Thanks Brian. I was going to pay for a professionally written resume, but instead, I got a free resume evaluation from a career counselor at my school, University of Phoenix. I used the tips that helped it pass ATS compliance, and for the past 5 days, I've been getting interest from Indeed employers. I prefer interest from LinkedIn employers but hey it's something! 😂

I do not know how good of a recruiting professional you are, Bryan, but you totally nail the content marketing approach to promote your products and services. As a sales and marketing specialist, I am amazed by how smooth it looks. Great job

Hi Bryan, Could you please make a video with how an ATS works do and dons?

Do you have a video on optimizing a resume for the ATS system?

I have had “professional” resume writers review my resume several times and I have had other people tell me that they were wrong. I have been told to leave some things off and then told that I lied on my resume I wrote “targeted” resumes and never got any results. I think that the entire act is dumb luck. You have to be the lucky one that happens to end up at the top of the pile with the best results. Don’t deny that this is the actual truth. You barely go through the pile so most of us never get a chance.

From my personal experience, HR has some of the most scumbags of all the departments. There are so many back stabbings, nepotism and sabotaging an employee career. A friend works as an HR told me that they have a network of black list. Whoever name is put on the list won't be hired in many places. It can be any reason from bad employees to intentionally harming a good employee reputation.

I'VE BEEN IN I.T. for over 30 years. I've learned in the last 20 years to write a resume that the computer software & eventually the recruiter will choose my resume. It's very simple. It's based on using the right keywords & at the same time look good to eye of the recruiter/hiring manager. Also, I do customize each resume for the job I'm applying for at the time. It has worked great and I have done the same for friends and family. They are amazed it worked so fast after not getting any calls before.

Great content. A lot of people create resumes that know absolutely nothing about ATS. New School Resumes have to be compatible with Applicant Tracking Systems.

You are so correct. I learned the hard way from purchasing Linda Raynier resume video. I could have save my money because i ended up rewriting my resume myself

I wanted to thank you for posting these amazing videos. I've been watching them for weeks and taking lots of notes. During my interviews I used so many of your tips. I answered many of the questions during my interviews like you suggested. Yesterday I got a job offer for what I hope is my dream job! I'm so humbled and grateful for your help.

I once made this mistake when I was less experienced, hiring a "pro" resume writer. It was useless for getting an IT job. There is a certain format you need to use: skills, experience, education. It's all about including the right keywords.

So basically like swiping right on a dating app. 5 seconds is all you get. Found this helpful because I was unaware of the ATS and how it operates. Thank you!

When hiring, I can't stand BS cover letters. I usually scroll right pas them.

Cool content. I (23) just got my first salaried job in my target industry, private jet charters as a scheduled service coordinator

Thanks so much for this. It's right on time for me. I just finished a degree and am ready to move on from my walking dead team into a better work environment. I'll reach out.

You covered great points!!!!

The people that are hiring managers are really just people like you.They just put more effort into getting into a role where they hire, and/or luck. So, as best you can, put yourself into the headspace of a person hiring into a role you are applying to and evaluate your resume this way. If you find it difficult, dont worry its difficult to be that objective. However if you work on it, it will help you in other areas of your life because it's valuable to learn when to be critical and how to be objective and eliminate as much as possible you own biases. Look at your resume as if you were the hiring manager for the role, then edit the resume as needed.

I keep both ats freindly and human readable forms of my resume. Ats is great for applying but will not stand out for direct connections. If a recruiter reaches out i send them both forms, one to look through and one to import into the ats system. But if its a networking connection or hiring manager I send the the human readable one. Machines and humans do not process information the same way and I've had decent success in the dual approach.

How do ATS systems work with Healthcare in resumes? Much thanks. 😊

I just took a sample resume in my field and put my experience and personal information. For my first job i just used a fake job. Honesty is so overrated.

