{"id":2439,"date":"2008-03-07T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2008\/03\/07\/your-purchasing-resume\/"},"modified":"2021-07-29T11:05:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T15:05:20","slug":"your-purchasing-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/your-purchasing-resume\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Purchasing Resume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that you have enjoyed the article \u201cPurchasing Resume Perfection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the contributions of Tonia Deal, I really think that this article hits all the major points for developing an effective purchasing resume. But be sure to also download the free podcast that accompanies the article as well as there are many valuable points that didn\u2019t make it into the article.<\/p>\n<p>As we discussed in the podcast, even if you have a great purchasing resume, you can really blow your chances by not being careful in the way that you submit it. Here are some points to follow, based on real-world mistakes that purchasing professionals make with their resumes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>If you submit your resume as an email attachment, write something in the body of the email!<\/strong> With all of the computer viruses and spyware that exist, employers who get resumes may be reluctant to open an attachment without an explanation of that attachment even if you\u2019ve named the file \u201cjohn smith\u2019s resume.doc\u201d or something similar.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Don\u2019t spam!<\/strong> It creates a bad impression if you send out your resume to several people and BCC everyone (or worse, include everyone\u2019s email address in the header). Hiring managers are likely to feel that you are treating them as unimportant if you cannot send a personal email. After all, how much time are you really saving? 15 minutes? Investing that extra few minutes in your purchasing career will increase your chances of being considered for the better purchasing jobs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Follow instructions!<\/strong> If the job ad says to submit your resume by email with the subject line \u201cPurchasing Manager Position,\u201d then do exactly that. Not \u201cSupply Chain Manager Job.\u201d Not \u201cProcurement Vacancy.\u201d Not \u201cMy Resume.\u201d \u201cPurchasing Manager Position.\u201d If you don\u2019t do as employers tell you, they will think: \u201cGeez. If he can\u2019t even follow simple instructions for submitting his resume, how can I ever trust him to manage $5 million in spend?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Still, this advice just scratches the surface of what we covered in the podcast. So check out the podcast. In fact, check out ALL of the podcasts. We\u2019ve had two great ones in the past two weeks and we\u2019re up to 13 overall. Unfortunately, SupplyNow hasn\u2019t released a podcast since Ariba announced its acquisition of Procuri, so I hope that the recently increased frequency of our Purchasing &amp; Supply Management Podcast Series can help to fill that void to some degree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that you have enjoyed the article \u201cPurchasing Resume [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Your Purchasing Resume - Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/your-purchasing-resume\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Your Purchasing Resume - 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