These are good questions! To answer your first one: Yes! In most cases, recruiters only have a few seconds to view your resume when reviewing a stack they’re considering for a position. Having your ...

The job market is super-competitive right now, with 6 million people unemployed, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data. While those numbers may seem intimidating, it is possible to ...

As any job hunter knows all too well, there’s a lot of competition out there. In today’s job market, employers are inundated with dozens—even hundreds—of resumes for almost any position they post. And ...

The Find: Sorting through resumes is time consuming and, unfortunately, rarely gives a recruiter an accurate picture of an applicant's personality, according to recent research. The Source: Research ...

An ex-Amazon recruiter says a key mistake job candidates make is writing vague statements in résumés. She compares these to "Miss America answers" that don't highlight specific achievements. It's best ...

Job seekers spend hours perfecting their resumes in hopes of impressing job recruiters and hiring managers. Recruiters say they spend an average of 4 to 5 minutes reading it over, but new research ...

You might think every recruiter is different. That’s why you tailor your cover letter and resume to each job you apply for, hoping to show each prospective employer what they want to see. But to a ...

Between September 2013 and 2014, Scott Bacon worked as a recruiter for Google in its network operations division. He was responsible for recruiting people to work as software and network engineers, ...

When you’re writing your resume there are a number of different audiences to consider. There’s the hiring manager. There’s the robot resume scanner. And there’s another person altogether: the ...