Why will you never have a second chance to make a good impression on your job search? A human resources assistant in a company for which you would like to work has begun to check her email. She’s received 100 this afternoon, all with resumes attached. Forty of the resumes are for the same position for which you have applied. She’ll also have to collect those in the mail and fax machine—close to 150 in all.
She is the first to review the resumes. Her job is to scan each one in a computerized database. She’ll then query the database based on specific key words identified by A supervisor. Those resumes that meet the requirements will be forwarded to the human resources manager for further review. Those who submitted resumes that don’t meet the criteria will get a polite rejection letter—or hear nothing at all.
In other companies or organizations that do not use a database, a staff person will visually scan each resume to see if minimum qualifications are met. On average, he’ll spend 10-20 seconds screening each one. In these organizations, your employment future depends on a favorable first impression from an overworked human resources staff member.
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