What should be your resume to read it

Maria Alexeyeva wrote as a guest author for Layfhakera some tips for resume design. Namely: how to get around the robot, which filters requests on a portal with vacancies or directly on the website of the company, and to reach a live recruiter. Next word Mary herself.

What's going on with your resume when you press the "Send" button on the portal with vacancies or directly on the company's website, where you liked the work? If the company is large enough, it is very likely your file falls into the clutches of the robot.

this robot called ATS (Applicant Tracking System) - a system for tracking and filtering applications for vacancies. The system scans the resume for the presence of certain keywords embedded in the job profile.

Keywords can relate to specific technical and language skills, as well as company names, experience which is preferred for a particular position, names of prestigious universities, which should ideally end the candidate, and many other things that deems important recruiter

How to increase your chances, and reach out to a recruiter in such a situation? Several life hacking to help.

Carefully consider the text of the vacancy. Write down possible keywords in the following categories:

• preferential formation (title most appropriate specialization);
• location (country, city);
• direct competence (tasks that face a potential employee);
• the required knowledge of languages ​​(including programming);
• the necessary experience of working with some software.

If the extraction of keywords drove you to a dead end, use a tool such as the compilation of semantic cloud (word clouds). It helps not only to make beautiful presentations, but also to generate ideas! I personally like WorditoutBut you can take any other.

Now look at your resume. Include the missing words and sentences, but only if it has real feelings for you. For example, do you really live in a certain city, got a degree in this specialization, own or have the necessary language skills to work with the software and so on.

Finally, get rid of "tinsel" in summary.

The more accurate summary will reflect the most perfect profile, the higher the probability of falling into a pool of selected candidates will be called with the recruiter. Thus, the "tinsel" You only hurt. What is meant?

1. If in doubt about any part of your resume, ask yourself, how is this information important for a particular job, which is interesting to me.
2. Down with the Beautiful pictures and charts of your document. leave Only your photo. Why? ATS simply does not recognize the graphics can not decipher it.
3. Use fonts that are appropriate for the web text (eg, Arial or Georgia). It is more reliable, there is a guarantee that the text will be correctly read by ATS.
4. Simplicity, Again simple: no shadows, beautiful characters, Wordart, or anything that may come to mind. For the same reason as above.

Toward the end, carefully check the spelling. ATS reads only correctly spelled words. :)

Good luck on the interview!