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Perhaps Cashman should have brought a stack of resumes.
While they may have access to a huge stack of resumes, their reach exceeds their grasp.
In many cases, the final decision is going to be based on one-on-one interviews, but winnowing down a giant stack of resumes to those final 20 or 10 or five candidates to interview can be a challenge.
Instead of scribbling notes on a paper resume, and asking colleagues to review a stack of resumes, the cloud offers colleagues the opportunity to discretely rate and review candidates on-line after they've submitted an on-line application for a job opening.
Years ago I was told a (possibly apocryphal) story of a team leader at some big company in a resume review who looked at a tall stack of resumes, frowned, then threw half of them in the garbage unread, saying, "I don't want to work with anyone who's unlucky". There are lots of reasons why your resume might not get noticed, and every screener and hiring manager is looking for something different.
Burton shuffles thoughtfully through her stack of resumes, which are now covered in notes.
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Hiring managers and job seekers are realizing that printing stacks of resumes is turning passe, and social media is rising as the new way of generating real-time networking opportunities.
After school, he worked as a consultant at Bain where his bosses would plunk down a stack of military resumes in front of him and ask him to parse through them.
A stack of paper resumes sitting on your office desk with notes scribbled on them to indicate the best candidates isn't going to help much when you're on the road traveling or working from home.
Next36 company Kira Talent: Kira Talent is a collaborative platform that accelerates the interview process using video — leaving behind stacks of impersonal resumes and applications.
Here are several things to consider next time you are looking at a stack of overly impressive resumes.
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