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Javes posted:Updated my resume and would appreciate feedback. Looking at data analyst jobs in health care. Thanks! Looks fantastic. Like, you should have PM's so I can backchannel you with details on my company which hires health care analysts, but you don't so you'll have to send an email to myusername@gmail.com instead.
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Javes posted:Updated my resume and would appreciate feedback. Looking at data analyst jobs in health care. Thanks! This is an excellent resume. Its so good you got offered a referral for a job ITT. That your position is data analytics and every line in the first job provides data analytics is  Here's some fine tuning/suggested enhancements. You have the intuition for what you want, so feel free to take none of this advice: - theres a little baffle them with bullshit potential going on. "drove end user engagement to important vendor rebate KPIs" ...I know what some of those words mean. Maybe rephrase so a human can know what your impact was. - Procurement specialist has a description of activity but not of impact. Why, quantifiably if possible, was a procurement specialists DB queries important to their boss? to the organization? - Billing rep is better. Being the collections dept bitch S - U - C - K - S. IMO this is an opportunity for you to imply youre a good henchman. This is especially true if you wanna be a climber in a large org. Large orgs like "fixers" and your resume reads like the makings one...but without the operations experience. If your goal is to get promoted to manager->director by being the analytics driven operations henchman, you can imply your fit for that role using this role that sucks. Drive home, preferably with numbers, that you got people to pay. 90+ days past due AR? No prob for Javes. - reread projects with the thought "How can I say the same thing with fewer words". Project has a little "I'm junior" smell, which is not how you should market yourself. HOWEVER! Because youre in healthcare and because analytics is the trend of that industry, which still has some trouble elevating the RIGHT info to decision makers, whether that be for business or for patient care, I'd keep it. Could be clearer on project impact, could say more with fewer words. Seriously, good job. This would definitely go into the pile of "I can't risk not interviewing them".
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Nov 9, 2022 22:31
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So I'm not a regular poster in this thread, and I'm not sure how the regulars feel about this, but at the top of my resume where you have skills and competencies, I have a "Professional Summary" Just a couple sentences with some keywords from the job posting highlighting my experience with what they were looking for. Nothing too much, just trying to set a "hook" so the reader keeps reading. I find keywords important because they'll help your score with the ATS system, and also catch the eye of whoever is screening the resume before it gets to the hiring manager. The HR clerk looking at it will see keywords from the job posting on your resume and hopefully send it off to the hiring manager. I found this example online for a data analyst. quote:Motivated and analytical professional with experience in evaluating dashboards and developing KPI reports. Certified Excel Specialist proficient in SQL, Python, and Tableau. Additional growing fluency in artificial intelligence and product life cycle analytics. Focused collaborator dedicated to interdisciplinary communication I'd put something like that at the top.
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Nov 10, 2022 01:43
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I feel like you have enough relevant experience that you wouldn’t be ill-suited to bumping your healthcare data analyst resume out to two pages. I did this for my healthcare IT analyst job, and I found that having the space to create a simple professional summary and a ‘professional competencies’ section listing software tools, certs, and languages led to a noticeable uptick in responses to non-referral applications.
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Nov 10, 2022 13:57
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skipdogg posted:So I'm not a regular poster in this thread, and I'm not sure how the regulars feel about this, but at the top of my resume where you have skills and competencies, I have a "Professional Summary" When I’m screening resumes, I straight up don’t read them. When it comes to HR drones screening resumes, keep in mind that 90% of resumes are terrible. Completely non-hireable. In my experience HR is way too liberal in the screening process with what they let through. For example when I was hiring a masters level polymer chemist, they gave me everyone with BS in a science related field, plus everyone with any lab experience. Maybe that varies by industry. But unless you’ve ever screened resumes, you’re probably dramatically overestimating the quality of the average resume.
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Nov 10, 2022 16:15
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Dik Hz posted:unless you’ve ever screened resumes, you’re probably dramatically overestimating the quality of the average resume. A million times this. Being in the to 10% is where you want to be. I've heard ITT and the YOSPOS thread that my interview rate of 20-25% of applicants is pretty normal. Most of the bottom 75% are pretty bad. Most of the remaining 25% would still get a LOT of feedback ITT.
