Today - The Resume is the Interview

Anyone who believes they can use the resume to tease a hiring manager or recruiter into scheduling an interview is working with bad information.

In this day and time of instant messaging, email, on-demand movies, and Twitter people do NOT expect to be teased by a document called a resume.

Managers, recruiters, and HR professionals are overwhelmed. Their day is tied up doing lots of other duties given the lack of budgets and support staff. You may have heard about the layoffs and economic turn down happening in the country?

Given this environment the people reading and reviewing resumes have long moved past the concept of being intrigued by a resume!

Think back to your own life and options for services.

Do you go to the doctor, mechanic, or discount-retailer who “hints” at their credentials, experience, inventory, or pricing structures?

How many of us do shopping by surprise for our clothes or random doctor visits hoping for a relevant cure?

Why would anyone believe positioning for a job via a resume would allow for less transparency than the consumer market place?

The idea that somehow candidates can tease the reader of their resume into scheduling an “interview” is absurd.

Time is so precious. People will only interview candidates who have proven their relevance and fitness for duty in a cogently written resume.

Think about it – would you interview someone who is not clearly in the running?

Do you think the interview is ever wasted on people who do not meet the minimum standards for being hired?

It is critical that your resume communicates crisply, concisely, and thoroughly how you delivered results. This is done by sharing the “how” – How-To, How-Many, How-Much, How-Frequently and also showcases your communication abilities as well.

Realize the amount of free consulting on the Internet, vendor web pages, white papers, and online books makes any “free” consulting given away by a detailed resume a retarded argument.

Candidates must communicate their scale, and breadth of knowledge and abilities in ways people can appreciate – proving your value in the real time of reading your resume.

Today - the resume is the interview.

Dirk Spencer
Recruiter / Speaker Resume Psychology
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