You agree, and you believe it's not a coincidence that your CV consistently fails to place you on a shortlist for well-suited job openings. Which of these ten adversary actions has sunk your resume's prospects in the hands of the recruiting team?
Confidential
As a result, your CV should also be kept strictly private. No one else's eye should glimpse it before it reaches the recruiter. Furthermore, you do not accept criticism of what you have written. Meanwhile, the recruiter does not perceive your resume as you do and discards it in five seconds since it is commonplace, if not irrelevant. Other job-seekers who were short-listed had improved their resumes with help from a variety of sources.
Necessities
You miss that clue and instead opt to discuss your whole career on six pages in point six font. The typical recruiter, on the other hand, spends around six seconds on a CV evaluation. Your CV is deposited in the out tray, while the in-tray is crammed with one-page resumes or two-page resumes for those with 20+ years of experience. These CVs omit writing about previous employment, irrelevant hobbies, or personal information such as a home address.
Sharp Points
You only have one bullet that you use whenever there is a designated task. Your previous CV may be sent with a simple click, and you can target numerous job applications in an hour. Your bullets miss each target. The winning candidate was the shooter who spent hours aligning his target by reviewing the job description, learning about the organisation and position, and then customising his CV to trim, rewrite, and rephrase.
Golden Letter ''I''
Your resume is all about you. So you utilise gendered pronouns like "I," "me," and "us" on your CV. However, your CV sticks out in the recruiter's hands for the opposite reason. It is not typical for resume writers to use a personal pronoun as the subject or object of a statement. Instead, they begin each bullet point with an active verb, such as ‘Managed a team of five engineers.'
No Lie
As a result, you embellish, rely on incomplete information, or inflate someone else's accomplishments. Most of the time, the recruiter's prior knowledge and access to the internet detect the deception. The issue gets worse when you receive a shortlist or a job. Following a post-hire background check that includes a document and reference check, the employee is terminated, blacklisted, and his or her reputation is permanently tarnished.
Right Image
You think that a thousand words are worth a thousand pictures. So you put your passport photo at the top of your CV and maybe throw in a few graphs or colorful graphics for comparison purposes. The ATS applicant tracking software rejects your resume for all other reasons because it is illegible. Following that, the recruiter disregards it in favor of typical professional resumes devoid of graphics and styles.
Right Skills
Your boss acknowledges that you are industrious and intelligent. The job role requires tenacity and professionalism. You included these phrases in your resume. Despite this, your CV never makes it to the recruiter's laptop. A recruiter looks for hard talents like "python" and "Tally," not subjective qualities like "hardworking" or "diligent."
Service Clarity
You are pleased with the duties you have in your position. And you mention everything on your CV. The recruiter is perplexed as to why you created a job description rather than a CV. And then dumps it. Meanwhile, the astute resume writer has focused on his own accomplishments rather than his job, role, or obligations, making the CV more relevant and comparable.
Minor Errors
After all, everyone makes mistakes, and you never double-check what you've written. Your portfolio has an additional number, inappropriate dates, or even incorrect contact information. However, the recruiter appears to be perplexed as to why your phone is unavailable. She assumes, based on the mistakes and typos, that the work is unimportant to you.
Absence Quantum
You have a wonderful command of the English language. Your portfolio is all poetry with no statistics. The recruiter is unable to decipher what the term "smartest salesperson" implies. She believes it isn't worth squandering an interview. The selection includes your friend who has put in the figures and a benchmark when writing reached Rs 1.1 crore sales, 20% over target, and second highest in the team of ten