The Job Coach asks who is reading your resume’? Does monster have thousands of workers reading and putting them in the correct categories? I know from personal experience that is not true. I was working for a small printer in Oregon and we needed to have a good customer service person to work the counter. So the owner put bought an ad on Monster.

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Side bar – A lot of people think that when they buy a house the nice real estate person is working for them. Not true, the real estate person is working for the seller of the house not the buyer.

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It is the same with the internet job boards. These companies work for the buyer of ads not the hunter of jobs. Speaking as a buyer the service they all need improvement. We defined the job with care; we wanted a local person with cashier and customer service experience. What we got were 300 people that really wanted any job they could get. We even got an application from a felon that lived in Maine. So trust me even the people that do look at a resume’ don’t spend all that much time looking at the resume’. So who gets a job on Monster? Lucky people get jobs on Monster hence the name Job Lotto.

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So maybe you get lucky. You get an interview. What are the odds that the first interview is even in person? Not a chance the interview is over the phone with someone that has a list to rule you out with. They have no clue as to what you’re interviewing for. If your lucky (the job lotto word again) you may eventually get to the hiring manager. You go to the interview. How do you demonstrate that you’re the one?

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I have a story to illustrate. Some years ago I needed an income. I could not find a job in my field in sales so I went for any job. It was a factory job with a large chip manufacturer. I got the job but only kept it until the job I wanted came up and I quit. When I was talking to my engineer boss he asked what I was going to do. I said I was going into a sale position for about 3 times what I was making at the company. He said how ever you got a job here. I said it was simple when I came to the interview and gave the engineers what they were looking for. What do you mean, he asked? I said all the questions were designed to find people that fit certain characteristics and since I was a trained and experience sales person it was not hard for me to figure out what those were by the questions and answer correctly. Then a test was administered that had no answer. That meant that the correct answer to the test was to ask for help. So I waited a moment so as not to look like I knew this and asked for help. So I got hired

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I had no business doing this job. I had none of the natural skills necessary. I got the job over more skilled people because I was good at passing interviews not doing the job.

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That is what you are up against if the way you find work uses a resume’, an application and an interview. To be successful today your resume’ must be search engine optimize and you have to be a great interviewer. That is still Job Lotto.