- Don't say you're a CEO or Owner, be an employee - Stop using skill bars - Don't list skills like good listener or attention to detail - List skills relevant to the job, expand skills - Only put GPA if it is required or very high - Keep 'about me' section to a couple sentences, don't create a biography or novel - Companies likely don't care about your hobbies and interests - Don't put starting college dates, put last date or expected date - Change long internships titles to employee - Change job title within reason to make yourself look good - Don't include photos of yourself in the resume (US) - Apply if you think you can learn to do it or do it, requirements are just a wishlist
I got turned down after an interview because of "culture fit", even though they said they thought my qualifications were good. What this really means is that they noticed that I am autistic while they were talking to me. So much for equal opportunity.
90% of an interview is them seeing if they like you. The other 10% is if you can actually do the job. Unfortunately there's a stigma against people with autism and Aspergers, which is sad cuz they can make excellent employees because they tend to zero in on their job.
"Culture fit" is something the corporate world invented in order to get away with discrimation that would get them in deep trouble otherwise. So the 55-year-old African-American transgender woman wearing a Star of David necklace just happens to not be a good culture fit? How coincidental!
Some hiring managers already have someone in mind when they post the job. They will often add requirements that are intended to dissuade other applicants from applying. This makes it easier for them to say that “their” candidate is the most qualified. Don’t ask me how I know this. ;) - 25+ years in software development
@@benmanutd2 As if working visas were a thing. For the past 10 years US companies haven't hire internationally. But they love to use the immigrant boogie man to keep wages low and conditions bad.
Once you get pass the recruiter, the interview stage means you already have enough boxes checked to be considered qualified.. interview is where you sell your soft skills (adaptability, problem solving, interpersonal)
All the HR work I've done basically boils down to "Is this person going to solve more problems than they cause" I don't understand how these drongos have overcomplicated it so much.
It’s crazy because the requirements can be like law but as soon as you’re hired on within a week they’ll change what your job description is to include more
I figured that out when I eventually got a job with crazy requirements years ago, and realized that ask the senior folks couldn't do 0.25% of them. Since then, I've realized they are all BS and I've applied regardless since then.
@@Nite_coder Sorry. Where I work, we are like family. And I can't just leave my family. If I leave, my manager may need to fill a spot, and I need to be a team player for my family.
Guys to add to the GPA issue, don't sweat it if your GPA is too low. My GPA is 2.93, and I still got a job(STEM) at space company that launches things into orbit from the US (there is only one company).
Same over here, I have very average Grade and I‘m currently working at the German Version of the Company you are Saying (there is also only one here in Germany that sends Rocketships to Space :) ) What you Forget to say is Maybe how you got it? In my Case, After Listening to a lot of Josh and also From Pretty much lots of failures I became a master at navigating Impostor Syndrome and also overblowing every little thing I do as if it’s the Greatest sh!t on earth. Combine that with “references “ from top rated employers and you got me. However, I’m not special, I don’t believe I’m the smartest in the room. But I’m definitely very good at using smart people and Organisations to my favour. Ps: I’ mn still a student by the way, doing a Bachelor in CS
You probably went to a well known school, and yeah engineering is harder than all other majors, so be specific that gpa may not matter for an engineering major at a top school, regardless...don't put it
As someone who has been involved in many interviews, all these points are very valid. I typically don't even read the entire resume on my initial pass-through prior to a prescreen technical phone call. I leave the in-depth resume review for those that make it to the actual interview. I'm not looking at the number of years a person has worked, as I've worked with people with 20+ years who couldn't do the job well enough. Most times, that's just a requirement because "it must be quantifiable and measurable". So feel free to apply to a role, even if you aren't a 100% exact fit. What's the worst that will happen, they turn you down? It's better that the company turns you down than you turning yourself down for the role. I typically approach resumes that I receive in the following manner: - Does the resume list the technologies I'm hiring for? If no, are there equivalent technologies that are similar? - Does the jobs listed in the resume mention and outline how they used the technology at a quick glance (assuming it's something that can be outlined)? - Any Certifications? This is a bonus and not a show stopper. - Any personal or work-related projects using any of the technologies I'm requiring? This is a bonus and not a show stopper. If I see a skill missing that I'm looking for, I'll inquire about it during the prescreen technical phone call. If I see something that is listed in the skills that I'm looking for and it's not outlined anywhere, I may focus in on that specific skill a bit harder than others during the prescreen call. The prescreen is just a general set of questions I ask to gain a basic understanding and to determine the applicant's communication skills. I also make it a point to outline the items most people hate, in addition to how we compensate (IE: On call support rotation, with compensation days to make up for any overtime required, etc). This way I don't waste the applicant's or my own time. If they pass the prescreen, they get an interview with my boss, myself, and a third party (usually members of my team or department that they'll be interacting with). When I bring a person in for an interview, the very first thing I ask is "Tell me about your career", because a person who is passionate in what they do will show it in how they talk. From there, I'll drill into the details of the resume based on how they've steered the conversation, and I'll dig deeper into their work history. I'm not looking for someone to be a company person, but I am looking for someone I can directly work with as I'm doing the same work as the people I'm hiring. The difference is that I have the additional managerial tasks (IE: Meetings, reviews, et al). I try to involve my team in the actual interview to make sure we all mesh well, and to give them a chance to ask questions that I might not have brought up. Because of this process, my employee turnover is really low even with the expansion of my team over the years.
@@stevecooner7120 It's entirely possible! I can't say I'm the first person that gets to look at them, but it really depends on the source of the resume. A lot of times, I have resumes sent to me from talent acquisition companies that we do business with. Typically, I tell them what skills I'm looking for and they send over stacks of resumes to glance through. Most of them are copy/paste and you can usually tell when the company reformatted / restructured it into a standard format. The ones that come over through our internal tools (IE: Public facing website) are unaltered and come directly to me.
@Fullashit Ministries So I'm in the rare position that I'm not a recruiter. When I fill a position, it's for a position on my team, doing the same work that I do. As a result of that, I know all of the technologies that we work with on an every-day basis. While I'm not directly involved in software development, I deal with big data. However, we do have tasks that require C# experience and need to maintain those tasks. During the resume review process, I look for technologies that are similar to what I am looking for. For example, if I'm looking for C#, I check to see if there are any programming languages the applicant has. It could be Java or C++ for example, and I'll still give them a pass for C#. I just have to have the expectation that they may require a little additional training if I bring them on board. We live in the age of Google and Stack Overflow, so most things are going to be searched for anyway. Because we give everyone on our team access to Pluralsight, I always treat the very first week as 100% training week. I spell out exactly what we use and how we use it (IE: C# for RESTful services, etc), and then the new hire goes through and does the required company training. Once company training is done, I give 1-2 days for Pluralsight training so they can fill in their own knowledge gaps. Once that is done, I ramp them up with simple tasks to get them familiar with how we operate and increase the difficulty with each sequential task. As time progresses and I can identify shortcomings in skillsets, I point them out as training goals for the year that influences end of year review scoring. Every member of my team gets an hour of company time for training per week. More if it relates to what they are currently working on. I push my team to learn, and I can't expect it to be 100% on their own time.
3:08 I've been listing pivot table, power query, executive/sales dashboard in MS Excel under skills and not just MS Excel or Office 365. I'd say don't write the tool/software, write what you can do with it.
I got an interview with a company by writing out that I expected to graduate with my bachelor's within a year and that helped get it into the hands of humans. When they interviewed me, they admitted that my military experience helped me but without someone suggesting the "expected graduation date" idea, I would have never made it to the interview. Like you said, they can change or adjust the requirements for the job if they want you. Your job is to beat the system and get your resume in front of a human.
