How do you indicate on a resume that you supervised 10 employees in a department
during multiple times that directors were being fired and
hired daisy i would not go to that level of explanation
in a resume um let me let me say it this way to you
your resume there are a couple things that you need to recognize about your
resume and daisy by the way this is not personal to
you uh this is this is very common
it's very common with individuals i coach one-on-one it's very common with
people who ask questions inside the milewalk academy it's very common in the
questions that i get on youtube people i need you to understand this
your resume first things first is not a work history
document okay it is it is not it is a marketing
document what you want to do is you want to put yourself
in the best light and advertise yourself for where you want to go
okay your past certainly enables you because it has the raw data that you
need to take to put into the resume but you need to
think forward and then look at your resume and
ask is this resume going to get me where i want to go
what happens is we are all emotionally attached to the things
that we've done in our lives and i cannot stress enough
how unattached and unemotional i am as a reviewer or anybody else that
looks at your resume is no one cares what the stock market
was doing no one cares how bad a company you worked for no one
cares how hard you work no one cares that you put in 16 hour days
no one cares that you worked weekends for a year okay
you care because you lived it and now you want to share that with the world
but no one is going to be in as emotionally invested no one is going
to feel your pain especially for something that happened
three years ago so don't you try to channel all your
emotional efforts into wanting to articulate
every single thing that you've been through no matter how bad it was
or what a feat it is that you think it was because
people were getting fired people were getting laid off the market was going
down so i had to make twice as many sales calls or whatever
just stick to highlighting very positive stuff
if you're trying to go through detailed explanations in your resume about how
bad an environment you were in or how awful your boss was
or any of that stuff you are inviting inviting negative discussions in the
stories that you will ultimately need to tell
at some point if you are fortunate enough to get an interview so
stay away from all that so daisy back to you just talk about how you manage the
employees do you know what i want to know about
how you manage those employees did they did they do their job well was
the team united were did you get 10 people to operate
like 20 people could because you had a muhammad did
they get promoted on your watch those are the only things i care about
the only things so so that's the stuff you need to draw
my attention to get me excited about what you can do and
what you did and don't drag me into all the turmoil
you were in that it just you don't you don't you
don't need to be there you don't need to take me there i'll never get there as
emotionally as you will so this is nothing to do with you i'm just saying
everybody we all want to share what a herculean effort that was but no
one cares right you've heard me say this before
about you know hello welcome to the town of you know no
one cares population 7.7 billion right and i'm just saying you need to
detach yourself from that put a marketing document
together that's going to get you to where you want to go and focus on all
the positive stuff that you've done that's the best advice i can give you
that's reality now all that aside i care about you i love
that when people show up i love when you need my help i love that i
can be able to help you but that's the cold hard truth about how
people look at resumes so think about that look at your resume
is it filled with a lot of stuff that would invite a discussion
that you're going to have to take me into how bad something was
that's not where you want to go with your stories and
one other thing and i don't want to go into this too too much
but there is a congruence in what you do in your in your resume and it doesn't
start with your resume it doesn't even start with your with
your work history you have to go back and reflect about
what was happening the data that is important to be
sharing not only in your resume and in the stories that you're ultimately gonna
have to tell in your interviews but you need to think about if if the
resume is a marketing document and it's going to get me
in front of somebody where i can sell me and my services
to them as an employee i'm going to ultimately have to tell stories as well
are the stories that i'm going to be sharing congruent with the stories that
are on my resume and are the stories that are on my
resume congruent with where i want to go you have to look at that
all that needs to be in order you can't have a work history
that is not advertised in the way into to the spot you want to go
if you're a career changer you have to figure out how to adjust
what you put on your resume to tell an accurate story of what you can do
based on where you want to go all that stuff needs to be thought through
so what is it you need to collect the stories those scenes
from your work history that are going to go on your resume they're going to turn
into stories that you're ultimately going to tell
so think about what your think about what you're putting on your resume
because you need to be thinking about that
with the future in mind that i'm going to be in front of somebody explaining
the story that's what you want to tell all right i
hope that helped i know that was probably way more than you were
wondering but i think it's important that you know i
would i would try to stay away from those kinds of stories
in the resume in the cover letters in the emails i would not be bringing that
stuff up hope that helps