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Why do recruiters spend only 7.4 seconds on resumes?

Despite operating in the toughest hiring environment in decades, many recruiters are still skimming resumes for details—with the average initial screen clocking in at just 7.4 seconds in 2018.

In the present environment, with unemployment at unprecedented
lows, this new finding underlines the extent to which resume skimming
behaviors impact not only a job seeker’s chances of being noticed, but
also a company’s ability to spot qualified candidates.

Top-performing resumes—those where recruiters spent most time and focus—tended to have several elements in common.

With these resumes, note that recruiters did not spend significant amounts of time on any one element. Rather, they scanned the left side of the resume evenly, picking out titles and reading supplementary information as necessary.

  • Clear, simple layouts with clearly marked section and title headers. Recruiters in our study spent more time focusing on job titles than on any other element.
  • Layouts that took advantage of F-pattern and E-pattern reading tendencies (e.g. bold job titles supported by bulleted lists of accomplishments)
  • An overview or mission statement at the top of the first page of the resume.
  • Clear fonts Read more via TheLadders

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Pemo Theodore is a Media Publisher and a great people connector. She was Founder Silicon Valley TV which has served the San Francisco Bay Area for 10 years! She has produced Silicon Valley Events for Investors & Startups for 10 years. Pemo loves to video interview venture capitalists & founders to engage the human behind the success stories.. She has been Executive Producer of FinTech Silicon Valley for 6 years, organizing twice monthly FinTech talks & panels in San Francisco & Palo Alto and audio podcasts. She believes in learning through a great discussion with experts in the domains. Pemo has a talent to bring the right people together and is an incredible networker. Pemo's events have been seen as supporting Venture Capitalists & Angels in sourcing great deal flow from startups who attend her events. Many founders have received funding through meeting investors at her events. Her favored medium is audio & visual media and she has built up a great body of work of videos of panels & interviews and podcasts in Silicon Valley startup ecosystem. She has lived & worked in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, London, Northern Ireland & Silicon Valley. Bio https://pemo.one

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