Military experience means you are supposed to be organized, are capable of time management, know how to follow rules and procedure, know your place in a hierarchy, and you can work in a team. These are of course only prejudments. I worked with ex military who were nothing like that. Yet, most military men and women are like this, and this is highly appreciated in any work place. Good luck for your new job 👍
Military experience either doesn’t get the credit it deserves, or is overblown imo. After my 8 years, running a small team isn’t a problem. Setting realistic and reasonable dates and expectations is second mature. That’s the sort of skill you learn in the military that most don’t, although most civilians don’t know that, and don’t know it’s probably more useful than most kids fresh out of college.
I ran across a job posting that wanted applicants to send a video of themselves, because they wanted "to hire friends!" I shut down the application when I got to that.
I've seen that for a 2 week substitution because of an injury or something. They wanted a 3-5 min video explaining whatever BS about you. So, they want something that will literally take hours of planning, recording and editing for a 2 week job. Gtfoh
If you're a company and you only judge ability by "how long" then you're going to miss on the best talent by definition. The most naturally gifted people at a given skill don't need much time to become more proficient.
There's more to becoming proficient than just learning a skill. It all comes down to the product development cycle that you're applying that skill to. For a person to seriously upgrade their skills, they need to see the problems their work created when a product they worked on is released to users. If a person only has 5 months experience with javascript, even if they know it REALLY well, they probably haven't yet been able to discover the impact of some of their coding choices at scale when their code becomes part of a new release. Being able to see the impact of different decisions is experience that can't be fully achieved without being part of at least 2-3 product design cycles, which is why 4-8 months of experience will simply never be comparable to two years in the trenches.
@@grammar_shark It's not the developers job to come up with the UX. That's the user research team. Developers just make sure the button work and the entries get into the database and it's scalable and efficient. At least at a large company where there are multiple departments..
It depends on the job. In my field doing something for a couple of years only gives you the experience to manage it well. Nothing wrong with being a rookie, but a rookie still has a long way to go before proficiency is reached.. But that's just my field. There are for sure other jobs with different requirements.👍
Talking about uneeded stuff on your resume, it reminds me of how in High School C.A.L.M. (Career And Life Management class) they made us make a "portfolio" that we had to fill with all of our awards and cerficates, biographies, family photos, poetry about ourselves, hobbies,allergies/medical issues, likes and dislikes, strenghts and weaknesses, fears, volunteer work and recipes for our favorite foods. It also inlcuded our eight-page resume repeating a lot of this crap and a cover letter. We were told it was MANDATORY not just for passing the course but for getting a job. Showed it once at an interview. Was laughed at and was turned down on the spot. Never again.
I love pro-worker brutal career advice. I was gaming my resume for years until I was able to build up a proper work history to stand on its own merits. Put down whatever you can get away with, claim anything that you can reasonably justify (that cannot be disproven by simple follow up), and understand that the job of the resume is to get you an interview. That is ALL its for. You can explain whatever you wantt in the interview, but if it's not gonna help you get in the door, don't put it on your resume.
Word of advice, advice is already plural. I’m not sure there is a such word as advices. I don’t actually care but I thought this would be useful…. Wait let me look this up…. Oh crap I’m wrong. Reverse advice.
Recruiters will only spend several seconds referencing your resume against the job description. If the titles don't line up and hit them in the mouth as a potential "match", they will immediately move on to the next applicant!
To "next!" approach being viable, there should be next applicant. If you face this type of relationship, move out of these type of jobs as far as possible. Very confusing thing in hiring IT specialists is you have more chances to be looked at, the higher role you apply. Just because sometimes they hire for months and gets little or no feedback. Senior and lead devs are busy working somethere else, and speed of how fast these type of devs growing is strictly limited by current amount of employeed devs. While junior devs is basically limitless inflow.
Recruiters will only spend 10 minutes asking thier friends if they have a friend of they needed a job..... Hopefully there black, homosexual, or American Indian so the company can get a free wage Obama subsidy from the USA taxpayer....
9:32 Important to note that so many job descriptions are written as pie-in-the-sky wish lists by people who have no idea what they're talking about - aka HR people - with minimal input from the position's supervisor or actual stakeholders in that department. This is where we get job descriptions asking for 10 years of experience in a language that's only 5 years old. Or listings asking for a senior developer level skills where the job is for a junior developer at a junior salary. Apply. They worst they can say is no, and it's their job to sort out the good candidates from the not so good. If some know-nothing HR drone made their job exponentially difficult by asking for skills they don't need to successfully perform in the position, or if they asked for skills that literally don't exist - that's on them.
"This is where we get job descriptions asking for 10 years of experience in a language that's only 5 years old." Maybe they want someone who programmed 16 hours a day for the last 5 years in that language.
People WILL judge you by your picture. I once had a college job coach actually tell students to change their names (legally) if possible, because if you have a very ethnic name like Shaqueeda Precious Jackson you might not get hired. Sad but true.
@@MagnificentMelkior So you are basing hiring someone solely because of their name? What if she was a Princeton graduate, 4.0 GPA? It is wrong to judge someone only by their name. So I guess you also wouldn't hire someone name Muhammad Al-Fadil or Erving Goldberg, or Jose Gonzalez, or Kwame Umbuto?
Don’t list your experience in chronological order. Instead label it relevant experience. When I was applying for jobs after college I had a lot of short term design gigs. In between these gigs I had other non relevant jobs that totally hurt my resume. Don’t list everything just relevant experience.
@@lightyear3429 I didn't write any start or end dates, just the total of months/ years in a particular job. For example: Through out college I had summer internships. I just added the number of months in all my summer internships and label them "Design XYZ (internship) N-number of months." The thruth is people aren't reading everything in your resume they just read the title and that's it. They might ask during your internview but at that point you can give them context and usually people are more understanding in person than by what they read on a line of paper.
I agree on the title for Freelance. Although now I have 3 employees, when I started I called myself the Program Manager, which the owner of a Website Agency technically is. I only did it because I felt stupid calling myself the CEO of a 1 person agency and subcontractors. I would have said project manager or product manager but that would be misleading because I also do the work in addition to managing/approving the execution and I am in charge of financial allocation of Several Projects and Portfolios. In corporate, the program manager has oversight and influence organizational wide and functionally deep. So in interviews I use this to leverage my business background for technical roles
Josh expanding on your college point it also shows how old you are if it's been 15-20 years since you finished college. Companies will ageism in both directions.
Joshua I have been following your channel for a year now, your content is simply gold and I appreciate all the seriousness and honesty you put into it. It helped me think outside the box and see things just the way they are. Just a quick mention, not all EU countries do require photo on CV. Maybe in Finland, as it's different culture. In Ireland (well, Ireland is pretty much copying US about 90%) they don't require that. Also in some other countries from Europe they don't require either. So folks, don't get fooled by this as it's not always required. If you are also European like me and you want to build your CV, first do your research about the country that you want to work in and then see if that's part of that country's culture. Thank you Josh for all the effort you put into it and for being a straight forward person.
Thanks for the tips! I was wondering how to handle self employment on a resume. My husband is currently looking for a job. He has seen a lot of job descriptions written by someone who has no clue what the job is suppose to entail. The requirements are unrealistic with certifications for systems that are no longer sold in the US.
You shouldn't put your picture on your resume because companies don't want to be liable for discrimination...yet they expect you to have a profile picture on LinkedIn. Hmmm... 🤔🤔🤔
This is all great advice that I wish I knew sooner. I would like to add something when it comes to internships. If you felt an internship was not a good experience, it may be best to leave it off your resume entirely, especially if they ask about it in an interview and you have nothing but mediocre things to say about it. I was in an internship that lasted 3 months, and it wasn't a very good experience (I felt invisible to other employees, I wasn't involved in much, etc). I wasn't confident to talk about the experience and elaborate on it, so I left it off my resume completely. I didn't want to come off as a "complainer" or anything.
