How To Handle Lunch (or Dinner) Interviews

Sure, it doesn’t happen all that often but when an invitation to an interview over food or drinks comes up, you need to be prepared. It’s easy to make a positive impression, just follow these simple guidelines:

Submitting an Online Job Application? How to Help the Bots Read Your Résumé

It can be frustrating to send out multiple résumés every day and hear nothing back. Yet recruiters find it overwhelming to sift through the approximately 1,000 applications that come in for a single job post.

 

To help manage this large flow of résumé, recruiters use something called an applicant tracking system (ATS). These systems help recruiters do their job more efficiently by electronically filing all the résumés received.

 

If you’re applying to jobs, it’s likely your résumé is sitting in multiple tracking systems. To beat these systems and make sure your résumé gets noticed, follow these tips: