Most of the resume’s today are either sent through e-mail or posted in an online job search site. Companies, especially the larger ones prefer this method since they can easily search the database through keywords and different levels of experience, skills and knowledge. As an electronic copy, companies could easily obtain a copy without too much hassle on you or their end.
Our resume tells a lot about ourselves. From the basic information that are related to work such as skills and experience to the more personal information such as date of birth and age, everything will be known by the employer with a single glance of our resume. Most of the time our resume ends up with a legitimate company who will evaluate us for the available jobs but there are possibilities that your resume will end up with thieves – identity thieves to be specific.
There are companies who use the power of searching through keywords to filter the resume for possible candidates. On the other hand, there are companies that have a human resource department that manually takes a look at the resumes one by one. Usually these are small to medium sized businesses or a company that has a large human resource department. The human resource department usually screens the resume manually when you personally hand them over your resume and uses the keyword strategy for screening the resumes. Read the rest..
Large scale companies receive thousands of resumes everyday that they don’t have time to read all the resumes and file them for future use. Instead, they have conceived an idea in scanning the resumes and filtering them through keywords. Using keywords, they will find their ideal candidate without having to skim through each copy of the resume they receive everyday. That’s where the idea of a scannable resume is born. Read the rest..
