How to catch the hiring manager’s attention from the get-go

Posted on June 1st, 2019

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What do people see first on your resume? Yes, it’s the Professional Summary! You are correct!! If you write it badly, it might be the first and last thing read on your resume.

Hiring managers are busy people. They go through and screen hundreds of resumes every day. And as you probably suspect, it’s a tough and boring job. Your resume can easily get lost in the pile.

But not if you try to make their lives easier.

How do you do it then? You hook hiring managers right in—Providing the most important information right in the professional from the get-go.

What’s more, Professional summery is a little thing for many people that they don’t even consider it Which means that if you do, you’re going to stand out like swans amid a gaggle of geese.

A list about 4-5 bullet points long is a professional summary as pertained to the job Opportunity, it summarizes all your skills, experiences and achievements. You can portray it as a sample for the rest of your resume.

It has many names. Some people call it a professional summary. Resume summary, qualifications summary, or a resume statement are all the other names that it has got that people known of.

The main goal of a professional summary is to make your most important skills and experiences immediately noticeable to hiring managers.

And to make them read the rest of your resume.

You have less than half a minute to catch the eye

The very saddening and harsh reality is that recruiters only spend an average of 30 seconds on each resume.

Moreover, these 30 seconds are really just that — an average.

Only when the person looking at your resume decides to go through all of your resume to the very end, they spend more time on it. Which means that, in reality, you have even less time to make an impression.

How do you ensure your resume doesn’t get discarded, then?

By putting at the top of the page, a great Professional summary of course! This way you’ll catch the hiring manager’s attention from the get-go. (What to know who to make your own unique Professional summary, come back to us on next Friday again!!)

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