Wednesday, 14 October 2015

Things which Recruiters don't like to see in Resume

Your resume is the key to build a nice impression in-front of unknown person no matter if it's recruiter or any other person. It will reflect your achievements, records and experiences. It will help them to understand if you can do their job or not.
Sometimes, people slip few things when they think about their resume as a reflection of who they are.
Let me point out the things which employers or recruiters don't like to see

Gaps in between two jobs

There are many valid reasons why gaps may exist on the resume. Being unemployed isn’t always a sign of a bad candidate, though this assumption can sometimes be made.
Employers like to see where all your time went for at least the last few years. If gaps exist, you may need to add a little things for example, like family health problem, traveled for some reason or personal time of. You can also put the years of employment rather then specific month and year. 

Social media links

Recruiters or employers don't like social media links. It's bit annoying in major of the cases. Sometimes they don't have access to the social media at work place like Facebook, Linked In or Instagram. This kind of things will only work if you are submitting some portfolio of your creative work. Try to hide your personal life from your would be employers. 

Your photo

In some countries, there's a trend to send resume with head shot but in many cases it doesn’t considered as a good habit. It may come across as inappropriate and naïve to the general business culture. Apart from anything else, employers aren’t allowed to discriminate, positively or negatively, based on factors such as race and age, factors that your picture would likely reveal. 

False information

Many of us would understand the urge to fudge the details of the resume a little, especially as weeks of unemployment pass and the situation starts to get desperate. It would seem so easy to expand that three-month training into a year-long position, or manipulate a project or two.
But this can lead to serious problems in all kinds of ways: at interview, these applicants can expect to be quizzed on experience they don’t have, and their references won’t be able to back them up. They might even find they can’t do the job in question as it requires experience that they lack.
Lie on a resume is also morally wrong as they can be exposed at any time. 

References

It’s very common to include references with an application, but this isn’t actually the right stage at which to do it. If an employer wants to get in touch with your former colleagues, they will ask you for contact details but this normally doesn’t happen until after at least the first interview.

Empty words

Are you hard-working, honest, successful and intelligent? All fine qualities, but unfortunately they don’t mean much on your resume. Anyone can throw these words out there. Employers much prefer statements that are actually proved with some kind of evidence.
So rather than writing you’re a ‘great leader’, write ‘headed up a team of twenty, increasing departmental productivity 60% within one year of my appointment.’ It’s measurable, specific and can make sense in the reader’s mind to how you could bring the same success to their organization.

Too long

If you’re frequent job changer or working on several short term projects, or have had a particularly long career, your resume could potentially go on for several pages. That’s a big turn off to recruiters under pressure however, who really don’t have time in the day to read novel-length resumes from every candidate.
Some trimming will be necessary if your resume is longer than two pages of A4. You don’t need to provide full details of every job you’ve had going back decades – just short summaries will do. All education before undergraduate level, and the less significant or recent roles, can be cut altogether. 

Too short

A resume really should cover at least an A4 page, even for somebody just starting their career. Any less than that, and the recruiter will feel they really don’t know you at all.
Avoid the temptation to pad the document out with double spacing or large font or margins but instead focus on making the content go as far as possible without relying on filler.
If you’ve just left high school or collage, consider how the skills and experience you developed will help you in the workplace. 

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