KCSpeaks

In workforce development, it is commonly asked of that we review résumés, but how do you do this? How do you know what to look for? How do you know if a résumé is good or not? This post will address how to critique a résumé for a customer. First, it's not about being "good" or "looking good." Those terms are how general job seekers think. When working with customers avoid the word "good" when reviewing a résumé. It is not specific enough. Let's first look at the goal of the résumé. The résumé is a marketing tool designed to sell a job seeker to an employer. Therefore it is a marketing tool. It is a marketing tool the way billboards on the side of the highway are. In the same manner that the fast food chains want to make their hamburgers look delicious, meaty, and full of toppings (all that you can distinctly see), a job seeker wants to do the same thing with his résumé. The goal of the résumé is to get sell a job seeker, so that he can get a...

Welcome to KCSpeaks, my new blog where I plan to write about workforce development and how to make it work. Make it work? Yes. How do you make it work. Let me give you a run down of this. Workforce Development is a fancy title for the jobs business. Not just any jobs business, but a government sponsored industry of jobs support. I say support because employers create jobs, but those of us in the workforce development industry just support employers by supporting people that want those jobs. Lately, it seems that rather than a development industry, we are in the amusement park business, riding the roller coaster from good economy to a bad economy, from funding falling from the sky to collecting soda cans on the side of the road. Its all an up and down- a roller coaster is the best analogy for the past few years. The job seekers have changed, the jobs they are applying for have changed, and the world of work has changed. This is not a Ferris wheel! Where is the development in wor...