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Forbes
3 days ago
- Business
- Forbes
Quantify Or Be Overlooked: The Resume Mistake Costing You Interviews
Stand out among the rest of applicants with adding metrics in your resume It is no secret that we live in a data-driven world. However, when it comes to resumes, many overlook the power of numbers. While there can be many other reasons why your application is rejected, a qualifiable versus quantifiable resume could be a contributing factor. If you want your accomplishments to stand out and resonate with hiring managers, start thinking in metrics. Here's why leaving out numbers on your resume could be costing you interviews. Hiring Managers Will Not Grasp Your Impact Without Metrics The absence of metrics on a resume is rarely intentional. Even in data-heavy roles, we often fail to step back and evaluate our broader impact over time. For some positions, quantifying results can be especially challenging - whether due to complex workflows or a lack of visibility into how individual contributions impact the bigger picture. However, hiring managers do not have access into your daily tasks, nor do they need that level of detail. What they care about is measurable impact. Quantifying your impact means taking the time to step back and analyze how your responsibilities fit within the larger company. Think about: Reflecting on questions like these can help you surface your strengths and make a compelling case for the value you bring in your next role. What Matters To You Now May Not Matter In Your Next Company, And Vice-Versa The work we do often feels significant, especially in high-pressure or toxic workplace environments. But what one company or leader values may not be of importance in a different organization. Conversely, an achievement you consider minor could resonate deeply with a hiring manager elsewhere. Even business units at the same company, for internal transfers, will have distinct focus areas. As such, it is essential to quantify as much as possible on your resume. Think about the scale and scope of your work: How many people did you collaborate with? What was the size and duration of the project? Who saw the results of your efforts? These details help bring context and credibility to your accomplishments. For example, managing a team of five versus thirty requires different, but equally valuable, skill sets. A small, highly collaborative team may require more guidance than a larger group of independent contributors. The key is to communicate those distinctions clearly so your next employer can fully understand your impact. Extensive Resume Reading Time Is Not An Option For Recruiters A 2018 eye-tracking study by careers site Ladders, Inc. revealed that recruiters spend an average of just 7.4 seconds reviewing a resume. With hundreds of applications flooding in for a single job, time is not on your side. Write your resume with clarity, conciseness, and impact recognizing the short read-time of resumes. Neuroscience research emphasizes that our brains process words and numbers using different regions. Words are interpreted primarily by the brain's language centers in the left hemisphere, while numbers activate areas linked to numerical cognition and quantity processing. Basically, numbers grab a reader's attention in a different way. Use this to your advantage and interject metrics often when summarizing accomplishments. By weaving metrics into your resume, you help recruiters understand your value faster. Use concise bullet points that balance descriptive language with quantifiable results. The easier you make it to connect your skills to impact, the more likely you are to stand out. Resumes need to capture attention fast and the most effective way to do that is by clearly demonstrating your impact. Incorporating numbers throughout your resume adds clarity, credibility, and context to your accomplishments. Whether leading teams, optimizing processes, or delivering results, metrics translate your work into a language that hiring managers understand. By expertly quantifying your successes, you will stand out and be more likely to land more interviews.
