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John Garrett, Senior Recruiter HP Enterprise Services discusses good things he has seen on resumes and tips for working a job fair.
John, now that you've looked at a lot of resumes over your career, what are one or two things that people have put on their resume or the way they have formatted a resume, was a really good thing for them to do because you really noticed what they've put on the resume?
Well, you always wanna have as many bullet points as possible and a nice separation between the different years of experience. For instance from 1995 to 2000 you were a software developer with a large government integrator, make sure that the next level from 2000 and 2005, however how long it is, is well differentiated from the previous experience. What happens is, people try to cram everything into one page. I don't really subscribe to the one page theory of resumes. It's great for a job fair like a Cleared Job Fair when somebody comes in, but I'd rather you put out a well documented one, two, possibly three positions if you can on one page. But, also let us know as recruiters that you have a more detailed resume that you can get back to us.
One general rule to keep in mind is, this is a sort of a, it's an advertisement for you. And you wanna make sure that you kind of stand out a page. Standing out on a page doesn't mean that you have every last bit of information that you've done since high school on one page, all compactly written on the page or typed on the page. For us the initial meet and greet is we're getting an opinion about you as a presentation, how you present yourself, how well you're able to give us a thirty second detail I call it from my pharmaceutical experience. We would sit down and talk to a doctor in very quick terms, six bullet points in how to impress him about our product. Same thing applies to a recruiter looking at a candidate. The candidate should be able to sit down, pull out five or six pertinent impactful bullet points about their experience. It doesn't have to go back twenty years. Just go back maybe ten or five or seven. If you have had two jobs in ten years, that's great. If you have five jobs in two years, that's okay too, because we know there is a contracting element in this area. But, that's one way to make an impact quickly.
Be prepared to ask some questions but don't be prepared to be in a long term conversation with us at a job fair. It just isn't efficient. And always be prepared to ask for information, we're going to offer it as well. Make sure that you follow up in a timely manner. That's one of the keys. In our business it's always had to fill it yesterday. But typically, you know, I can only speak for myself but you know, when I speak with a candidate at a job fair, you know, I wanna get their information, whether it's the same resume they've shown me in a soft copy or a more detailed version of the same resume. I like for them to follow up within 24 hours. Not that it really impacts any decisions I make, it's just that I can get that information in my hands quicker and then disseminate it out through our internal system or to other you know, peers, within our recruiting group that may have the needs.
One of the things about recruiting that I think is important to remember from a candidate perspective is, if I don't have anything for you right now, it doesn't mean there isn't something for you right now within the company. I think all good recruiters are peripherally aware of what's going on around them. So, if you talk to me and you're a graphic designer with a pilot's license and I don't need any of those right now. There may be a need for that somewhere else in the company. And if I'm good at what I do, I have networked myself enough within the team to know where to route that resume. That's part of the fun of, I call this ancillary hires. I forward resumes. I'm a conduit into the company. If you don't go to work for me in my group that's perfectly fine. As long as you get in the company, that is what I'm looking for.
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