(6) Resume should preferably include a good-looking photo. For personnel managers, they need to read a large number of resumes every day. If all other conditions are equal, they generally will notify job seekers with photos to come for an interview first because they can assess...
Below is an industry secret disclosed by a veteran in China's online recruitment industry, providing suggestions to job seekers from the perspective of corporate personnel managers.
(1) Your resume should be relevant to the company.
When personnel managers search for talents, they usually use keywords like "famous company name + position name". For example, those in the consumer goods industry might prefer candidates from Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble. Personnel managers would search accordingly, such as "Coca-Cola + Sales Manager". The system will find job seekers whose resumes contain these keywords. If your resume mentions well-known companies, it can be searched. For instance: "I worked at xx mineral water company, successfully reducing the market share of Coca-Cola's Tianyidi mineral water..." or "I worked at Coca-Cola's Baiyun District distributor in Guangzhou." This increases the chances of personnel managers reviewing your resume!
(2) Refresh your resume frequently.
When personnel managers search for talents, qualified resumes are arranged in the order of their refresh time, and they generally only look at the first one or two pages. Many job seekers don't actually know that refreshing their resume can lead to more job opportunities. Therefore, every time you log in, it's best to refresh your resume. After refreshing, it will be ranked higher, making it easier for personnel managers to find you!
(3) Don't just apply for positions posted in the last three days.
Most job seekers think that newly posted job information has the highest success rate. Actually, this is not true. Because many corporate personnel managers do not log in and refresh their posted positions regularly, when job seekers search for positions, newly refreshed positions will rank higher. These positions receive more applications, leading to greater competition. Conversely, some positions that have been posted for half a month or even two months have fewer applicants, resulting in a higher success rate.
(4) Keep your email always at the front.
You should know that personnel managers check job seekers' emails every day, but they are quite lazy. Among over 100 pages of resume emails, they only look at the first five pages at most! Now you should understand why your job application resume never gets a response!
So, when sending emails to the designated corporate email, how can you make sure your email always ranks at the top so that personnel managers see it first every time they open their inbox? Just change the date on your computer system to a future date, like 2008, before sending the email. Since most email systems default to sorting emails by date, your email won't be pushed back until after 2008! (If you get the job successfully, you should treat me to dinner!)
(5) Catchy email subject lines.
Personnel managers receive a large volume of job application emails every day. Job seekers typically follow the company’s requirement and title their email as "Applying for XX Position". How can you catch the personnel manager's eye and make them open your email first? You can work on the email subject line. Out of hundreds of emails received in a day by a personnel manager, only those with fresh titles have a chance to be opened.
Example: A female friend of mine sent out over 100 emails looking for a job but received no response because there were too many people applying for clerical positions. However, she had previously worked as a flight attendant. I changed her email subject to “Flight Attendant Looking for Work in Guangzhou”, which sparked the imagination of most male personnel managers. As a result, within three days, more than 30 male personnel managers notified her for interviews. She went from not finding a job in three months to receiving over ten job offers in just three days. Now you know the importance of the email subject line, right?
You should know that personnel managers check job seekers' emails every day, but they are quite lazy. Among over 100 pages of resume emails, they only look at the first five pages at most! Now you should understand why your job application resume never gets a response!
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