Forbes
4 days ago
- Business
- Forbes
How To Add Consulting Work To Your Resume Without Raising Red Flags
How To Add Freelance Or Consulting Experience To Your Resume (Without Raising Red Flags) I've been consulting for the past year and I wasn't sure how to put it on my resume. I know that employers don't like to see that. – Accountant Your resume is an important part of your job search, so it's good that this accountant is thinking about how to maximize each item they include. However, overly generalized assumptions (such as, employers not liking consulting experience) are not good. See previous post, The Reason Your Job Search Isn't Working Is Not What You Think, for a more detailed explanation, but essentially the wrong assumption can derail your search, and even a correct assumption likely doesn't apply to every job you're targeting. Why Employers Care About Consulting Experience If your most recent experience has been consulting (or freelance), then employers care about it because employers prioritize what you have been doing most recently. Listing all of your experience (including the consulting) ensures that you don't leave employment gaps that you'll need to explain. A prospective employer might skip over resumes with gaps, assuming that the candidate hasn't been doing anything. Add consulting experience to your resume as soon as you confirm that you'll be consulting, rather than working a traditional job, for several months, certainly at the one-year mark. Consulting projects give you results to discuss in your interviews and networking meetings. You can point to skills and expertise you have developed and used firsthand. Make sure your resume sells your consulting experience by itemizing specific software and other technical skills you are using. If you are concerned that sharing quantitative information will betray your client's confidentiality, then share less specific information (e.g., % improvement rather than the actual result). If you work with brand-name clients that your target employers know, then your clients give you a halo effect – i.e., if your work is good enough for them, it's probably good enough for the employer. If you have worked with a variety of clients, you can sell your diversity of experience and access to multiple strategies and best practices as a competitive advantage. If you are concerned about listing specific client names, then list a description that still gives readers a sense of the type of client you served (e.g., industry, size using terms like 'small business' or 'Fortune 500', tenure using terms like 'start-up' or 'established'). How To Avoid Raising Red Flags When Looking For A Full-Time Job After Consulting Or Freelancing That said, a move from consulting back to full-time employment can raise red flags if positioned incorrectly. Employers may question your motivation because consulting work and the consulting life is different from being a full-time employee. You need to convince prospective employers that you are genuine in why you're making the change, ideally focusing on why you want to be an employee and not on why you don't want consulting. Motivation is not something that comes across in the resume, so make sure to attach a cover letter framing your transition into consulting as temporary. Focus on networking where you can tell your story prior to sharing a resume. Tell your story in the About section of your LinkedIn profile to preemptively address any questions about your motives. You can't be unemployed for a year, do a day of pro bono work and call yourself a consultant to paper over an employment gap. While you don't need to have worked 40 billable hours each and every week to match a full-time schedule, you should have multiple clients, or multiple projects for a single client, to point to, so your experience is taken seriously. On your resume, if you have multiple clients or projects to showcase, dedicate a separate bullet in your consulting experience section to detail each client or project. Employers are tuned to WIIFM radio (i.e., What's In It For Me). You may have impressive results-focused consulting experience but until you show how it's relevant to your target employer, they may discount it. Don't just list your experience, and assume your prospective employers will see the value. Promote your value by talking about the specific needs they are facing and showing how your experience, expertise and skills are the solution. This is best done in a cover letter or in a networking meeting. On the resume, include details that your target employer cares about. For example, if you are targeting accounting jobs at large companies and you have large company consulting clients, when you describe your consulting, be sure to include the sizes of your clients. What Career Changers Can Do To Get Past The Resume Screen And Into The Interview Process The change from consulting to full-time employee is a career change, even if you're returning to a similar function, like accounting, and/or returning to the same industry you worked in before (e.g., media, retail, banking, etc.). Generally, employers prefer people who have done the exact role before. In a choice between someone who had been in-house versus a consultant, they may feel the in-house candidate is a safer bet. If your consulting work was taking over for a full-time employee and essentially filling that role, just not on the payroll, then emphasize this for future employers. You're positioning yourself as an employee who happened to be a consultant, minimizing the change. If your work wasn't structured like that, find other similarities between your work and the in-house staff, such as working closely with them, using the same processes, or interacting with the same senior leaders. Resumes make it easy to filter candidates out, not invite them in. Employers look for gaps in dates, search for keywords (and note their absence), scout for recognizable names (and discount ones they don't recognize) and skim years or decades of background in seconds. Relying on a resume to make your case cedes control of your job search to the resume reader (if anyone reads the resume at all!). Spend more time reaching out to decision-makers and other working professionals than sending out unsolicited resumes. If you haven't made it known to your consulting clients that you would prefer a traditional job, do that ASAP. Your clients know, like and trust your work so if there is an ongoing need, they may convert you to a full-time employee. If there isn't, they can at least be strong references for you and may have opportunities to refer. Once they see how serious you are about leaving for a traditional job, they may create something for you in order to keep you. Your consulting experience is a lead generator for your job search, not a detractor. When looking for a job, consider both consulting and traditional jobs.
