Recruitment Manager needs to handle the overwhelming of job application everyday with minimum 100 to maximum 1000+ of application, you must create and make your resume standout in order to get noticed by employers. One of the recent LinkedIn Discussion discuss about whether applying a jobs online by providing employers your online resume is a waste of time? Of Course this statement is asking the chicken and egg story where there will be no answer forever unless miracle happens.
Basically, I must accede that sometime applying a jobs is easier if the candidates spend some time on networking with the existing employee of the particular organization. As per unofficial statistic, job seeker’s time spent in networking and socializing is better opposed to posting and designing their online resume to the best. Employers nowadays are quite frustrated with the overwhelming online job application which occur the most unqualified candidates in there.
Nonetheless, if through your networking you meet your desire company to work with and chances of they ask you to send your resume online is very high. Employers do not want to keep all physical resume anymore and online resume is the best solution after all available for employer. Hence, a proper pre-preparation of an excellent and standout online resume is still a must for all job seekers.
There are some useful advices on how to make your online resume standout and make yourself standout from the rest of the needle:
- Make sure your online resume first page is the cover letter or introduction of yourself and assured 100% error free, tidy, professional looking and most importantly is the content must be relevant to the jobs you are applying.
- During the re-write process, you must show real hand on experience that you have for the past and paste in properly in not too long explanation. The keyword using must be attractive enough and precisely such as “Sales volume doubled in 3rd Quarter”, “Promoted to Sales & Marketing Manager” and “Staff managing skill and manage to keep lower than 5% of headcount turn around”. People likes to see numbers and comparison, if can you must include both alphabet and numbers or percentage in the statement. By doing so, your online resume will become more alluring to your desire employers.
- Thirdly, word of mouth is a very useful and powerful tool to securing a job in this competitive market. By sending an online resume to the company without any relation will bring you down by the result. Beside that, don’t be shy to ask your friends for introduction just in case you are unable to get any contact from your desire employer. Like the power of facebook, you can easily find your ex-schoolmate, those employees who are working in that company and take initiative to get known to them.
- Fourthly, your online resume must be search engine friendly and keep blogging your expertise and comment on market situation. Employer will often do a random search on Google to view how actively you are in the market or any good and bad review about you.
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