Hiring managers, on the other hand, are both quantitative and qualitative in their assessment, looking at both the cold hard facts of your skills and experience, but wanting to verify those and start to explore demonstrated application of those skills via your thinking, application, and approach. The two different groups of people involved, each with very different abilities - HR professionals/systems are predominantly looking for quantitative data relevant to the role, relying on keywords and metrics to filter as they typically have limited expertise in the given field to be qualitative in their approach. This can be through a number of layers, often HR professionals, and even automated HRM systems - well before the hiring manager who you’ll be working for is ever involved. The biggest initial challenge of resume writing is the filtering process that occurs through the recruitment process. With the basics in place - we must now consider the audience of your resume, as the framing and use of STAR can be quite different depending on the audience. This is only a subset of what is a rich field of knowledge, I strongly recommend you do further research of your own to see these in action. Use success verbs³ to demonstrate there results you achieved.Ensure your format and presentation is such to rapidly draw attention to the key information quickly. If your resume is looked at, it will be looked at very briefly on the first pass.Many jobs list essential or core skills, and extended or desirable skills - if you truly have the essential or core skills listed, then by all means apply. You don’t have to match all the criteria.It’s about boiling down activities to their core skills applicable to the role your applying, and demonstrating skill, experience, but most importantly outcomes of your application of that skill.
Don’t lie - anything here is not about extending the truth.
RESUME STAR METHOD PROFESSIONAL
The thinking is because they don’t have any direct professional experience, that listing their job delivering pizzas a Dominos (yes - that was my first job) is irrelevant to a perspective employer.īy shifting our thinking of experience from skills, processes, and tools through to behaviours and their application - we can create compelling, and industry relevant resumes that help employers connect with who you are, how you think, and how those inner behaviours can bring value to the role they’re hiring for. This becomes even more critical a recent IT graduate, as with limited professional experience I see many graduates providing resumes with very limited detail. For the applicant - to get an interview for the jobĬhallenge comes when enough pass that filter, and we need a way to isolate and demonstrate the behaviours we have in applying our skills, tools, and techniques.For the employer- filter out candidates before coming in for an interview.What is the purpose of a resume?Ī resume aims to achieve both of the below purposes, from the perspective of both the employer, and the applicant: This takes many forms, but the most common request I get is to help prepare their resume for what often is their first professional job in the IT industry. I spend a large portion of my time mentoring with University students at QUT, helping students completing their studies in preparation for the workforce.
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