How To Get The Interview Without The Perfect Resume

How to get the interview without the perfect resumeThis is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules -- .The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security.Top 10 Posts on CategoriesWhat does it take to get the interview?One of the best ways to get an interview for a job you qualify for is to have an awesome resume. One that matches the job description as closely as possible. A resume that shows an outstanding ability to get things done.But most resumes are not a perfect fit for the job. They are often close to the job requirements, but not an exact match.Another way to look at a resume, instead of it being the only way to get an interview, is to view the resume as a reference document. One that shows your job history, your accomplishments, and your educ ation plus certifications. You use it as a reference document because another great way to get the interview is through your business network.Your business network are people you know in your own company for internal openings and people in other companies for openings there.Outside of my very first job out of college, every interview  I ever got was initiated through someone I knew. Every. Single. One.People have a lot of bad connotations with “who you know, not what you know” type of comments. They shouldn’t.Business, as I have often said, is social. You get work done with people.  You tend to have friends that have certain characteristics and reject others because who they are doesn’t fit well with you. The same is true for work. It what makes up the opaque “corporate culture.”It makes perfect sense, then, to reach out to people you know and discover what type of work is being done in their department or company. And it makes perfect sense to ask that person, if you ar e qualified, how to go about getting an interview.And a resume had nothing to do with it.If you’re a  Cubicle Warrior, your business network is so good that you’ll find out about jobs before they are ever posted. If  they are posted, it will be because it is a formality â€" you’ve already interviewed and are just waiting for the job offer.In this situation, the resume did not get you the interview. It becomes a reference document; a leave behind after the interviews are done.The best approach, of course, is to have a fabulous resume that matches a job description and an extensive business network where you can search for open positions.To be fair, the business network contacts will trump the resume every time. But that doesn’t mean resumes don’t count to get the interview â€" they do.If you’re in the job search mode, you really help your chances of getting the interview by having both â€" the killer resume and the extensive business network.This is not your ordinary care er site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules â€" .The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. policiesThe content on this website is my opinion and will probably not reflect the views of my various employers.Apple, the Apple logo, iPad, Apple Watch and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. I’m a big fan.Copyright 2020 LLC, all rights reserved.