Hi all. This video is part III of my V-part series on your ego and your job search (links to parts I and II below).
In the last two, we discussed your overall mindset and the importance of thinking through your career trajectory. Today I’m talking about how you could be jeopardizing your resume and LinkedIn profile and not even know it.
Watch to learn important strategies for both!
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Are You Sabotaging Your Job Search Part 1: https://youtu.be/qcxIWlFnjQQ
Are You Sabotaging Your Job Search Part 2: https://youtu.be/XhqTdxZZfy0
Transcript
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Hi, this is Mike, your personal financial services career coach.
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Welcome to part three of our series, “Is your ego sabotaging your job search?”
Part I: Job Search Sabotage
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So you might remember in part one, we talked about your mindset.
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And is your head really in the right place?
Part II: Job Search Sabotage
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Number two, in part two, we talked about career direction.
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Are you really thinking through what you want to do
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or are you just kind of chasing everything that comes to you?
Part II: Job Search Sabotage
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Welcome to part three, where we’re going to talk about
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are you sabotaging your process, your job search process,
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because your resume and your LinkedIn profile aren’t up to snuff?
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So let’s talk a little bit about your resume first.
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So, are you the kind of person that may be on the insecure side,
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and that means you have to put everything down on your resume, like you literally
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have the
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spelling bee that you won in fourth grade on there?
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Or you literally have every single
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accomplishment from your current job such that you have 15 bullet points
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and you have a point nine or nine point font and everything’s too small?
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See the thing you have to remember about a resume,
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it’s that it’s the appetizer, it’s an appetizer for the full meal.
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What’s the full meal? That’s the interview.
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So if you’re the person that has to stick everything on there,
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the problem is, is that no one’s going to read any of it.
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See, that’s kind of ironic.
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The more you put down, the less people are going to read.
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So if you’re the person likes to jam your resume with every single fact
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under the sun, it’s simply just not going to be read.
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You’re really wasting your time.
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Or sometimes I’ve met people the opposite.
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Some people are humble and they don’t want to brag.
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These kind of people, what they do is they end up
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putting very general statements on their resume and they don’t use
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metrics like numbers and percentages and other information
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which is really there to indicate what’s special about you.
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So take a look at your resume.
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If you have bullet points that can apply to the person
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on your right and the person on your left, that’s not going to work.
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Every bullet point really should be customized for what is special about you
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— in numbers and percentages and specific
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activities is really the way to go.
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So with respect to your resume, you don’t want to jam everything in there
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and be insecure, but you got to put something in there.
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But really, really tangible information if you’re on the humble side.
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So let’s talk about your LinkedIn profile.
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So some people just don’t know the rules of LinkedIn,
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even though they want to get a job through LinkedIn.
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Well, that’s okay, but you can’t be ignorant.
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So if you want to get a job through LinkedIn, then you have to play the game.
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One of the ways to play the game is to have an optimized LinkedIn profile.
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So the way you have an optimized LinkedIn profile is basically you want to
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make sure you have your keywords in four sections of your LinkedIn profile.
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Number one, the headline section, which is right below your name.
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Number two, the about section where you can write anything about yourself.
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Number three, the experience section where you describe all your jobs
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and what you did and number four, your skills section.
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You get 50 skills; you might as well use them.
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Well, maybe you’re asking a question, Well Mike, what keywords should I even use?
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Okay, well, go find 5 to 6 job descriptions,
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illustrative job descriptions that you are interested in.
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Copy all the text into a word counter like I like wordcounter.net.
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It’s free. It’s easy.
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See what words come up the most and make sure your resume is basically
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— and LinkedIn profile —
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are populated in the right spots with all these different keywords.
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So in summary, we want to make sure that you’re
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not blowing up your job search
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because your resume is kind of all over the place
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and your LinkedIn profile’s all over the place.
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We want to make sure that you keep your ego in check.
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You have good, solid information
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on your resume and your LinkedIn profile to help you get the next job.
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Thanks, and I welcome you to part four next week of “How
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not to sabotage your job search”