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Importance of Resume Writing

20
Jun
2019

Resume is the first interaction between you and the employer. It is your first impression over the selector. It is barely a 30 seconds of trailer from your whole career life. It is a few paragraph synopses of your past where your future will be at stake.

Resume is not just about your education qualification, certification, honors and experience instead, it is about what have you achieved so far and why will you be the right fit for the new employer.

Let’s take an example and understand why is it so important to have a right format with right content and right design resume with you prior to applying for any new opportunities.

Recently I have appeared for an interview, the interviewer didn’t get a chance to go through my resume and asked me to walk him through. Fine, while walking him through my resume, he was yawning and I got the impression that he might be feeling sleepy. Never mind, I had no option but to continue. At the end, there were few questions and the interview was over. I was not selected.

There might be many possible causes of this rejection, which I don’t know, however I am sure that one major cause was my 5 pages long resume.

Well, while writing a resume from a candidate point of view, I was trying to put everything what I know, what I have done and what I have achieved. I have tried to touch every corner, which had probable developed a novel instead of a sticky note and now a day’s people are more interested over the headlines instead of the whole 9 yards’ story.

There are many other possible reasons for rejection, however the first one will always be the resume.

This may not be true for few of the interviewer or selectors, however trend is moving towards one liner and short stories about success, achievement and eye catching formats.

To conclude, I believe if we need to survive (to be a part of our choice employer) then we have to follow the Darwin’s Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection here as well.

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Fake Resume

01
May
2019

We all are thinking that we are the smartest one in the world

We all are most of the thinking that we are one the smartest person on the earth. Sometime we deal with the situation smartly and convert our motive into results however sometimes it becomes an example of over smartness.

Faking your resume is one of its kind of such over smartness. Many think that they will not be caught by doing so, however if they will then the organization will simply fire them right away!

Now a day most of the MNCs are having a parameter of BGC (candidate’s background verification process), which they cannot avoid. During BGC if there is anything RED flag, then it will be better for the candidate to be ready to serve the consequences.

In case if the project, the candidate was hired for is really critical and organization is not getting any other better resource than you, then there is a possibility that they will give you to time to clear the mess or confess it with some warnings and let you continue. However, the chances are very minimal.

So my two cents will be, if you are going to be a part of any organization and you have a plan to take this relationship for long time, then please be trustworthy and open with them.

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Ever thought about hiring cost to the company?

12
Apr
2019

General perception is that an applicant is the one who is bearing the cost of being interviewed and get hired to any organization. The applicant think that he/she is the one who spent money to reach to the interview venue, spent time, while waiting to get interviewed and remain patient during the interview session. Once the applicant through from all the processes and get rejected, he/she thinks that this is the interviewer who had rejected him/her otherwise they were capable enough to handle the challenges.

Being an applicant many of us will agreed with the rejected applicant’s thought. Some of us might think that they are better than this applicant until they get rejected by the interviewer and few will say, why have they called us if they don’t want to hire us?

Before we go further, let’s see what a third person’s thought over this situation;

  • Are companies or organizations are doing these interviews just for the sack of fun or they really want to hire someone?
  • Are companies having so much of free time to play hiring game?
  • Do they deliberately reject candidates?
  • They don’t want to hire a candidate until the reject many?
  • They don’t want to pay
  • They have ample amount of time

Now let’s see the other picture from the organization prospective. Organization want the hiring process should be as follows;

  1. Applicant applied for the opportunity in a company
  2. HR shortlists the application
  3. HR inquires about the shortlisted candidate
    1. HR finds Green data
      1. HR schedules the interview
    1. In case HR finds Black data
      1. HR will continue with other applications
  4. Selected candidates deployed to the resource pool.

Are the organizations spending money on these interviews?

Let’s take an example;

  • Suppose, Saatpro Group has vacancy of 15 Java developers, for its collaborating company C9Software pvt. Ltd.
  • HR has posted the vacancy’s information to various job portals and received 458 applications for this position.
  • Company HR has shortlisted 57 candidates for the interview

As per the process, total 4 rounds of interviews will be conducted for this position;

  1. HR round (25 minutes) – Cost Rs.200
  2. Technical round (35 minutes) – Cost Rs.800
  3. Manager round (15 minutes) – Cost Rs.1000
  4. Salary negotiation (25 minutes) – Cost Rs.200
  5. Total time and cost spend over one selected candidate will be approx. 100 minutes which costs approx. Rs.2200
  6. Total cost over 15 candidates – Rs.33000
  7. Training cost– Rs.10,00,000
  8. Approx. cost spent over remaining 42 applicants – Rs. 60,000
  9. Company will spend from Rs.1000 to Rs. 10,000 for every 15 selected candidates for the BGC followed by spending 10 to 20 more working days. Total cost – Rs.1,50,000

In case of Black BGC, company will be losing precious time, money and opportunity as the whole process takes almost 2 months to get it completed.

Imagine if the hiring organization gets the right candidate in first interview itself, well in that case an organization will save this expenditure and convert it into profit.

To conclude;

  • Organizations want to get the right candidate in the first slot
  • Interviewers are there to select the right candidate but not to reject
  • Interview sessions are not free for organizations; they had pay a hefty cost of it

Think these before concurring an interview.

Hope you agree?

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Resume Writing

02
Apr
2018

Resume writing is always a challenge especially for those who are either changing their profession or changing job after a long gap. There are two main challenges, what to show and how to show? In my case, I have to write a resume after 10 years, things and trends all are changed. So how to proceed then?

I had consulted many of my well-wishers and few of them were really great and took a step ahead for me, they have not only guided me about writing the resume but also shared few valuable trainings about how to write a better resume.

Two points, which I learnt from all these are, write your resume according to the opportunity and write precise instead of a biography. However that is not so easy. I still needed guidance and expert to understand these two types of resume.

As an exercise, I have opened the LinkedIn and closely read many of my mentor’s and colleague’s profiles. Few of the profiles were ideal for me and helped me learning, how to craft a meaningful resume, still all these work was very manual and took lots of effort and time. Luckily my friends and mentors are with me and they helped me to get it finalized.

Many job seekers might not get such kind of guidance, but now they should not be worried as LinkedIn has recently introduced the Resume Assistance with Microsoft Office 365. This is amazing and will be a boon for all job seekers. It is simple and quicker. It allows us to explore the LinkedIn profile in a proper way and get the resume crafted. It kind of giving power to everyone and boosting their confidence.

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Recruiter and the Candidate

27
Mar
2018

 

It is common to hear about the clashes between the recruiter and the candidate’s views, where candidates are blaming to the recruiter for taking them for granted and on the other hand recruiters are not happy with the candidate’s behavior and attitude.

It is a two way game, where both parties are equally responsible for their actions. In most of the cases, we are getting complains against the recruiters about wasting candidate’s time due to various reasons, where waiting time is the biggest culprit. This usually triggers the panic button of the candidate. They feel themselves as an object, which is waiting for its turn for the quality check. Hence they used to search for better options not giving importance to the company which had selected them.

Eventually the recruiter is making all the possible effort to assure that they are hiring the right candidate for the required position. Not just hiring but also assuring that the candidate will meet the company’s norms and full fill the requirement. In order to get it right, they usually align all the rounds, booking the location. During all these arrangement, they sometime overlook the wastage of candidate’s time.

Some recruiters are resolving this issue by taking appointment from both parties and keeping gap between the interview round. Up to some extent this helps, however still it needs to be mature.

The candidate should also take responsibility to be transparency about their options and if they get better option post offer letter. That’s the only way to change this game into better relationship.

Good Luck!!

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