When Requirements Are Preferred but Not Required When employers list preferred requirements, you'll have a better
chance of getting hired even if you're not a perfect match.
Not exact matches
Even just adding the word «teamwork» to your LinkedIn profile boosts your
chances of getting hired, a report from the job search platform shows.
In other words, candidates who are different from an otherwise homogenous group
of finalists stand little
chance of getting hired,
even if they are the most qualified.
Research shows that candidates who are different from an otherwise homogenous group
of finalists stand little
chance of getting hired,
even if they are the most qualified.
But
even so, in 1994, her husband and her bodyguard
hired a hitman to break the leg
of her fiercest rival, Nancy Kerrigan, to increase Harding's
chances of getting selected for the Winter Olympics that year.
This sounds daunting, but there is good news: employers are still
hiring and you still have the
chance to make one final set
of applications before the job market
gets even busier.
This jeopardises their
chances of even getting hired when they state too many expectations — they first need to make the interviewer or recruiter
even want them first and hold back on all their «wants» and «cannots».
The economy is tough right now, and the job market is
even tougher, so it's hard to
get hired right now, but there are some things you can do to significantly increase your
chances of getting a new job.
Write a programmer cover letter (
even if not directly asked for in the job ad) and double your
chances of getting hired.
If your resume is lacking information (like your address) that the
hiring manager expects to see, you may be knocked out
of contention for the job before you
even get a
chance to interview.
It might appear a petty change in your resume to you but for those overloaded
hiring managers who
get thousands
of resumes each day, this small change can work wonders and
even you have better
chances of getting shortlisted.
Knowing someone within the organization, or
even a friend
of a friend, can often help your
chances of getting hired.
If you have an outstanding targeted resume, and you believe you have the experience the job requires (
even maybe transferrable skills), your
chances of getting interviewed and
hired have increased exponentially!
So
even if the corresponding resume isn't much to write home about, the candidate still
gets a
chance to prove her or himself in front
of a
hiring manager.