The most common experience of online job board users is "no one calls me for an interview," which is commonly called, The Dead Job Hunt Problem. Most job counselors blame the dead hunt problem on a lack of job skills. While this may be true for new college graduates or early career professionals, it is not true of seasoned professionals who experience the dead job hunt problem.
Solving the Resume Database Invisibility Problem
Once you have a detailed resume, now you need to post it online by either uploading the resume or building it in the database field forms. Most people upload their resume because it is a fast, easy and immediate. However, many times the uploading function does not populate the fields of the database properly. This circumstance essentially makes your resume data invisible to the search software. The optimum way to integrate a resume into a database is by building it manually.
After deciding to build your resume, take a close look at what information the database fields are collecting.
The three most important data collected are
(1) industry sectors,
(2) job title and
(3) name of resume.
Industry Sector: If a job seeker posts a resume to the wrong sector, it may not be seen because the employer may not be searching into that industry sector or sub-sector. Employers do not conduct global searches of an entire resume database; it would be too costly to do so. They normally search through 3 or 4 sub-sectors.
Job Title: The primary search keyword is the job title. If your job title is not the title an employer uses as her search keyword, you will get lower ranking in database searches than those people who do. Your resume will appear invisible. So, conduct some job title research. Select the job title that most closely mirrors your target job.
Resume Name: Naming your resume with keywords is vital to making your resume visible. When an employer conducts a resume database search, she will see the name of your resume. Naming your resume, "Office Manager expert with Lotus Notes," is much more meaningful to the employer than naming it, "Mary Wilson's Resume."
Solving the Job Demand
No matter how good your resume is, there must be a demand for your knowledge, skills and abilities. If there is high job demand, plenty of recruiters will be drawn to a resume database because they need to find candidates immediately. However, if you have been downsized and your industry is imploding, there will be few recruiters looking for candidates in a resume database or anywhere. In situations of poor job demand, the job seeker should consider changing to an industry sector they know is on a growth path.
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Another dynamic is in play that is causing highly experienced people to go unnoticed by employers. This dynamic is caused by any combination of the following:
Most resume writing books sold in book stores today are behind the times. They recommend writing brief, 1-page resumes. Brief resumes were adequate when the prime venue of job seeking was through human interaction. However, brief resumes do not work well online because they do not contain enough search keywords that will match an employer's keywords when she conducts a resume database search for qualified candidates. To succeed in the online world, a job seeker needs a very detailed, targeted and information intensive resume.
- Lack of a Detailed Resume
- Resume Database Invisibility
- Low Job Demand
Most resume writing books sold in book stores today are behind the times. They recommend writing brief, 1-page resumes. Brief resumes were adequate when the prime venue of job seeking was through human interaction. However, brief resumes do not work well online because they do not contain enough search keywords that will match an employer's keywords when she conducts a resume database search for qualified candidates. To succeed in the online world, a job seeker needs a very detailed, targeted and information intensive resume.
Solving the Resume Database Invisibility Problem
Once you have a detailed resume, now you need to post it online by either uploading the resume or building it in the database field forms. Most people upload their resume because it is a fast, easy and immediate. However, many times the uploading function does not populate the fields of the database properly. This circumstance essentially makes your resume data invisible to the search software. The optimum way to integrate a resume into a database is by building it manually.
After deciding to build your resume, take a close look at what information the database fields are collecting.
The three most important data collected are
(1) industry sectors,
(2) job title and
(3) name of resume.
Industry Sector: If a job seeker posts a resume to the wrong sector, it may not be seen because the employer may not be searching into that industry sector or sub-sector. Employers do not conduct global searches of an entire resume database; it would be too costly to do so. They normally search through 3 or 4 sub-sectors.
Job Title: The primary search keyword is the job title. If your job title is not the title an employer uses as her search keyword, you will get lower ranking in database searches than those people who do. Your resume will appear invisible. So, conduct some job title research. Select the job title that most closely mirrors your target job.
Resume Name: Naming your resume with keywords is vital to making your resume visible. When an employer conducts a resume database search, she will see the name of your resume. Naming your resume, "Office Manager expert with Lotus Notes," is much more meaningful to the employer than naming it, "Mary Wilson's Resume."
Solving the Job Demand
No matter how good your resume is, there must be a demand for your knowledge, skills and abilities. If there is high job demand, plenty of recruiters will be drawn to a resume database because they need to find candidates immediately. However, if you have been downsized and your industry is imploding, there will be few recruiters looking for candidates in a resume database or anywhere. In situations of poor job demand, the job seeker should consider changing to an industry sector they know is on a growth path.
Looking for a Singapore Jobs, you can always check out the latest jobs in Singapore WDA job bank where thousands of jobs are available.
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