I’ve seen postings from my company for basically the same job I do - and I’ve done it for 15 years - that going by the “requirements” I wouldn’t be able to get my own job. Management and people in the trenches do not write the job postings. HR does, and they have absolutely no idea what it is we actually do. “Wish list” is definitely the correct phrase.
This is a great refresher from your previous videos covering this! Your advice definitely helped me score more interviews and now I got more than I can handle! Thank you so much!
Recruiter here - I agree with you with most of it. Off the gate the owner/ceo can be a turn off because it can be interpreted as I won’t settle for anything that’s not ceo. Obviously that’s not the truth for a lot of candidates but it doesn’t tell me their story as to what they actually want to do. The part of just apply I’d agree but I think I’d phrase it slightly different. Apply if you fit 60%+ of the job description but be honest with yourself about that 60%+. Also if you fit 100% of the job you have a lot of leverage with that recruiter so when you get on the call with the recruiter make sure you don’t come off arrogant. That’s a turn off for really anyone in life and is not limited to the workforce. People want to work with people that they get along with. Every now and again I’ll get on a call with a software engineer and they are arrogant, I have thick skin and can handle it but hiring managers are so fragile that I have to think twice before presenting the candidate forward. For other recruiters - if your candidates ask for less money that what the job is budgeted for then bring them up to what the budget is. It’s not only the right thing but if we do this then we can expect other recruiters to do the same to us.
I have a lot of jobs where i didnt meet requirements, i just tell them im good at learning and want to learn new skills for a career or something like that
When I was stressing out keeping up with work and my classes, as I was working full-time, a wife & mother, and maintaining a 4.0 as a full-time student. My boss took me to the side seeing my stress/exhausted I was, and he asked me one question "what do they call a person who graduated medical school with a C average?.... Doctor." It was his way of telling me to balance and not stress about perfection.
Thank you Joshua, already know these but really appreciate the work and insights you put into this video that will go on to help and influence younger people starting out in the job marketplace. I hope you break 1m subs one day so that your message can reach even a larger audience ( a lot of people are meek and bullied in the real world/ in the workplace, and what you are doing is truly everything about the word "empowerment").
Thanks Josh, I'm going to use these tips for the hitman job I've been applying to! Apparently I'm the 47th applicant, so wish me luck! In all seriousness, great tips. Can't believe haters say your channel is against people working when you're always giving people tips on how to properly apply to jobs, as well as encouraging people to apply to jobs they're afraid of applying.
Job hunting can just feel intimidating some days. Glad to have this video remind me not to employer “requirements” so seriously and really just do what makes sense
True, set your own terms about the job you aspire and you will get your dream job. Don't settle for less and if you need to and have run out of options, only make it temporary. Just keep at it! 🙏🏾🍀
Nice one, tbh I always thought that skills bars sucks, it's that thing of trying to "gamify" everything, much more professional to list your skills in a summary or inside the job experience itself.
I was helping with some interviews, and one thing that I noticed is that the worst candidates had things like microsoft word/excel/powerpoint/macromedia flash/great at talking to people/hobbies.
Following advice like this finally got me a decent job. Normal pay. Not supper high but like what it should be. But i didn’t count myself out like we been taught to do. This place is willing to teach me what i don’t know. But i did have a few skills from before which i thought were too old our outdated. Nope! But I’m here good fit. All the unspoken things are true! Good good great advice!
Regarding the job requirement, I would never have had applied because the list was long with many things that I have never heard in my life but luckily for me they found my CV via a partener recruiting agency and they have contacted me directly. This open a carrer path that I never knew it was possible so 15 years later I am still having a lot of fun.
Thank you for this insight. I’m going to make sure my summary is within reason and perhaps drop off some practicum work. My situation is a little unique because my currently relevant practicum work was in the past 6-10 years where I pursued my education mid career. I also loved how you expressed yourself a little flippant and funny.
Wow. This helped me change my perspective in applying jobs, I get easily discourage if there are SOME qualifications or requirements that I do not meet, starting now I'm gonna try applying even if I don't meet all the requirements.
Last year, I started applying for jobs where I didnt have all the experience I do have some roundabout experiece and everything else can be learned. Most companies arent accustomed to.people interviewing without experience. I was once asked why I applied without the necessaey experience. I then referenced my applicable experience. I was recently hired in an industry where I habe zero and I mean zero experience. They preferred someone with x Experience in more than program Whelp i.still applied because I have experience in multiple databases. A few I had to use simultaneously with an underserved population. Just use some of the words from the job description so your resume will be picked up and try and have some experience
True like 30% of the requirements are wishlists, but you should put them on your resume anyway, their lie will match their lie, and you'll find you never even touch upon the requirement they put.....yes bonkers
1 Interview Tip from me: Don't EVER feel intimidated during the interview process. We all need jobs but you need to give the interview on equal terms and you need to act as if you have nothing to lose even if you don't get the job. If you are desperate, and it can be sensed, you will attract exploitative employers, If you are confident but respectful and strong, you will repel toxic and controlling cultures that wants drones.
Regarding needing a picture in Europe I must say it tends to be more an Eastern European thing. It's completely unheard of in Britain and Ireland and I never needed it in Spain either, although I have seen the CVs of people from Lithuania and Poland with pictures. I think it'd be quite interesting actually to see which countries across Europe do and don't generally have pictures.
Sometimes the about section should describe you and your hobbies more if you are applying for a position that will be very personable, like a waiter/waitress.
Love this video, very blunt, straight forward and to the point, no hand holding; great information. Subscriber here, love the variety of content that you provide.
Here is my super Machiavellian advice. Whether you think you can do the job or not, apply. (Assuming it's not as a doctor or something that will get someone killed) Why would you ever rule yourself out? Let them do that. Most will do it at the resume stage. It takes 10 seconds to submit an app on indeed. Let the recruiter do all of the work figuring out if you're a good fit. Outsource that to THEM! If you've EVER felt imposter syndrome, this is the strategy of all strategies. I applied to over 400 jobs last time I was applying. I ended up at a place once ranked #1 on glassdoor. For 50% more money. Why would you ever want to cut those out of your life based on a conservative appraisal of your own skills? Go for the stars. Apply for 100% of the jobs you would take if they hired you without questions.
Third option, when hobbies are good to show on your resume, is, when the hobby itself is marketbale skill. For instance. I used to be accountant, now work a different part of finance, but one of my marketable hobbies is computer networking. I have more advanced network than some companies at home, meaning I could become an IT guy, if my positin were ever to be removed
I have a friend who owns a resume writing business and I have worked for her several times. I was trained to write resumes when I received my MBA and law degree. I even worked for a college teaching law students proper resume building.. I also worked in HR years ago. Know these few things : 1) there is a universal/ most common format. Look it up and use it. 2) The format will slightly change given experience and field. 3) Under skills, use keywords. 4) Under experience, if you can talk about it for two minutes straight, talk about it. 5) Copy and paste requirements for jobs you are interested in and that you qualify for into the experience section. 6) Remind yourself that you are writing to a machine and not a person. A person may look at your resume after the machine selects it. You need the machine to see you meet requirements. This is why you copy/paste and use key words. I always had clients when writing resumes call me back and claim they were offered at least one to several interviews very quickly. Remember, a great resume is great to get your foot in the door for an interview. However, it doesn't eliminate the need that you also need to interview well.
This is really useful. Also it depends on the vibe and environment of the company. Environment matters because if no one supports you there, your performance will suffer.
This video is golden, can you please do more resume videos? Also, I have a question, if someone gets fired from a job, can current companies you’re interviewing for find out? Or are previous employers forbidden from mentioning that for lawsuit reasons? I’m asking bc how would request for references work in that case scenario?
