“Worked closely with clients from many cultures “- me working in a chicken hatchery with my headphones blaring next to my coworkers who didn’t speak any English
This is great advice all around. I was struggling for months to find a job, but trimmed down my resume to 1 page with good succinct points, got rid of bloat like high school extra curricular activities and excel stuff, and not even 2 days after throwing that brick through the hiring managers window, I landed myself my dream job working as an inmate at my local state prison. Hard work pays off guys, you can do it too
Reason for refusal: Candidate did not confirm he had proficiency at Word, Excel and Office suite. If that Candidate can't even be good at those basic software they must be a terrible candidate.
@@28cthedestroyer If you're in IT and you type this you're a moron. It's pretty obvious listing Word and Excel is for office grunt work, not IT or Software engineering.
In their defense... I do a lot of communications in my current job. And I've had some downright senile questions from coworkers about emailing (who tf doesn't know what a BCC is)...
I disagree with the Proficient at Word and Excel, at least for more entry level stuff. This shit is being heavily filtered by robots (and dumbass recruiters) for keywords, so you might as well include them if you don't have a jam-packed resume. I've seen plenty of stories of people not being considered by HR cause they didn't explicitly include it. Do not lie about any hard skills, but feel free to embellish a bit. If you worked on a special project once or twice, mention it as responsibilities. If your role shifted (happens at startups a lot) from something super entry level to a much more complicated, many hats role, but they never bothered to change your title or pay you better, set your role as what you actually ended up doing.
There’s also a lot of grey area in Excel. If you’re a programmer or data scientist, then you should be able to pick up all of Excel easily at any point bc it’s truly trivial. But if you’re just some marketing or entry financial guy, throwing in some “advanced” buzzwords to let them know a pivot table won’t make you shit your pants can be good.
Also depends on the job in terms of how auto-filtered your resume is. If you aren't applying to a chain corporation or a larger tech job, you bet your old ass boss is printing out and hand-filtering these resumes.
I'm an excel dork, like I research it, I can write my own formulas in VB..the whole 9. We had a guy apply as an excel "Expert", they had me do part of his interview. I asked him to make it so excel will color cells in column A red when over the a value of 50, he looked at me like i had three heads. He did not get the job...even though he didnt even need to be an excel expert.
This is exactly why it’s important to know the difference. I had put it in my resume and was instantly humbled when the in house excel expert started explaining to me how to set up some of the sheets that we needed to make
I'm currently working in a laboratory and do all the prepping for tests (I don't actually run them) but constantly find myself having to help coworkers navigate their computers or show them how to restart the computer if its not working... These people can run FDA-certified lab tests with minimal issue, but can not navigate windows to save their life. It's not a skill I can explain on a resume, I just wanted to share because I think there's some worth in having those seeming "regular" skills such as excel or word. In my situation, healthcare is aging. A lot of my coworkers are either 40+ with a few ppl under 25. Some industries value those seemingly simple skills more.
Crazy coincidence. I was going back through old main channel vids and was watching the old resume review video with Slime and Brian when I saw this was uploaded. Getting tons of job finding tips today
I will say the resume review channel on the discord server has been really helpful! Hopefully I can get into grad school thanks to all the help from the community!
In the clip at the end, he has his ear buds in different ears from the clip before. the one side is straight with a kink, while the other side is curved.
all my high school teachers told me to put “proficient at word and excel” on every resume because it apparently looks really good which is why i always did it
your high school teacher is probably 40+ years old and at the time they were looking for a job, having those skills are extra. now, those skills are mandatory and elementary in nature. it's like putting "wifi and bluetooth" as a feature on a 2023 smartphone.
The number of time I get asked in interviews if I'm proficient at excel and word is pretty sad. I'm in my 20's and have a college degree wtf do you mean
Genuine question, does having no work experience on your resume look bad? I'm looking to get a job in my field straight out of college and not serve at Denny's or some shit first, but I'm not sure how common it is to get a "degree needed" job as your first one. I could totally be overthinking, I feel like it'd make sense for a 22 year old to not have a job before graduating college for a variety of reasons, but I'm still nervous that my applications won't be taken seriously if I don't have prior work expeience.
generally companies want an easier way to see if you can work well with other people. Past work experience and extra-curricular on resumes exists for that purpose. So if you really had no part-time or casual job experience, medium to big sized companies would want to know what volunteering or clubs you have been in, and interview you about your teamworking skills.
at least that is what my experience is applying to Engineering graduate programs after university. So if you're applying for a competitive role, I'd say put as many relevant experiences as possible in your resume and prepare and practise interview questions
Join the student council or union if there is one (im from Europe so idk how american colleges work) or some other clubs and then you can talk about that in interviews as if it was a job
Lol that guy complimented his fit and hair and he said "who asked?" My questions is who asks for compliments?????? All compliments are unprompted. Relax Big A. Chill. 8:53
Pro tip: take a harvard course in something related to team leadership and put that one there. Nobody else can measure their social skills but you, instant massive advantage.
“Should be a default” is just not true man. Had a course for like a week at uni about Excel, and most people didn’t even know you could do basic calculations with the = feature
