Amy Greensfelder

Two resumes crossed my desk on the same day. One belonged to a maintenance supervisor, and the other to a seasoned social services director. I didn’t know either person, or what jobs they were targeting. But within seconds, I had completely different reactions. The maintenance supervisor’s resume was under two pages, cleanly formatted, consistent, and easy to follow. The bullet points described the impact of his work, not just a laundry list of tasks. There were no obvious grammar issues, no...

The other day I was looking for the statistic of how long hiring managers spend on a “first pass” of a resume. With positions generating 200 or more applications, managers generally do a first quick pass to find strong candidates for a more thorough second look. While looking for the stat, I landed on this Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/recruiting/comments/y9tkok/is_it_true_that_recruiters_only_spend_about_7/ The truth behind the stat The TL;DR is yes, there is truth to the statistic,...