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Nov 10, 2022 17:10
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I just looked at our most recent undergrad cohort stats. 200 resumes, 70 screening interviews, 24 complete in person interviews, 5 offers. Our offer success rate is pretty high so I expect four of those will join and we'll extend a sixth offer to our next choice candidate.
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Nov 10, 2022 17:22
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Any tips on final interviews with VPs or above? I haven't had any problem getting interviews but getting past the final interview and getting an offer has remained elusive to me since I started job hunting. I have a final interview with a company after they quickly scheduled a meeting with me and skipped the recruiter prescreen after another recruiter there already scheduled it, then quickly booked a second. First interview was with hiring manager, second was with two directors (30 mins each), and now third will be 30 minutes with two managers and 30 with the VP of IT. This would be for a senior BA position and I would really like to stop interviewing.
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Nov 11, 2022 02:25
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Don't ramble, be normal, and connect to big picture ideas and things that are important to the company. Expect maybe some technical questions; if you don't know, focus on how you would find the answer and use resources available to you. Most (good) leaders are more concerned with how you're gonna operate than knowing everything cold. Have questions, ideally about their vision / departmental priorities / positional success and priorities / future looking stuff.
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Nov 11, 2022 02:59
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Years ago I used a resume writing service here. I think the guy blew up and now has a very lucrative business. He absolutely turned my CV up to 11 and I don't see him anywhere anymore. Did something happen? Resume 2 Interview or something was the name of his business he was running through SA Mart.
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Nov 14, 2022 09:26
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He started outsourcing everything and the quality went way down from what I remember.
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Nov 14, 2022 14:43
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I have a first round zoom interview for entry level IT help desk tomorrow. I've never had a non-retail-type interview before nor a multi-round or teleconference type. What are some good tips?George H.W. oval office posted:He started outsourcing everything and the quality went way down from what I remember. Are there any recommendations for good online resume writing services?
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Nov 14, 2022 20:10
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They're probably going to want to know how you would go about troubleshooting a problem. Stuff like "can't login to Outlook" or "internet is not working". Be aware that you may be hired to support absolutely clueless users so you'll have to ask some probing questions to work out what the user actually means and what they're lying about having already tried without pissing the user off. You might get asked about handling angry users so your retail experience there will come in handy. You'll likely get asked about this sort of thing in STAR method format, so google that and dredge up with a few anecdotes that you can use to illustrate the previous concepts.
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Nov 14, 2022 20:48
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:I have a first round zoom interview for entry level IT help desk tomorrow. I've never had a non-retail-type interview before nor a multi-round or teleconference type. What are some good tips? Make absolutely sure your Zoom works and is configured correctly well before the interview. In my last webex interview I had a power outage and had to call in on a cell phone to continue. Fun times. Got the job though.
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Nov 15, 2022 03:24
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:I have a first round zoom interview for entry level IT help desk tomorrow. I've never had a non-retail-type interview before nor a multi-round or teleconference type. What are some good tips? +1'ing what everyone else said. Have a couple good questions about the company that shows that you spent a few minutes learning about the industry and the company. There are lots of little tricks you can do for an interview but I can personally say I am a sucker for someone who has some enthusiasm for the industry and the work.
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Nov 15, 2022 03:29
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Yeah same. I figure if you put effort in to doing background research for an interview, it’s a decent indicator that you will put in effort in other ways unprompted. You’ll probably get some questions about process adherence and how to deal with people who can’t describe their problems or who are otherwise mad and incoherent.
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Nov 15, 2022 14:15
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The interview ended up just being a culture fit interview with no questions on technical stuff or scenarios. I think it went pretty well though. We went around 15 minutes longer than the advertised time and I gave him a couple questions and answers he said he never heard before (in a good way, I think.)
