
Welcome to the Control Your Career program!
This program will help you write a better resume and LinkedIn profile and conduct a better better, faster, easier job search. Your new materials will help you land better offers at companies that better suit you. This course contains instructional and explanatory videos and printable downloadables. The videos explain all the steps and instructions and context for why you're doing all the tasks. Then the downloadable materials will help you review the information after you've completed the program.
First up: Busting Myths & Answering Frequently Asked Questions
Let's address Frequently Asked Questions so you'll start the program with correct information.
There is a lot of false and misleading information about resumes and the job search. Let's bust resume and job search myths so you start the course with correct and helpful information.
Let's start with a reliable and impressive resume template.
This is the most important part of your resume (and LinkedIn profile). This is more important than your job descriptions. Your skills, actions, and responsibilities show that you can do the job. Your impact, your results, your accomplishments, and your achievements prove that you deserve the job. Let's make these crucial impact statements clear, concise, and focused so they prove you point. Here are specific instructions for constructing these critical statements.
How to write engaging job descriptions for every job in the Experience Section of your resume to prove your point.
80% of companies use some type of software called applicant tracking systems, or ATS, to search, filter out, and manage job candidates. Most of the time your resume has to get through this software before any person on the hiring team sees it. You have proven with your new resume why you deserve the job with your impact and your engaging job descriptions, so let's make sure that your great new resume lands you an interview. This ATS software is made by many companies and there many different packages and levels that they sell. Follow the instructions for beating all the systems so you land interviews.
When recruiters and hiring teams search for specific skills on LinkedIn, the only parts of your LinkedIn profile that show up in the search results are your profile picture and part of your headline. Your LinkedIn headline therefore goes a long way toward attracting the right attention. You have up to 220 characters for your LinkedIn headline. Follow these instructions to make sure that your LinkedIn headline is as helpful, impactful, and targeted as possible.
Your LinkedIn About section is your chance to prove to recruiters and hiring teams why they should connect and speak to you instead of your competition. Your About section should therefore support and prove the information in your LinkedIn headline.
You have up to 2,600 characters for the LinkedIn About section. We use a very specific template and formula for filling your About section with your impact and accomplishments to attract the right opportunities.
Your LinkedIn Experience Section proves your point about the About section and LinkedIn headline. You have up to 2,500 characters per job description to detail your accomplishments and prove your point. Feel free to copy and paste your experience directly from your new and improved resume Experience Section into each job description area on LinkedIn. You may even have more space here to add other accomplishments and further proof that you couldn't fit in the resume.
This section at is the end because the Cover Letter will be one of your least used materials in the job search. The Cover Letter is almost an afterthought in the job search, but here are instructions for writing a Cover Letter when a job application calls for one.
This section at is the end because the Thank Your Letter will be one of your least used materials in the job search. The Thank You Letter is an afterthought in the job search, but here are instructions for writing a Thank You Letter when the situation calls for one.
Are you frustrated with the job search? Do you feel lost on how to start your job search? Do you want expert advice without paying the expert price?
You can control your career path going forward by writing a better resume, optimizing your LinkedIn profile, and learning better, more productive job search methods. You will land a job faster at a company that suits you and that pays more money. You will be more hireable and earn more money than your competition.
This course was developed by career coach and resume writing and LinkedIn expert Soozy G. Miller who has helped hundreds of people, high school graduates to CEOs, to control their career path. The information in this course works for anyone in any field, even during layoffs.
You will learn how to:
Reject more jobs before companies reject you
Send a better resume that gives a perfect first impression and gets you an interview
Magnetize recruiters and hiring managers to your LinkedIn profile
Spend less time and effort on the job search and get better results
Prove why you're the best person for the job
Regardless of your current situation, if you follow the steps of this course you will get what you deserve.