Your Resumes Success Is In Your Purpose and Your Passion

Your Resume’s Success Is In Your Purpose and Your Passion I’m sure the majority of us work so that we can provide for our families but don’t we also work because we’re passionate about something or feel we have a purpose for doing what we love? Life would lack some serious fulfillment if we were all just chasing down the paycheck every week and never felt like we were contributing something bigger in life â€" something outside of ourselves. Have you thought about your purpose for working? Do you work every day for a paycheckâ€"or for a purpose? This is going somewhere, so stay with me … When I started Great Resumes Fast my desire was to use my experience in HR as a hiring manager to help people create really great resumes. I saw a needâ€"so many people that had no clue what their resumes should communicate, look like, or include. It was holding them back in their job search and preventing them from landing their dream careers. And I just wanted to help change that. I knew I could use my HR experience to create a resume an employer would want to readâ€"and then these really awesome people (that would be You) would get that wonderful career they really wanted. My purpose is to help others on their journey to fulfilling their purpose by creating resumes that win interviews. And it isn’t exactly a need that goes away … there are millions of job seekersâ€"and very few people who know how to write an interview-winning resume. In turn, one of the key elements that make what we do so successful is purpose. We create brand-driven resumes that speak to your individuality as a candidate, communicate your value as an employee, and showcase those things that you have to offer the employer that no one else has. We essentially write about your purposeâ€"and your passion. One of the reasons so many resumes flounder in the job market is because they lack passion and purpose. They lack individuality and distinctiveness. Too many job seekers think they can hop onto a resume-sample Web site, copy something someone else has written, and ride it all the way to a new career. What they find out is doing this amounts to nothing. It’s as futile as trying to convince a dog that it’s really a cat or vice versa. You are who you areâ€"and you don’t fit the mold of someone else. And for good reason! Instead of trying to utilize a sample resume, or some generic phrases that almost everyone else uses on their resumes, communicate your purposeâ€"with passion. Use your resume to convey your purpose and how pursuing that very purpose fits into ABC company’s mission. When you can align your purpose with the company’s mission, you’ve met one of its greatest needsâ€"positioned yourself as an asset to the organization and single-handedly eliminated the bulk of your resume-sample-site-copying competition. Rise above the temptation to take the easy way outâ€"copying text from resume templatesâ€"and talk about what you know and what you love. Share your purpose with passion and land that next great career.