Getting a good job is easy Part 1.5: Practical example

A little more background

This isn't the post I expected to make to follow up the previous post http://imgur.com/gallery/Q89Wo

However I wanted to show an example of walking through the process from beginning to end.

In this post I hope to clarify the following:

1. A long form resume is for the computers, a short form resume is for the people. This was a big point of confusion in the last post. In this post you'll see how the long form keyword filled resume generated a ton of interest and then replying with the short form resume generated interviews.

2. This is a made up resume and a made up person that I'm using for an example / experiment. I'm roughly basing this person / resume off of one of my junior employees (he's in his early 20s and only has a couple years of actual work experience)

3. Yes, I 100% agree that depending on your industry that your mileage on this advice may vary. If you're looking to get a job as a welder in a machine shop then this probably isn't going to help you much. This is much more geared towards the white collar world.

The pool of hits

Here's a small selection of the pool of recruiters / hiring managers who reached out to the original resume I posted in the first post, there were quite a few more hits over the past few days but I don't have time to do this with a massive sample size this week. So let's say this is a baseline of 11 opportunities.

The reply

I replied to each of the 11 with a couple sentences expressing my interest and answering any specific questions that they asked in their emails. I also attached the short form resume and requested that they review it.

We've got a hit

Literally within minutes I get a reply asking for more information. I reply talking about my skills and the areas where I don't have any direct experience listed in the resume I mention that I'm "Familiar" with them (e.g. I took an online class or will be able to read up on them enough to be conversant in an interview and not totally lost if I have to actually develop the skill for the job).

We've got more hits!

Look at the time stamps. This is pretty rapid fire.

They're calling

My damn phone was turned off so I missed this one but she actually emailed trying to get in touch as well. When you get a really high match rate for an open role the recruiters / hiring managers are often quite eager to speak with you.

Looks like I have an interview lined up for tomorrow

This took all of an hour from the first reply to interview booking. As of typing this I have 3 interviews scheduled. I'll document those in the next installment along with what the total conversion rate on the 11 emails was to actual conversations / interviews.

PART 1: http://imgur.com/gallery/Q89Wo