You should have references that will say good things about you. These are people, not companies. Usually, companies only say when you worked there. I would just ignore having been fired unless they directly ask. If they do, give an honest answer from your perspective. (I've been fired before, and this is how I handled it. It really wasn't a problem.)
in my opinion, that's fine, but it may come off as being a politicians answer. I would suggest something like "yes, but I also reached a growth ceiling . . ." If you give an answer like above, they probably can guess what happened, and if they keep moving forward in the hiring process, they probably don't care. As much as possible, you want the interview to be a genuine conversation, and not a game. In my case, I was interviewing with a company immediately after having been fired. The hiring manager asked me what happened, and I gave some generic "the job wasn't a good fit for me". He pressed, and I told a little story about unethical activities at that company, and how they were not willing to keep me on if I didn't go along. I did my best to sound reluctant to share the story because I don't want to come off as one who will bash a former employer. Everything I said was true, and the attitude I conveyed was genuine, even though I was deliberate about it. After all of that, the hiring manager asked me "why do you even put that job on your resume?" I said that I just wanted to be truthful and honest, and I think he liked that. (I've since removed that job from my resume since it's years ago and I've plenty of other experience now. But at the time, I was just coming directly off of that job, so I felt I should be honest about where I had been.)
@@jstnrgrs thank you for your response. If during the interview, they ask me why I left my last employer and instead of saying I was fired and I said “I reached a growth ceiling at my last role and wanted to seek new opportunities”, is that a bad idea? How can they possibly know the truth that I was fired?
This is excellent advice! I would advise everyone to follow when making a resume. It's much better then when you told people to lie on their resumes. The flexibility of requirements is a big point that people miss. Applying for a job is not a statement that you meet all requirements, It's just a request that you be considered for the position. If you're an honest person, they'll know what they're getting if they decided to make an offer, and they can decide if some requirement is actually important. (Even better than applying would be to reach out to the hiring manager, or someone else at the company directly.) The only part I quibble is about the dates of college. You'll be interviewing before an offer anyway, and they'll be able to guess at your age by looking at you. So I'm not sure that a date on the resume will have much affect on the offer. Hiding age is almost impossible. Even without dates, it can be seen if you have a year, or 20 years of experience. Those resumes look very different, and everyone involved can easily guess the age difference of those candidates.
im a black woman with naturally kinky/curly hair. A friend acted as a contact for me to get a graphic desing job at this small company. And the boss looked me up on facebood and decided to not give me the job because he didnt like my hair (yes he did tell my friend he wouldn't hire me because of my hair, he told him out right and he was dumbfounded. My friend was even embarrassed to tell me that THAT was the reason he didn't wanna hire me) again, and I keep my hair in a tight neat bun most of the time. But there are pics of me on my social media with my hair in an a small afro so I guess that's what didn't get me the graphic design job Discrimination is so real folks. Im glad that pictures are not required in resumes here in the west, I know in europe they do... Im damn sure that my race and my natural features I was born with will 100% affect non white people, specially black people and black women as our appearance has been deemed undesirable for centuries and women are heavily judged on their appearance
I feel like there’s two things most people need to start doing on their resume more: 1. Reasonable embellishments to better fit the job. 2. Asking for more than you think you’re worth, or can get, because in a year, the new coworker is probably gonna be making 5-ish% more than you, and you shouldn’t take it lying down. I say embellish a bit, because if you can do a job at 70% proficiency from the start, the company should be able to bring you to that 30%. So saying you have more time in the job than you do, or more responsibilities than you did, to make yourself seem better, isn’t a bad idea.
- Don't say you're a CEO or Owner, be an employee
- Stop using skill bars
- Don't list skills like good listener or attention to detail
- List skills relevant to the job, expand skills
- Only put GPA if it is required or very high
- Keep 'about me' section to a couple sentences, don't create a biography or novel
- Companies likely don't care about your hobbies and interests
- Don't put starting college dates, put last date or expected date
- Change long internships titles to employee
- Change job title within reason to make yourself look good
- Don't include photos of yourself in the resume (US)
- Apply if you think you can learn to do it or do it, requirements are just a wishlist
Include Photos(EU)
Oooowweee
@@RealBullbear EU: Include a photo if you're a foreigner
@@przemekh4857 Exactly, this is not a EU thing. Especially not in some of the most reserved countries on the planet.
I work in corporate recruitment. These are good tips.
I got turned down after an interview because of "culture fit", even though they said they thought my qualifications were good. What this really means is that they noticed that I am autistic while they were talking to me. So much for equal opportunity.
Problem is that there's no way to prove that in court, so you couldn't sue them if you wanted to
90% of an interview is them seeing if they like you. The other 10% is if you can actually do the job. Unfortunately there's a stigma against people with autism and Aspergers, which is sad cuz they can make excellent employees because they tend to zero in on their job.
"Culture fit" is something the corporate world invented in order to get away with discrimation that would get them in deep trouble otherwise. So the 55-year-old African-American transgender woman wearing a Star of David necklace just happens to not be a good culture fit? How coincidental!
If you‘re not „diverse“ enough, you‘re likely to fail that „culture fit“ test.
I've seen companies change "culture fit" to "culture add" because they realized that "fit" still may open themselves to lawsuits
Some hiring managers already have someone in mind when they post the job. They will often add requirements that are intended to dissuade other applicants from applying. This makes it easier for them to say that “their” candidate is the most qualified.
Don’t ask me how I know this. ;)
- 25+ years in software development
I've worked in a wide variety of industries and having a candidate in mind is by wide margin the most common method.
I dunno but I feel that's especially true to get someone a working visa. Cuz most of the time you gotta prove that you can find local candidates.
@@benmanutd2 As if working visas were a thing. For the past 10 years US companies haven't hire internationally.
But they love to use the immigrant boogie man to keep wages low and conditions bad.
Once you start interviewing people yourself you know that all of this is true.
If its a Karen then it'd all the worse.
Once you get pass the recruiter, the interview stage means you already have enough boxes checked to be considered qualified.. interview is where you sell your soft skills (adaptability, problem solving, interpersonal)
@@whitneyr.846 Yep!
All the HR work I've done basically boils down to
"Is this person going to solve more problems than they cause"
I don't understand how these drongos have overcomplicated it so much.
Yep. A great way to learn is by teaching others. A great way to learn what interviewers want, put yourself in their shoes.
It’s crazy because the requirements can be like law but as soon as you’re hired on within a week they’ll change what your job description is to include more
I figured that out when I eventually got a job with crazy requirements years ago, and realized that ask the senior folks couldn't do 0.25% of them.
Since then, I've realized they are all BS and I've applied regardless since then.
The best is "ad hoc tasks" that can mean anything from performing a heart surgery to being a bodyguard of the president
@@spbspb2413 performing a heart surgery on yourself after catching a bullet saving the president.
I can write "Hello World" in Python. Instant 17/18 bananas filled. Expert in the field.
I'd like to offer you a 500k annual salary your background is impressive.
@@Nite_coder Sorry. Where I work, we are like family. And I can't just leave my family. If I leave, my manager may need to fill a spot, and I need to be a team player for my family.
😅😅😅 I can't stop laughing. Made my day.
Skill in Python is measured in sharpened sticks. Clearly you're an amateur
I can do it on Arduino and make lights flash at the same time!!
As a hiring manager, I can say… This is really good advice.
Guys to add to the GPA issue, don't sweat it if your GPA is too low. My GPA is 2.93, and I still got a job(STEM) at space company that launches things into orbit from the US (there is only one company).
Same over here, I have very average Grade and I‘m currently working at the German Version of the Company you are Saying (there is also only one here in Germany that sends Rocketships to Space :) )
What you Forget to say is Maybe how you got it?
