145 | Why Experience Alone No Longer Gets You Noticed featuring Carrie Christiano
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Career Growth for Working Women | Career Advancement, Visibility, Promotion, Raises
21 min
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Why are experienced professionals getting overlooked despite strong qualifications?
What if the reason you're getting overlooked has nothing to do with your qualifications? In this episode, I sit down with career coach, resume strategist, and Empower Career Studio founder, Carrie Cristiano, to discuss how hiring has changed, what recruiters are actually paying attention to, and why experience alone is no longer enough to stand out. We explore the role of AI in today's job market, how to position your value more strategically, and why networking remains one of the most powerful tools for career growth. You ready? Let's go.
Welcome to Career Growth for Working Women. This show is for women who are done waiting to be noticed and ready to be compensated for the value they already bring. I'm Shannon, a promotion and compensation coach, and I help women position themselves for real advancement, not by working harder, but by showing their value more strategically using what I call the 5% method. If you're ready for clarity, confidence, and career growth that actually pays off, you're in the right place. Let's dive in. Hello and welcome to the show. My guest today is Keri Cristiano, and I think this conversation is especially important for women navigating career transitions, layoffs, promotions, or simply trying to understand why the rules of career growth seem to have changed.
Carrie is a resume writer, career coach, and founder of Empower Career Studio. Her background includes recruiting, talent acquisition, and career coaching, as well as work with organizations like IBM and LexisNexis. What I appreciate about Carrie's perspective is she understands both sides of the hiring process. She knows what employers are looking for, but she also understands what many professionals are experiencing right now. feeling overlooked despite years of experience and proven results. After navigating her own layoff during the 2009 economic downturn, Carrie shifted her focus to helping professionals stop relying on outdated job search advice and start approaching career growth more strategically.
Today, we're going to talk about why experience alone no longer guarantees visibility, what hiring managers are actually paying attention to, and how women can communicate their value more effectively in a rapidly changing job market. Keri, welcome. I'm so excited for this conversation. Me too, Shan. I'm really happy to be here. So you've worked on both sides of the hiring process. What are you seeing today that feels different from even five or 10 years ago?
Well, AI in the equation, both on the hiring end as well as on the candidate side. And I think we're all trying to figure it out, right? How to use it responsibly and wisely. Because there's a lot of noise out there. A lot of taking things at face value, you know, letting AI... tailor your resume, not even really looking at what it gives you and submitting it. And then HR departments trying to figure out what to do with some of these automated applications coming in that are generated by AI, not even a real human. So it's a It's the wild, wild west out there.
Right. I know. It's a new terrain, I think. Yeah, because, I mean, like, before you had to write everything out and typewriters. I mean, if that shows my age. But, you know, and computers and print it out. And now you can just put it into a computer. So I would... I think for both sides, it would have to be difficult. So how can you get that AI to like help you with your resume, but keeping it true to who you are and feel like you so that when the HR person reads it, they feel like they get a little piece of you and they're not like, oh, this is totally AI.
Right, right. Well, I think you have to step back from that tangible transactional nature of, applying to a job online and hoping to get an interview and stepping back and being strategic about who you are and where you want to go next in your career and using tools like AI to help you do assessment of market opportunity and how you're going to insert yourself there. And I think the biggest challenge people have is we're used to being transactional.
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