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Nov 15, 2022 20:27
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Hey dudes, I have a weird situation. Basically, I got laid off from my utility arborist job with a Big Utility. As the Big Utility is switching around contracts, I'm fairly confident of picking up a job with another contractor...but those contractors won't start hiring again til January. So, basically, I'm unemployed until the time when the hiring ramp up starts again. While I could ride out this out on unemployment, I'd rather have a job. So, basically, until things start again, I've been scoping out stuff like data entry and remote jobs. My hang up is that I have no idea how to translate my Utility Arbor stuff into "am also good at excel and typing good". My job required data entry, typing, sending off emails, dealing with customers and managing documentation as well as the more pertinent task of, ya know, tree stuff. I'm not entirely sure how to also list the fact that I've done stuff like this in the past or even if it would be pertinent on a resume sent off for like an Admin assitant job.
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Nov 16, 2022 14:38
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Make two resumes. One for the arborist detailing your regular stuff, one for data input and spend more real estate on that stuff and less on, uhh, talking to trees before you chop them up or whatever. I suspect the jobs you'll be looking for to cover the gap will be more interested in you showing up every day and not showing up to work high so you probably mostly just need to show you're reliable.
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Nov 16, 2022 14:57
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Lockback posted:Make two resumes. One for the arborist detailing your regular stuff, one for data input and spend more real estate on that stuff and less on, uhh, talking to trees before you chop them up or whatever. Agree with this. A Festivus Miracle posted:Hey dudes, I have a weird situation. Also OP, I've hired 10 or so legal assistants/admin assistants in the past 3 years. Having 1+ year at an in office job is a BIG risk factor I look for and it's advice I've gotten from other business owners in our field. It is rebuttable, but I'm gonna start asking questions to suss out whether you can acclimate to legal way of working/office culture/life/being careful about what you say. Suggest tailoring the data entry admin type job for derisking office culture issues and if you DO have business office experience, play that up.
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Nov 16, 2022 15:11
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In this job search, I have not set myself as "looking for work" on LinkedIn because I don't know if the people I work for right now will see that somehow and it will jeopardize my current employment. Is anyone familiar with this feature? Can it be hidden from some people? My Google searches came up with nothing but I can't be the first human to notice this predicament.
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Nov 16, 2022 21:05
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I'm pretty sure you can choose who sees the "open to work" setting, but it's probably not worth worrying about TBH.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Don't ramble, be normal, and connect to big picture ideas and things that are important to the company. Expect maybe some technical questions; if you don't know, focus on how you would find the answer and use resources available to you. Most (good) leaders are more concerned with how you're gonna operate than knowing everything cold. Didn't get the job. I feel like I focused so much on this stuff that when he asked a simple question (give me 3 strengths, 3 "opportunities") I completely floundered. The guy was giving me nothing to work with during the discussion and we blasted through all his questions and all mine, so he ended up asking that and I just wasn't prepared for intro interview type questions, let alone listing three. Bummed but what can you do.
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Magnetic North posted:In this job search, I have not set myself as "looking for work" on LinkedIn because I don't know if the people I work for right now will see that somehow and it will jeopardize my current employment. Is anyone familiar with this feature? Can it be hidden from some people? My Google searches came up with nothing but I can't be the first human to notice this predicament. Its hard to imagine having time to care about this poo poo. Don't worry about it.
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UnleashedDad posted:Didn't get the job. I feel like I focused so much on this stuff that when he asked a simple question (give me 3 strengths, 3 "opportunities") I completely floundered. The guy was giving me nothing to work with during the discussion and we blasted through all his questions and all mine, so he ended up asking that and I just wasn't prepared for intro interview type questions, let alone listing three. Bummed but what can you do. That’s a bullet dodged imo. Anyone who asks the greatest weakness question is a bad interviewer. Asking for three and calling them ‘opportunities’ is a grade-a paste eater.
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For sure, that’s a lame and bad question. If you don’t need to fill the time, don’t!!
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UnleashedDad posted:Didn't get the job. I feel like I focused so much on this stuff that when he asked a simple question (give me 3 strengths, 3 "opportunities") I completely floundered. The guy was giving me nothing to work with during the discussion and we blasted through all his questions and all mine, so he ended up asking that and I just wasn't prepared for intro interview type questions, let alone listing three. Bummed but what can you do.
