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What tips do you have for quickly sorting through resumes?
What are some ways that you quickly and efficiently sort through all the resumes you receive from job posts? How do you stay organized?
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Sorry to say, but I don't think that "quickly sorting through resumes" is in your best interests OR the best interests of your employer.
There are many excellently qualified people looking for work these days and many (most?) of them aren't all that good at creating resumes that read well during quick sorting. So if your job is to find the best people for the job openings you have, then a far better goal would be to figure out how to create more time for that very process so you DON'T HAVE TO quickly sort through resumes.
Nothing personal, Chelsea. Just food for thought.
Chelsea,
Search through Resumes is very hit or miss, especially from job postings.
I guess it comes down to how regularly you wish to review CV's, as and when they hit your inbox. Or store them all up and review them all in one go.
If your reviewing them as they come in, I tend to use the search feature for a word document. Looking for the core skills I need for my job as an initial screening process. So I may hit ctrl+f then put in say "C#" as the vacancy is a core C# Developer, if they have not managed to put that in their CV, they are either not doing the job, or they are lacking in basic common sense which puts them in the bin for my job. If they pass the initial quick search then I will review their last few jobs and see what they were doing. Was the business area correct, team size etc. Get an idea of what they were doing. This will take about 30 seconds, and if they are looking good still I just ring them and ask them any other questions I have.
If your batching the CV's you can do the above, or store them on your internal database and then do a search through all documents for the core skills and see which ones come out top and then review them first. Hopefully finding someone adequate.
Or you can do the quickest thing... Hire a recruiter to do it for you.
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