Ten Ways To Get Your Resume To The Top Of The Pile
ny advantage that you can least some agents
get to help get your resume
to the top of the pile is 3. Make sure that your resume is
worth looking at. I have some presentable and easily readable.
employment agency contacts that I Make sure that your best skills
asked about what people can do to are right at the front. Don’t
put them to the front of the line clutter up your resume with old
when the jobs are being handed skills and ones that you don’t
out. I’ve put together their have much experience in – unless
replies. These tips apply to they’re very marketable
whether your going for a
permanent or contract position. 4. Keep calling agencies even
though it is soul-destroying.
1. As in every business, personal Keep yourself in the front of
relationships are crucial. If you their minds. The right job might
have any agents with whom you have just come in and you’ll be
have a good relationship, keep in at the front of the line. Out of
touch with them, especially if sight, out of mind. If you
you have done a good job for them haven’t been in touch for a
in the past while, they’ll probably assume
that you’re off the market for
2. Send your resume out to as whatever reason. Have a list of
many agencies as possible. It agencies that you call every two
does no harm, and they take most weeks, calling a selection of
notice of you when your resume them every day
first arrives. Often it is sent
around to all the sales people at 5. Always, always, always adapt
the company. Send out a certain your resume for each job that you
amount each week, e.g. ten, to are applying for rather than just
keep you in the mind’s eye of at sending out your standard resume.
It’s not the job of the agent or little competitive advantage on
the employer to find the skills them – and that’s crucial in the
that they are looking for. It’s current climate
up to you to bring it to their
attention. They may have dozens 8. Follow up the resume with a
of resumes in front of them (or friendly, positive call. Agents
even hundreds) and they aren’t are human, too, and react
going to give your resume more positively to a friendly
than thirty seconds in the first approach.
crawl through to cut the possible
candidates down to a more 9. One contractor that I’ve heard
manageable number of actually told the consultants
at one agency that he would pay
6. Be friendly and alert when an whichever recruitment consultant
agent calls out of the blue got him a job a personal bonus of
rather than surly and suspicious. $3,000. According to the guy who
He may be one of those reference owned the agency, this put the
spammers, but he also may be the contractor right to the front of
genuine article and could be put the line.
off by your response
10. When you do get an interview,
7. Send scanned references along do some research on the company
with the resume when applying off so that when you’re asked the
any of the job boards with inevitable “Do you know anything
managers contact names blanked about us” you don’t end up saying
out so that agents don’t mine “I think I’ve heard of you”.
them for leads. It always looks
good and impresses agencies to no Preparation, hard work and a
end. If you send them and others friendly demeanor are crucial to
don’t, then you’ve gained a getting your resume to the top of
the hiring manager’s pile. Try will come of your job or contract
these ten tips today and see what search.
About the Author:
Gerry McLaughlin has fulfilled every role in Software Development from Trainee Programmer through Systems and Business Analysis, Project Leader and Manager, Systems Manager and Chief Information Officer with a department of 80 people. Tens of thousands of IT Contractors visit http://www.ITContractor.com each month to keep themselves in touch with the market.
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