In my Case, After Listening to a lot of Josh and also From Pretty much lots of failures I became a master at navigating Impostor Syndrome and also overblowing every little thing I do as if it’s the Greatest sh!t on earth.
Combine that with “references “ from top rated employers and you got me. However, I’m not special, I don’t believe I’m the smartest in the room. But I’m definitely very good at using smart people and Organisations to my favour.
Ps: I’ mn still a student by the way, doing a Bachelor in CS
Sometimes employers like a candidate that is more well rounded or has more experience over someone that's a straight A student.
STEM degrees don't have inflated GPAs if they do real subjects. Everyone I know with high GPA padded their GPA with easy subjects.
You probably went to a well known school, and yeah engineering is harder than all other majors, so be specific that gpa may not matter for an engineering major at a top school, regardless...don't put it
that's Nice And So Admirable! ;-)
As someone who has been involved in many interviews, all these points are very valid. I typically don't even read the entire resume on my initial pass-through prior to a prescreen technical phone call. I leave the in-depth resume review for those that make it to the actual interview.
I'm not looking at the number of years a person has worked, as I've worked with people with 20+ years who couldn't do the job well enough. Most times, that's just a requirement because "it must be quantifiable and measurable". So feel free to apply to a role, even if you aren't a 100% exact fit. What's the worst that will happen, they turn you down? It's better that the company turns you down than you turning yourself down for the role.
I typically approach resumes that I receive in the following manner:
- Does the resume list the technologies I'm hiring for? If no, are there equivalent technologies that are similar?
- Does the jobs listed in the resume mention and outline how they used the technology at a quick glance (assuming it's something that can be outlined)?
- Any Certifications? This is a bonus and not a show stopper.
- Any personal or work-related projects using any of the technologies I'm requiring? This is a bonus and not a show stopper.
If I see a skill missing that I'm looking for, I'll inquire about it during the prescreen technical phone call. If I see something that is listed in the skills that I'm looking for and it's not outlined anywhere, I may focus in on that specific skill a bit harder than others during the prescreen call. The prescreen is just a general set of questions I ask to gain a basic understanding and to determine the applicant's communication skills. I also make it a point to outline the items most people hate, in addition to how we compensate (IE: On call support rotation, with compensation days to make up for any overtime required, etc). This way I don't waste the applicant's or my own time. If they pass the prescreen, they get an interview with my boss, myself, and a third party (usually members of my team or department that they'll be interacting with).
When I bring a person in for an interview, the very first thing I ask is "Tell me about your career", because a person who is passionate in what they do will show it in how they talk. From there, I'll drill into the details of the resume based on how they've steered the conversation, and I'll dig deeper into their work history. I'm not looking for someone to be a company person, but I am looking for someone I can directly work with as I'm doing the same work as the people I'm hiring. The difference is that I have the additional managerial tasks (IE: Meetings, reviews, et al). I try to involve my team in the actual interview to make sure we all mesh well, and to give them a chance to ask questions that I might not have brought up. Because of this process, my employee turnover is really low even with the expansion of my team over the years.
You seem like a good hiring manager but I'm sure your recruiters usually reject most of the good candidates and you only get the shit that's left
@@stevecooner7120 It's entirely possible! I can't say I'm the first person that gets to look at them, but it really depends on the source of the resume. A lot of times, I have resumes sent to me from talent acquisition companies that we do business with. Typically, I tell them what skills I'm looking for and they send over stacks of resumes to glance through. Most of them are copy/paste and you can usually tell when the company reformatted / restructured it into a standard format. The ones that come over through our internal tools (IE: Public facing website) are unaltered and come directly to me.
@@HLCatRen good advice, i wish more managers were like you.
@Fullashit Ministries So I'm in the rare position that I'm not a recruiter. When I fill a position, it's for a position on my team, doing the same work that I do. As a result of that, I know all of the technologies that we work with on an every-day basis. While I'm not directly involved in software development, I deal with big data. However, we do have tasks that require C# experience and need to maintain those tasks. During the resume review process, I look for technologies that are similar to what I am looking for. For example, if I'm looking for C#, I check to see if there are any programming languages the applicant has. It could be Java or C++ for example, and I'll still give them a pass for C#. I just have to have the expectation that they may require a little additional training if I bring them on board. We live in the age of Google and Stack Overflow, so most things are going to be searched for anyway. Because we give everyone on our team access to Pluralsight, I always treat the very first week as 100% training week. I spell out exactly what we use and how we use it (IE: C# for RESTful services, etc), and then the new hire goes through and does the required company training. Once company training is done, I give 1-2 days for Pluralsight training so they can fill in their own knowledge gaps. Once that is done, I ramp them up with simple tasks to get them familiar with how we operate and increase the difficulty with each sequential task. As time progresses and I can identify shortcomings in skillsets, I point them out as training goals for the year that influences end of year review scoring. Every member of my team gets an hour of company time for training per week. More if it relates to what they are currently working on. I push my team to learn, and I can't expect it to be 100% on their own time.
@Fullashit Ministries We're still a relatively small company (
3:08 I've been listing pivot table, power query, executive/sales dashboard in MS Excel under skills and not just MS Excel or Office 365. I'd say don't write the tool/software, write what you can do with it.
Such a great idea, thank you
Great advice
I got an interview with a company by writing out that I expected to graduate with my bachelor's within a year and that helped get it into the hands of humans. When they interviewed me, they admitted that my military experience helped me but without someone suggesting the "expected graduation date" idea, I would have never made it to the interview. Like you said, they can change or adjust the requirements for the job if they want you. Your job is to beat the system and get your resume in front of a human.
Military experience means you are supposed to be organized, are capable of time management, know how to follow rules and procedure, know your place in a hierarchy, and you can work in a team. These are of course only prejudments. I worked with ex military who were nothing like that. Yet, most military men and women are like this, and this is highly appreciated in any work place. Good luck for your new job 👍
Military experience either doesn’t get the credit it deserves, or is overblown imo. After my 8 years, running a small team isn’t a problem. Setting realistic and reasonable dates and expectations is second mature. That’s the sort of skill you learn in the military that most don’t, although most civilians don’t know that, and don’t know it’s probably more useful than most kids fresh out of college.
I ran across a job posting that wanted applicants to send a video of themselves, because they wanted "to hire friends!" I shut down the application when I got to that.
Excellent... If all of us draw the line.. Company's wouldn't even think about doing shit like that
Pretty common in non corporate smaller online companies these days
I've seen that for a 2 week substitution because of an injury or something. They wanted a 3-5 min video explaining whatever BS about you.
So, they want something that will literally take hours of planning, recording and editing for a 2 week job. Gtfoh
That is horrifying
If you're a company and you only judge ability by "how long" then you're going to miss on the best talent by definition. The most naturally gifted people at a given skill don't need much time to become more proficient.
There's more to becoming proficient than just learning a skill. It all comes down to the product development cycle that you're applying that skill to. For a person to seriously upgrade their skills, they need to see the problems their work created when a product they worked on is released to users. If a person only has 5 months experience with javascript, even if they know it REALLY well, they probably haven't yet been able to discover the impact of some of their coding choices at scale when their code becomes part of a new release.
Being able to see the impact of different decisions is experience that can't be fully achieved without being part of at least 2-3 product design cycles, which is why 4-8 months of experience will simply never be comparable to two years in the trenches.
@@grammar_shark It's not the developers job to come up with the UX. That's the user research team. Developers just make sure the button work and the entries get into the database and it's scalable and efficient.
At least at a large company where there are multiple departments..
