Volunteer at the Montgomery County Job Club, part of Meetup.com, , Phoenixville Public Library, discussing Interview Questions and Answers and Job Search, offer customized practice interviews,15 plus years as a member of Toastmasters.Topics discussed:THE 20 SECOND READ23WednesdayMar 2016If a resume does not result in a telephone ( or in-person) interview, it is not worth the paper it is written on.Omit: Objective, Summary, and the statement “ References available upon request.”Substitute: Capabilities Overview, or Significant Accomplishments to begin your resume.This section should be guided by 2 criteria: the job requirements and the golden trio on why you will be hired; namely, you make money, save time, and save money for the company.It should be done in the form of bullets and should not be repeated in the company workdescriptions. Let the interviewer ask “Where did you accomplish this?”All resumes must be customized for the position requirements you are responding to.All resumes must be matched against word cloud generators, such as jobscan.co or wordle.net, to attempt to bypass the ATS system that is in place to check that the key words of the position match your resume.The first third to the first half of the first page has to be information on steroids to keep the attention of the reader and to get to or beyond “the 20 second read.”Check to see that your resume is not dense and difficult to read, – no lines, no borders, bullets are bullets, not stars or triangles, etc., no bold black ink, no shading. Go online and review various methods to bypass the ATS.A resume is a passport to an interview. If after 20-25 send outs using the above criteria, the does not result in favorable activity, change it again.Stand Out Above Your Competition

Taught two workshops at the Buffalo Employment Training Center for employment interviewing techniques and job searchSkills, as a volunteer.I have 30 plus years as a owner/recruiter placing technical and professional people in WNY and nationally.