What is Your Resume Really Saying? Find out with a Resume Word Cloud
Recruiters do not read resumes, they scan them. It's been said that a recruiter spends less than 30 seconds looking at each resume before they reach a conclusion. Recruiters are also actively looking for reasons to reject your resume. Resumes are not, however, written for scanning. They are written to convey a complex summary of what value you offer. Here's a way cool thing
you can do right now to see what your resume is saying: Create a Resume
Word Cloud.
Here's how.
1. Open your resume. Here's mine.
2. In your resume, select and copy all the text. Do a Select All
(Apple-A or Control-A depending on your computer), then Copy (Apple-C
or Control-C).
3. Go to Wordle: http://www.wordle.net/create and click in the box under the words "Paste in a Bunch of Text"
4. Click the Go button under this text box. Wordle will chug for a
second or two and return you with a work of art: Your Resume as a Word
Cloud! Wordle will remove common words like "and, the, or, etc."
Here's a word cloud for my resume:
5. You can right-click on a word to remove words you don't want to
appear. For example, I don't need "Dan" showing up so I can remove
that. You can also customize the colors, orientation, etc. One
down-side is that it doesn't take into consideration phrases.
I'd like to ask you to post your word cloud on my site for job seekers: www.betterjobsfaster.org.
I'm interested in testing the power of online social networking, so
please forward this to as many job seekers as you can so we can amass a
resume word cloud quilt!
To make an image of your resume word cloud:
Take a screen shot of your resume word cloud:
PC Instructions: Why do PC's make things so difficult?
Mac Instructions: Command+Shift+4 - Capture dragged area and save as a file.
Join the Flickr Better Jobs Faster Resume Word Cloud Group and share your resume cloud online.
You can also add your Resume Word Cloud here by replying to this message, clicking on the image icon, and uploading your Resume Word Cloud to the Resume Word Cloud Image folder on Better jobs Faster.
Look forward to seeing your resume cloud!
Best wishes,
Dan.
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MARC ARTHUR OBAS
226 Bracken Ct, Raleigh, NC 27615
Cell (781) 760-4242 * Home (919) 239-2485
Email: mobas24@gmail.com
Objectives: To add a creative and unique perspective that reflects the organization's goals and philosophies, where my management, research, organizing skills and experience will help drive success.
Skills:
• Years of experience in responsible operations and management
• Intermediary for international and grassroots organizations/companies
• Computer proficiency in Windows XP, MS Office Suite, World Wide Web
• Years of experience in customer service
• Fluent in English, Spanish, French and Haitian Creole
Experience:
Barack Obama's NC Campaign for Change Raleigh, NC 2008- Current
Field Organizer
• Recruit hundreds of community members and inspire them to become active volunteers
• Lead daily trainings for volunteers on communication skills, computer systems, and leadership roles
• Create and manage four main volunteer teams across five Raleigh districts, ensuring that each team meets nightly and weekly goal, by Organize daily phone banks and weekly canvasses.
• Responsible for bringing 20,000 citizens into the democratic process by registering them to vote and ensuring that they have information and transportation they need to do so.
The Home Depot Raleigh, NC 2007-2008Contractor Services Sales Specialist
• Provided knowledgeable and professional customer service to contractors and builders
• Worked closely with builders and contractors to complete building projects on time, by providing assistance with products availability and pricing to reduce cost.
• Contacted suppliers to help builders and contractors with quote on special orders
Aapex Mortgage Inc. Massachusetts 2005- 2007
Mortgage Loan Officer
• Originated mortgages for home purchases and refinance purposes.
• Reviewed and analyzed loan transaction packages for preliminary approval or denial
• Assembled all required documentation for processing and underwriting on each transaction, and prepared and presented all related deal points to loan committee when required. .
Healthy Foundations E I (NSARC) Danvers, MA 2001-2004
Billing/Intake Coordinator, Translator, Interpreter
• Coordinated billing and intake information by running biweekly billing information reports
• Liaised with Insurance Companies to ensure client eligibility
Chemical U.S.P of Mexico Mexico City 1994-1999
Executive Export Manager
• Coordinated all exports to international customers
• Acted as a translator to break language barriers in order to satisfy customer complaints
Education:
University of Cuauhtemoc Puebla, Mexico 1994
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Magna cum Laude
Dan,
Don't forget to mention the power of the word cloud for job descriptions. Paste the description in and see the key words to that job, then put in your resume to insure you have those key words to get positive results when they scan your resume.
Remember that the average resume gets only about a minute or so to grab the attention of a hiring manger/HR rep. Make sure you are "saying" the right things to lead to your next opportunity!
Bob
Saw another great use for the cloud @ my Networking group....as an image for the back of your business cards.
I'm doing something wrong - can't get the impage to appear here?
In order to post, you have to upload the file to the Resume Clouds folder on BetterJobsFaster, then create a reply with an image in the reply message. It's not totally convenient, but it can work. Alternatively, you can add an image simply by clicking on the image icon in the Post Reply box, enter the URL from Wordle.net where your cloud is posted, and it will appear in your message. Down side of that is that if Wordle deletes the resume cloud, it's gone. If you post it here it'll stay here.
Best,
Dan.
<a href="http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1510946/t1"
title="Wordle: t1"><img
src="http://www.wordle.net/thumb/wrdl/1510946/t1"
alt="Wordle: t1"
style="padding:4px;border:1px solid #ddd"></a>
href="http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1780113/Cindy_Filipe"
title="Wordle: Cindy Filipe">
I like how "developed products" sticks out, a little.
Wow, that's really interesting. I love it. It's interesting how the construction, financials, payments, and sales show up. I was a bit thrown by how big the word beach was until I saw Myrtle. You know you can get it to combine words by putting a ~ between them (e.g., Myrtle~Beach). And, you can right-click to remove words if my memory serves me correctly as well. Let us know how your career advances go!
Best wishes,
Dan.