Every week, NETSHARE hosts Ask the Coach, a phone-in coaching session with leading career management experts. Here is an excerpt from a recent session with a new addition to our coaching team, Randy Block.
Career coach Randy Block shared an interesting tip in this week’s call. He believes every job seeker should create a Master Resume. This document is not for distribution to anyone but it is an organizational tool; a single catalog to capture all of your positions, promotions, accomplishments, awards, etc. Once you have a Master Resume built out, you can use it as source material to create a document for the immediate job opportunity at hand.
Relevancy is extremely important. When creating a resume for someone to review, make sure that everything listed in that resume is relevant to the position for which you are applying.
Relating to relevancy, a lot of the discussion in the call revolved around how you promote relevancy and demonstrate your value to a hiring manager? Randy’s advice, particularly for workers over 50, is that there are only two reasons to hire you: 1) you will help drive revenue or 2) you can increase productivity, which translates into cutting costs. It’s all about the money!
Randy also emphasized that it is extremely important to establish a relationship with your target company. Begin to network into the company, even if there isn’t a specific assignment or opening available. You need to establish a beachhead so when an opportunity does arise, or you can identify a gap in the company’s revenue strategy that you can help fill, you will be ready to take advantage of it.
