Catherine (Kathryn) Dill
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683 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2020
last heard May 2022
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And they may find it more attractive than they would have otherwise.
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Thanks for having me.
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this is a pretty typical part of the process, even if it is sometimes sort of maddening to job seekers.
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There's lots of reasons why a job seeker might not hear back about a role right away.
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It's my pleasure.
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Yes, this is something that's always true, but it's exceptionally true right now.
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I think coming out of some of the tumult of the past year and a half in the job market, there is extraordinary opportunity for a lot of job seekers right now, and some of them are finding uncommon leverage, but there's also an extraordinary amount of turbulence as well.
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No, that's true.
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Resumes, certainly right now, it's more likely than not will be screened and potentially screened out by applicant tracking software used by companies that resumes are fed through before they're ever even seen by a human being, typically.
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And so your choice of words is going to be exceptionally important.
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You know, a great example is if the job description uses the word consumer or client, don't use the word customer instead on your resume to describe your own experience.
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No, and that's advice that stands in any type of market.
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You do want to be tailoring your resume to each job that you apply for, which, of course, is a great deal of work when you're applying potentially to dozens of jobs.
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But it does seem to yield a much stronger payoff.
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Yes, I think that's exactly right.
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your resume is where you're going to want to demonstrate
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really the breadth and depth of your specific experience.
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And you can get more into the narrative and the storytelling of that in your cover letter and the related correspondence.
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At the job summit, Ashley Watkins, who's a job search coach, pointed out that a common mistake or a misstep that's sort of more common among folks who've worked at small businesses or startups is to spend too much time on their resume describing the companies that they've worked for in the hope of
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lending more context to potential future employers.
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