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If I needed to land an HR interview in a week — and I didn’t have the “exact” experience — I would not try to match myself to the job description.

I would do the opposite.

I would build my resume and my stories around the exact words my managers have used about me.

For example, a job description might say:

“Brings hands-on expertise in employee relations, talent development, recruiting, learning & development, ethics, and people operations.”

Most people copy that language and try to prove they’ve done all of it.

But what actually gets you hired is this:

“Known for being an expert in process improvement especially for the most challenging and long-time unresolved problems including a Multimillion dollar tax discrepancy from a client"

That sentence carries more weight than every bullet in that job description combined.

Listen to how I break this myth down. It sounds very logical, but its an oversimplification of what people actually mean.

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