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Resumes Are
Not
A Good
Way
To Initiate
Contact For
A Job
Resumes Are
A Tool To
Screen You
Out, Not
In
Resumes Do Not Allow For Career Transition,
Only
Same Job, Different Employer
Traditional
Resumes, A
One Size
Fits All,
Are
Not Effective
They
Do Not
Connect You
To
YOUR
RIGHT √ JOB ©
99.96% resume failure rate. It may be higher now with internet databases.
Resumes
ineffective as an interface to the right job.
80%
of the 148 million employed individuals in the U.S. think they are
wrong job or wrong company and they got their job with a resume.
72% of
employed people are seeking another job and still trying a resume.
69% of executives have revised their resumes
in the last year and
to prospective employers.
The vast majority think the way to get another job,
is to circulate resumes.
25% change jobs in 2007 out of the 148 Million people
employed in the US,
35 million
job changes predicted by BLS. They got their job by resume.
This will worsen in '08 & '09
90% Of new
companies go out of business in the first year
Downsizing and merger mania is
pervasive.
Wrong people, wrong job, wrong
company… resume job got
them there.
What’s Wrong
With This
Picture ?
Conclusion:
Resumes Don’t Work You cannot get the right people into
the right job with resume interfaces. As competition for
jobs increases and
business profits decrease, there is less and less margin for this dysfunction.
This
is
not
shoot the
resume
gun
in
the air
and
hope
the
bird of paradise
flies
over.
This
is not
blindly
circulating
conventional
resumes
to
want
ads
or
internet
databases.
This is
more
effective
