What can a candidate do to affect the outcome of the screening process? Not much. You can’t set the search criteria for an employer. You can’t make screeners meticulously follow the criteria they have. And you can’t eliminate bias. You can only present a coherent argument, and make sure that it highlights what you have […]
Where a Screening Process Might Break Down: The Human Factor
Screening by Humans The resume screening process can break down in a variety of ways. In this post, we’ll take a look at the human factor: how errors and bias on the part of persons involved in the screening process might affect your candidacy. Screeners who just “wing it.” There are a couple of common […]
Keywords: Turn Your Resume Into A Ticket in the Door
Think of your resume as a ticket. It gets you in the door. That’s it. A good resume captures and keeps the attention of the person reading it, and creates in that person a desire to know more about you. Hopefully, that desire will lead the reader to seek out more information about you and to put your candidacy into context.
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