Blue Collar Resume Mastery: Your Skills, Their Language: The Working Person's Guide to Getting Hired

By John Crager

BLUE COLLAR RESUME MASTERY

Your Skills, Their Language: The Working Person's Guide to Getting Hired

Your Experience Has Value. Your Resume Doesn't Show It.

Mike Rodriguez could wire a hospital. He'd managed crews of twelve electricians. Perfect safety record over fifteen years. When his company downsized, he figured finding new work would be straightforward.

Six months later, he was still unemployed.

The problem wasn't his skills. His resume was killing his chances before he got to demonstrate what he could do.

The Translation Gap That Costs You Jobs

You build things. Fix things. Make things work. But hiring systems were designed by people who've never held a wrench or operated equipment. They understand degrees and buzzwords. They have no idea what it means to troubleshoot a hydraulic system at 2 AM or coordinate multiple trades under deadline pressure.

This creates a translation problem. Your work has real value - you just need to speak their language to get recognized.

Most resume advice makes this worse. Career guides assume you want to hide your blue-collar background. They push generic office language that strips away the specific capabilities that make you valuable.

From Shop Floor to Office Speak

This book teaches you to translate your real work into language hiring managers understand - without pretending to be someone you're not.

You'll discover:

The Challenge-Action-Result framework that transforms job duties into achievement storiesIndustry-specific translation guides for construction, manufacturing, maintenance, and service workStrategic positioning for advancement within the trades vs. transitioning to office rolesTechnology skills you didn't know counted - and how to present them effectivelyATS optimization that gets you past automated screening without sounding roboticInterview strategies that turn your hands-on experience into selling pointsYour Background Is Your Competitive Advantage

Companies desperately need people who understand how things actually work. Who can solve real problems under real constraints. Who bring authentic leadership developed through demonstrated competence.

Your blue-collar background isn't something to overcome - it's something to leverage.

This book shows you exactly how to do that.

Whether you're advancing within the trades, moving into coordination roles, or transitioning to management, you'll learn to present your experience in ways that generate opportunities instead of automatic rejection.

"The best workers aren't always the best at selling themselves on paper. This book fixes that problem."
-John Crager, former chemical plant operator turned executive

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FVXYMW7Y
• ISBN13: 9798269588926
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"