First,
all recruiters and hiring managers like a chronological resume.
Recruiters and Hiring Managers like short letters with maximum information they can use to present you to the interviewer.
Recruiters and hiring managers like candidates to engage and respond to social cues, answer questions and make eye contact.
Chronological resume format is the kind that
recruiters and hiring managers like the most.
Last year, I wrote the book Confessions of a Teacher Recruiter: How to Create an Extraordinary Resume and Hook Your Dream Job to help teachers - and all entry to mid-level professionals - who are seeking pragmatic advice on how to create great resumes that will make
recruiters and hiring managers like you.
Recruiters and hiring managers like this type of resume format because it allows you to describe qualifications near the top of the resume, and then provide the reverse chronological timeline that they like to see.
Not exact matches
Especially strangers whose job it is to find candidates for open industry job positions,
like hiring managers and recruiters.
This piece is a part of «The Career Strategist» blog series
Recruiters and hiring managers at companies you'd
like...
When you've found a job you
like and a role you fit into, putting together a strong application
and following up with a
hiring manager or
recruiter are the logical next steps.
If you haven't had any direct contact with the interviewer thus far, then, when you speak to the
recruiter after your interview, let them know that you would
like to send a follow - up email,
and ask them to forward it on to the
hiring manager.
One resume mistake that always turns off
recruiters and hiring managers are those fluffy, overused phrases
like «team player,» «motivated,»
and «thrives in a fast - paced environment.»
A word of caution, though;
Recruiters and hiring managers really don't
like this type of layout, so avoid using it unless you absolutely have to.
Recruiters and hiring managers don't
like them because they focus on the needs of the job seeker rather than the needs of the potential employer.
Technical terms, sales
and marketing slang,
and acronyms that are commonly used at one company may be
like a foreign language to
recruiters or
hiring managers at other companies.
Spend your time on high value tasks —
like identifying
and researching companies you'd
like to work for,
and trying to connect directly with
hiring managers and recruiters,
and having coffee with someone who works for the company you're applying at —
and not just simply spending time in front of your computer.
Just
like you, screeners,
recruiters and hiring managers are juggling multiple balls in the air.
Much
like prospective homeowners,
hiring managers and recruiters learn to sift through resumes
and LinkedIn profiles.
Building a section
like this helps
recruiters and hiring managers find your most important contributions without having to dig through your professional experience section.
It's
like it never happened.
And this is where keywords come in.Today, you'll hear about 3 ways to come up with keywords to put in your resume so
recruiters and hiring managers will always find you.What's more, the keywords you're going to use will demonstrate you are qualified for the positions you're applying for
and this alone can get you calls for interviews regularly.
In a recent CareerBuilder survey, over 2,200
recruiters and hiring managers were asked to rank the terms they
like,
and don't
like, to see in your resume.
Recruiting is really
like sales,
recruiters are selling you the position
and selling candidates to the
Hiring Managers.
According to most
hiring managers and recruiters, one of the common traits they
like seeing in job seekers is a sense of workplace belonging.
If it's a
recruiter or
hiring manager, it won't seem
like you're desperately
and immediately contacting everyone who viewed your profile.
How to Post a Resume on Indeed
Like other job searching sites, Indeed lets you upload your resume for both easy access
and to enable
recruiter and hiring manager access to view your public resume.
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2015/10/02/how-to-prepare-to-interview-a-veteran/ When most corporate
recruiters and hiring managers interview a veteran, they treat the process as if the candidate were just
like everyone else.
It's now up to the
recruiter or
hiring manager to decide if they'd
like to meet you in person
and it's certainly not your place to push it on them.
Because
hiring managers and recruiters are so short on time, they
like to see resumes that are short
and sweet,
and which get to the point with snappy sentences
and brief paragraphs.
Put yourself in a
recruiter's position; we
like to think that we have the power to
hire anybody, but our decisions are determined by the need of the company, by clients
and the overworked
managers who need this person to produce so that he / she can take a break.
Now, I might be a little picky (
like most
hiring managers and recruiters), but I think there are many things wrong with this response that trigger all kind of warning signs for me.
Hiring managers and recruiters who prefer reading resume objectives over summaries are
like dinosaurs — everybody knows they used to be around but none can be found today.
Benton recommended asking
recruiters and hiring managers in your field for examples of resumes they
like.
What
recruiters and hiring managers despise is an overabundance of self - praising descriptors: superior, excellent, team player, detail - oriented, thought leader, self - motivated, hard worker,
and the
like.
It is
like the candidate designs its own career story, directing the
recruiter and hiring manager to their strengths, skills
and experience.
Langerud also makes the point that
hiring managers and recruiters like to see positive results,
and impact, on resumes.
When you are away from your desk
and you receive a call on your cell phone from a
recruiter or
hiring manager who would
like to conduct a phone interview, don't take that call!
Like Daeda, I believe that resumes should absolutely always target the
recruiter and hiring manager first
and foremost, but put in some time to update your resume with keywords specific to your industry or position.
Most
recruiters and hiring managers (HR departments) use software to screen incoming documents
and they don't
like attachments.
Just
like your audience can't actually read your resume in the 6 second test to judge if you're qualified,
hiring managers, HR reps
and recruiters can't read details in your resume within the first 15 seconds.
Hiring managers and recruiters like Cathey build into their Boolean searches a measure of proximity between numbers to action verbs.
DO: Create a unique Professional Headline that includes the kinds of terms that
hiring managers and recruiters would use to search for talent
like you.
Just
like you,
hiring managers and recruiters are on the go.
Hiring managers and recruiters like Cathey are short on attention
and time.
Recruiters and hiring managers are human, just
like you
and me.
Today I'd
like to hear what
recruiters and hiring managers say if asked what frustrates them about job seekers.
If you have found a company or a job you
like, research the
recruiter and hiring manager who will be reading your resume
and LinkedIn profile:
If you want
hiring managers and recruiters to call you about job openings, get my LinkedIn Profile Tutorial to spiff up your profile so that it attracts them
like a magnet.
Hiring managers and recruiters search for hard skills, i.e. «Sarbanes Oxley», more often than soft skills
like «detail - oriented» (you all know how I feel about that term anyway... just DO N'T!).
Many
recruiters and hiring managers don't
like this format because they assume it is hiding issues with past employment.
I'd
like to see jobseekers reach out to the ad placer,
recruiters,
hiring managers, etc. ahead of time
and say something
like this as part of a conversation...
by making a list of people in your inner circle, expanding to include colleagues,
and then going a step further to locate
hiring managers,
recruiters and decision makers in companies where you'd
like to work.