Life Lessons in How to Edit Your Resume to Attract High Paying Employers
Today, we're talking about looking good on paper. How to edit your resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn to attract high-paying employers. It is critical that you can not only speak to your expertise, which we talked about on day one of the 30-day challenge. But you can also speak to your expertise in a way to find and secure high-paying jobs, which we talked about on day two of the 30-day challenge and day three on the last and final day of the 30-day challenge. We're talking about how to make sure your materials, your resume, your cover letter, and your LinkedIn position you as an expert on paper.
I am not here to tell you that there's one right way or one exact way to edit or format your resume, cover letter, or even your LinkedIn to make it the golden child for you to make more money in your career.
But what I can guarantee you is that the way you speak to your expertise on your materials does make a difference in the kinds of employers that you're attracting, the types of offers that you're going to get, and ultimately the amount of money that you have the potential to make in the industry.
So let's dive into the specific and targeted strategy to ensure you're good on paper and positioning yourself and your materials to command top salaries by demonstrating your experience and expertise.
Demonstrated experience or demonstrated expertise is your ability to demonstrate, speak to, or explain what you're good at.
Typically what people do on their resume is that they just put bullet points of what they've done. I did this; I do this; I help with this; I help with that. I know how to do this, I know how to do that, etc., sound familiar?
It's not enough to list accomplishments on your resume. With inflation increasing, with the economy going into recession, if you know that right now, you need to be competitive in your job search, then you can find a secure, high-paying job. Then a resume with a list of accomplishments is not enough.
The reason you've been job searching for three months, and you're not getting any callbacks, and you're not getting on any interviews, or if you are going on interviews and employers are lowballing you with offers. It's because you haven't provided any proof; nobody believes you.
It's not because you're not good at what you do. It's because you're not well articulated in how you do it. But my job as a mentor is to help improve your articulation.
My job is to help you speak to your expertise in a way that will attract employers.
We don't have the job search for you. Apply for hundreds of jobs. It's not the badge of honor that you think it is. You sound burnt out.
There's an easier way. There's an elevated way. Let's not work as hard. Let's take the elevator.
I'm now accepting new mentees, and I invite you to apply to the Mentor Me Accelerator.
Learn more about how to edit your resume by watching the video to go along with this blog post.
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