Do not turn your resume into spam!
Sometimes you have to hear such phrases from job seekers "I sent my resume to 200 vacancies this month." This means that 200 HR managers should spend their time reading your resume. How many of them actually read your resume? Judging by the fact that you are still in search of work, not all 200 are. Dumb mailing for all possible and impossible vacancies is not the best way to look for work.
Are you looking for a new job and sending your resume to dozens and hundreds of vacancies found on job sites? But you receive only single calls from recruiters and even more rare invitations for interviews?
Listen to my three tips, and you will stop wasting your time and even more so - the time of recruiters. After all, they get up to 80-90% of completely inappropriate resumes for every job posted on the Internet!
Do not turn your resume into spam!
If you still looked for work as a spam machine, just clicking “attach resume” and “send”, slow down, review your action plan and make adjustments to the resume according to my advice.
Note that no normal recruiter sends their vacancies right and left, at random. None of us looks through the resume, paying attention only to the headline and the size of the salary (as many job seekers do).
Shoting on sparrows is ineffective ... We work on a spot.
What does your resume need to be the first step to an interview, and not to the trash can and annoyance of the HR manager? Here are 3 reasons why I, as a recruiter, will still read your resume:
And if you haven’t read it, why are you sending us your resume at all?
Have you read only the job title and salary? Imagine if you read only the name of the medicine on the bottle and did not study the possible side effects? Would that be dangerous to your health?
If you only saw the name of the post “director”, but didn’t pay attention to which industry we need a person from, your image as a candidate has already decreased. If you just pecked at an attractive salary, but did not bother to read the mandatory requirements for candidates, your resume is worthless in the recipient's mailbox.
If you are sending your resume on a random basis, if you obviously do not fit the requirements of the employer, you are wasting your time and the time of the recruiter. For the majority of vacancies, recruiters have quite enough suitable candidates and your “maybe” never passes ...
And when recruiters work on very difficult vacancies and there are practically no candidates, then your “lucky friend” will not help them either, since recruiters usually “hunt” such candidates directly, without posting vacancies on the Internet.
First, let me know that you have read our requirements and wishes for the candidate. And that they coincide with your skills and experience!
Write about this briefly in the cover letter or in the “Purpose” section. 3-4 sentences, 2-3 paragraphs. Let the recruiter understand that your resume is not just another spam resume.
If you do not have a “Goal” section or a brief description of key experience aimed at a specific vacancy, do not send a resume! Do not try to compensate for the lack of real qualifications with promises and assurances such as “I’m learning fast,” “I will bring benefit to your company,” “I guarantee that I can handle it” and the like. Recruiters will not show their incompetence and show non-qualified candidates to the client company only on the basis of your promises ...
Be sure that your qualifications match the required minimum of 90%. You will save yourself and us a lot of time by honestly comparing your qualifications and job descriptions. Make sure that you are suitable for each item, "fall" into the job description. Or, at least 9 points out of 10. Otherwise, do not send a resume, appreciate yourself. Do not become a self-spammer.
Increasingly, on job sites, one can see desperate calls from recruiters in the vacancy text: “please send a resume only if you fully meet the above requirements !!!” or something like that ... Sometimes this is even a cry of the soul in CAPITAL letters.
Pity the recruiters ...
See for yourself that your resume is neatly formatted and tailored to a specific job.
I hope you have already made several versions of your resume, changing them to possible job options?
Your photo must be business. And not from the series “Me and my car”, “Me and my ...”, not from a party or a copy from an old passport. The photo must be fresh, i.e. not 3 years ago.
Use 1 font, but 2 colors are possible.
Use frames and underlines boldly and underline.
Write the names of the companies where you worked in CAPITAL letters.
After the name of the company, write what goods or services it produces or sells. You won’t believe it, but in 40% of cases it’s not clear from the resume in which industry the person worked and what exactly the company was selling ...
Use bulleted lists (as in this text) to list your responsibilities, facts and accomplishments; Make your resume readable.
