The Recruiting Rodeo 🐎 ﹘ THE STORYTELLING SERIES (The Resume📑)

Vol. 33: To Summarize or Not To Summarize, "That" Is The Question (What "Not" To Include In The RESUME'S 📑Summary Section + Some Holiday Homework)

As we close out 2024, the year of cost-cutting, and head into 2025, hopefully, the year of robust job growth and new job creation, The Recruiting Rodeo 🐎 will continue its focus on one of the two most important sections of the RESUME 📑 — the SUMMARY section.

Because a well-written (typed) SUMMARY section, the “story” an executive shares about his professional career there, in addition to the “story” the executive provides in the RESUME’s 📑 EXPERIENCE section and its “Magic Bullets,” truly has the potential to influence whether a Recruiter, HR executive, the direct Hiring Manager or Company Founder, takes that first critical step and sets up an interview. And isn’t that the goal?

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To backtrack a bit, let’s review how a Company has your RESUME📑in the first place.

The primary way someone working at a Company (not necessarily a Search Firm) obtains your RESUME📑is when you apply to a job online via a job search platform. As part of that process, applying to a job online, you click on a job posting that interests you and fill out an online job application that most likely requires you to attach your RESUME📑. Hopefully, the RESUME📑 you uploaded is updated and syncs with the specs of the open position.

💡TO APPLY TO A JOB ONLINE AND ATTACH A RESUME THAT DOES NOT ALIGN WITH THE JOB SPEC AND/OR COMPANY’S GOALS, ESPECIALLY IF YOUR EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS ARE A STRONG MATCH FOR THE OPEN POSITION, MAY HURT YOUR CHANCES OF BEING CONSIDERED FOR THE POSITION AND SECURING THAT FIRST INTERVIEW.