousand dollars in costing.
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:So it's the keyword and the where is
this Fortune five hundred company.
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:The how, I don't really know how.
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:It's like there's only one way to
really use SQL, I guess, like queries.
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:Uh, and then for what purpose?
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:To like save ten thousand dollars.
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:I think that's what he's
looking for, essentially.
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:Essentially, he's just saying that there's
just a bunch of keywords here, and he'd
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:rather see them spread out throughout
the resume and the experience section
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:and maybe even the professional summary
and maybe even the education on how
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:you're actually using those keywords
and why you're actually using them
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:Avery Smith's screen-2: But before you
go, "Lee, there's only two parts of any
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:job, which is make money, save money."
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:Yeah, that, that's this high level.
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:I need you to be here, right?
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:I, I don't wanna ta- I don't care about
this part, I care about this part.
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:I, I wanna know why you did what you did,
saved or w- uh, made the company money.
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:What was the purpose of your job?
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:I don't care that you conducted a deep
analysis of 65 legacy pipelines, reverse
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:engineering undocumented business rules,
transformation logged data dependencies,
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:across 9,000 processes, producing the
scope assessment and gap analysis, showed
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:executive alignment on migration strategy.
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:No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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:I wanna know
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:Avery Smith-2: He's talking so fast.
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:Do I have, uh…
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:Oh, I do have 1.25
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:speed on.
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:Sorry, guys.
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:Uh, okay
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:Avery Smith's screen-2: You did that.
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:That's, that's too technical, right?
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:We've got why you did what you did,
which is we've got your job is to make
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:money or save money, and then we've
got whatever you wrote at the bottom.
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:I need you to meet me in the middle here.
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:All right?
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:That's what we're looking for in the why.
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:Uh-
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:Avery Smith-2: So here he's saying like,
of course, like you, you know, this
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:person did conduct deep dive analysis
of sixty-five legacy ETL pipelines.
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:You know, that's, that's
what their job was.
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:But it's too technical for this recruiter
to actually understand the purpose.
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:Plus, not only like, you
know, we don't care about what
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:you did, you care about why.
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:So why did you do it?
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:So they did it to produce the scope
assessment and gap analysis that drove
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:executive alignment on migration strategy.
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:Um, and that's just like,
you gotta be more specific.
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:Like, how did that save us
time or money, essentially?
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:Um, or like, did it save, you know, hours?
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:Did it save potential
errors in the future?
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:Try to give like a dollar
sign or a number of hours or
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:something like that right there
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:Avery Smith's screen-2: Um, and
there's so many random numbers.
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:This is also filled to the brim with
hot dogs, which I'm about to explain
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:This is the part where he explains
his hot dog analogy, which is
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:a bullet point that is a cheap
version of what he's trying to get.
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:It's impressive sounding, it's
technical, it's what you maybe
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:did, but it's not the full thing.
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:It's just like the keyword doesn't have
like the where and the what and the why.
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:Uh, the analogy fell a little bit flat
with me, so I will skip this part for you.
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:Avery Smith's screen-2: So
that is my problem here is all
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:this stuff is re-- tangentially
related to being a data analyst.
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:This is tangentially
related to what I want.
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:It is not what I want.
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:I want this.
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:So when you submit a resume that
looks like this and not this, what
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:actually happens on the part is
the recruiter looks and this goes,
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:boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.
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the resume is helpful right now
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know what you did, I don't know how
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you did it, so this doesn't count."
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uh, the first bullet point because he
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I don't know what you did.
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did is right here, designed and
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dashboard tracking pipeline health
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this resume person should
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"Designed and built an executive
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about twenty, put twenty.
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bullet point a little bit better
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know how you did it, and I don't know
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you did it, so this doesn't count."
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"Yep, this is filled with hotdogs.
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but I'm looking for somebody that can
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think, I think this really shows that
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not trying to get you hired, right?
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you the benefit of the doubt.
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ready to go with no exceptions,
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suboptimal, a recruiter's just gonna
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something that did count.
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something that did count.
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those bullets wasn't that bad."
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I want you to make it for Bob.
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Headless Headhunters Hamburger Hut.
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why are we making a resume for a CEO?
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I think for most data analyst
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technically sound than you.
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feels this way about, like, tech and data.
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our resumes for the recruiter?
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they're not, they're not, like,
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good point that, like, this, this sucks.
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looks at a resume this way sucks.
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land a job right now, it sucks.
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it should be, but that's just the system
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you can get frustrated and give up.
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resume and, and getting it in front of
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have the hard of you don't get a data
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there is a critical error that I did
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second to figure out what's
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he is circling the dates for each
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experience section, and they say twenty
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twenty twenty-four to twenty twenty-four.
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that entire thing I would remove.
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look like a job hopper.
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that your resume has nothing in it.
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I've seen in my life, but it's
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nothing in it, but it's not the
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oxymoron sentence right there.
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out this job that was from:
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job hopper or wasn't at the job very long.
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work for, it says Fortune 500 automotive
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company names in the actual resume, um,
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put the company you work for.
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for a mystery company."
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he asks for, um, if, if he asks for
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bit more protected and anonymized.
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seen in my life, but it's very, very bad.
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four out of 10, maybe a three out of 10.
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then down here, again, that could
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of how you could improve your very own
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:resume to start to get more interviews.
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