3 Easy Hacks to Upgrade Your Resume
Yes, your next job interview is within reach!
As a professional recruiter with a focus on accounting and finance roles, I regularly come across hundreds of resumes daily. I am also usually in constant conversations with different companies across multiple industries to get a sense of the types of candidates on paper they are looking for. In this article, I share 3 easily implementable hacks that you can use to upgrade your resume and increase the number of interview call-backs you get.
The 3 Hacks I will talk about:
- Navigating Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS).
- Differentiating yourself with your Accomplishments.
- Demonstrating Emotional Intelligence.
Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)
An ATS system is a human resources software that makes life easier for recruiters like me or hiring managers at companies you apply to when searching for candidates.
Companies generally receive hundreds to thousands of resumes every month, and due to the sheer volume of resumes received, carefully assessing and reading each one is nearly impossible for an employer.
ATS systems make this job a little easier. All the employer has to do is to log into their ATS system and apply some search parameters based on what they are looking for and how many resumes they want to see. The ATS system then spits out the resumes that are best aligned with the search parameters.
This means that applicants like yourself will need to optimize and tailor your resume to get through an ATS system and get in front of the employer.
However, what actually happens when you send your resume in response to any job posted online?
- HR receives your resume and stores it on their database.
- Your resume is then run through a parser that removes all the styling and strips all the text on your resume into recognized strings of characters.
- The parser then assigns meaning to your resume, looking at things like education, skills…
