Resume Digest Launches Web Tool for Savvy Job Seekers

Online, October 9, 2009 (Newswire.com) - Oct 9, 2009 - Sydney Australia

Resume Digest breaks the fallacy that one perfect resume is all that is needed to land that dream job. The new approach is a paradigm shift in the job seeker's mindset: "What about if I identify the employer's needs and go about meeting those needs?"

Now the savvy candidate is no longer compelled to blast the same boring piece of self-marketing over the internet but is suddenly showing some interest in fulfilling an employer's requirements.

One size fits all doesn't cut it anymore in a competitive marketplace. Resumes ought to be customized for each job advertisement applied for. Employers are looking for specific skills which have to be demonstrated. Unsubstantiated claims may cause the application to be discarded.

The irony is that people like Bill Gates may never get hired by today's Microsoft because candidates profiling is very unkind to an entrepreneurial spirit.

Recruitment agencies are trained to look for the negatives in order to thin down a pile of 50 or 100 applicants to a short list of 5 or 10. The lack of a particular keyword will cause an applicant to be classified as 'sub-prime'.

The original resume format as a chronological employment history is fine if one has only been 5 years in the workplace but as people advance in maturity some gaps and changes of direction will appear. This type of resume will expose the job seeker bare like through a police interrogation. What is required instead is something that puts the candidate's best foot forward to arouse the employer's interest and be called for an interview.

Resume Digest is a tool that takes the historical employment history, assigns keywords to each position held and produces a more suitable sales brochure of the candidate. Recruiters use software to build databases of CVs and pull up names with a given profile if they can. It's about time job seekers also catch up with technology and use it to their advantage.

http://www.resumedigest.net

Media contact: Bruno Deshayes
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