By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
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The answer is funny to me, but they act like doctors.
Interviewing in The Heat. Interviewing in the Cold.
How do recruiters decide who to talk to when you get 200 résumés coming in a short time after you post the job? I’m Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter. People hire me for no BS job search coaching and career advice globally because they make the process of finding work and succeeding at it much easier.
They’re like doctors. When you go to a doctor and you have an illness, they’re not trying to diagnose what you have right away. They’re trying to think of all the possible options, and they’re doing a rule out. They’re ruling out certain possibilities because it doesn’t meet all the symptoms.
In much the same way, recruiters, once you get past the applicant tracking system that does the initial filtering, they’re dealing with a more finite number. So instead of 200 résumés, maybe they’re looking at a hundred, and they’re trying to disqualify you; they’re trying to disqualify people who are not an obvious fit.
How to make yourself an obvious fit? Use their language. They like recency, and they also like frequency in your resume. So if there are certain search terms that they’re trying to find in your background, they want to see the exact same terms in your resume. They want to see it frequently, why? Because you need to get it through the system that likes it frequent. They like it early in the document; they like to see it repeated in the document. So the long and the short of it is, they’re ruling people out. They’re disqualifying people. They’re not ruling you in; they’re looking to rule you out.
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