{"id":23429,"date":"2024-11-19T16:24:26","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T21:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/?p=23429"},"modified":"2024-11-19T16:27:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T21:27:11","slug":"on-demand-elevate-your-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/2024\/11\/19\/on-demand-elevate-your-resume\/","title":{"rendered":"Elevate your resume: How to beat the seven-second barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Recorded: November 7, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"youtube-video\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AP3QxTpBrpQ?si=HSyle5tzDu6zm6Np\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Many recruiters claim that they know within about seven seconds of looking at a resume whether to cut someone from the candidate pool. So how can job seekers capture the attention of managers and decision-makers to ensure they&#8217;ll advance to the next stage in the process?<\/p>\n<p>In this webinar, we&#8217;ll cover:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to play nice with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)<\/li>\n<li>Layouts, visuals, and stylistic options<\/li>\n<li>Action verbs: what they mean, how to use them, and why<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re a candidate with decades of work experience, how do you condense that into 1-2 pages? And if you have little work history, how do you convey your professional qualifications?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Speaker<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Deborah Jancourtz<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Assistant Director of Career Education, Boston University Center for Career Development<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn the secrets to help your resume stand out from the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20583,"featured_media":23433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,28,1],"tags":[1325,173,1324,1323],"featured_img":"\/alumni\/files\/2024\/11\/beat-the-seven-second-barrier-800x600.png","agg_excerpt":"Learn the secrets to help your resume stand out from the rest.","agg_title":"Elevate your resume: Beat the seven-second barrier","media_icon":"webinar-icon","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20583"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23429"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23436,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23429\/revisions\/23436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}