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Dear Resume/Interview thread: The OP has not been updated for about 6 years and the original poster is also no longer posting. Does anything need to be updated in the OP by a mod (i.e., me) and/or do you need an entire thread reboot? Please discuss amongst yourselves and come to a consensus with suggested updates. I don't regularly read this thread to know its vibe or status. If the answer is 'no changes needed' that's perfectly fine. Thanks.
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Nov 19, 2022 18:59
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The interviewing thread was long ago folded into this one more or less, so the link to it can be removed from the OP. Likewise the LinkedIn thread listed in the OP is long dead, and the youtube link to what was apparently a funny video is dead. Other than removing the dead link, I think the OP as it exists is fine and don't see any great benefit to starting a new thread.
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Nov 19, 2022 19:06
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Eh anyone can wander in, theres not much backstory to read so I'm with Eric. Leav'er beaver so we can keep the subscribed posters.
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Nov 19, 2022 19:33
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If anyone is so inclined they can submit a resume for the open position of OP.
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Nov 19, 2022 21:48
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Eric the Mauve posted:The interviewing thread was long ago folded into this one more or less, so the link to it can be removed from the OP. Likewise the LinkedIn thread listed in the OP is long dead, and the youtube link to what was apparently a funny video is dead.
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Eric the Mauve posted:The interviewing thread was long ago folded into this one more or less, so the link to it can be removed from the OP. Likewise the LinkedIn thread listed in the OP is long dead, and the youtube link to what was apparently a funny video is dead. Arquinsiel posted:This, and replace the negotiation advice with a link to that thread maybe. Done and done, thanks. Let me know if there are other fixes needed.
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Sorry if this is considered a thread foul, but I think my questions are relevant in both the Career Path thread and this thread, so copy/pasting from Career Path: My brother has been doing digital campaign management, some public relations writing, and investor relations for a couple of years now after a lifetime of restaurant managerial roles. He is really dead-set on entering the world of sports/community engagement/sales/operations etc and from what he has gathered, the only real path for him without a formal education is to start in inside sales and work his way up. He has been making great connections with professional organizations and their PR teams and is getting ready to apply to some of them. Does anyone have valuable insight in terms of what an example of a good sales resume might look like with an untraditional background (even pointing to a template would be good)? Any tips on standing out in the sports sales world? Really appreciate any help!
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fawning deference posted:Sorry if this is considered a thread foul, but I think my questions are relevant in both the Career Path thread and this thread, so copy/pasting from Career Path: There isn't really a "traditional" sales background. No idea on sports sales, but a good sales resume for me follows the same advice as most of the rest of this thread, be metrics driven. Sales person resumes are less useful than most as sales people tend to lie. For starting out there may be sales development bootcamps that feed into the industry he wants, though most of these sales bootcamps are very focused on SaaS.
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Is he absolutely certain about this, because anything related to sports is a horrific hours-to-pay ratio, for the same reasons as in the Game Industry.
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He's gonna be slangin corporate ticket packages and STH renewals. It's a churn and burn job. If he is reasonably charismatic, can talk on the phone, and can fog a mirror, he'll probably get a shot. edit: eric the mauve is also correct about hours/comp
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Yeah, I don’t know the sports industry, but the chemical manufacturing industry I’m familiar with is full of salespeople with non-traditional backgrounds. Sales managers only really care about if you have experience selling stuff. Any experience selling will get your foot in the door and then it’s mostly metrics driven as to who gets promoted from there.
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CarForumPoster posted:Sales person resumes are less useful than most as sales people tend to lie. A paradox: If a sales person does not lie on their resume, they are unlikely to be a good sales person.
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Appreciate all the quick responses. He is aware that it's going to be a real grind initially. The goal is to move beyond sales into stuff like community outreach/PR/investor relations through moving up in the sales path. It's the only way into those roles judging from his informational interviews with various people in the industry already. So basically, yes he's willing to eat poo poo for a little bit. He's extremely personable, pro-active, hard-working, charismatic, etc and he is confident he can move up in a reasonable amount of time and hopefully get himself to a better position. Is that realistic?
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