Daily Mail
19-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE I lied about everything on my resume and put fake companies as references... and it got me a six-figure job
A man who never even graduated college has claimed he got a six-figure senior position by lying about everything on his resume and putting made-up companies as references. Noah Reedyson, 21, from New York, explained exclusively to the Daily Mail that he decided to fib on his resume out of 'desperation.' He said living in Manhattan is 'expensive,' and he was struggling to 'make ends meet' while working a 'normal job.' He set out to find a higher-paying gig but knew he wouldn't get hired with his real experience... So he made stuff up. 'Besides my name and address, I lied about everything [on my resume],' he confessed. 'I would make up fake names of companies I worked for and I [said] I have a college degree which I don't.' Noah explained that when he'd apply for a job, he would watch 'YouTube day in the life videos' of people who worked that job so he could 'learn the right buzzwords to say' during the interview. 'I just said everything with enough confidence that they believed me. I just treat it like a game,' he continued. 'The biggest lies [I've said during interviews] is that I am an NCAA champion and that I played saxophone for Shania Twain. Nobody ever questioned it.' He insisted that he 'never felt worried about getting caught' because he has nothing to lose. And once he started lying, he loved the feeling it gave him. 'Once I started lying I found that I really liked the way it made me feel.' admitted the 21-year-old. 'Like I had some type of power over my own life. 'I was never worried about getting caught. What are they gonna do? Fire me from a job I don't have? 'To quote Marcus Aurelius - "What are you afraid of losing when nothing in this world belongs to you?"' Noah recently went viral on TikTok after he posted a video confessing to his lies and urging others to do the same. He explained in the clip, which was viewed over 55,000 times, 'I've been job searching lately and I'll be honest it's going pretty well because not one word on my resume is true. 'It's literally all f**king made up. You would not believe the insane lies and I'm killing these interviews. 'I Googled a few terms and I just throw them out there. [During one interview] I was like, "I exceeded OTEs [on-target expectations] by 25 percent, retaining customer growth." And they were very impressed. '[During another] I said I worked as a sales representative at Prime Seven real estate. One guy took one look at my resume and he goes, "Prime Seven is a really good company." 'I made it up. It's not even real, that's how stupid these people are.' Noah revealed to the Daily Mail that he was recently hired as a senior director at a mid market company, where he now earns $150,000 a year. But he admitted that he 'struggles' at work because he has no real prior experience. 'Yeah I struggle with all of it right now but every job you [get you have to] learn how to perform [and it takes] a few months,' he said. 'I would feel unqualified if the current job market rewarded actual skill.' In the end, he said he's going with the flow and has no regrets - and he's just happy to be earning a high salary. 'I mean how many jobs have you worked with complete idiots and wondered how they got that job? I'm just one of them,' he joked.
Associated Press
06-07-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Resume In Minutes Launches AI Solution to Revolutionize Job Applications by Instantly Building Tailored Resumes from Job Postings or Descriptions
Resume In Minutes introduces an innovative AI-powered platform designed to simplify resume creation and job applications in seconds. United States, July 6, 2025 -- Streamlining Job Applications with Smart AI Technology In an era where job seekers face overwhelming competition and complex application processes, Resume In Minutes has developed a solution that dramatically simplifies the resume creation process. Addressing the growing challenge of job application burnout, the platform uses proprietary algorithms to instantly generate ATS-friendly, job-specific resumes and cover letters based on job links or descriptions. Users can quickly apply to multiple jobs with tailored content, helping them find opportunities faster and increase their chances of landing their dream job. Founded by a young computer science student at the University of Illinois at Chicago in his teens, the company has grown from a simple idea into a powerful tool that saves hours of tedious work for job seekers across the United States and beyond. Jary Shahab, Co-Founder and CEO, recalls the frustration that led to the platform's creation: 'We were witnessing people spend countless hours reworking and tailoring their resumes for every job they applied to, and we knew there had to be a better way to help them.' Apply to Multiple Jobs in Minutes Applying to several jobs no longer needs to be a time-consuming task. With Resume In Minutes, users can simply enter a job posting link or paste the job description, and the platform instantly generates a tailored resume optimized for that specific role. Whether applying to one position or twenty, generating customized resumes is now effortless—what once took hours can now be done in minutes. Creating multiple targeted resumes has never been this easy. Solving the Job Application Burnout Job application burnout is a real issue. According to recent surveys, candidates spend an average of 12 hours per week searching for jobs, and much of that time is consumed by writing and customizing resumes. For job seekers, this often leads to frustration, fatigue, and ultimately, a sense of discouragement. Resume In Minutes aims to change that by enabling users to generate multiple