It depends on the job. In my field doing something for a couple of years only gives you the experience to manage it well. Nothing wrong with being a rookie, but a rookie still has a long way to go before proficiency is reached.. But that's just my field. There are for sure other jobs with different requirements.👍
You sir, chose to speak facts today. Have a nice one man! This type of videos are highly appreciated
Talking about uneeded stuff on your resume, it reminds me of how in High School C.A.L.M. (Career And Life Management class) they made us make a "portfolio" that we had to fill with all of our awards and cerficates, biographies, family photos, poetry about ourselves, hobbies,allergies/medical issues, likes and dislikes, strenghts and weaknesses, fears, volunteer work and recipes for our favorite foods. It also inlcuded our eight-page resume repeating a lot of this crap and a cover letter. We were told it was MANDATORY not just for passing the course but for getting a job.
Showed it once at an interview. Was laughed at and was turned down on the spot. Never again.
I love pro-worker brutal career advice. I was gaming my resume for years until I was able to build up a proper work history to stand on its own merits.
Put down whatever you can get away with, claim anything that you can reasonably justify (that cannot be disproven by simple follow up), and understand that the job of the resume is to get you an interview. That is ALL its for. You can explain whatever you wantt in the interview, but if it's not gonna help you get in the door, don't put it on your resume.
Solid advice. Most of these points are spot on.
Now this is the good stuff. Actionable advice that people can actually use.
Excellent advice! Especially on the “requirements!” I did NOT have the five years experience my first job out of college “required”
This is the same kind of advice my professor gave me, damn god bless her for showing me how the real world is 👍
@Joshua Fluke thank you for all the advices. Got a contract today and it was because of your advices too.
Word of advice, advice is already plural. I’m not sure there is a such word as advices. I don’t actually care but I thought this would be useful…. Wait let me look this up…. Oh crap I’m wrong. Reverse advice.
@@VicRodriguez2 I am not super versed in English, so you almost got me there 😂
Recruiters will only spend several seconds referencing your resume against the job description. If the titles don't line up and hit them in the mouth as a potential "match", they will immediately move on to the next applicant!
To "next!" approach being viable, there should be next applicant.
If you face this type of relationship, move out of these type of jobs as far as possible.
Very confusing thing in hiring IT specialists is you have more chances to be looked at, the higher role you apply. Just because sometimes they hire for months and gets little or no feedback.
Senior and lead devs are busy working somethere else, and speed of how fast these type of devs growing is strictly limited by current amount of employeed devs. While junior devs is basically limitless inflow.
Recruiters will only spend 10 minutes asking thier friends if they have a friend of they needed a job..... Hopefully there black, homosexual, or American Indian so the company can get a free wage Obama subsidy from the USA taxpayer....
@@sarahconner9433 what do you mean black
@@celestialarmor695dark skin African American.. Genetically African or pan equatorian
Recruiters are used car salesmen with a different office, remember that
9:32 Important to note that so many job descriptions are written as pie-in-the-sky wish lists by people who have no idea what they're talking about - aka HR people - with minimal input from the position's supervisor or actual stakeholders in that department. This is where we get job descriptions asking for 10 years of experience in a language that's only 5 years old. Or listings asking for a senior developer level skills where the job is for a junior developer at a junior salary.
Apply. They worst they can say is no, and it's their job to sort out the good candidates from the not so good. If some know-nothing HR drone made their job exponentially difficult by asking for skills they don't need to successfully perform in the position, or if they asked for skills that literally don't exist - that's on them.
"This is where we get job descriptions asking for 10 years of experience in a language that's only 5 years old."
Maybe they want someone who programmed 16 hours a day for the last 5 years in that language.
@@bobbobson6290 Because that’s obviously a realistic expectation. /s
@@bobbobson6290 that's an imbecilic mental gymnastic. Stop trying to rationalise stupidity. 🤡
People WILL judge you by your picture. I once had a college job coach actually tell students to change their names (legally) if possible, because if you have a very ethnic name like Shaqueeda Precious Jackson you might not get hired. Sad but true.
Obamaneequa....
I wouldn't hire someone with that name. It's extremely low class.
@@MagnificentMelkior So you are basing hiring someone solely because of their name? What if she was a Princeton graduate, 4.0 GPA? It is wrong to judge someone only by their name. So I guess you also wouldn't hire someone name Muhammad Al-Fadil or Erving Goldberg, or Jose Gonzalez, or Kwame Umbuto?
There's a study and a UA-cam video about this topic. It's been a few years since I've watched it, so cannot remember the channel. It was well done
@@MagnificentMelkior Thanks for proving racial discrimination in the workplace!
Dude that Kirkland drip is on POINT. love it
Agree - Shirt is fire!
Don’t list your experience in chronological order. Instead label it relevant experience. When I was applying for jobs after college I had a lot of short term design gigs. In between these gigs I had other non relevant jobs that totally hurt my resume. Don’t list everything just relevant experience.
great tip. 👍🏽
@@PinkOwl31 Thanks
Didn't they ask you about employment gaps?
I’m gonna try this😅
@@lightyear3429 I didn't write any start or end dates, just the total of months/ years in a particular job. For example: Through out college I had summer internships. I just added the number of months in all my summer internships and label them "Design XYZ (internship) N-number of months." The thruth is people aren't reading everything in your resume they just read the title and that's it. They might ask during your internview but at that point you can give them context and usually people are more understanding in person than by what they read on a line of paper.
I agree on the title for Freelance. Although now I have 3 employees, when I started I called myself the Program Manager, which the owner of a Website Agency technically is. I only did it because I felt stupid calling myself the CEO of a 1 person agency and subcontractors. I would have said project manager or product manager but that would be misleading because I also do the work in addition to managing/approving the execution and I am in charge of financial allocation of Several Projects and Portfolios. In corporate, the program manager has oversight and influence organizational wide and functionally deep. So in interviews I use this to leverage my business background for technical roles
Josh expanding on your college point it also shows how old you are if it's been 15-20 years since you finished college. Companies will ageism in both directions.
It blows my mind. Experience and qualifications should be the primary factors. Someone's age tells you very little about their ability to do the job.
Joshua, going back to his based career advice. Awesome.
I got to where I am today applying this kind of advice.
Joshua I have been following your channel for a year now, your content is simply gold and I appreciate all the seriousness and honesty you put into it. It helped me think outside the box and see things just the way they are. Just a quick mention, not all EU countries do require photo on CV. Maybe in Finland, as it's different culture. In Ireland (well, Ireland is pretty much copying US about 90%) they don't require that. Also in some other countries from Europe they don't require either. So folks, don't get fooled by this as it's not always required. If you are also European like me and you want to build your CV, first do your research about the country that you want to work in and then see if that's part of that country's culture.
Thank you Josh for all the effort you put into it and for being a straight forward person.
Yeah, nowadays little to no job potings require picture. Certalny no picture required in IT. Cheers from Poland.
Thanks for the tips! I was wondering how to handle self employment on a resume. My husband is currently looking for a job. He has seen a lot of job descriptions written by someone who has no clue what the job is suppose to entail. The requirements are unrealistic with certifications for systems that are no longer sold in the US.
He should keep looking for jobs that don’t require weird certs. Or maybe try to rebrand himself
HR specialists are out of touch. Not sure there is a solution.
Amazing content in this video. 10 bananas for you, buddy! Great info.
You shouldn't put your picture on your resume because companies don't want to be liable for discrimination...yet they expect you to have a profile picture on LinkedIn. Hmmm... 🤔🤔🤔
I had recuiter that told me I need to upload new picture on LinkedIn. Lol
@@zuzu.hallak the picture most likely looked unprofessional.
@@ericpowell4350 nah, I was wearing a suit
Linkedin is a social network.
@@imho2278 ...that functions as a resume too.
This is all great advice that I wish I knew sooner.
I would like to add something when it comes to internships. If you felt an internship was not a good experience, it may be best to leave it off your resume entirely, especially if they ask about it in an interview and you have nothing but mediocre things to say about it.
