About the Author:
Simply put, my clients credit my functional résumés with getting them more calls, sooner, for interviews than when they used traditional reverse-chronological résumés. My professional Human Resources management experience spans over 30 years. I have recruited, hired and fired employees from entry to executive levels throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific Rim. In my corporate and consulting careers, I have worked in these industries: hospitality, metal-cutting, financial services, agri-business, transportation, global accounting, chemical manufacturing, and concrete production. All of my corporate positions included recruiting, outplacement, candidate assessment, and job search counseling. When I evaluated and screened résumés, I always called those people who told me what they had ACCOMPLISHED, what problems they had faced and fixed. I called those who simply listed job duties and activities only when I had no one else in the pipeline. Bottom line: HR's responsibility is to fill jobs with candidates who meet as many of the hiring qualifications as possible. They do that by screening out as many applicants as possible. Knowing that fact, doesn't it make a whole lot of sense to customize your résumé for each position so that you present yourself as a match for their qualifications? In my experience, people who shotgun their résumés doom themselves to a very long job search. After months of no recruiters calling, a silent telephone gets pretty depressing, doesn't it? Let's make your phone ring.
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