Another tip for your readers: A lot of companies use an automated tool to sift through resumes to determine likelihood of fit. This automated tool is not at all unlike the way a search engine parses a web site. All it does is dig through the resume and look for certain key words that should be present based upon their desired skills.

So, a position for a project manager on a project that will create web software will result in an automated search for “Project Manager”, “web”, and “software”. Sadly, the more times those items appear in your resume, the greater chance of being found as competent enough for a human to even bother reading your resume. The same techniques that worked back in 1997 to get to top of the search engine results, are exactly what needs to be employed to get to the top of the resume search results.

And all of this, just so a REAL person will even bother to take the time to read your resume. It saddens me to think that we, as a workforce, have been reduced to heuristic searches and keyword density.

David Russell http://Twitter.com/DavidRussellPMP

Another tip for your readers: A lot of companies use an automated tool to sift through resumes to determine likelihood of fit. This automated tool is not at all unlike the way a search engine parses a web site. All it does is dig through the resume and look for certain key words that should be present based upon their desired skills.

So, a position for a project manager on a project that will create web software will result in an automated search for “Project Manager”, “web”, and “software”. Sadly, the more times those items appear in your resume, the greater chance of being found as competent enough for a human to even bother reading your resume. The same techniques that worked back in 1997 to get to top of the search engine results, are exactly what needs to be employed to get to the top of the resume search results.

And all of this, just so a REAL person will even bother to take the time to read your resume. It saddens me to think that we, as a workforce, have been reduced to heuristic searches and keyword density.

David Russell http://Twitter.com/DavidRussellPMP

“Stating the unassailable benefical outcome to the buyer.”

So when you state some fact about your experience – you also need to state the “unassailable benefical outcome.” You get to that in the last paragraph.

“Managed a project budget of $5MM, with 2% under budget, 4% ahead of schedule, and 100% client satisfation with the Statement of Work deliverables.”

“Stating the unassailable benefical outcome to the buyer.”

So when you state some fact about your experience – you also need to state the “unassailable benefical outcome.” You get to that in the last paragraph.

“Managed a project budget of $5MM, with 2% under budget, 4% ahead of schedule, and 100% client satisfation with the Statement of Work deliverables.”

@pmstudent What’s your favorite free project management software?

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