tailored resumes and cover letters in mere seconds. By offering an intuitive platform that integrates a job description or a LinkedIn profile, users can quickly generate personalized application materials for each job listing they encounter. No longer will users waste precious time formatting, rewriting, or tailoring resumes for every opportunity. Simplifying Resume Creation: More Than Just AI While many job application platforms rely on basic AI tools, Resume In Minutes stands apart by utilizing proprietary algorithms that significantly improve the customization process. The platform is not just a 'wrapper' around standard AI technology but a unique tool that learns and adapts to users' specific job search needs. Whether attaching an existing resume or using a LinkedIn profile to generate tailored content, the platform allows job seekers to instantly personalize resumes to align with specific roles. With a single link or pasted job description, users can generate a fresh, fully personalized resume ready for download. Key Features That Set Resume In Minutes Apart The Vision Behind Resume In Minutes At the heart of Resume In Minutes is a desire to empower job seekers with tools that allow them to focus on what really matters—landing their next job. Jary Shahab, who co-founded the company as a teenager, saw the challenges that his family and friends faced while preparing resumes and wanted to develop a smarter solution that would save both time and energy. 'We built this platform with the goal of putting the focus back on what matters most—helping job seekers prepare for interviews and showcase their skills, not spend hours formatting resumes. It's about making the application process efficient, streamlined, and ultimately more successful.' Looking Ahead: The Future of Resume In Minutes As Resume In Minutes continues to evolve, the team is committed to expanding its capabilities and improving the user experience. Future updates will include additional personalization options, integrations with more job boards, and more advanced features that make the job application process even more seamless. The company is also focused on expanding its reach globally, helping job seekers from various backgrounds and industries navigate the increasingly complex world of job applications. With its continued dedication to innovation and efficiency, Resume In Minutes is poised to revolutionize how job seekers approach the job market. About Resume In Minutes Resume In Minutes is a U.S.-based company co-founded by Jary Shahab, a young computer science student passionate about simplifying the job application process. The platform's proprietary technology helps job seekers create professional, tailored resumes and cover letters quickly, eliminating the time-consuming task of reformatting and rewriting for each job application. The mission of Resume In Minutes is to make applying for jobs easier and more efficient, giving job seekers the tools they need to focus on the next steps—preparing for interviews and landing their ideal job. Resume In Minutes is available in US English, British English, German, French, Latin American Spanish, Japanese, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Chinese languages. For countries where the term 'CV' is more commonly used, the platform is also accessible under Media Contact Jary Shahab Co-Founder & CEO, Resume In Minutes Email: [email protected] Contact Info: Name: Jary Shahab Email: Send Email Organization: Resume In Minutes Website: Release ID: 89160871 If there are any deficiencies, discrepancies, or concerns regarding the information presented in this press release, we kindly request that you promptly inform us by contacting [email protected] (it is important to note that this email is the authorized channel for such matters, sending multiple emails to multiple addresses does not necessarily help expedite your request). 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National Post
03-07-2025
- Business
- National Post
A saturated job market is driving more entrepreneurs to use AI creatively
This article was created by StackCommerce. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through our links on this page. Article content Preparing tailored resumes and cover letters for each job or client opportunity can take significant time and effort, particularly for entrepreneurs managing multiple responsibilities. MyCVBot Pro offers a structured solution with AI-powered tools designed to streamline and enhance the job application process. Article content Article content Article content A lifetime plan to MyCVBot Pro includes 500 application credits that never expire. Each credit can be used to generate a customized resume, cover letter, recruiter message or interview preparation materials based on a specific job description. The platform uses AI to analyze your existing resume and the job listing, then produces optimized documents that highlight relevant skills and experience in an applicant tracking system (ATS)-friendly format. Article content In addition to job applications, MyCVBot provides tools for broader career and business development needs. The platform includes a resume builder, freelance proposal generator for platforms like Upwork and Fiverr, AI-based career advisor and interview practice simulator. There are also tools for profile photo creation, digital signature design and skills assessments, all designed to support professional presentation across documents and platforms. Article content Article content Free tools like a salary estimator, resume critique, LinkedIn profile evaluation and career fit analysis are also available. These resources can help entrepreneurs assess their positioning in the job market and improve their outreach to potential employers or clients. Article content Article content
