Saturday, June 13, 2015

19 Tips for Perfecting Your Email Etiquette


19 Tips for Perfecting Your Email Etiquette
1. Use a meaningful subject
The subject field must indicate content and purpose. Try to use a subject that is meaningful to the recipient as well as yourself. For instance, when you send an email to a company requesting information about a product, it is better to mention the actual name of the product, e.g. 'Product A information' than to just say 'product information' or the company's name in the subject.

Friday, May 1, 2015

How can I keep my CV up-to-date?

How often have you tried to put together a CV and had difficulty remembering the details of previous jobs? It's not just the dates of employment that you'll forget – tasks, projects and courses you were involved with are easily overlooked.

Monday, March 16, 2015

How Recruiters Really Read Your CV? You Have 7 Sec to Catch Attention!!!

First, let me say I've been a recruiter for 9 years. I’m sure I have reviewed over 10,000 resumes. So for the record when you hear or read about, “reading a resume in 20 seconds,” that isn't completely true. I would say the average is probably around 5 to 7 seconds.
Here is 2 process for getting through 100′s of resumes in a short period of time. Others may have different ways and I welcome your comments.

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Saturday, December 6, 2014

Beat the system!! How optimizing Resume for Applicant Tracking System

Landing an interview for a position in a giant organization can feel impossible if you don’t have any personal connections. People often blame the sheer volume of resumes that are submitted—HR simply can’t review them all with enough detail to see what a perfect candidate you are! And this is partially true—one study suggests that recruiters spend only six seconds looking at each resume. However, many resumes are trashed before they’re even seen by human eyes. How it’s possible? Many large organizations rely on applicant tracking systems (ATS) to help pre-filter resumes.