resume writing. then what?

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Hello, hello. Hope everybody's enjoying their Tuesday afternoon. Wanted to bring this episode to you as kind of a repeat from the last episode. And the reason being is because I didn't deploy it to the App Store, where people can listen to actually from my podcast. So I'm going to do the rerun. So if you listen to this last time about where to post your resume, what job boards to use, you can skip over this episode. If you want to hear it again, here you go. Before I dive in, again, that's where to reach me is Taylor at vaco.com. Again, that's V is InvictorACO.com. Also, all my social media is T-decent, again, that's D is in David, E-S-S-E-Y-N.

So let's go ahead and dive right in. Like I said last time, and what we spoke about last time was, all right, you get fired, you get let go. We spoke briefly on how to write a resume, what I look for with candidates. Now we're going to talk about where to post your resume, what job boards to use, and we'll go from there. So I personally recommend anyone in the IT space to use DICE that is extremely important. I actually spend most of my recruiting time on DICE, and from a recruiter's perspective, you only have to be in the IT field to be on DICE.

So it's not a ton of individuals that kind of muddy up the job boards, which is one of the downfalls I feel like, career builder, is that anybody can be on career builder, and there's a lot more noise, quote unquote on that. So if you're in the technology space, please, please update your resume to DICE. I do have to say, us recruiters, we do tend to search on last activity. So even if you're not on the job boards, but for some reason you log into DICE to make an edit on your resume, us recruiters search on last activity. So even though you logged on your DICE and you aren't looking, you will still get emailed.

So please be careful about that. A lot of my senior developers that I'm good friends with in the national market, sometimes do that. And I of course have to text them and they make a joke how they can blow them up already. So just make a note of that. I do recommend career builder, probably the most if you're not in the IT field, just because they have such a broad reach around the country. And it's a very easy piece of software to use. So make sure your resume is on career builder. If you're in the IT space, you're probably going to ask, should I do career builder in DICE?

Sure. But I do have to say, the more your resume is online in different places, the more you're going to get hit up by recruiter. So if you have an all monster DICE career builder, indeed, etc., etc., the more your resume is out there, the more college you're going to get. I've talked with individuals in the past that I've had to cancel their phone number because so many recruiters were calling them. So just be aware of that. A lot of people have come to ask me as well, hey, what should I do about my LinkedIn? Should I have one? Is it necessary? What would you recommend?

I absolutely recommend to have a LinkedIn. I think it's very important to have as much internet presence as possible on the social media side of things. And so LinkedIn, I feel like has done a really good job over the last six months of being less cluttered. I've actually have been able to get more traction and more communication with my clients over LinkedIn than actually any other social media site professionally. So a few tips on LinkedIn, make sure you have a professional picture. I can't tell you how many bathrooms, selfies I see, so that's very important. The next thing I had to develop a reach out to me this week actually and say, hey, how do I need to write my LinkedIn?

Do I need you to need to dump my resume into it? What does that look like? And what I would do is I would just do two sentences. And again, I'm coming out from a technology side, from a development side. But what I would put in simple terms is describing your job as if you would describe it to your grandmother in one sentence. So I developed software that helps communicate field technicians to back office or something like that. And then I would also, then the next sentence, I would just put the technologies you're using. And that allows recruiters to be able to search on your LinkedIn for specific job titles and job skill sets.

But they won't get bogged down in super long paragraph, super long paragraph write up. So that's my two cents on LinkedIn and on the job boards. Any questions email me and look forward to talking next episode about what to do after you write your resume and get your resume on the job boards.