"Wells Fargo Week" Day 1: Add numbers to your resume and get the interview!
It’s a common misconception that adding bullet points and numbers to your resume – or “quantifying” it – puts you at risk of eliminating an essential human element that helps your resume stand out. Today, we’re busting that myth.
Recruiters and hiring managers often want to see tangible ways you made an impact in your last role. Quantifying your successes with data and numbers is the best way to paint a clear, objective picture of your fitness for the role for which you’re applying.
Does your resume include numbers?
How to Quantify Your Resume Bullets (When You Don't Work With Numbers) https://www.themuse.com/advice/how-to-quantify-your-resume-bullets-when-you-dont-work-with-numbers
Jobcase and Wells Fargo have teamed up to bring you “Wells Fargo Get Hired Week,” a week-long series of tips, advice, and strategies designed to help you improve your resume, be successful in your next interview, and ultimately, help you land that job.
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Be truthful with your expectations. Stating that a GED or high school diploma and prior customer service are the main requirements for a position, that’s all fine. Then someone applies, which let’s face it, nowadays takes hours and the applicant has many many years of customer service and a college education then you send an impersonal email saying you’re going with more qualified candidates. Please, please please, change your requirements to truly reflect what you’re looking for. Making profiles, importing resumes then still making applicants fill out the entire application anyway, then on to a phone interview with a robot and let’s not forget the survey afterward. Holy cow, I’ve given you half of a business day already then you say, you’re just not qualified. It’s truly a tortuous process that HR departments have convinced businesses that they need. Whatever happened to calling someone, meeting with them in person and having a face to face conversation. Businesses are turning away great talent by taking the humanity out of the hiring process!
Keep it simple,to the point, be persistant
I always struggle with this on my resume, and learned to use the "range" method, which helps so much if you don't work with hard numbers. It's also great to keep this in mind and keep track of any metrics or statistics you can, regardless of whether you're in the job market or happy in your current job, as you never know.
What sort of thing would a health care professional use?
I work as a flight attendant and I always keep a record of our satisfied customers and how I help add to that number.
I think it's smart to prepare your resume in a way that makes YOU look good. Adding numbers helps you stand out too so they don't have to guess at what you did.
Good advice thank you!!!!
Er, HR departments can't even be bothered to read resumes! They have computer programs do it for them. Then once you've been sifted by a machine it's break time for HR. Then they say it's "not blue skies enough, It doesn't tell me a story?" Since when did HR Get All The Power & why do they get off treating people poorly?!