How to Get a Bigger Bang from Monster
If you’ve received poor response from your online career
site submissions, it may be due to the way you registered.
You can change that by using specific, pre-selected
keywords. Today we’re going to build a more effective
online profile that will draw more responses from Monster®
and other online sites.
So, let’s get started.
Once you register on Monster®, choose: “Build Your Resume
Online”.
They allow you to set up 5 different resumes or profiles.
Let’s just set one up for now. There are only 5 major areas
that we will be concerned with here:
1. Target Job Title
2. Objective
3. Resume Title
4. Job Title
5. Work Experience
Tip: every one of these fields has keyword capability, so
you must use each of these areas to the fullest extent by
including as many keywords as are relevant, for example:
1. Target Job Title: 2,880 character limit. That’s almost
4/5’s of a page, if you were to fill it up! List as many
different job titles as you can imagine for this role. List
other closely allied titles that the searcher may be
searching on. For instance, “Java Programmer” might also be
titled as “Software Engineer”, “Application Developer”, or
“Software Developer” within even the same corporation, not
to mention other companies. How many different but similar
titles can you come up with? Put them all here.
2. Objective: This is your stated job goal and has a 2,000
character limit. Just as we talked about in yesterday’s
lesson, transfer that keyword-rich objective from your
revised resume to here. You should have a decent short
paragraph that showcases and combines your current skills
and your future goals. Remember, you want to stay away from
standard cliches such as “Challenging opportunity as a
(title) where I can effectively use my (managing and sales,
etc.) skills in my ongoing effort to help grow an
organization, blah, blah…” This is not only boring, it’s
also highly ineffective. Instead try something like: “Solid
Java Developer with strong (skill#1), (skill#2), and
(skill#3) to make major programming contributions to remote
server projects while growing to project lead role. The
difference is each of the above underlined terms is now
searchable. Use each section in your resume to answer one
question only. By putting several keyword phrases under
each section, you tighten up your focus and make your
profile work for you by getting search engine hits when
employers run database searches.
3. Resume Title: Not much to work with here as only 70
characters are allowed. Make it a key term that is most
relevant and searchable.
4. Job Title: This (these) is (are) your current and past
job titles and has a 5,831 character limit. That’s 1&1/2
pages!! Put as many relevant titles as you can think of
here that you have held in your past work progression.
There is a huge amount of space here, so you may want to
include specific job skill-sets that each of those titles
required. Don’t be bashful.
5. Work Experience: 3,000 character limit. Here is where
you make sure to include every relevant skill-set that you
possess. Keep to the bare facts. Almost every word you put
here should be a searchable term. You want them to find you
and here is your catch-all chance to do it. Also, many
employers are looking for people who have or are working
for certain companies or organizations. Make sure that you
list any major corporation that you have not only worked
for but also have done business with as a client. These are
also keywords employers are searching for.
Summary Don’t rush this process. The online resume-builder
will act as both a resume and as a screening tool. This
will gain you the edge as a screen-in tool rather that a
screen-out tool.
Your objective is the same in all these online
resume-posting sites. Make it keyword-rich and you will
definitely get more hits. More hits will generate more
calls.
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Joe Turner, the “Job Search Guy”, makes it easy to quickly
land that next job. To claim your free 6-part Recruiter
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