One of HR professional’s daily tasks is to to go through as many job applicants’ resumes as they can. On average, HR professionals spend 15 seconds checking one CV. Only 20% of those will be selected, while the remaining 80% of job applicants’ resumes will end up deleted. So this begs an obvious question: how can you tell the quality of a candidate’s CV in such a short time? Resumes are not always easy to deal with. I conclude this based on the ups and downs in the recruitment business during the past 15 years. For instance, before a recruitment consultant sends a candidate’s resume to an in-house HR manager to arrange interviews, he needs to communicate with the candidate […]