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! 

Is it really a good practice to copy others Resumes?

Using the very Same Resume every time is not a good practice upgrading your career.

There is no such thing as one resume fits for all position. Every resume must be customized to every position. It appears like a lot of work – and it is – however, those candidates who take the time to customize their resumes minimize their job hunt by months, sometimes it even takes years. Here are some few limitations of copying others resume:

1. Lying on Your Resume

There was a time before LinkedIn when a candidate could pretty much say anything and it was extremely difficult to make out if that person was lying or not. No more. If you are having a LinkedIn profile then you should have better not lie on it. Your colleagues, friends, and co-workers will see instantly that you’ve evaded the truth. They won’t cherish it. Neither will a hiring manager. Most industries are impartially blinkered like a bubble, if you are within that bubble, you’ll be known as a liar and no company will invite you for an interview. 

2. A copycat person takes the “personal” out of the equation.

A “personal” brand is a brand which is related with a specific “person,” nominated to shriek with their specific targeted employers, to proclaim that person’s distinctive set of personal attributes, motivated strengths, passions, and useful theories. The content you’re copying may look like yours, but it’s really not your original story.
You should pay attention to creating vigorous content that will produce chemistry for the type of person you are, how you create things and situations for employers, and what makes you suitable for your target employers.

3.  Be Original

The attainments that you copy from someone else resume couldn’t possibly be the same as yours. The circumstances and conditions, people are involved, metrics, and facts and figures are all different.  Even if there's a slight difference.

Your own way of tackling the problems will lead you to reach great heights.  Don’t copy settle for common achievement statements that look good, but aren’t really worthy for you.

4. It may not be valid for your circumstances.

The well-written and well-versed content that’s tormenting you may not do the job that your Linked profile is meant to do – ranging from what you have within yourself to offer with the present day needs of your targeted employers.

5. It may create identity confusion and conflicts.

The RESUME through which you copied the content from may belong to a job seeker who is targeting the same companies you are. What are you supposed to do when the company's’ employers and hiring managers and HR team paid attention to the same content of two candidates they’re considering for the same job? You’ll both look like copy cats, and you’ll both get rejected. Nobody will get hired.

6.  Copying

Copying degrade your personal brand and bring your position and morality in question.

If the HR team and recruiting professionals find out, that you menace your opportunities to grab the jobs you want. What does copying convey about your morality? What kind of employee you will be if you have no morals about copyrighted content?

So the bottom line of this content is: 

You’re an original. Reflect that in the Resume you create and LinkedIn profile you update. Jobs don’t land up from using someone else’s Resuming and copying it. Opportunities will always come when you have the abilities and original qualities to grab them.

It’s fine to have look at the Resumes and LinkedIn profiles of your contenders for ideas to help with the right keywords, but don’t be eager to just copy and paste parts of content into your own Resume. 

We at MAXECV believe that “Our success is driven by your success".