I was in an internship that lasted 3 months, and it wasn't a very good experience (I felt invisible to other employees, I wasn't involved in much, etc). I wasn't confident to talk about the experience and elaborate on it, so I left it off my resume completely. I didn't want to come off as a "complainer" or anything.
If you didn't get a paycheck, it won't show up on a background check. In which case it makes sense.
Something is better than nothing. Also, yes you should always focus on positive things when you are interviewing.
I’ve seen postings from my company for basically the same job I do - and I’ve done it for 15 years - that going by the “requirements” I wouldn’t be able to get my own job.
Management and people in the trenches do not write the job postings. HR does, and they have absolutely no idea what it is we actually do. “Wish list” is definitely the correct phrase.
This is a great refresher from your previous videos covering this! Your advice definitely helped me score more interviews and now I got more than I can handle! Thank you so much!
Been following this channel this pandemic. This video is basically a summary of all Josh's videos on making resumes
My dude has a Kirkland Signature shirt on! Very stylish, I myself am an admire of taste, especially Costco brands 😄
Recruiter here - I agree with you with most of it. Off the gate the owner/ceo can be a turn off because it can be interpreted as I won’t settle for anything that’s not ceo. Obviously that’s not the truth for a lot of candidates but it doesn’t tell me their story as to what they actually want to do.
The part of just apply I’d agree but I think I’d phrase it slightly different. Apply if you fit 60%+ of the job description but be honest with yourself about that 60%+. Also if you fit 100% of the job you have a lot of leverage with that recruiter so when you get on the call with the recruiter make sure you don’t come off arrogant. That’s a turn off for really anyone in life and is not limited to the workforce. People want to work with people that they get along with.
Every now and again I’ll get on a call with a software engineer and they are arrogant, I have thick skin and can handle it but hiring managers are so fragile that I have to think twice before presenting the candidate forward.
For other recruiters - if your candidates ask for less money that what the job is budgeted for then bring them up to what the budget is. It’s not only the right thing but if we do this then we can expect other recruiters to do the same to us.
I agree
I have a lot of jobs where i didnt meet requirements, i just tell them im good at learning and want to learn new skills for a career or something like that
When I was stressing out keeping up with work and my classes, as I was working full-time, a wife & mother, and maintaining a 4.0 as a full-time student. My boss took me to the side seeing my stress/exhausted I was, and he asked me one question "what do they call a person who graduated medical school with a C average?.... Doctor." It was his way of telling me to balance and not stress about perfection.
IOW, "C's get degrees"
Thank you Joshua, already know these but really appreciate the work and insights you put into this video that will go on to help and influence younger people starting out in the job marketplace. I hope you break 1m subs one day so that your message can reach even a larger audience ( a lot of people are meek and bullied in the real world/ in the workplace, and what you are doing is truly everything about the word "empowerment").
Thanks Josh, I'm going to use these tips for the hitman job I've been applying to! Apparently I'm the 47th applicant, so wish me luck!
In all seriousness, great tips.
Can't believe haters say your channel is against people working when you're always giving people tips on how to properly apply to jobs, as well as encouraging people to apply to jobs they're afraid of applying.
I have had a Hitman buddy.... The secret.. Don't look at the victims face...."HIRED"!!!
@Sarah Connor, or be a terminator.. hired!
Job hunting can just feel intimidating some days. Glad to have this video remind me not to employer “requirements” so seriously and really just do what makes sense
True, set your own terms about the job you aspire and you will get your dream job. Don't settle for less and if you need to and have run out of options, only make it temporary. Just keep at it! 🙏🏾🍀
Listen to this man! I swear career coaches just like to repeat the same BS and dust their hands and say good job.
Nice one, tbh I always thought that skills bars sucks, it's that thing of trying to "gamify" everything, much more professional to list your skills in a summary or inside the job experience itself.
Just apply to what ever job you want, it's on the HR to decide if you are fit or no and if you will be invited to an interview or not
The video I didn’t think I needed. Thanks for your wisdom.
I was helping with some interviews, and one thing that I noticed is that the worst candidates had things like microsoft word/excel/powerpoint/macromedia flash/great at talking to people/hobbies.
those are fillers because they don't have enough skills to brag about.
Makes me so thankful for the career center at my university where I was told everything that you just said.
I've never gotten a job I was qualified for. I'm always reaching, and it's paid off.
Probably easier as a melanin-enriched woman. No offense, but we're not playing by the same rules.
@@yeetdeets no we are not, so exploit where the rules favour you.
@@ryantsui2802 Where do the rules favor white men??
@@yeetdeets 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@yeetdeets hey they're not ready to know what ESG scores are yet.
Following advice like this finally got me a decent job. Normal pay. Not supper high but like what it should be. But i didn’t count myself out like we been taught to do. This place is willing to teach me what i don’t know. But i did have a few skills from before which i thought were too old our outdated. Nope! But I’m here good fit. All the unspoken things are true! Good good great advice!
Regarding the job requirement, I would never have had applied because the list was long with many things that I have never heard in my life but luckily for me they found my CV via a partener recruiting agency and they have contacted me directly. This open a carrer path that I never knew it was possible so 15 years later I am still having a lot of fun.
For hobbies or small operations I take a portfolio approach. List skills learned and most relevant projects. Seems to catch eyeballs.
I'm starting to look for a junior dev job and this came in just in time. Really appreciate the tips and boost in my confidence.
Thank you for this insight. I’m going to make sure my summary is within reason and perhaps drop off some practicum work. My situation is a little unique because my currently relevant practicum work was in the past 6-10 years where I pursued my education mid career. I also loved how you expressed yourself a little flippant and funny.
Damn this video really helped… more than I expected :) Thank you so much for speaking about this topic Josh!
Wow. This helped me change my perspective in applying jobs, I get easily discourage if there are SOME qualifications or requirements that I do not meet, starting now I'm gonna try applying even if I don't meet all the requirements.
Last year, I started applying for jobs where I didnt have all the experience
I do have some roundabout experiece and everything else can be learned.
Most companies arent accustomed to.people interviewing without experience.
I was once asked why I applied without the necessaey experience.
I then referenced my applicable experience.
I was recently hired in an industry where I habe zero and I mean zero experience. They preferred someone with x Experience in more than program
Whelp i.still applied because I have experience in multiple databases. A few I had to use simultaneously with an underserved population.
Just use some of the words from the job description so your resume will be picked up and try and have some experience
@@RAJOHN-ke7mc update: i got a job contract to sign on tomorrow
I don't even include an "about me" or "objective" section on my resume anymore. I save that for the cover letter now.
My career advisors at my college actually did tell us most of these. It's still useful for others who haven't heard this before though!
True like 30% of the requirements are wishlists, but you should put them on your resume anyway, their lie will match their lie, and you'll find you never even touch upon the requirement they put.....yes bonkers
Solid advice! Everything he said has been experienced by me as applicable and relevant.
1 Interview Tip from me: Don't EVER feel intimidated during the interview process. We all need jobs but you need to give the interview on equal terms and you need to act as if you have nothing to lose even if you don't get the job. If you are desperate, and it can be sensed, you will attract exploitative employers, If you are confident but respectful and strong, you will repel toxic and controlling cultures that wants drones.
Regarding needing a picture in Europe I must say it tends to be more an Eastern European thing. It's completely unheard of in Britain and Ireland and I never needed it in Spain either, although I have seen the CVs of people from Lithuania and Poland with pictures. I think it'd be quite interesting actually to see which countries across Europe do and don't generally have pictures.
In Asia, you definitely have to include picture
Gavin, so true! 👍
Britain left the EU.
@@nickd2296 indeed.
Your point?
@@GavHTFC Britain isn’t in Europe, yet you listed it as a European country.
Sometimes the about section should describe you and your hobbies more if you are applying for a position that will be very personable, like a waiter/waitress.
