…and sooo many are really bad!

As the President of Career Movement, which is an Executive Search and Career Coaching firm, I can say that the market is flooded with resumes right now as bad as the Mississippi River was flooded during the Great Flood of 1927. We have no trouble finding resumes right now. The challenge, as always, is finding the A+ resumes that will thrill our clients.

What does this mean for today’s job seeker?

? Your resume must give recruiters what they need quickly

? It must have desired “key words” to ensure search engines grab your resume

? Your accomplishments must be significant and quantifiable

? Business vocabulary at least “two levels above” your level must be used

? You can’t have a bunch of “fluff” that gets in the way of what is really important

I have always admired the work of the poet Kipling, but don’t follow the advice from his work, “If –” where he says, “And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise.” In the case of the Great Resume Flood of 2009, you must make your resume look good and your vocabulary must be, “two levels above” you, wise.  So as the recruiter’s levies cave with the endless sea of resumes, the candidates must know how to float to the top.

You can either do this yourself or hire an expert. If you use an expert you have to shop around and use a partner you trust to do a great job, is reasonably priced and guarantees their work. Unlike firms such as The Ladders, who charge $850 (WOW!!) to do a resume (although they throw in a free cover letter if you get their special!), there are excellent, affordable options out there.

At Career Movement we have built an Online Training Product called Power Resume which gives you all the details and tips you need to do your resume yourself for only $19.99 in a way that will significantly differentiate your resume from the millions of other resumes out there.

For those who don’t want to try and develop their own Power Resume, we offer a personalized resume service with a Certified Career Coach.

Once you have a great resume you need to have a great sales job search strategy which is a blog for another day. But one great tip to is to immeadiately post it on a niche sales job board like Sales Gravy Jobs.

There are good sales jobs out there, but you have to be at the top of your game to get those jobs.

Written by Tony Petrucci. Tony is the President of Career Movement Executive Search and Career Coaching.