Finding people through job sites can seem like a daunting task for many
recruiters. If you reply to a recruiter's job listing on one of the popular job
sites like Monster, HotJobs or CareerBuilder, chances are you'll be one of 200
or more people responding. Most recruiters will only look through the first 20
or so resumes. As we've mentioned in previous articles, one way to distinguish
yourself when replying to a job ad is to use a unique and catchy subject for the
email message.Finding people through job sites can seem like a daunting task for
many recruiters. If you reply to a recruiter's job listing on one of the popular
job sites like Monster, HotJobs or CareerBuilder, chances are you'll be one of
200 or more people responding. Most recruiters will only look through the first
20 or so resumes. As we've mentioned in previous articles, one way to
distinguish yourself when replying to a job ad is to use a unique and catchy
subject for the email message. HOW RECRUITERS SEARCH FOR CANDIDATESAnother
way to increase your odds of being selected by a recruiter, which can be even
more powerful, is by taking steps to increase the chances your resume will be
found when recruiters search the job sites. The best way to do this is to
optimize your resume for keywords recruiters might be searching for. Because
there are so many resumes on the job sites, many recruiters use complex boolean
search strings to try to find someone who matches the job description they're
trying to fill. Just as an example, let's say the job the recruiter is trying to
fill calls for an administrative assistant who can write letters, edit
spreadsheets and handle email and scheduling. The recruiter might search for
"Word and Excel and Outlook and administrative assistant." The resume that will
come up first will probably be the one that mentions those 4 things the most.
Guess what happens to an administrative assistant who knows Outlook but didn't
mention it on his/her resume? They wouldn't even come up in the
search.Especially during an economic downturn, many companies ask recruiters to
find people who can essentially handle the tasks of what might have previously
been more than one position. So the recruiter may be looking for someone who
primarily has one set of skills, but who also has another set of skills that
most people with the first skillset don't have. Many recruiters and HR people
are not familiar enough with the positions they recruit for to know that the
skill combination the company's seeking is unlikely to exist in a single person.
So they take on the task of searching for someone with the wide range of skills
the hiring manager is seeking. When they find someone who mentions all the
skills on their resume and whose current and prior job titles fit with the job
they're trying to fill, they're excited and eager to recruit that person! This
puts you, the job candidate, in a much better position than being one of several
hundred people replying to a job listing.BEING THE CANDIDATE THE RECRUITER CAN'T
WAIT TO TALK TOWhen your resume is one of the few that come up in a recruiter's
search for resumes, you become the prize the recruiter wants to win. This is the
reverse of the scenario you find yourself in when you reply to a job ad - in
that case, the job is the prize. You gain significant power by being the
customer the recruiter wants to sell the job to. Here are some tips for
structuring your resume so recruiters will find you in searches and then want to
offer you the job:1. Your primary skills should be mentioned several times in
your resume, and in different ways. For example, if you're an attorney, you
should use that word several times in your resume as well as the word "lawyer."
2. Even if you only used a particular skill briefly (like for only 3-6 months),
mention it on your resume. If you learned about a certain technique in a
continuing education course, that can be mentioned on your resume. Of course you
should make clear in the text of your resume what specific, albeit limited,
experience you have with the skill. A company would rather hire someone who has
some exposure to a skill than none at all, and by mentioning the skill you
increase the chances you'll be found in the recruiter's search for resumes.3.
Your previous job titles need to be congruent with the type of job you're
seeking. If you're looking for a job as an Administrative Assistant, it would
probably be better to have "Administrative Assistant" listed as your current job
title than "Office Manager." There are fewer office manager jobs than admin
assistant jobs available, and you don't want the recruiter to think you're
overqualified when they look at your current and previous job titles.4. Make
sure your resume has been checked for spelling and grammar errors. Use the spell
check in Microsoft Word. Have someone who's a good writer review your resume for
grammatical errors. 5. Make it easy for someone to skim your resume quickly. If
you have a lot of different skills, having a section where your skills are
listed with bullet points can make it easy for the recruiter to see at a glance
that you have the skills they're looking for. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Scott
Brown is the author of the Job Search Handbook
(http://www.JobSearchHandbook.com). As editor of the HireSites.com weekly
newsletter on job searching, Scott has written many articles on the subject. He
wrote the Job Search Handbook to provide job seekers with a complete yet easy to
use guide to finding a job effectively.
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