Why you are not getting responses to your job applications - Part 1
This is a question that is being asked more and more often these days! The answer is not that complicated, if you understand how the online job boards work (or don’t).
1. Fake candidates
Bad news -Your application is getting drowned by fakes
Surprised! You shouldn’t be. While you are busy building your resume based on facts, there are thousands of candidates building theirs on fake credentials. While you are adding all that you know to your skills list, they are adding all that the companies are searching for into their skills list (even though they have no such skills). While you are entering the factual details of your education and employment records, they are faking theirs. While you are working on your single, definitive resume, they are uploading multiple profiles, under slightly different names.
They are doing it so that they appear high up in all searches made by potential employers. And in the process bury your resume somewhere beyond the 10th page of the search results where no employer ever goes!
Good News - Faking doesn’t lead to a job
However, don’t for a moment think that the fakers are getting all the jobs - the employers and the interviewers are not dumb. Over 99% of the fakers are caught out during interviews and are disqualified. But, they have already done the damage to you and the company by taking the interview slot that should have rightfully belonged to you. The main point to remember here is that those openings are still unfilled. You just need to find a way to reach them!
Solution - Distance yourself from the fakers
You need to build your credibility. Till recently, there were very few clear and easy ways of doing that. Which is why we started JobsByRef.com. Here is how you can thwart the plans of the fakers - by proving that you are genuine in ways that they cannot.
a. Register on JobsByRef.com and spend some time to update your profile.
b. For every college degree that you have, connect to at least 5 of your classmates.
c. For every employment record, connect to at least 5 of your (past or current)colleagues, preferably including those you reported to.
Very easy to do, if you are a genuine candidate. Not so easy, if you are a faker. On JobsByRef.com, we have built an algorithm that determines how genuine a candidate is based on the nature and diversity of connections.
Once you have built a healthy score, you will start appearing higher up in search results as employers look at resumes with higher credibility first.
Read more about it here and here.
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Comments
Thank You Very much… Everybody should take a look at this article before building there resume.
Cheers
Siddesh H Banakar
Completely out of luck. Applying to jobs is fine but building a network may not be the best choice for someone who has less experience (say a year or two) or like me, did a short stint abroad.
Also, most employers are ‘playing the field’ with so many jobseekers around and such few jobs.
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