Nothing extra. Focus on the requirements of a particular vacancy and do not make yourself a station wagon. Recruiters look through resumes quickly for information confirming the skills they need.
Do not cheat or exaggerate. Everything will open later. For example, HR managers are now all “coaches” and “coaches”. As it turned out at one last interview with the candidate, her allegedly alleged training experience four times mentioned in the summary turned out to be an anti-alcohol conversation with the workers of a construction company and a brief “motivating” speech at the meeting. A 10-minute speech with a deep sense of “you need to work at work” is not coaching ...
An intelligent recruiter should always get to the bottom of the matter and easily calculate the fakeness of your grandiose achievements.
Saturate your resume with keywords and phrases matching the job description and technical terms used in your industry and business.
If you are sure that you fully meet the requirements of the vacancy - do not miss the chance, make sure that the CV contains answers to ALL questions, i.e. each of the requirements for the candidate is your statement or, better, confirmation. Prove it first on paper.
If only you know that you are a suitable candidate, but it is not clear from the resume, how will the recruiter guess?
Include in your resume the keywords you need, as Internet marketers do in order for search engines to find their web pages. A recruiter looks at 100-200 resumes a day, he is like that little Google, which in a ton of paper ore is looking for gold grains by keywords, vigilantly looking for them in the text. Do not let those recruiters who look at the resume less vigilantly, diagonally, miss them.
Remember also that some recruiters are looking for candidates not only (and not so much) on job sites, but also using the same Google or Yandex, using certain key phrases. Let them find you!
In fact, the presence in the resume of key phrases and terms that match the job description is the main reason that the recruiter called you!
Only then can he be sure that you really (and carefully) read the text of the vacancy and first evaluated yourself. That you did the initial self-selection.
Of course, I can’t guarantee that now all recruiters will be more attentive to your resume. But now you know better what they expect from your resume, what exactly increases your chances and what helps recruiters not to miss you in the stream of resumes.
Take care of your time and recruiters, read the description of the vacancy, compare your qualifications with it, draw honest conclusions and do not send your resume “at random”. Focus on the fact that recruiters have only 3 of these reasons to call you ...
Are you looking for a new job and sending your resume to dozens and hundreds of vacancies found on job sites? But you receive only single calls from recruiters and even more rare invitations for interviews?
Listen to my three tips, and you will stop wasting your time and even more so - the time of recruiters. After all, they get up to 80-90% of completely inappropriate resumes for every job posted on the Internet!
Do not turn your resume into spam!
If you still looked for work as a spam machine, just clicking “attach resume” and “send”, slow down, review your action plan and make adjustments to the resume according to my advice.
Note that no normal recruiter sends their vacancies right and left, at random. None of us looks through the resume, paying attention only to the headline and the size of the salary (as many job seekers do).
Shoting on sparrows is ineffective ... We work on a spot.
What does your resume need to be the first step to an interview, and not to the trash can and annoyance of the HR manager? Here are 3 reasons why I, as a recruiter, will still read your resume:
And if you haven’t read it, why are you sending us your resume at all?
Have you read only the job title and salary? Imagine if you read only the name of the medicine on the bottle and did not study the possible side effects? Would that be dangerous to your health?
If you only saw the name of the post “director”, but didn’t pay attention to which industry we need a person from, your image as a candidate has already decreased. If you just pecked at an attractive salary, but did not bother to read the mandatory requirements for candidates, your resume is worthless in the recipient's mailbox.
If you are sending your resume on a random basis, if you obviously do not fit the requirements of the employer, you are wasting your time and the time of the recruiter. For the majority of vacancies, recruiters have quite enough suitable candidates and your “maybe” never passes ...
And when recruiters work on very difficult vacancies and there are practically no candidates, then your “lucky friend” will not help them either, since recruiters usually “hunt” such candidates directly, without posting vacancies on the Internet.
First, let me know that you have read our requirements and wishes for the candidate. And that they coincide with your skills and experience!
