ATS Proof- Part 3

The main ideas from this information are: - The Christian Career Coach Podcast offers guidance for achieving success and maintaining a work-life balance while aligning with Christian values. - The host offers personalized coaching sessions to help with career growth, work-life balance, and increasing salary. - The importance of clear and concise content on a resume is discussed, including using impactful sentences, focusing on quantifiable accomplishments, removing irrelevant information, and prioritizing the most relevant information. - The recommended resume length is one or two pages, depending on years of experience. Summary: The Christian Career Coach Podcast offers guidance for success and work-life balance. Personalized coaching sessions are available. Clear and concise content on a resume is important, focusing on quantifiable accomplishments and removing irrelevant information. The recommended resume length is one or two pages. Today is part three of our six-part series on how to ATS proof your resume. Part three is all about clear and concise content. Hey there, you professional, ambitious, working mama, welcome to the Christian Career Coach Podcast. Do you want to achieve remarkable success and experience unwavering faith in your professional journey? Do you find yourself up late at night searching for answers on how to make more money, maintain a positive work-life balance, and achieve exponential career growth? Do you wake up with big ambitious goals only to feel overwhelmed and uncertain when faced with setbacks, frustrations, and unexpected challenges? Well, you're in the right place. I'm Susan Edwards, and on this podcast, we tackle those exact concerns head on. We dive deep into strategies to propel your income, accelerate your career growth, and help you align your work with your faith. 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I can't wait to connect with you and guide you towards the abundant career you deserve. Visit www.ForwardsCareerServices.com today and take the leap towards a fulfilling and prosperous professional life. Okay, y'all. It's day three of our six-day series, How to ATS Proof Your Resume. And today is all about clear and concise content. So, again, I have four points that I want to make. And while this may seem kind of obvious, I want to break this down to really help listeners understand what it means to have a resume that has clear and concise content. So, my first point for today is to use concise and impactful sentences so that way you can describe your experience and your achievements. Don't let your sentences run on for more than one line for your bullet points in your experience section is what I'm speaking to specifically. Obviously, your summary section up top, and if you've summarized your skills in paragraph form, then obviously that's going to be a little bit longer. However, when you're listing out that experience, the content underneath the experience section, use concise and impactful sentences. You want to make sure that you're not using too many filler words, you're not dragging on your thought, you're getting to the point. And there's a solid impact with that specific sentence that describes either your experience or an achievement that you made in that particular role, which leads to the second point, which is to focus on quantifiable accomplishments and specific results. ATS systems are very particular when it comes to showing quantifiable data. What that means is, and I've mentioned this on previous episodes also, but I want to remind you that you have to actually use numbers or percent or a dollar amount, something specific. That is what the ATS system is looking for. If your sentence is too vague, the ATS system is just going to kick you out and reject you. So if you can focus on an accomplishment that is quantifiable, so even if you're making a statement like led a team of engineers or led a team of HR professionals or led a team of front of the house employees versus back of the house employees, whatever, whatever, you're leading a team, we get it. But the way you lead a team of five is way different than you lead a team of 25 or 50 or even more. So when you put that information in, the recruiter or the hiring manager can compare what their expectations are in their role that they have open. So let's say they know their team consists of 15 to 20 people and you've only led a team of three people. It's going to be quite different and they're going to have questions on whether or not you're able to actually lead a team that big since you've never done it before. So that's why some of these things are important. They either help include you or rule you out. So keep that in mind. But they're very specific to ATS systems, also specific results. If you said that you increased sales, they want to know by how much, what percent or what dollar amount, what kind of specific quantifiable number can you put there to give a little bit more information about what you actually accomplished. Okay, so that's the second point. The third point is remove the irrelevant or any outdated information that really doesn't contribute to the current job search. So while you may be able to provide quantifiable data for maybe a lot of quantifiable data for one of your previous roles, if that role has nothing to do with the type of role that you're applying for or even in the industry that you're applying for, it's probably not worth including on your resume. So it's important that if it's irrelevant or if it's outdated, certainly if it's more than, you know, 20 years, 15 years, you know, depending on the level of position that you're applying for and how many jobs you've had and, you know, what the recruiter and job posting is requesting of you, that's really going to determine how long your resume should be. Now, a good rule of thumb is, of course, if you've got less than 10 years of experience, keep it to one page. If you've got, you know, between 10 to 20 years of experience, you move it up to two pages. And if it's 20 or more years of experience, it's okay to run into three pages. Ideally, you don't want to be more than three pages, and that's a lot to read, even for the most senior level positions, and that's because you're going to have a lot more to go along with that resume once you get to that specific level in your career. And the fourth point that I want to make today regarding clear and concise content is to prioritize the most relevant information, and just piggyback from what I was just saying, the resume length really needs to be one or two pages. So, use the rule of thumb that I just mentioned, 10 years or less, keep it to one page, 10 to 20 years of experience, two pages for your resume. Again, the most relevant information, it might not always be the most recent information, but anything that's relevant to the job that you're applying for is what you want to include in your resume. So, summarizing the four key points from today, all about clear and concise content. First, be sure to use concise and impactful sentences to describe your experience and achievements. The second point was to focus on quantifiable accomplishments and specific results. The third point is to remove irrelevant or outdated information that doesn't contribute to your current job search. And then the fourth and final point that I made today is to prioritize the most relevant information and keep the resume length to one or two pages. So, hope you had some good takeaways from today's session on continuing to ATS proof that resume, and this of course was part three. Hey there, Ambitious Mama, I hope you enjoyed today's episode of the Christian Career Coach Podcast. If it resonated with you and provided valuable insights, I'd love for you to take just 30 seconds and share this episode with a fellow Christian professional who may benefit from the career advice and inspiration. Together, we can uplift and empower more women on their professional journeys. And don't forget to hit that subscribe button so you never miss an episode. Oh, and one more thing that would mean the world to me, could you leave a review? Your feedback and support light me up and let me know that this podcast is making a positive impact in your life. As we continue this journey together, remember that you're not alone. I understand the joys and challenges of being an ambitious mama, and I'm here to cheer you on every step of the way. So, march your calendar because I'll meet you back here next Tuesday for another episode filled with valuable insights and practical tips. Until then, keep chasing your dreams, balancing your roles with grace, and shining brightly in your career and family life.