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hey this is Leo for actualised org and then this quick self-help segment I'm going to give you some practical resume writing tips alright writing a resume it's actually a really simple and easy process once you get the mindsets correct and that's exactly what I'm doing here I'm going to give you some practical ways of thinking about writing your resume they're really gonna make it a breeze you're not going to need to go take something expensive course or spend a lot of time on it writing a resume this is the whole secret you ready for the secret it's all about understanding what the employer wants it's about understanding who you're appealing to and what their needs are here's what you gotta understand and you really understand this when you become an employer yourself which is what I did I was first starting off my career and I was an employee like you are right now and I was I was really scared about writing a solid resume I was scared about what do I put in there what do I leave out how do I make it appealing how do I fluff it up so I can compete with everyone else and so I was coming at it as an employee and then later in life I started my own business and then I got the opportunity to hire people and I hired a few people and I was coming at it from the opposite side and it was like looking through you know through the looking-glass and seeing that as an employer the process looks totally different and here's how it looks for the employer because once you understand how it looks for the employer and you can empathize with that and put yourself in that frame of mind then writing your resume is a breeze and you are I would say in the top 3 percent of all your competitors because all your competitors don't understand this especially if they're applying for jobs that are kind of entry-level jobs I would say a job that has one to two years one to five years of experience if they've got more than 5 years of experience they probably understand this because they've applied to many jobs but between one and five years which is where you're just learning how to write resumes you're going to knock them all out of the water so here's how you want to think as an employer an employer has specific requirements that means that if I'm run company I need somebody to handle a problem for me and as an employer I'm doing math because I'm business oriented and if my business has been in business for more than a year then it stayed that way because it's profitable or at least because somebody was looking out for the bottom line and the way that that happens is someone is sitting there saying okay I've got this position in fact it's not even a position it's like I've got this opportunity in the marketplace to make some money and I need someone to do this thing for me or to handle this part of the business or to do the marketing or to do the sales or to do the coding or whatever whatever is that you do and I need someone to handle that and I need someone that's really good really reliable really talented and also affordable and I need this fast I need it right now because I've identified that I have this opportunity or I have this challenge I need help with so I need someone to fill that position fast and I need that person to be honest and straightforward so I can analyze their skills and of course I want them to be very competent in what they're doing and I want them to be specialized I don't want a generalist well in most cases with very rare exceptions what I want is someone who can come in there and fix a specific problem so for example if I'm developing a website right and I myself am self-employed and I'm creating a website and I know a little bit of H of HTML and a little bit of CSS and I know basic web design so I'm creating my site but then I run into a problem I need to create a shopping cart and I need to integrate that shopping cart with my with the rest of my site that I built to to sell my products but I do not know all the complex programming language that is necessary to implement a shopping cart I want familiar with shopping carts it would take me way too many hours to learn how to implement a shopping cart I'd rather outsource that so that creates what an employment opportunity that's an employment opportunity means that I can hire someone and someone can become my employee for awhile for forever depending on how long I need that work to handle this problem for me and this is a specific problem now think about it I'm going to go out there now and play along with me I want you to put put yourself in my shoes as the employer so you're the employer now think about this you're going out there you're looking for someone to create a shopping cart for you how are you going to find that person what are you going to look for first of all you're going to have a very specific list of criteria that you have you're going to say that you need this type of shopping cart you want it to accept Visa and MasterCard and you want it to do it in such and such a way and maybe a couple of these features you need to save save the users history and password and username you want them to track orders you want a shopping cart and you want it to sell these types of products and you want these products in all these different categories so you have all these specific requirements and then of course you want someone to do that for you at the lowest possible price you don't want to hire a programmer who's going to charge you a hundred thousand dollars to implement a simple shopping cart you want to get that at the most affordable price because you're looking out for your bottom line the reason I'm creating this business and you're creating this website because you want to sell a product if you're selling that product and that product is you know your profit margin are on each product that you sell is let's say ten dollars on each product that you sell you earn ten dollars but then you're going to pay fifty