Write about this briefly in the cover letter or in the “Purpose” section. 3-4 sentences, 2-3 paragraphs. Let the recruiter understand that your resume is not just another spam resume.
If you do not have a “Goal” section or a brief description of key experience aimed at a specific vacancy, do not send a resume! Do not try to compensate for the lack of real qualifications with promises and assurances such as “I’m learning fast,” “I will bring benefit to your company,” “I guarantee that I can handle it” and the like. Recruiters will not show their incompetence and show non-qualified candidates to the client company only on the basis of your promises ...
Be sure that your qualifications match the required minimum of 90%. You will save yourself and us a lot of time by honestly comparing your qualifications and job descriptions. Make sure that you are suitable for each item, "fall" into the job description. Or, at least 9 points out of 10. Otherwise, do not send a resume, appreciate yourself. Do not become a self-spammer.
Increasingly, on job sites, one can see desperate calls from recruiters in the vacancy text: “please send a resume only if you fully meet the above requirements !!!” or something like that ... Sometimes this is even a cry of the soul in CAPITAL letters.
Pity the recruiters ...
See for yourself that your resume is neatly formatted and tailored to a specific job.
I hope you have already made several versions of your resume, changing them to possible job options?
Your photo must be business. And not from the series “Me and my car”, “Me and my ...”, not from a party or a copy from an old passport. The photo must be fresh, i.e. not 3 years ago.
Use 1 font, but 2 colors are possible.
Use frames and underlines boldly and underline.
Write the names of the companies where you worked in CAPITAL letters.
After the name of the company, write what goods or services it produces or sells. You won’t believe it, but in 40% of cases it’s not clear from the resume in which industry the person worked and what exactly the company was selling ...
Use bulleted lists (as in this text) to list your responsibilities, facts and accomplishments; Make your resume readable.
Nothing extra. Focus on the requirements of a particular vacancy and do not make yourself a station wagon. Recruiters look through resumes quickly for information confirming the skills they need.
Do not cheat or exaggerate. Everything will open later. For example, HR managers are now all “coaches” and “coaches”. As it turned out at one last interview with the candidate, her allegedly alleged training experience four times mentioned in the summary turned out to be an anti-alcohol conversation with the workers of a construction company and a brief “motivating” speech at the meeting. A 10-minute speech with a deep sense of “you need to work at work” is not coaching ...
An intelligent recruiter should always get to the bottom of the matter and easily calculate the fakeness of your grandiose achievements.
Saturate your resume with keywords and phrases matching the job description and technical terms used in your industry and business.
If you are sure that you fully meet the requirements of the vacancy - do not miss the chance, make sure that the CV contains answers to ALL questions, i.e. each of the requirements for the candidate is your statement or, better, confirmation. Prove it first on paper.
If only you know that you are a suitable candidate, but it is not clear from the resume, how will the recruiter guess?
Include in your resume the keywords you need, as Internet marketers do in order for search engines to find their web pages. A recruiter looks at 100-200 resumes a day, he is like that little Google, which in a ton of paper ore is looking for gold grains by keywords, vigilantly looking for them in the text. Do not let those recruiters who look at the resume less vigilantly, diagonally, miss them.
Remember also that some recruiters are looking for candidates not only (and not so much) on job sites, but also using the same Google or Yandex, using certain key phrases. Let them find you!
In fact, the presence in the resume of key phrases and terms that match the job description is the main reason that the recruiter called you!
Only then can he be sure that you really (and carefully) read the text of the vacancy and first evaluated yourself. That you did the initial self-selection.
Of course, I can’t guarantee that now all recruiters will be more attentive to your resume. But now you know better what they expect from your resume, what exactly increases your chances and what helps recruiters not to miss you in the stream of resumes.
Take care of your time and recruiters, read the description of the vacancy, compare your qualifications with it, draw honest conclusions and do not send your resume “at random”. Focus on the fact that recruiters have only 3 of these reasons to call you ...
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