❌ REMOVE this from your resume!

Plus: How to answer ANY behavioral interview question.

July 26, 2023

Work It Daily

Hello Everyone and Happy Wednesday! We’re halfway through the week, yet again! We hope your week has been off to a good start, and if not we hope it turns around. Enjoy!

In today's email:

  • 10 things to remove from your resume. It doesn’t need it.

  • How to get a recruiters attention. It can be difficult!

  • Career FAILURE! It happens to the best of us.

  • Career WWYD. What would YOU do?

  • Behavioral interview questions. What even are they??

Here’s what’s going on in the news (related to careers of course):

A hiring manager will spend, on average, seven seconds scanning your resume.

Seven seconds is not a lot of time, which means you need to showcase the right information on your resume. You need to be clear and simple, while also getting your point across, we like the phrase “less is more”.

It’s easy to want to add a ton of different information to try and impress hiring managers, but there is some information that’s just not necessary.

Here’s what you should be removing from your resume.

How To Get A Recruiters Attention!!!

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Failure can feel like a very negative word, especially in a work setting. No one wants to fail, but it’s inevitable that you will fail at some point during your career. We don’t say this to scare you, but to help you prepare for if/when it happens. A failure can be difficult to navigate in a work setting, which is why we are here to help.

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Sergey is getting married in 6 months. He and his future spouse want to take a 3-week honeymoon. He only has 2 weeks of vacation available. He asked his boss if he could take a week unpaid, and was told no. Sergey is still planning the vacation. He’s planning to try to find a new job in hopes he can start it when he returns from the honeymoon. When should he start looking for a new job?

What should he do? Click HERE to respond.

Having a fancy or colorful pen is always more fun to write with. These are some of our favs.

Recently, hiring managers have been asking more of these types of questions during interviews.

Behavioral questions are a very specific type of question, and if you aren’t prepared it could catch you off guard. You are also going to want to answer these types of questions strategically, because hiring managers are looking for something specific when they ask you these.

But what even is a behavioral interview question?

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