Have you ever played the game of snake & ladder? How do
you feel when you reach almost at the end and just when you are about to win
with two more points, a snake at the second last step bites you and then you
have to start again from the beginning?
The same situation is felt by certain job seekers. Didn’t
get the relation between the both? Okay, here’s an explanation.
When a person applies for a job online, to be precise, and
submits the resume, then he expects that the global employers will
find out their resume and they’ll get the job. But in reality, what happens is
that all the steps goes as per the expectations, however, just when the
employer start thinking about the resume, then he gets struck at something important
which he expects from the job applicant but that’s not there. Ultimately, the resume
is rejected.
Well, to win this game of applying job online, selection of
right and exact keyword is very important. The reason behind doing this is that
the resume would go into the right hands, and your chance of getting the relevant
& desired job gets doubled.
There are several companies, which rely on the computer
software to screen the resumes required for the job vacancy. The computer
software programs work on certain keywords to review numerous resumes and pick
up the most relevant ones.
The best way to use the right keyword for the job vacancy is
by thinking with the perspective of the job employers. You have to think about
the words or phrases, which they would use to search for the most suited candidates.
With the right & powerful keywords in the resumes, plays
a very crucial role. Therefore, after you create the job
recruiter might while searching for candidates online.
An expert offering resume
services expressed his views upon this. He says, “When it comes to the
automated systems, the problem you have is that the only way a recruiter is
going to actually find you is if you have keywords in your resume that they
have in their brain at the time. The person who shoots to the top is the person
who has more than one keyword.”
It is not a race to win the searches by humans but the race
is with the computer software. If the resume has the important details weaved
amidst the keywords in multiple forms, then it is possible to get noticed.
