Hidden Value: How to Tell a Great Candidate From a Weak CV

One of the biggest problems with Sydney recruiting is the sheer number of applicants that apply for every open position. Some companies get as many as a thousand applicants or more for a role that needs to be filled in a short amount of time. This gives hiring managers less than a few seconds to look at a resume or CV before deciding if the applicant has any potential, and if the CV has any flaws, the candidate is immediately scrapped in favor of someone with a better CV. Improving Your Sydney Recruiting Ability The problem is that, on occasion, there are some great candidates hidden inside of those bad CVs, and when it comes to Sydney recruiting the goal is not to find out who has the best CV editor – it’s the find out which applicant is best for the position. As you’re scanning CVs, you should look for potential signs that the candidate may be a better fit than his or her bad CV indicates. Some of these signs include:

• Keywords

Every open position has needs that need to be met. When reviewing CVs, you can look for keywords that show the applicant may have the skills or experience necessary to do the job correctly. These keywords can be industry terms or specific knowledge that show the employee may be a great fit for the role, so even if the rest of their CV is sorely some other aspect, if you spot these keywords it may show the applicant is more than meets the eye.

• Experience at One Job

These days, experience is generally not as important as knowledge and ability. Technology changes every year, and most jobs need candidates that can learn, not necessarily candidates that have experience in a soon-to-be-outdated task. But applicants that have spent many years with a single company performing tasks related to your industry may still have qualities that will make them great employees. At the very least, there is a good chance that they excelled at the tasks they were assigned, otherwise they would not have been able to keep that position for as long as they did.

• Impressive Bullet Points

You don’t need to read an entire resume or CV to get a glimpse of the candidate’s best features. Leave that work to a Sydney recruiting company. What you need is to know what their best qualities are. You can usually find that out within the first few bullet points. If they are particularly impressive, it may be worth finding out more about the candidate even if the remaining bullet points are much less so. Often great information followed by useless information is a sign that the applicant had no experience with writing CVs or gauging their own self-worth, but may have completed important tasks relevant to your company. Reviewing Applicants Correctly There is a reason that Sydney recruiting companies are so valuable. We are able to review each and every applicant, screen them as needed, and make sure they’re a good fit for the job. But if you plan on taking applications yourself, make sure you look for signs of great applicants within bad CVs. Every time you toss a resume or CV because of a few flaws, you run the risk of losing out on the individual that may be best for the position. To talk to Saxon about more ideas on finding great candidates, go to www.RecruitShop.com.au