Steven Hemphillon

‘One Picture is Worth Ten Thousand Words’ – But Which Ones?
 Some people just use a standard, traditional looking one with bullet points and italicized words; others will go very artistic with pictures, styles or even having it appear landscaped (which sometimes will get a bit irritating if you are printing out a bunch of them in portrait). However, the ones that make any recruiter or HR Professional pause a minute is ones with pictures. This necessarily isn’t a good thing! The questions that usually come to my mind are things like: “Why did they put this on here?”, “I wonder how old they are?”, “Why did they decided to chose a ‘bar-style’ picture featuring alcohol and a tight tang-top?”
If you were surprised to learn about the relatively short amount of time HR Professionals spend on your professional engineering resumes, it might come as a shock that you could have been weeded out of the applicant pool by a computer program instead of a person (article). Though applicant tracking systems (ATS) are not used by every company, you will find larger organizations and recruiting firms will use them to keep track of your information and to see if you are a good fit for a position. How Does it Work? When you send in your resume, the system (or sometimes the HR Professional) will highlight keep words in your resume.  The premium job consulting is essentially a lesson in recruitment and instructing clients on an ongoing basis on how to place themselves on their desired job. As part of this premium service, clients are given industry secrets such as how to contact hiring managers, how best to get your resume in front of them along with other valuable information.  Though Land the Interview acknowledges that the premium job consulting service may not be for everyone, they do believe this package may be ideal for those who have proven job stability, good career progression and above-average qualifications or degrees.