I find new surprises all the time on your channel

Thanks for your content. Valuable as always. Hired a resume writer 2 years ago. I was not and am not actively looking, but I realized my resume had become stale. Resume writer and I had worked side-by-side as chemists for several years. I first hired her as a life coach then got her help with my LinkedIn and resume. She knew the industry though not my specific role. She explained why she was doing things, plus I was more than willing to argue with her. I have a pretty clear vision of where I want my career to go. I just needed someone to help with the ATS, etc. and someone to keep me motivated through the process. I agree that hiring just any resume writer (especially if just working with just your old resume and a couple positions you might be interested in) can be a bad mistake. I strongly dislike when people I care about do their resume/LinkedIn with many diverse types of career focuses after being laid off. My "new" resume hasn't resulted in another job (which I am not seeking), but it has helped me to better direct my LinkedIn and resume for if I decide to (or am forced to). I keep my eye on the market, and not just Glassdoor. I look at the real market for what I do, geographic area, industry, etc. and have tweaked my LinkedIn a bit. Expect to tweak resume soon but nice think about updating LinkedIn is I can refer to it if I quickly need to update my resume. Thanks!

Writing a resume is not that complicated and it takes me about 10 minutes to get a skeleton up that's ready for tailoring.

I envision a new field of business for "Just the right amount of Unprofessional" professionally written resumees

Here in San Diego, there are so many free resources to help job seekers put together a great resume.

I don't really apply through ATS, because I feel that I will be required to do some niche or robotic task in their organization, which I would not enjoy. Robot hires for robot job so to speak.

How do I optimize my resume literally as fast as possible I'm up to 900+ applications and I'm going to lose my mind tailoring for every position

ATS must be regulated!

I just found out if you were not in a position to hire and fire you are a: CONTRIBUTOR. What a language.

Ive struggles woth tailoring my resume. I apply to a ton of jobs with same title but the keywords are different. Ive paid professional writer twice and still no luck. I have great skills but not sure why im not getting bites. My question is if you tailor to each job, what resume do you present on linkedin?

Are you suggesting that a person customize each resume to the job posting?

I've had some good results going back and forth with the various AI's where I put my resume and the job description in the prompt and ask dai to pretend to be a professional resume writer and match the resume to the job description. I actually have to update my resume Master list of every little skill, achievement and thing I've done over my whole career and instead put that in the prompt with the job description. This is free, and you can go back and forth and fine-tune and get new results from the same AI or use a different AI for a slightly different flavor. Basically it's very difficult for me to see a professional human resume writer helping me more than this method.

I refuse people to re do my cv/resume

If you have to submit portfolios, and develop contacts_ then what?

One more thing about the economic cost of hiring a resume writer for specific jobs. A lot of jobs, that get posted on job service sites, close after a certain # of hits. There's an opportunity cost in the delay.

Whats your go to dance for the intro song and why is it an up and down shoulder shuffle ?

Not resume related exactly. But I wish I knew why some employers just send a rejection email. I get it if you go out in the first round, but I have also experienced getting a generic e-mail after 2 rounds of interviews. And I have friends who were just ghosted after the same amount of interviews. Do they really think that this does anything but make them look like a shit employer, even if they offer exciting jobs.

WELL....

the issue I'm having is changing careers, to a drastically different career with no experience in that career only school. I have no idea where to even start with this, how do you add skills/lab time in a resume, how do you explain such a change in a cover letter. just absolutely stuck, been looking for help. My regular resume is pretty good I think, but I cant transfer this over, maybe hire someone for this type of issue?

Hi Brian, at the end of the video you mentioned cover letters. Do you think that cover letters are still important in 2023? I'm honestly not sure because I was able to get my job straight out of college without a cover letter.

It's not how it's written, it's what's on it. If you have what they're looking for, it can be typed out in Notepad for all they care...

Lol I paid a professional and lets just say...I ended up having to redo the entire thing. He formatted it with columns and filled it with cliche buzzwords 😭 among other issues that I learned later down the line

Can't anyone just call themselves a professional resume writer, and... voila. Kinda like dog training, you can just wake up one day and decide you're a professional dog trainer.

I need an infografic resume as well as professional website to showcase my coding portfolio, any suggestion?

I Just Got offer 2 jobs after I put on my resume my coding certifications. Eventhough the jobs I where applying to had nothing to do with tech. Even my current employer decided to give me that internal transfer right as I was about to walk out the door for one of the other jobs. Could it be people just don't list their actual full range of skills that keeps them from getting the job?

