Your Resume Does Not Highlight the Impact
While designing the resume, the candidate fails to account for his contribution to the tasks completed. For example: If you write ‘Worked on devising new strategies for the flagship project’. That sounds too vague and does not enlighten the recruiter on what good happened after devising strategies. This way, the recruiter fails to understand your contribution and rejects the application.
How to Improve: You can get away with this problem by showing the impact of your work. The above example could be rephrased as ‘Devised new strategies for the flagship project to increase sales by 60 percent.’ You can similarly improve on the relevant experiences on your resume by quantifying the impact.
Top 7 Reasons Why Resumes Get Rejected
If you’re someone who went through the trial and tribulation of the job search journey, you know the pain that comes with it – job application rejection, failure to get a call back from the recruiter, and whatnot. You might be wondering what exactly went wrong. Is it really you? Well, it’s not you but your ‘oh-so-perfect resume’ that you thought was so good that it will attract recruiters like bees to honey. Being exceptionally talented and qualified doesn’t mean that you’re automatically hired. If you want to sell yourself, you need to make your resume attractive enough for recruiters to recognize your talent.
So, what exactly is a resume, and what resume mistakes can cost you your dream job?