FROM A MESSAGE I PLACED ON LINKEDIN INNOVATORS
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I was playing with Jobster and really really didn’t want to spend a lot of time rebuilding my resume in my profile. I did it in LinkedIn, and it literally to a huge amount of time effort and attention. So what we really need is what I call a “sausage to pig” creator. Put in a resume on one side and the “sausage to pig” would create your profile on LinkedIn, Jobsters, and all the other “resume building” sites. It could be nothing more than making a resume an XML file.
The insight came in realizing that I, as many others I’m sure, have multiple resumes. I have several base resumes that I have customized in the past for SPECIFIC opportunities. If the purpose of a resume is to induce a conversation about a specific job to begin, then you want to highlight accomplishments relevant to that job. So for example, when I’m helping a newly minted turkey (i.e., the person just axed from “their job”), when we get up to creating their “marketing collateral” (usually a resume and cover letter), I counsel the “less is more” philosophy.
I like the idea of a sparse resume with three things on it — the (reader’s) objective, last three positions which each have three significant accomplishments designed to induce conversation, and education.
My modest insight is that if you use LinkedIn, or any other site as your resume, then you can do that customization for specific opportunities.
Argh!
One size really doesn’t fit all needs.
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