Love this video, very blunt, straight forward and to the point, no hand holding; great information. Subscriber here, love the variety of content that you provide.
Thanks, Josh! Solid advice.
The bananas measure has to be the best way to measure your coding skills
Code monkey KPI’s
Here is my super Machiavellian advice.
Whether you think you can do the job or not, apply. (Assuming it's not as a doctor or something that will get someone killed)
Why would you ever rule yourself out? Let them do that. Most will do it at the resume stage. It takes 10 seconds to submit an app on indeed. Let the recruiter do all of the work figuring out if you're a good fit. Outsource that to THEM! If you've EVER felt imposter syndrome, this is the strategy of all strategies. I applied to over 400 jobs last time I was applying. I ended up at a place once ranked #1 on glassdoor. For 50% more money. Why would you ever want to cut those out of your life based on a conservative appraisal of your own skills? Go for the stars. Apply for 100% of the jobs you would take if they hired you without questions.
Third option, when hobbies are good to show on your resume, is, when the hobby itself is marketbale skill. For instance. I used to be accountant, now work a different part of finance, but one of my marketable hobbies is computer networking. I have more advanced network than some companies at home, meaning I could become an IT guy, if my positin were ever to be removed
I have a friend who owns a resume writing business and I have worked for her several times. I was trained to write resumes when I received my MBA and law degree. I even worked for a college teaching law students proper resume building.. I also worked in HR years ago. Know these few things : 1) there is a universal/ most common format. Look it up and use it. 2) The format will slightly change given experience and field. 3) Under skills, use keywords. 4) Under experience, if you can talk about it for two minutes straight, talk about it. 5) Copy and paste requirements for jobs you are interested in and that you qualify for into the experience section. 6) Remind yourself that you are writing to a machine and not a person. A person may look at your resume after the machine selects it. You need the machine to see you meet requirements. This is why you copy/paste and use key words.
I always had clients when writing resumes call me back and claim they were offered at least one to several interviews very quickly. Remember, a great resume is great to get your foot in the door for an interview. However, it doesn't eliminate the need that you also need to interview well.
Nice Video. The Europe rant really got me
Facts .. You think anyone really cares that ive taken blacksmithing classes ? No but it looks cool and shows I have a drive to learn
@@mindoablues more so when its someone who can also build a crypto mining computer too .
Fantastic video thanks for summarizing.
Agreed!! Thnx for another great vid
This is really useful. Also it depends on the vibe and environment of the company. Environment matters because if no one supports you there, your performance will suffer.
Joshua i discovered your channel recently and i must admit that your channel is pure gold, thank you so much !
always spittin facts
This video is golden, can you please do more resume videos?
Also, I have a question, if someone gets fired from a job, can current companies you’re interviewing for find out? Or are previous employers forbidden from mentioning that for lawsuit reasons? I’m asking bc how would request for references work in that case scenario?
All a company can legally say is start date, end date, position. I don’t think they can even say pay rate anymore. They used to!
Say you were laid off, give some kind of business sounding reason, and leave it at that
You should have references that will say good things about you. These are people, not companies. Usually, companies only say when you worked there.
I would just ignore having been fired unless they directly ask. If they do, give an honest answer from your perspective. (I've been fired before, and this is how I handled it. It really wasn't a problem.)
in my opinion, that's fine, but it may come off as being a politicians answer. I would suggest something like "yes, but I also reached a growth ceiling . . ." If you give an answer like above, they probably can guess what happened, and if they keep moving forward in the hiring process, they probably don't care. As much as possible, you want the interview to be a genuine conversation, and not a game.
In my case, I was interviewing with a company immediately after having been fired. The hiring manager asked me what happened, and I gave some generic "the job wasn't a good fit for me". He pressed, and I told a little story about unethical activities at that company, and how they were not willing to keep me on if I didn't go along. I did my best to sound reluctant to share the story because I don't want to come off as one who will bash a former employer. Everything I said was true, and the attitude I conveyed was genuine, even though I was deliberate about it. After all of that, the hiring manager asked me "why do you even put that job on your resume?" I said that I just wanted to be truthful and honest, and I think he liked that.
(I've since removed that job from my resume since it's years ago and I've plenty of other experience now. But at the time, I was just coming directly off of that job, so I felt I should be honest about where I had been.)
@@jstnrgrs thank you for your response. If during the interview, they ask me why I left my last employer and instead of saying I was fired and I said “I reached a growth ceiling at my last role and wanted to seek new opportunities”, is that a bad idea? How can they possibly know the truth that I was fired?
Josh, Thank you!!!
This is easily the best resume advice I've ever received.
Josh stay lit brosky!!!! #Fiyah
Thank you for this video very very helpful.
Wish I had seen this a few years ago, this is what big brothers should teach, making laugh while you're giving invaluable life advice. Thanks
Just did
Lmao, the bananas comparison killed me 😂💀
I like the job description that says something like:
Must Have:
Required 8 years of advanced machine learning
Nice To Have:
Experience with Git
"I'm getting start up vibes here." Always good to be honest about your first impressions lol.
Thank you for the resource
Subscribed.
I like the transparency, here.
I’m sorry skill bars hurt you so much🤣. You’re the man Josh
Great stuff Josh!
This is excellent advice! I would advise everyone to follow when making a resume. It's much better then when you told people to lie on their resumes.
The flexibility of requirements is a big point that people miss. Applying for a job is not a statement that you meet all requirements, It's just a request that you be considered for the position. If you're an honest person, they'll know what they're getting if they decided to make an offer, and they can decide if some requirement is actually important. (Even better than applying would be to reach out to the hiring manager, or someone else at the company directly.)
The only part I quibble is about the dates of college. You'll be interviewing before an offer anyway, and they'll be able to guess at your age by looking at you. So I'm not sure that a date on the resume will have much affect on the offer. Hiding age is almost impossible. Even without dates, it can be seen if you have a year, or 20 years of experience. Those resumes look very different, and everyone involved can easily guess the age difference of those candidates.
I thoroughly enjoy your candid remarks. I will subscribe because you don't mince words and I respect that. ☺️
Wonderful advice!
Great advice, great video
When it comes to employment gaps do we close the gap on the resume and LinkedIn, but keep it on the application? How do I explain it if they find out?
These are all really good and exactly what I learned in business school. Solid advice.
im a black woman with naturally kinky/curly hair. A friend acted as a contact for me to get a graphic desing job at this small company. And the boss looked me up on facebood and decided to not give me the job because he didnt like my hair (yes he did tell my friend he wouldn't hire me because of my hair, he told him out right and he was dumbfounded. My friend was even embarrassed to tell me that THAT was the reason he didn't wanna hire me) again, and I keep my hair in a tight neat bun most of the time. But there are pics of me on my social media with my hair in an a small afro so I guess that's what didn't get me the graphic design job
Discrimination is so real folks. Im glad that pictures are not required in resumes here in the west, I know in europe they do... Im damn sure that my race and my natural features I was born with will 100% affect non white people, specially black people and black women as our appearance has been deemed undesirable for centuries and women are heavily judged on their appearance
Wait till you turn 45, then the real fun begin.
You should have sued them; your hair has nothing to do with your ability to perform a job. I'm assuming you keep it neat and professional looking.
GOOD POINTS!
I feel like there’s two things most people need to start doing on their resume more:
1. Reasonable embellishments to better fit the job.
2. Asking for more than you think you’re worth, or can get, because in a year, the new coworker is probably gonna be making 5-ish% more than you, and you shouldn’t take it lying down.
I say embellish a bit, because if you can do a job at 70% proficiency from the start, the company should be able to bring you to that 30%. So saying you have more time in the job than you do, or more responsibilities than you did, to make yourself seem better, isn’t a bad idea.