A French-language YouTube monologue (Part 2) offering job-search advice from the recruiter's perspective. The speaker emphasizes that initial CV readers are often non-specialists (interns, secretaries, or automated systems), so applicants must tailor their resumes (often maintaining several versions) and use clear, strong, truthful language. Additional points: many interviewers are non-professionals and nervous, companies perform background checks via external firms, avoid jokes on resumes, and present accomplishments confidently without lying.
Hello, my friends. Thank you for welcoming yesterday's video. So this was the first part of this topic. How to find a job, how to look for or find a job. And the originality of the approach that I'm giving you is that very often you hear about people who are more on the job seeker side. So the one who responds to ads by sending a cv, I'm going to give you the other perspective. I'm going to give you the perspective of the person who is on the other side of the CV and who is going to receive it. So yesterday I stressed a very important point. You read an ad, you respond. The problem is that you imagine that you are going to respond to the person who wrote the ad. This reasoning is wrong in 75% of cases. Even more, the first person who will read your CV and who has the ability to send it to the trash or keep it is not the person who wrote the ad, but someone else who often has no skills in your field. It could be an intern, it could be a secretary who manages 300, 300 job applications, three quarters of which we don't understand. It could be a computer. Sometimes it's completely computerized. And what happens is you can even have fun doing the following. Respond to an ad and then use synonyms of the words they use. And then very often your cv, even if it's excellent, will end up in the trash because the person who is not a professional in your core business will not be able to understand that the words you use are just synonyms. So it's very important to personalize your resume. And normally, if you do your job well, you'll end up with half a dozen different resumes that you'll adapt to each answer. That's very, very important. So when you look at resumes, when I receive resumes, often the recruitment process is so complicated in companies. I've worked for some of the largest companies in the world in Haiti, and frankly, the process is so complicated that very few people have an overall view of the process. That means I receive resumes on my desk. I vaguely know that they went through some department, but I have no idea how they selected them or on what basis. I'm the first one to look at these resumes in the group that understands the substance of these resumes. But there's a chance that sometimes I've complained, sometimes I've even contacted the department that receives the CVs and ask them, did you understand the ad? Because you've been sending us all sorts of nonsense for the past few days. I do that sometimes. I've done that sometimes. But it's not, how can I put it? It's not a priority. Let me tell you why. The person who recruits you or the people you interact with are most often not professional recruiters. Their job is not to recruit you. Their job is something else. They have other things to do and what happens, they have this task of recruiting someone and everyone participates, everyone contributes. So if you like, they're amateurs, right? They're like volunteer papers. That's how you have to see them. They're not professional recruiters. So sometimes you go to an interview and you're nervous, and the guy who's doing the interview, he might be just as nervous as you are. He might have done two interviews in his life and he's nervous. I can tell you, my first interviews, I was sometimes more nervous than the candidate himself. So you have to stay calm about these things. So don't tell any nonsense on your resume. No jokes. Why? Because more and more companies, when they get to the point of signing the contract, will check the entire resume. It's not the company itself that does it. Usually they have a contract with external companies that do nothing else. They email them the resume and these people will thoroughly search it. They'll call your former employer s, the places where you say you studied and so on. They're going to do a background check. They check it and they come back to the employer and tell them, okay, okay, okay. So don't tell jokes on your resume. Another thing, don't be modest on your resume, please. No false modesty. I'll tell you why. Because people tend to glorify themselves. So without lying, use go in, go almost in superlatives. Use the most powerful words that are the most meaningful in relation to what you did without lying. It's a very difficult exercise, but you have to do it. Why? Because what happens is that very often people do this on their resume. I've had hundreds of resumes and people do this often. They tend to glorify themselves and when you talk to them on the phone, it's a disaster. If you're too modest, your resume can come across as a bit of a show off compared to the rest of the job. So try to make sure that you're marketing your resume. You're actually selling a service, okay? It's a service that you're selling. So you need to trigger a buying reflex in your target audience. They need to say.
