The definition of curious is: Eager to know or learn something. Does your resume create curiosity? If it doesn’t, getting interviews will be slow-going unless you’re in an industry right now that has virtually zero unemployment, such as IT or construction. Wrapping up my series on writing stellar resumes, you need to create curiosity on your resume. So what do I mean by this? Well, most people include way too much detail, and especially Basically, information explaining results on a resume. A resume is not your autobiography. It’s a snapshot of your career history. Creating some curiosity is paramount if you want interviews. So how do you create curiosity? The bottom line is you create it by no run on bullets explaining all the details. Simply state an achievement, including a number, percentage or a dollar amount. Let me give you an example. First, this is how while most people write a bullet. Responsible for leading a large team, building a new shared services center, improving cost savings. Ugg. This is like eating three-day-old leftovers from Kentucky fried chicken. No, thank you. Instead, write this, 8.8 million saved annually by hiring and directing a team of 34 plus and building a new Shared Service Center.
Now, this is meat on the bone, lip smacking ribs. Yummy, yummy. Now, I’m seeing this bullet and I’m thinking to myself, holy cow, this person is saving 8.8 million annually by building a new Shared Services Center and is managing and building a team of over 34 people. I want to learn more. What did they do to secure 8.8 million annually in savings? How did they build the team? I want to know particulars. And the only way I can learn more is to do what? Invite them in for an interview. Exactly. So you have to create curiosity on your resume or you’re just boring. I hate to tell you guys this. It’s not going to make me want to learn more about you. So implement all these strategies I shared with you over the last three or four episodes and build a stellar resume so you can get invited to more interviews. That’s all for today. Thanks for listening to my executive search, Insider Secrets, to leaping past your competition into your next great job. I’m Mike Sudermann. Have a great day.