Throwing Good Money After Bad Resumes’
You’ve been applying to LOGCAP positions and overseas support positions for months now – maybe even more. You had trouble putting your experience into effective words, so you forked over a wad of cash to have your resume “professionally” rewritten. But still your inbox is empty after many, many, many uploads of your resume for positions that you know full well you are qualified for.
So you ask yourself the burning question: Why?
This is one of the most common problems I am contacted for on a surprisingly regular basis, and the reason for this problem that keeps you up at night is so simple.
The person who wrote your resume probably had zero LOGCAP experience and quite frankly, didn’t have a clue about putting together a resume that’s effective for finding LOGCAP jobs.
So what do you do now?
Step back and look at your resume’ as if it belonged to someone else.
Say what?
“Logcap-ease”, that is, the language and means of expressing your KSA’s (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities), is highly evolved and your resume needs to specifically capture your experience in a manner which LOGCAP recruiters and hiring authorities can relate to.
Moreover, your resume must convey to recruiters and hiring authorities that you have done your homework about LOGCAP. That even though you may not have LOGCAP experience, you at least took the time to find out how to spell it.
When a job requisition is sitting on a recruiter’s desk and it’s their job to select a field of applicants for the hiring authority to choose from, they aren’t going to find an application that uses incorrect terminology.
And they certainly will not forward a resume describing something the applicant claims to have in-depth experience in, but doesn’t even get the acronym right.
Not many get hired for LOGCOP jobs.
Fresh Eyes
Let’s say you decided to write your resume yourself – you’ve got LOGCAP experience, you know the language, and you know how to express it correctly. You’ve spent hours producing your masterpiece and have proofed it over and over. Still the big problem is that sometimes you can’t see things clearly until somebody else reads your resume for the first time and the errors stick out like a sore thumb.
The second problem is that you got impatient and have already uploaded it to that job you’ve had your eye on. You can’t get a do over – ouch.
A word of advice – if you’re going to get someone to proof your resume for you, make sure it isn’t one of your relatives or friends, and especially make sure it isn’t somebody you’re in direct competition with for the same job.
To get a recruiter to take notice of your resume, it must be exceptional in all regards which first and foremost includes being completely free of typo’s, grammatical errors, punctuation errors, text alignment errors, verb tense errors, contextual errors – all of which I have talked about before, but bears repeating.
Take the time to find someone who can help make sure your resume’ is ready to do its job, so that you have the best chance of finding yours.
Feel free to contact me at info@logcap4jobs.com for an evaluation of your present resume, and be sure to visit my site at www.logcap4jobs.com!
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Sir,my resume is very close to what your said,i’m sending my resume for your avaluation.Thanking you for your time.
I am having a hard time getting my resume noticed or to the right person, I want to work for KBR but I cannot get a reply , only an acknowledgement of my resume being sent. Any advice would be helpful. please respond by e-mail if you will.
The article Mr. Diggs has written has strong substance to it. I’m a LOGCAP employee and in addition would like to advise all readers vying for a position in LOGCAP to have a strong cover letter/resume directly targeting the position you’re applying for. A Clearance is close to a must and definately a plus! Have your dates lined up correctly and explain all openings (unemployment) if applicable. GOOD LUCK!
ive just joined dangerzonejobs. And i am looking for any suggestions on where to get my resume done targeted toward the security side of overseas contracting. any help would be greatly appreciated
thank you
Will – you can email your present resume to me – info@logcap4jobs.com and I will be glad to take a look.
I really suck at writing a resume. do you have anyone that you would recomend to write my resume for me if I provide them the information. I currently have a 2 year old resume that is not very good that a friend helped me put together
Steve – drop me a line and forward your current resume to info@logcap4jobs.com.
In the meantime, also check-out my website, http://www.logcap4jobs.com.