Customize the resume for each position when people have to apply to 300 each time 😂

I have been through 3 resume writers and it seemed all three had different views on how many pages the resume should be, how many keywords should be added, how big the summary should be, and if projects should be added to the third page. My first writer overloaded my resume with skills and included skills I didn’t have to beat the ats. This was through flex jobs. They made the resume two pages. I had two paragraph summary followed by core skills then soft skills followed by job history and then tech skills at the bottom. They put education on top even though I graduated with a BA many years ago. The second person claimed to be a 10 hr vet that had hired for gov and tech. I paid and found them through Upwork. They increased my resume to three pages and said the length didn’t matter. Only content. They increased the summary, decreased keywords, and spaced things out more. He seemed to view the cover letter as more important. He said to keep the job history the same just change keywords at the top and a bit of summary for each job. He removed projects calling the portfolio link good enough. He also felt the most important thing on LinkedIn was the profile summary and didn’t talk about anything else regarding LinkedIn. Education at the bottom added four lines of classes below that. He called the people that did 5sec scans lazy and he spent the time necessary to find people. The third person was a freelancer who was claiming to be from a staffing contracting agency. Decreased summary to one line. Tried to force my job history into one page and then scanned my portfolio link projects and made a second page with a list of portfolio projects. However, when I ran the third person's rewrite into job sites like Adobe. The ats started throwing portfolio projects into the job history section and also broke the dates. He said I should limit my keywords to be more specialist in a specific area to make it less verity messy even if the job description came across as seeking multiple hats. 2-page resume. Education at the bottom ripped out classes. --- You also have to consider that when you submit a resume to a third party recruiter. They rewrite your resume without telling you and submit it to the hiring manager. I have seen so many variations from third parties that one of my questions in an interview is “What resume butchered variation did they give you?” And it always seems to catch the recruiter off guard if I send them my actual resume during the interview or try to do a screen share. In all cases the font size, font, and spacing were different. Just for the hell of it I also tried to submit my resume to those free resume reviews that job boards like to offer, and I got emails saying I didn't have enough action words, or keywords or my resume does not suit my experience, the resume is wrong and please pay for us. I email them back and the response is surprise or shock I went through other recruiters. So, what is the proper way to write a resume? I don’t know! What is the proper way to do linkedin. multiple tutorials later. Don't know. Seemed like I only got responses 98% "went with someone else" when I focused on my cover letter and simped are hard as possible for the company over any one of the resume variants. What annoys me is the rare chance I get in the interview. The interviewer who selected me acted like the never read my resume or viewed anything.

Listen up, candidates!👂 Remember to get help from the appropriate people!

You can apply this analogy to anything. What it comes down to is laziness and do you have money to burn. House cleaning, lawn cutting, doing taxes, car washing, cooking. All these things YOU can do yourself, but people hire others to do it.

Hi Bryan, I recently developed a Cover letter describing my evolution. I used the 3rd person. Like instead of using I did, learnt, lead, managed, etc, I used John did, learnt, lead. I look at my new cover letter as someone else is referring me, talks about me, markets me. What do you think?

This dude sent me a ten page resume with a cover letter manifesto. Now why would I want to hire anybody like that?

So resume writing, like networking, is really just a scam. If you're not good at the mickey mouse bs like writing one, you should hire a service to do it; at which point, you're not going to get any better results. The hardest part of finding work is trying to get around the HR, recruiter, and headthunters dirtbags. Around them so you can have a real conversation with someone real, not get taunted, threatened and assautled cause you're not wearing the right colour tie.

Idk about this one. I got a resume written for me and was 2 for 2 on applications and offers

"Professionals are going to fuck up your prospects. You don't want that to happen, so buy my job hunting product. Trust me. I'm a professional."

Mature men have no interest in used up loose malignant women. Good guys don't need to win, petty prizes they move on to better places

I use Chatgpt now. Easy.

Turbo tax is AWSOME. Its $20 for a simple return. And anyone can do it. Dont use HRB or any of those companies.

I feel like all ypur videos are based off, office jobs and corporate jobs that involve no physical work.