By necessity of employment, applicants usually apply indiscriminately to offers that are related to the professional profile, however, they do not perform a real search based on their approach and fall into generality in the eyes of recruiters. “The more you send the resume, the more likely you are to be called.” This is a phrase we often hear when you still haven’t got a job or want a better one. And although these comments are usually made without any expertise, many applicants are encouraged to massively disseminate their resumes on the exchanges and employment platforms. Big mistake.
Being more ‘visible’ or being taken into account for future processes are some of the beliefs in which candidates fall, which in reality have no certainty.
Initially, whoever receives the same curriculum repeatedly and is in charge of the selection process, will consider that the applicant is a person “disoriented and who does not have a sufficient level of reading or understanding to know that the vacancy does not correspond, at all, with his profile,” says Lina Correa, RPO manager of ManpowerGroup Solutions.
Although there are companies that have at their disposal ‘curriculum banks’ or specialized areas that keep resumes -archived- of previous processes, it is not frequent that they reuse them for new calls.
“The possibility is minimal, it is difficult for them to consider a resume again for another position, because normally companies eliminate resumes that did not apply for current processes and therefore, usually start from scratch with the selection processes,” says Correa.)
Don’t risk your resume being discarded at first sight
The first step to get a job among so many vacancies is to be clear about your profile and align your expectations to the offers most in line with it. Also keep in mind how you highlight your focus on your, as it is from here that recruiters could consider you for the vacancy.
“The way in which the curriculum is structured is important, because sometimes there is no job aware of this and the candidate generalizes all areas of work and thinks that he has strengths in all fields, which is often not true” –Diana Ríos, manager at Hays Colombia.
Something very different is when an applicant finds several offers that are largely related to their profile within the same company and does not know whether to apply to one or the other. Here, the advice is “to apply to the vacancy that best suits the professional profile of the applicant and in addition, send an email to the company, in which you make clear your interest in other job offers offered by the company and that have a level close to your curriculum “, recommends the RPO expert of ManpowerGroup Solutions.
If you do not meet the requirements, it is better to desist from applying. Although the career you studied may have many variants and fields of action, do not ignore the years of experience, a specialty, the level of English – if required – or the handling of a certain tool described in the vacancy.
Keep in mind that each position will require a level of focus or specialty, so itis counterproductive to send the resume to a large number of vacancies without reviewing them thoroughly; It will be an unnecessary wear and tear and will simply be lost among hundreds of resumes that recruiters receive for job offers, because “companies are more demanding on a day-to-day basis, not only in experience and training, but also in having people who have all the potential to develop within the company,” concludes the Hays Colombia expert.