Job Search - Are You Looking For Help or Are You Looking To Help?

Do you ever question yourself about your motives for seeking employment? Do you want more than to just "get a job?" Are you presenting yourself as someone who can help? Or do you simply present yourself as someone who needs help?


What does your resume say? Does your resume cry out as someone in need of help? Or does it cry out as someone who wants to help? If you cannot answer a resounding "YES" to the latter question; you have a problem! You must present in your resume and interviews as someone who wants to help and who can help. If you cannot do that then you truly are of no help and therefore why should the prospective employer hire you? What is in it for them?

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Show Recruiters and Hiring Managers How You Can Help

Here are ways that you can present yourself as someone who can help. Here are words that, when properly used and demonstrated, show your ability to help: 



Your resume cannot simply include these words; there must be short vignettes that demonstrate where you used these qualities to benefit an organization. Your resume must tell a story of accomplishment and success and ideally it should be a story of increasing accomplishment and success.

Your Resume Must Tell Your Story

The story your resume tells should leave the reader asking for more information. You cannot tell the entire story or the reader will feel that more is not needed. They will leave the resume believing they have learned all that they need to know; obviously not the result you want. Remember that facts (which you see in most resumes) tell, but stories sell. Stories have the added advantage of demonstrating what you have done and allow the reader to project that to what you can do for them.

1. A problem or situation solver
2. Creative
3. Passionate
4. Tenacious
5. Competitive
6. A visionary
7. A leader
8. A team builder

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Can Your Reader See How You Will Add to the Organization?

If your reader is able to project what you can do and it matches what the organization needs done; you have accomplished your goal and an interview should be forthcoming. If the reader projects what you can do and there is no match; then neither of you will waste any more time.

If what the reader projects is not consistent with what you can do; then there is a disconnect with your story and hopefully you will be able to ascertain this. That will be a difficult task but if you have the necessary networking connections within the organization you may be able to get the information you desire and need so you can make the necessary changes.

John F. Kennedy put it best when he said "It is not what your Country can do for you; it is what can you do for your Country." For a job seeker I want to paraphrase President Kennedy a bit: it is not what your prospective company can do for you; it is what can you do for your prospective company.

Happy job hunting and let me know what I can do for you!

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This Article Was Written By: Tom Staskiewicz

Tom Staskiewicz is a Career, Accountability, and Job Coach.

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