Beshara - Unbeatable raesumaes: Americas top recruiter reveals what really gets you hired

Americas Top Recruiter Reveals
What Really Gets You Hired

TONY BESHARA

FOREWORD BY DR. PHIL McGRAW

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Beshara, Tony, 1948

Unbeatable rsums : Americas top recruiter reveals what really gets you hired / Tony Beshara ; foreword by Phil McGraw.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8144-1762-1 (pbk.)

ISBN-10: 0-8144-1762-0 (pbk.)

1. Rsums (Employment)United States. I. Title.

HF5383.B4335 2011

650.142dc22

2011006635

2011 Tony Beshara

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On The Dr. Phil Show, we strive to bring our guests the best of the best in every category of resource during and after the show. Tony Beshara is just thatthe best of the best! Given these tough economic times, more and more of our guests find themselves in social or economic distress, often recently unemployed with the challenge of having to reinvent themselves and find a new career path. Tony is one of the top placement and recruitment specialists in the United States, and with him in your corner you have an incredible advantage. He has developed one of the most successful systems for finding a job or changing careers ever devised. It is specific, action oriented, and above all, doable.

We asked Tony to intervene with a husband and father, who was out of work for eight months through no fault of his own. Tony began with a dynamic and scientifically based rewrite of his rsum. Within thirty minutes, the transformation had begun. The simple but effective changes that Tony made are here in this book.

The guest implemented Tonys system, including the newly shaped rsum, and despite being in California with its terrible job market, a new job was created. Now, it took nine months of hard job-searching work; it wasnt easy, but it was doable. There was nothing mystical or magical about what he didjust good, solid, well-executed planning and work.

A rsum is one of the most important tools you can have in a job search.

Tonys first two books, The Job Search Solution and Acing the Interview, were bestsellers because of Tonys practical, in-the-trenches strategies for how to get a job. He knows what works. Tony taps into everything he knows from decades of job-placement experience when he shows job candidates how crafting their rsums differently can make all the difference in finding a job. When it comes to looking for a job and creating the most effective rsum, Tonys Unbeatable Rsums is of the highest standard. Some people are going to get the jobs that are out there. With Tonys system in the mix, your chances are clearly going to go way up. Good luck, and God bless you and your family.

Dr. Phil

Greatest thanks go to Chrissy for her prayers, time, and spiritual support. A great deal of thanks goes to the team at AMACOM: Ellen, Erika, Carole, and Kama... you all are the best! Thanks also go to Pam Williams, who kept these chapters straight revision after revision, and to Vernelle Fugitt for her research. Thanks to Phil McGraw, his organization, and their spirit of service. And a special thanks to the thousands of candidates I have worked with over the years who contributed to this books contents.

Dedicated to Gods greatest blessings,
My wonderful wife and best friend, Chrissy, and our family.

I personally receive 200 to 300 rsums each week. I personally use 200 rsums each week to find people jobs. Being on the front line, in the trenches, when it comes to rsums, I know what works and what doesnt. This isnt theory; this is truth. Here are the most common mistakes people make regarding their rsums. In this book, I debunk rsum myths and give you all the inside info youll need to get the edge in obtaining job interviews.

So, here are the top ten BIG mistakes people make when preparing their rsums:

1. Overestimating the value of a rsum. Suffice it to say, the value of your rsum in getting you a job, let alone an interview, isnt what you think! Yes, of course there are valuable things to learn about how to craft your rsum, but its also good to have accurate expectations. I explain in depth the reasons people overestimate the impact of a rsum.

2. Overestimating the attention paid to rsums. The average rsum gets read in ten seconds! Most people imagine that someone will systematically and carefully examine, dissect, and digest the rsum in front of them. The truth is that interviewing or hiring authorities only glance at rsums. They look for companies they recognize, the longevity of jobs held, and maybe a few other things. Thats it! They then determine whether to read it in-depth at a later time. If your rsum doesnt grab attention in ten seconds, its over.

3. Underestimating the odds. People underestimate the number of rsums that interviewing or hiring authorities receive. It is not uncommon for them to receive 200 to 300 rsums for every job opening. With the appearance of the send button, these people get overloaded with rsums even when they arent looking to hire.

4. Overestimating the qualifications of the people who will screen or pass along the rsum. If you think the right people are reading your rsum, youre wrong!

5. Including the wrong content. Even the most experienced professionals put the wrong content into their rsums. They make the mistake of including material that they understand, instead of information that will be understood by the people who matterthe ones who can grant you an interview. If a high school senior, who doesnt know you, has problems reading your rsum and understanding exactly what you have done, who you have done it for, and how successful you were, just imagine what the hiring authorities will think! You have put the wrong content in your rsum! For instance, people routinely list the names of companies they have worked for, without explaining what the companies do. They assume that since they know who their company is and what it does, everyone else does, too. Oh, boy!