How to Find Good Talent Among an Increasing Volume of Candidates

The presentation will cover how to overcome the following:

-- Challenge in finding good talent among increasing volume of candidates
-- ATS challenges and Resume Formatting
-- Social Networking challenges
-- Interviewing challenges

Jon can cover in detail his article (below) and more...

Top 5 Résumé Mistakes
By Jonathan Ciampi
Did You Know?

At most companies:
       Computers read your résumé first, not humans
       At least 75% of résumés are discarded for using the wrong words
       More than 20% of résumés don’t make the list due to formatting issues
       Only 1% of total applicants get an interview

To combat this and drastically increase your odds, you should:
1.       Not Get Overly Creative: Perhaps counterintuitive, however, most large companies use software to filter résumés so your experience might be overlooked altogether if you try and get fancy and list your ‘Work Experience’ as ‘Career Highlights’

2.       Not PDF Your Résumé: If you use PDF, you are missing job opportunities. Many people are using PDF as their preferred résumé format, however PDF is far more error prone than MS Word, Text, or even HTML. If you are using PDF, you are likely missing out on many interviews because a hiring company is not seeing your whole résumé.

3.       Customize Your Résumé for Each Position – It’s a MUST: Here is the hard truth: a single résumé will not position you properly for every job. We analyzed thousands of candidates and found a single résumé varies significantly from one job to another. We found, some candidates range from a job fit rating of nine percent to 73 percent. Since a résumé is one of your best assets, it is surprising so many candidates fail to tailor their résumé to each job. Regardless of how you get into a company, even networking, hiring companies will use your résumé to determine if you are qualified and a general résumé is a poor choice.

4.       Always Format Your Electronic Résumé For Automated Recruiting: A human will not read your résumé until after it is read, parsed, and classified by a computer. Even then, a human will only read it if it is a good match to the job description. It won’t matter how pretty you formatted your résumé or how well you write about your qualifications if the computer is unable to interpret the specifics.

5.       Use Key Words: Hiring managers receive a summary report generated by Applicant Tracking System (ATS) software that removes bias-causing problems, tracks EEOC compliance and performance, and supposedly levels the playing field across the applicant pool. Regardless of how a résumé gets in front of a company – friend, job board, recruiter, or online application – everyone goes through these ATS systems. Identifying keywords and knowing how you rank through ATS systems used to be guess work - but today technology tools are finally assisting job seekers in putting in the key words that will help them get the job they want.

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Employers looking for good job candidates and job seekers.

How to overcome the following: - Challenges in finding good talent among increasing volume of candidates -- Applicant Tracking System (ATS) challenges and resume formatting -- Social networking challenges -- Job interviewing challenges -- Tips for creating a resume to find the job you want

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