Resume Screening Software

Your resume is such an important part of finding employment you may have worked at it for hours, or even hired someone to craft a professional resume for you. If you apply and submit your resume through emails, job search sites and online employment listings, you may be surprised to know that many employers are not even seeing your actual resume. All that hard work is wasted when it comes to electronic screening methods that many employers are using.

It is an increasingly popular choice for employers to use resume screening software to lift what they determine is the most important information from a resume and place it into a spreadsheet. This software pulls resumes from job search sites, emails, saved files, and online applications through search engines. Many times the specific details and highlights of your finely tuned resume don’t even appear before the employer. So when you get an email or a call to discuss a position don’t be shocked if the employer asks you things that he should know if he had read your resume.

For employers who receive hundreds of resumes each week, the screening software may make things easier. However in the end it can also be a time waster because they end up emailing or discussing information that they would have in front of them if they had only used your resume in the form it was submitted.

For job searchers, this software can hurt your chances of being interviewed or contacted for a job that you are qualified for because the information screened often lists the applicants in alphabetical order and if the employer simply goes down the list he may find someone before he gets to your name. This software makes it hard to find employment based on your merits and the information you worked so hard to include on your resume.

There are good and bad points to resume screening software for both employers and job searchers. Yet in this world of electronic convenience, anything that speeds up the hiring process is seen as a good thing. So whether you submit your resume through email, through an online job search site or by posting it somewhere else on line you are taking the chance of not having an employer see your resume at all.

At times like this you may feel that the convenience of online job hunting is decreased by the lack of human attention. When writing your resume now, if you are looking for a job in a specialized field it is more important than ever to include current terminology for your field in order for resume screening software.

While you may feel as if you are being slighted by an employer using resume screening software, you should still place your resume online because with the job market in the shape it is in today you don’t want to leave any stone unturned in your goal of finding a job.