The first reason is that your CV may never get to the recruiter who is supposed to review it and call you for an interview. From my about 12 years’ Human Resource experience working with various organisations to recruit, this probably constitutes about 60% of why most candidates don’t get an interview. The implication of this is that no matter how good your CV is, it never gets read by the hiring manager.
There are several explanations why this happens and one of them is because Hiring Managers do not have the time to look through the thousands of cvs they receive per job opening. What they do is they review a few, select the good CVs from this few, call them for interview and dump the rest CV in a waste basket or keep it somewhere for a period and tag it ‘Database’. They never get back to those piles of CV most time. The same process applies to CVs sent via e-mail. Your concern is how you get your CV among the few that are reviewed.
The second reason, which is more related to the first but peculiar to CVs that are submitted online via Recruiter’s ATS (Applicant Tracking System or Software), is that your CV may not have been created in a format readable by the software.
ATS are created to do the work of human beings to help Hiring Managers quickly screen thousands of CVs submitted to them via a portal. The ATS uses some form of computer algorithm to read texts in a cv and screen in only those that meet up with specified criteria. Again, this is not a function of how good the information contained in the CV, but whether it is in a format readable by the ATS.
Can your CV overcome the reasons why it will not be read by the Hiring Manager or can it scale through the killer jaw of the ATS?
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