“You may have already heard of some of the resume managers, like ResumeBear. The Bear’ll follow your resume and tell you who’s opening it, forwarding it, and printing it. New features are on the way. Or you may have come across the Resume Donkey. The Donkey’ll rewrite your resume, using professional writers.
Likely, you’ve heard of Zapoint, which will “take a resume and transform it.”
Now, at least three new players, some you may not know about, are joining the field:
- Verbal Summary. Recruiters can use it either to present a candidate to a hiring manager, or to describe a job to candidates. The important part is the audio; see its demos. What Verbal Summary’s doing that’s a little different is focusing on third-party recruiters (the founder was amazed to see how little money is spent by agencies to differentiate their candidates compared to how much is spent on sourcing, social media, tracking applicants, and branding). Verbal Summary is $50 a month, $500 a year paid in full.
- FacesForce, in beta, obviously excluded the word resume and its many variations, deviations, and permutations, from its name; the company hopes to be more than just for job-seekers. FacesForce wants to stay with people throughout their careers, such as if people want to record a video to pitch new business. Pricing, it says, is simple.
- Rezbuzz. This offshoot of Corp Shorts offers a long list of features, but in a nutshell, candidates pay $495 to have a resume made, and housed for a year. For the time being, at least, companies access the resumes for free. It sees consistency as its advantage: one community of quality professional resumes, not a hodge-podge of do-it-yourself bios. The CEO is executive search veteran Mark Sadovnick, who’s enjoying the good PR Rezbuzz is getting.”
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resume builder said
July 26th, 2009 at 12:48 pmResume writing is one of the most important part which presents more than you in an interview. There are huge sources over internet which can easily help you write effective CV.
Many resume builders are also present which will get away your pressure or bothering about writing resumes.
Brad Attig said
July 31st, 2009 at 9:16 pmThe resume is an enigma. I’m not the only one that will say “It’s not about the resume but it’s all about the resume.” Great advice, huh? We’ll it’s free and you get what you pay for.
Here are the problems as I see it…
The resume is still the “gold” standard in which to introduce yourself in a professional manner highlighting your background, skills and accomplishments. The problem is that many treat a resume like a crowbar to try to pry open a door (get a phone call) but everyone is driving a beige Buick. Maybe someone has a red one and someone else has a blue one but they are all Buicks, have 4 tires and get you from point a to b.
You certainly can make a resume into a Ferrari but some people don’t like flashy, Italian sports cars and you run the risk of looking out of the “norm.”
So you need a resume that suits the purpose and catches the eye of the reader. Plus you need to get it into the hands of the right person. Send 100 resumes to 100 strangers and what is the chance your well designed Lexus will get in the hands of a Lexus lover? It’s like hunting a small bird, 300 yards away with a shotgun. First the shot is all over the place, the target is small and most shotguns pellets won’t travel farther than 80 yards.
So you have to get the resume into the right person’s hands. Network, research and find those players….
Why is it not about the resume? I think the futility explained above covers that. Why is it all about the resume?
The correct process to construct a top-notch resume is the key to your success in an interview. Working diligently to identify your accomplishments, qualifying and quantifying them and being able to talk to them is critical.
Put 8 great accomplishments on a resume and you are almost assured you will get asked about at least 4 of them. Gee, if you’re prepared in advance with great answers (storytelling) you have most of the interview in your court. Yes you might get some odd and tough questions, but any that your resume raises should be nailed spot on.
I could discuss this at length but already some of you have nodded off (keep your resume brief, to the point and free of “stuff”).
Brad Attig