Best Ways Your Resume Can

Get Noticed

Increase Your Ranking On Applicant

Tracking Systems When you’re applying through job boards or the

employer’s website, there’s a good chance your resume

is going through an Applicant Tracking System.

Employers use it to filter out the most relevant job

applicants based on key word match relevancy.

Making the cut is not easy.

Under a typical scenario, there may be 400 resumes, but

only the top 20 ranked resumes get reviewed.

To make the cut, make sure the skills and qualifications

in the job posting are in your resume.

Send It To The Hiring Manager

Go to LinkedIn and identify the hiring manager, or if you

cannot find them, then get the HR manager.

Then send the resume on good paper in an 8×10

envelope directly to them, with a handwritten address

to make it look personal.

Since they will be inclined to just push this into the

Applicant Tracking System, you need to make it stand

out right up front.

A great direct mail trick is to put a post-it on it with a

hand-written message.

Put In A Call

Many job applicants approach job searching reactively.

They submit their resume and wait for the call, but to

get noticed, it pays to be aggressive.

Wait 2-3 days after submission to call.

You’re not calling to ask, “Did you get my resume?”

People hire people they like, so your goal is to build

rapport with the right contact, asking the right

questions and demonstrating you have the experiences

and skills they are looking for.