What Glen Kelman wants to see on your resume
… and another tool for your CV-writing kit.
Guy Kawasaki makes decisions about people, as an employer and an investor. He’s endorsing the advice of Glen Kelman – CEO of Redfin. His advice is a comprehensive overview of how to write a CV.
- Verbs ending in “d”: shipped, launched, built, sold.
- Results: not responsibilities or experience — but what responsibilities and experience helped you accomplish.
And his take on the length of your CV? “Two pages, max. If you’re under 30, one page.”
Read the whole post, and bookmark it.
Sick? Stay at home!
You’re running a fever? You’ve put your back out and every little movement causes a low groan and dramatic wince? You’re running to the toilet every twenty minutes?
Stay at home!
Who do you think you are? Superman?
Who makes the coffee?
Who makes the coffee in your office?
You probably make your own, I’m guessing. If you’ve got visitors to the office, you’ll either do it for them or have a receptionist who takes care of it.
I just got thinking about this because Vinny, one of our new hires at Target Recruitment, got spammed by Adecco twice on Friday.
Two text messages in one day, both inviting him to apply for a job as an “office junior” (no further clues) at two different companies, tasks including “photocopying, answering the phone and making coffee for your colleagues.”
I’m hoping that this is the result of an under-imaginative consultant at Adecco drafting a sloppy job spec. Even the hardest-pressed receptionist or stressed secretary is surely relieved the task of making coffee for their colleagues? Or at least on a non-reciprocal basis? And to have it as a formal part of your job description?
But what’s more worrying is the indiscriminate spam. Vinny’s asked to not receive any more job alerts. Twice.
And “making coffee” doesn’t figure in his CV.
Online reputation management and others
In the recruitment world:
JobMatchBox hits back with a list of UK Recruiting Blogs, a welcome addition. It seems that a lot of them haven’t been updated for a *very* long time – shame on us …
Monster gets hacked and thousands of people have their personal info filched.
And while there’s an awful lot of talk about protecting your online reputation, I can’t help thinking that even HR managers should realise that whilst what you do outside of work *might* affect your ability to do your job, most of the time, it has no bearing whatever.
A sign of a human resources professional with a humanistic bent is the one that sees your drunk, naked Facebook photos and offers you the job anyway, knowing that you’re somebody who can let their hair down when they need to …
Career Planning and Cash
What it takes to be rich (MONEY Magazine)
Why career planning is time wasted (PsyBlog)
