Today’s guest is Marc Cenedella, the Founder and CEO of Leet Resumes, as well as the Founder and CEO of Ladders Inc., the community for $100,000+ careers. Marc is a nationally renowned thought leader on careers, career management, and recruiting. He is frequently sought out by national media organizations for his expert commentary on employment and entrepreneurialism, featuring in publications like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Wired, among others. Previously, Marc was a Senior Vice President at HotJobs.com, where he served as lead on its sale to Yahoo for $436 million in 2002. Today’s interview is all about resumes: how to think about your resume, how you can use it to drive your performance in your current role, and how you can start tracking your resume better, even when you aren’t looking for a job, plus a whole lot more! Marc believes that your role is to know your numbers and keep track of them, which is a theme that carries throughout the episode. We hope you enjoy this conversation, which is full of practical advice that you can implement to get your resume fine-tuned and make it work for you in today's post-pandemic world!
Key Points From This Episode:
- Learn a bit about Marc’s background and the origins of Leet Resumes.
- Find out what happens on the other side of job applications, including resume parsing.
- Why it’s difficult for experienced professionals to write about themselves in a compelling way.
- Tips for writing a good resume: include accomplishments that are relevant to both your previous job and the job you are looking for.
- The difference between being a consumer of information and being a producer.
- How often you should revisit your resume; Marc suggests 30 minutes every six months.
- How to use objectives and key results (OKRs) to turn your resume into a powerful tool to help you gain control of your career.
- Learn how to use OKRs for looking to the future, not just measuring progress in retrospect.
- How Marc advises different levels of seniority on their resumes; same structure, different categories of achievement.
- Why Marc suggests doubling the number of dollar signs and percentages on your resume.
- What to do when you don’t have the numbers: start keeping track of them now!
- The numbers you can share to demonstrate the successes you generated for the business.
- How to think about your resume pre-pandemic versus post-pandemic.
- What has changed the most: the shift to distributed work, remote work, and work from home.
- Marc’s predictions for the next 12 months, including annual and generational changes.
- What resources Marc is leaning on, like Twitter, which he calls his superpower.
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Marc Cendella on LinkedIn
Marc Cendella on Twitter
Leet Resumes
Ladders
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