Your Resume ~ No One Really Reads Them So Why Are Resumes So Important?!
by Bill Golden CEO, USAJobZoo.com, IntelligenceCareers.com and USADefenseIndustryJobs.com
Resumes & Jobs / The Rare Find: Reinventing Recruiting – Businessweek http://ow.ly/70OF1 … BusinessWeek writes:
“A new era of talent hunting has begun. It’s happening not only at high-tech companies such as Facebook, but also at Army bases, ad agencies, investment banks, Hollywood studies, corporate boardrooms, college admissions offices, and even at nanny agencies. In all these fields, experts don’t just sort résumés. They pick people and build teams in a profoundly different way. Traditional measures of past achievement, such as test scores and academic degrees, are losing power, and companies are getting better at looking for those future superstars who deliver many times the value of someone who is merely good.”
BusinessWeek’s article is a good read … yet while it sounds all good and futuristic the methods discussed really apply to probably less than 1% of the 1% of people that find jobs.
For really, really unique jobs this has been true for awhile ~~ testing of individuals and creative interviews with current staff. (I once worked in a technology company where every potential hire was voted upon by current employees before they were hired, circa 1998). However, the 99.99% of the rest of the workforce world needs to stay focused on getting found ~~ and that still requires a resume.
Getting found requires a good resume and an understanding of how those resumes get found.
Best approach on the planet: network. Meet people or let folks know that you are searching for a new career challenge. Make your resume for them to pass along. This method probably accounts for 50-60% of all hires in the technical and professional world. Many companies even pay their employees bonuses for recommeding someone that eventually gets hired ~~ but a resume is still very much required as the person recommending you must submit a resume to the HR department to get the process started.
Second best approach (works for the few): be good at what you do. Employers often do the reverse of the above ~~ they ask others ‘who do you know that does …?’ Once you get approached, you may be asked to meet but your resume will need to accompany you.
Next second best approach (works for the many): don’t send out resumes willy-nilly. It just costs postage and they rarely get read. If you are lucky you will get a note in email that says please visit our website and add your resume. You need to get your resume in a resume database appropriate to your skillset and interests. There are many niche and specialized resume databases on jobboards, plus you need to add your resume to the corporate websites resume databases.
Your resume being in a database is very important. The overwhelming majority of recruiters do not read resumes. They use search statistics to identify candidates.
How a resume database gets used: a set of job criteria entered into a resume search system returns a statistical value as to the probability that you are a person that should be considered as matching their needs (kinda like dating services). If there is a high degree of match then only then does your resume ever get read ~~ assuming that you were probably a 90-95% or higher match.
Your resume and having a resume is very important, and will be for a long time to come. So you may find yourself in some interesting interview situations but it will all begin with a resume for a very long time to come.
We want your resume at USAJobZoo.com !
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