Job Portal Profiles

I am not Getting Interview Calls, How I Optimize my job portal profiles? 

Firstly ,ensure your professional profiles on various job portals are complete and consistent with your resume. Imagine having something on your resume and something completely different on your profile and recruiter realising this mismatch; the profile will be immediately trashed. Deluge your profile with all related information so that recruiters while short-listing/hiring are aware of almost everything about your profile and nothing really comes to them as a surprise during the interview. Identify keywords / terminology what recruiters look for in resumes while hiring, and include those terms in yours. Recruiters essentially search profiles using their industry-specific keywords. Include current and desired job location as recruiters often search on a job seeker s location because they prefer local candidates. In case you are also specific about a particular location, indicate that in your profile and resume as it will help save time (yours and the recruiter s) by not getting unnecessary calls from other locations. Design the profile heading on the job portal appropriately as that is the first thing recruiters read while hunting for profiles online. Catchy and direct, giving all the information in a short and crisp manner is what will catch a recruiter s attention immediately. I am a fresher looking for a job with immediate joining is only wasting that precious space. Recruiters are interested in skills, strengths, experience and so on. Keep your job profile live by visiting and updating it regularly, recruiters repeatedly check on the last updated on status during online searches as it gives them an idea about interest levels and urgency of the candidate for a job change. Add a latest and professional photograph of yours on your profile as well as resume, while some recruiters feel that it s not essential, majority of them find it advantageous as they feel a photograph of candidate the profile or resume gives it an identity and a top of the mind recall while short-listing later. 

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I am not Getting Interview Calls, How I Optimize my job portal profiles? 

Hello fellow job lookers, First of all you need to make sure if there aren't any basic problems with your profile like: 

1. Make sure your contact list is updated, it might seem silly but sometimes an update is all we need. 

2. Make sure all your job profile links are attached and can be viewed by prospective hiring people.

3. Lastly make sure you have an intact resume and a bio that says something about you because a blank will give us just that.. blank ! Now that we're past doing all are basic checkups you need to ask yourself what is it that will grab attention to you? The answer is plain and simple - your Resume or CV. 

Now, there are 100s of resumes a hiring committee goes through yours need to stand out. 

Here are few tips on a lucrative resume. 

1. Don't be shy, if there was one time you had to show off this is the time dear. Mention your skills don't hide them!

 2. Gain new skills. If there is a field you are interested in & you think you can do better no problem just learn , its never too late. 

3. Flaunt your achievements. You won an excellence award in 8th grade let them know! No achievement is small. 

4. Don't Lie! Yes as tempting as that sounds stick to the truth don't be ashamed of a short resume, we all start somewhere and build as we go . 

Another major thing we bypass is are we applying to the right job? 

1. Check job requirements carefully and see if you are really fit. 

2. Its okay to start small, hitting for big job roles that you might not qualify for (yet) will mostly end up in a rejection which can be a major answer to why your'e not getting those calls. 

3. Before you choose and apply always remember to ask yourself what is it that you can offer them and not anyone else? mention it in your why should you be hired? 

In the end id like to say a few cliche but important things. 

1. Remember a rejection is not the end, its just a step forward to your success that's just round the corner. 

2. Be confident and trust yourself, Good luck!