The Irrelevant Content

This blog is written mostly tongue in cheek. Some points may be informative. Please provide your feedback.
If you suffer from self-irrelevancy, please seek professional advice.

Hello. Yesterday I attended a resume writing course. The speaker was very good.
There was one message that I will never forget. He said the interviewer(s) will decide in the first 7 seconds whether you will be contacted for an interview. That means your resume has to be a marketing document. It has to get the interviewer's attention to stand out from the rest.
What it also means is the resume content is irrelevant.
Think about that for a minute. All your accomplishments, education, etc are irrelevant if your resume doesn't catch someone's eye.
Why is this so? For the same reason, as our speaker elaborated on, as a newspaper has headlines. Can you imagine looking through a newspaper without headlines? Me neither.
More tomorrow.

Regards,
Irrelevant