Are you yet to find the right job even after you have applied for thousands? Not a single interview call even when you have the perfect credentials and ample experience?
The problem may not be your career, but your résumé.
Here, we’ll look through some of the ways to identify the problem and how to resolve it.
The Problem – When the Résumé Fails to Impress
Identifying the problem is the first step towards resolving it. If you have the right qualifications and experience, yet fail to get the right job, your résumé may be the culprit.
Remember, this document is not only about its content, but also about its presentation.
How would you feel if you had to go through thousands of documents, all looking the same, every single day? You’ll be bored right?
That is exactly how a recruiter feels!
Your career summary probably fails to impress the recruitment division of a company if it lacks any eye-catching detail in it or looks like the many other résumés recruiters have to examine.
Another plausible reason is that your career summary misses out a few details that matter. For example, in some careers, temporary or voluntary work may also count as experience. When you miss this point, it may hinder your job search.
A cluttered career summary may also fail to serve its purpose – to get you an interview call. If your résumé has all the relevant details but looks tired, without any particular format or layout, the recruiter may not even go through the entire document.
Keep in mind that your résumé - like your cover letter – only has a few minutes to impress any recruiter.
At times, a minor problem in your career can become a major challenge in your résumé, if you do not have any idea of how to incorporate it in the document. A work gap in your career or a shift from another field must be included, albeit in the proper manner.
Failure to update the summary of your career may also be the reason behind the lack of success in your career.
If you have acquired a professional degree or worked on a prestigious project, make sure it is included in the resume. Any failure to do this may make it difficult for you to get a better opportunity.
If you think you have a great résumé, but yet no interview calls come your way, it may be a good idea to evaluate the document. Are there too many details? Or too few? In either case, it won’t achieve its objective.
What other ways can you make a good impression with your résumé?
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