thousand dollars implement a shopping cart how many products you have to sell to pay that off it's going to be a bad bargain so you're going to want to find someone who might do that shopping cart for maybe a thousand dollars then it makes sense because you only need to sell what 100 products times ten to pay off a thousand so that's a good that's a good deal so understand is it an employer they're looking at the the value but they're also looking at the skill right so on the one hand I want a shopping cart programmer here who's going to be fairly affordable on the other hand I want him to be as talented as he can be for that price so what does that mean that means I wanted to be skilled in all the different languages that I need for this cart and I want him to be reliable and I want him to probably know not just one language but two or three languages I want to have experience actually doing what what I need because if he doesn't have the experience that I specifically need then how can I trust that he's gonna be able to do it it's going to be too risky for me right think about this your hire a shopping cart programmer but what if you hire a generalist programmer instead would you be happy with that so what if I came to you as a programmer and I said okay look I'm going to make your shopping cart and you say okay how many shopping carts have you made before and I said well look I have never made a shopping cart before but what I have done is I've worked I've worked on some databases and I've worked on some other websites and I programmed in Visual Basic and I programmed in my high school class and I programmed in college but I've never done a shopping cart are you going to want that guy probably not not if somebody else comes to you and says hey I've done 100 shopping carts I know them back to front I can do it for you in a week easy not a problem right you're going to hire that guy so so these are some of the mindsets now what I want you to do is to take that mindset and flip it around and use it on you so whatever position you're applying for think about it this way what is the employer really want how can I give it to them without a bunch of garbage so when you're actually writing your resume and this is where the tips part comes in is the mindset actually meets the paper in this way when you're writing a resume be very clear about what you're offering specifically get rid of all the fancy mission statements get rid of all the fancy jargony words trying to fluff yourself up employers see through that really really fast in fact if you ever become an employer and you look at piles of resumes you get on your desk you can see people that are trying to fluff themselves up it's just like it's so so so apparent and they're trying to make themselves out to be more than they are the best resume is a simple bulleted list of exactly what you do what you specialize in what you're going to provide for this employer what your skill sets are how much experience you have in them and of course some of your personal characteristics that will create success so that means you know are you on time are you good working with other people are you friendly are you sociable are you diligent and hardworking are you reliable so definitely mention those qualities because every employer basically needs that in their employees otherwise the employee is not going to work out in the long run so have those qualities mentioned but generally focus on the skills that you provide right what can you do I can implement a shopping cart I can create a website I can write some web copy I can I can do some marketing I can I can do some set sales over the phone you know whatever your skills are list them and then list them specifically I know HTML I know C++ I know this coding language I know this thing I know how to check grammar and then of course back that up with experience so list what your experiences are to back up your skills so for example if you've done several years of work with HTML say that if you've created 10 websites say that if you have examples of the kind of work that you created that's the best that's basically a portfolio and if you have a good portfolio you're done you're sold you don't need anything else in fact if you have a strong portfolio I would lead with the portfolio because once someone sees your amazing work that's it they're sold they don't need anything else the rest is words a resume should not be wordy it should be very sparse it should be like a like a skeleton just an outline of exactly what you're providing to the employer because the employer is very selfish and they don't have time to read through your garbage in your flowery language and your your philosophy they don't care about any of that all they care about is what are you providing are you a good match for exactly what they need and then of course they're going to be the conversation about money and you want to figure that out and I'll cover that in some other video about negotiation for salary but that's basically it that's resume writing tips for you right there I'm going to be signing off here go ahead leave me some comments tell me what you think about this I think you'll really find this valuable if you just make that mental shift it's a mental shift put yourself into your employer shoes that's the whole secret to resume writing once you're in your employer shoes you don't need to me to be telling you specific tips you'll figure that all out yourself you'll know what to do it's actually very very easy so leave me your comments let me know how this worked out for you please go ahead like the and share it and then of course visit actualize org for more advanced personal development topics about career life purpose finding something that you're really passionate in and psychology the psychology of success that you are going to need at your new job to really kill it go ahead and also subscribe to my newsletter there it's 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