I know it is frustrating when all they go by is a resume and cover letter to filter through the applicants. Try to imagine how difficult it must be to be in HR and read (or skim) 300 applications for like 10 positions. It would take a long ass time to interview all 300 applicants. They have to screen applicants somehow just to have time to interview the "good" ones. I'm not defending them, I'm just stating how I believe it to work. The implications of all this is that you have to play the game and by their rules. You have to have solid references. You have to make a resume/cover letter that stands out from the rest. If your resume is too long....trim it down. If your resume is too concise....beef it up.
It's not like your cover letter is going to be the next blockbuster novel. Maybe writing about hedonistic sex
a la Shades of Grey will get that resume "noticed."
If 300 applicants are applying for one position, there's a serious unemployment/under-employment/job-hopping crisis going on, and I would not mind if the government intervened here.
But really, you never know what's in the mind of an HR person and what they are choosing to throw out. The rules and regulations to a radio station give-away contest are laid out more clearly than any hiring policy - if there even is a "policy."
Most likely, the big criteria they are looking for is "previous experience" doing the same exact job. Experience is hardly everything, and may very well account for nothing. In this economy, young people aren't going to "break into" shit.
"Trying to make yourself stand out" is no solution to the hiring crisis. Besides, you don't know what you are getting in that honeymoon phase either. It's all corporate culture bullshit that places the blame on ultra high under and unemployment on the job seeker.
Yes you are right that I am interested in dating a guy who is confident.
How long does it take you to make such a serious judgement about a man's personality? Have you been right everytime?
It makes me wonder what these women in HR are up to? Are they treating it like some reality show dating game? Are they bringing their female dating "skills" into the picture?
No man or woman has telepathic ability that I know of. There has got to be a better process for evaluating people rather than the "gut-feelling" and snap judgement based on a shitty cover letter and resume. Cover letters and resumes just make me want to puke. It's disgusting American culture at its worst!