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Personalized Resume Review
by Alexis H.
Feb 21, 2024
Hi, This free resume review will provide honest, clear feedback that you can apply to improve your resume and job search experience. I review hundreds of resumes every month and am a resume writer with expertise in many industries. I use this experience to offer you insight into how you compare to other job seekers who are applying for the same positions as you.
Structure
Impact and Experience
Language
ATS
Best Fit Jobs
Structure
Structure
Your use of bullet points is good! Resumes should predominantly be written using bullet points (and not paragraphs). Bullet points break up text and make it easy for recruiters to get a sense of your achievements.
I’d also recommend adding in a clearly labelled Skills section. A skills section will help you highlight key hard skills relevant to the specific position you are applying to.
Before I move on to the next section, I wanted to add a final note on your template. While your template highlights your work experience, it can likely be better optimized to get past applicant tracking systems (ATS). If you’re not familiar with ATS, they are software that employers use to auto-reject resumes that aren’t a fit – they are a somewhat recent addition to the hiring process, but they’re incredibly popular and 95%+ of Fortune 500 employers use them to screen out resumes.
If your resume isn’t able to be properly read by these systems, you won’t be able to get past the auto-screening stage. Avoid using resume builder websites to create your resume as they may be unreadable by these systems, and can come across as amateur-ish.
As part of all our resume writing packages, we’ll set you up with a professionally designed resume that is readable by all Applicant Tracking Systems, highlights your core achievements, and most importantly, is familiar to hiring managers so you make a professional first impression.
Impact and Experience
Impact and Experience
Recruiters and hiring managers look for one thing on your resume: impact. There are a lot of ways you can emphasize impact – ranging from using stronger language to including bullet points that highlight your strongest achievements. Let’s go through a couple of ways I noticed you can improve your resume’s impact.
Some of your resume’s bullet points come across as weak – they don’t show how you made an impact and should be improved. Let’s look at an example from your resume:
Corporate Leadership Certified (CLC) business operations consultant excelling in project optimization, business strategy, customer experience development, custom business solutions, and aligning revenue-driven project goals.
This is an example of a line that is more of a responsibility, than an actual accomplishment. One way to make this more accomplishment-oriented is by using stronger language and highlighting your specific impact on the company. Did your work increase revenue, increase efficiency, save costs or drive sales? By how much? Using actual numbers or dollar amounts are good ways to showcase your impact.
Ultimately, employers want to know what you can do for them – and examples of what you’ve accomplished before help them see that.
This is something I spend a lot of time on when writing resumes and in 1-1 sessions. Why? Because figuring out the impact an employer is looking for is not easy for non-professional resume writers. We’ll identify experiences you have had and quantify your impact using hard data and tangible values.
Language
Language
I noticed you used weak language like oversaw. Words and phrases like these are overused, too generic and often reduce the impact of your achievements. Instead, you should instead use stronger, unique action verbs (e.g. Managed, Developed or Implemented) that make your accomplishments stand out.
oversaw
Similarly, I saw commonly used buzzwords, or clichés, like problem solver, analytical skills and proactive. Phrases like these are often a red flag to employers and usually should be removed. Employers want to see objective accomplishments on resumes, not subjective opinions. A commonly overused buzzword is a phrase like ‘hard-working’ – it’s a common one that make employers roll their eyes! Phrases like this one, and the ones you’ve used, are often too vague to communicate any actual value.
problem solver, analytical skills and proactive
ATS
ATS Scan
Earlier in my review, I introduced you to Applicant Tracking Systems, or ATS. Before I wrap up, I want to tell you a little more about them, in the context of your resume.
Employers use resume screening software, called Applicant Tracking Systems, to auto-reject resumes that don’t seem to have the experience or skills the job requires. Employers use these tools to save time – they don’t want to manually go through every resume, so they use tools to filter out resumes that don’t have specific words on them. For example, if you were applying for a supply chain role, but the phrase ‘supply chain’ wasn’t on your resume, your resume would probably not progress to the next stage (where a recruiter manually reviews it). Most resumes don’t even reach a recruiter.
To get past the resume screeners, you should tailor your resume to each job you apply to. With my clients, I spend time to understand the kinds of roles they want, and identify the keywords and hard skills that are important for them to include.
Skills
I did a quick automated run through of your resume on an ATS to give you a sense of a few skills it pulled out (ignore those that aren’t necessarily skills, this was just what the system pulled out).
- IaC
- Sales Operations
- Belt
- Technical Project Management
- Global Operations
- Management Experience
- Support Management
- Data Analytics
- Client Services
- Green Belt
- Yellow Belt
- Lean Management
- Root Cause
- Google Ads
- Analytical
- BPO
- Salesforce
- Freshdesk
- Gainsight
Best Fit Jobs
Peter’s Best Fit Jobs
Based on the keywords on your resume, our simulated applicant tracking system identified you as someone who might be a fit for the following kinds of jobs.
- Customer Care Professional
- Experience Manager
- Service Associate
- Customer Service Supervisor
- Customer Service Team Lead
- Sales Administrator
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⦁ Up to 2 rounds of revisions
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Premium Plan
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Without Careers Advantage
3 Months
Estimated Job Search
96 Job Postings Found
20 Mins to find each job
32
hours
96 Applications Submitted
20 mins per application
32
hours
96 Custom Resumes Used
15 min per custom resume
24
hours
6 Job Interviews
2 hour prep/research per interview
10
hours
Total 100 hours spent job searching
With Careers Advantage
3 Months
Estimated Job Search
96 Job Postings Found
20 Mins to find each job
32
hours
96 Applications Submitted
20 mins per application
32
hours
96 Custom Resumes Used
15 min per custom resume
24
hours
6 Job Interviews
2 hour prep/research per interview
10
hours
Total 10 hours spent job searching
