How to Stand Out in the World of Virtual Recruiting
When you build meaningful, professional relationships with recruiters over time, you’ll start to see how beneficial the partnership can be.
When you build meaningful, professional relationships with recruiters over time, you’ll start to see how beneficial the partnership can be.
How can you craft a resume that beats the AI-powered Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and impresses the people who might hire you?
If your resume starts out with a statement such as “Objective: Senior Level Marketing Director with 15 years of experience seeking to . . .” you have just dated yourself. If you are still using a line like that to open up your executive resume, you may as well realize that your chances of getting selected for an interview are probably long gone as well. The reader knows what your objective is – it is to get hired. Lose the “Objective” and replace it with a dynamic career summary that pulls the reader in and shows that you have the experience, skills, and credentials to get the job.
You do not want an old-looking resume to give away your age; to show that you’re not quite caught up with the times, as it could hurt your candidacy.
With more and more people choosing to work remotely and an increase in companies venturing out new or foreign markets, we see a rise in demand for certain skills, including cross-cultural communication, multilingualism and quick adaptability to various different kinds of work environments.