By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
In this video, Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter explains how to give more texture and information in your resume without making it too long.
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I’m Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter. I’m referred to as The Big Game Hunter because I’ve been hunting down leaders and staff organizations for 40 plus years. I want to offer you some no BS resume advice that’s going to help your resume stand out.
Particularly, I want to underscore this word, particularly if you’re a veteran professional, a person with a lot of experience and want to have an opportunity to talk about some of the things that you’ve accomplished in greater detail than what a resume would normally afford you. Now, the convention, and it’s a smart one, is that resumes don’t go more than two maybe two and a half pages under special circumstances. I don’t believe in one-page resumes unless you’re a novice or looking for an entry-level position I should say but I want to help you get more texture into your resume.
Now, no one does this but I thought of this earlier in the week and I wanted to sit with it before talking with you about so let’s say you’re a manager, a director, a VP, a C-level professional. You’re submitting a resume for a position. You want to talk about what you’ve done but you also understand you have to keep your resume to a certain length.
What do you do? Hyperlinks. Since you’re submitting a resume through an electronic medium anyway, it’s not like you’re sending a piece of paper anymore. What you have the opportunity to do is, for example, if you’re in IT and you’re talking about a project that you did and you want to go into more detail than the resume will allow you space for, underneath the project name that you worked on, include a hyperlink.
The hyperlink can go to a video that you’ve done for YouTube, a more detailed description of what it is that you stepped into when you took over the project or the and the things that you accomplished. You can tell stories in video. You can tell stories in text.
Now, obviously, this needs to be well written or well acted. So, you know, you may need to do these a couple of times, have people look at it before, you know, submitting into organizations. But why not use the power of the web? Why not use the power of mobile to connect you to connect your document with more detailed information about the work that you’ve done.
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Again, as I’ve said in an earlier video, stories are extremely powerful. Think of how you would describe this project or this task that you did in an interview. You’d have a lot of texture to it.
You talk about what it is that you stepped into, what you accomplished, the money that you saved, the money that you earned, the technology utilized, numbers, all the story to this, the problems that the firm had that you took on at this point. It’s a lot of space to use in an individual document. But if you’re using video, if you’re using even a podcast, you can use a service like FreeConferenceCalling.com or FreeConferenceCall.com. Both services work very well to record an audio of you talking about what it is that you stepped into.
But, again, you have to . . . and, of course, you know, a print version of this, as well, can work very well. So, again, you have to be well prepared. It has to be well rehearsed.
It has to be well executed for this to work and you can do it. You can really do this. So, this is Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter.
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In addition, come over to my website, which is JeffAltman.com. I’ve got lots of great content there, videos, my radio shows, articles I’ve written for my e-zine. You can also receive a complimentary subscription to No BS Job Search Advice e-zine, which I publish weekly with advice for job hunters anywhere in the world. You can search positions I’m recruiting for.
Find that by my books and guides to job hunting. A lot of great content at JeffAltman.com. So, come over to the website and go exploring. A few final things.
First, if we’re not already connected on LinkedIn, send me a connection request at LinkedIn.com forward slash i n forward slash TheBigGameHunter. If your firm’s trying to hire someone, send me an email at the address below. Let me know who to contact and whether I should mention your name.
I’d love to help your firm staff positions. And finally, if you have a question about job hunting, interviewing, anything, I should say this is next to last. If you have a question about job hunting, interviewing, anything related to job search, contact me through LivePerson.com where I’m a job searching career coaching expert.
Now, finally, if you want me to critique a resume, I do charge for that service but send me an email again at the address below. I’ll send you the information about that. I’d love to help correct your resume.
This is Jeff Altman. Hope you have a great day. Take care.
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