Resumes That Work

Usually if you aren't getting interviews when you're applying for jobs, it's because your resume sucks. It feels even worse when you got a referral to someone, submitted a resume, and nothing happens because your resume didn't make a case for why you could help a group or an organization succeed. My newest book, "Resumes That Work: The No BS Playbook for Laptop Professionals to Leverage AI, Refine Their Story, and Get Interviewed" will help you craft resumes that will break through and get interviewed,

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  Skills needed to find the job are different from those needed to do a job. I'm Jeff Alpen, the big game hunter, and people hire me for no BS job search advice and career coaching globally because I make the process of finding work and succeeding at it much easier. I hope you've been enjoying no BS job search advice radio. I've been resorting more to a different format that I did for the first 3,000 episodes in order to make time to finish books that I had started many years ago, update them for modern times, and make them more feasible for today. I just released one called Resumes That Work,

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  the no BS playbook for laptop professionals to leverage AI, refine their story, and get interviews. And the fact of the matter is, I've known for a long time that people view applicant tracking systems as the black hole because resumes go in and never go out. And part of the reason is you're talking to one audience, a human being, but there's an audience that the system is designed to filter for. They're there to screen and score, frankly, reject far more often than they are to refer. And it's not like HR isn't going to look at your resume.

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  However, if they're staring at a dashboard and there are resumes that score in the 80s and 90s and yours comes to a 30, well, it's likely that you're going to be rejected. Now, this is a full book. It's a 40-chapter playbook on how to negotiate resumes that you can bob in and out of as you need it. So in launching this book, I'm offering it, as I do with many of my books now, at half-price initially, at $4.99 on Amazon. Now, it's going to be available as a paperback. It was made live, but the link wasn't working as I recorded this. So currently, it's available as a Kindle book.

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  As an audiobook and hopefully shortly it'll be available as a paperback as well. The Kindle and PDF that Amazon offers are at half price at $4.99. So it's going to be available for a limited time only at this price. I want to encourage you, come over to Amazon. I'll have a link to the book in the show notes and I hope you order it and find it helpful. And I hope you give it a great review as well.