Biggest challenge to any organization is to hire the right candidate to right job, day by day it’s becoming more challenging considering the number of applications for a position and availability of skilled resources.
The entire recruitment process is time consuming creating the ad which should be attractive and challenging to right people, making sure it reaches them, screening and identifying the right candidate for the right position.
One of the important step in this process is resume shot listing in which following are the important things to remember.
Go through the current requirement for which the hiring is being done, understand the exact requirement of the position and make a list of five must have skills and three nice to have skills, in the resume check if above criteria met, you can consider having four must haves based on the nice to have skills and other factors such as candidates work and educational background, domain etc.
Check for the length of service with all employers by knowing this you can understand the candidate’s commitment.
Check for long gap between employments and ask the candidate the reason for that it may be for self update/education or some other non acceptable reason.
Make three categories of resumes, excellent match, good match and rejected and go with phone screening the excellent match candidates.
After submitting the resume if candidates don’t get response quickly they may lose interest in your organization so don’t take much time to communicate with right candidate.
