APPLICANT TRACKING SYSTEM
- Richard Fruscione
- Sep 26, 2017
- 2 min read
Here's an interesting fact not enough job seekers appreciate about resumes:
In the time it has taken you to read to here – this word right here, now – most experienced HR reps and hiring managers would have already glanced over your resume and decided whether to throw it in the trash or read more.
Five seconds.
That's all you have to capture a hiring manager's interest.
If you've been sending out a lot of resumes lately, but you rarely (if ever) receive a response, chances are it's not making it past these first five seconds.
Here's another valuable insight:
For a typical job vacancy at a mid-sized company, HR will receive 100-200 applications. (For the largest companies, it could be thousands of resumes. In fact, Google once received more than 75,000 resumes in just one week.)
What does this mean?
If you send an email to HR a few weeks later asking for feedback (since you never received a response to your application), chances are your resume was one out of hundreds they threw into the trash after just a few seconds.
No wonder they don't reply back to your email with feedback.
Okay, here's one more interesting fact about resumes:
Although hiring managers or HR receive 100-200 resumes for a single job vacancy, and even though they spend an average of five seconds reviewing each one, 75% of resumes never even make it to the hiring manager or HR.
How come?
They get eliminated by Applicant Tracking Systems – simply because they don't contain the right keywords for the job position in question.
Here's why I'm sharing these insights today:
If you're serious about landing your dream job, you cannot afford to send out a weak resume. Your resume MUST pass the 5-second test, it MUST stand head and shoulders above the 200 or so other resumes, and it MUST also contain the right keywords to make it through the Applicant Tracking System.
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