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Hello, hello. I hope everybody's enjoying their Monday evening. Had a wonderful meetup session that I helped host last week that really got the ideas flowing. I want to talk about over the next few podcasts. And so what my goal is of the next, the few specific podcasts is to specifically outline what to do when you find yourself unexpectedly on the job search. I've had a ton of people reach out recently with the podcast and just in general, over social media. They wonder where to find me, how to reach out to me. Honestly, the best way to reach me is my email, Taylor at Vaco.com. If you want to reach out via social media, all my social media handles are T.

Destin. That's D.E.S.S.E.Y.N. Sorry about that last name. Anyways, why did you just go ahead and dive in immediately? What my goal for this specific podcast is to give you a high level overview on how to write a resume. So a lot of people, when they find themselves on the job hunt, they don't know what's up from down and rightfully so. It's extremely overwhelming. And so the first thing I want to talk about is how to write a resume. So I know a lot of individuals probably haven't touched the resume since college. So what I will tell you is some quick pointers. One, the whole one page resume thing, I want to keep the guidance counselor in the shin, whoever said that if you are a guidance counselor, listen to this, I'm very sorry.

But here's the deal. If you've been in the job, if you've been in the professional job world per se for any substantial amount of time, give me more than a page. I come out from a software development perspective. I would say the number of years maybe correlates with how many pages, right? So two years, two pages, three years, three pages. And then obviously out to seven plus years, I probably want to get more than five pages long. And the reason why I say this is because working as a recruiter in the job industry and working with candidates day in day out, I submit so many resumes to employers and we sell the candidates employers use the recruiters to help find candidates.

But if the candidate does not have the specific information in their resume related to the job description or what they've done, the employers will pass on the resume. So again, circling back, make sure your resume hasn't has enough content to really sell yourself. Next thing I want to touch on, that's kind of a pet peeve of mine. And again, this is just my two cents. Don't talk your resume full of soft skills. So works well with others, communicates well, plays well with others, all that stuff. I would eliminate that. I want quantitative data. So let me give you a quick example. So I served tables at Outpack Steakhouse to get my way through college and to move myself up here in Nashville.

The Outpack I worked at was above average when it came to just flat out sales. So to give you some sort of perspective, the average Outpack was around three, three and a half, four million dollars a year in sales. Outpack, I worked out was five million dollars in sales. So obviously that gives you some perspective on my experiences. And if I told you I was responsible for bringing it over a thousand dollars nightly, that's also another data point to compare it to somebody who just doesn't have that type of feeling of the resume. So that right there will set you apart immediately from individuals who would just say, for example, I served tables at Outpack Steakhouse.

I helped stock the bar when needed. I helped answer customer's questions. Right? When you can say five million dollars a year in sales, help generate X amount of revenue, that will really set yourself apart. You know, especially the procurement industry, data data data is the most important way to set yourself apart. I was telling individuals last week for the software development space, same thing. You know, tell me about how much money your platform was responsible for, etc. So that's the first little high point I want to touch on on how to write a resume. I'll continue to expound on this or the next few podcasts that we'll dive into more next steps after you get your resume ready to go.

Thank you for listening. Feel free to reach out if you need anything.