It’s Not About The Resume; It’s About The Skills. Try Finding The Hidden Skills Of The Candidate During The Interview

Amit Singh
Blog — Global Jobs Network LLC
5 min readMar 17, 2017
Job Interview

It’s not at all a deceitful statement that resume is one of the most important parameter when it comes to go for a good job. Candidates with a good quality score for their resume are likely to get more hits on their profiles as compared to various other job aspirants. Also, while shortlisting profiles for any specific job responsibility, HR managers focus on the resume of the applicants. That’s the only reason why people usually tends to beautify their resumes. Conscripting a resume is the primary step candidates take for building an efficacious career.

A typical manager spends about 15 seconds on a resume. Nevertheless, this is the solitary contact one have with the company. Employers look for a purpose to not to interview candidates with low quality score for their resumes. There is unequivocally no space for whatsoever but an immaculate persuasive document that replicates who you are and what are your skills in the most valuable light. In this age, where for all job openings, there is cut throat antagonism, you need to have that job wise created resume with the intention of stand out among the hundreds of job chasers applying for the similar position. Afore drafting an authentic resume, make a sample resume of your.

But the question is still the same. Being an employer, even you focus on the applicant’s resume first of all. But is it necessary that an applicant with a tremendously crafted resume will be beneficial for your organization? Will he be productive enough? Let’s take you through some imperative steps that you must follow apart from considering resume as primary while interviewing any candidate:

• Go through their resume carefully, but to inspect the element
In order to get a job, applicants are likely to embed a number of points in their resume which they are not even aware of. This is the time when a stretchable conversation can help you calculating the depth. Try asking more questions only on the points most highlighted in his/her resume. If the candidate genuinely justifies the points, he’s the one for your organization.

• Candidate with weak resume can also be a potent employee
Yeah!! You heard it right. It’s not necessary that only those employees having tremendous resume taglines can provide you with effective productivity at your workplace. During an interview, it’s important that you must try figuring out the hidden skills of the candidate during the interview.

• Ask him the questions related to organizational productivity and analyse his views
Don’t go for the resume. Yes, for a few minutes, indulge with the applicant with questions related to organizational growth. Ask him/her straightaway questions that how he/she can be fruitful to the company. However, it’ll be a casual question but it would be the answer which gives you a clear idea about the candidate. No matter how desperate one seems to be at the time of the interview, it’ll be you who have to check the possibilities that one is comprised of. Resume is one of the most integral parts when it comes to search an appropriate job. No matter what skills one has, employers always tend to focus on the resume every eight out of ten times. But what if you hire an employ on the basis of his/her attractive resume and after a few days you have to regret on your decision. Gone are the days when people have to strive dejectedly to find jobs. Internet being at your fingertips, you can easily find captivating employees just by a few clicks.

Even on all the online job portals, special emphasis is being given to resume. Now is the time to set the scale once again. It is true that attractive resume always draws maximum attention but it can’t be the only parameter to let one find a good job. While interviewing, if you too are preferring one’s resume over his/her interpersonal skills, chances are high that you’ll end hiring an employee which is good on the papers but may or may not be as effective on the grounds. Experience can’t be judged on the papers but it is something that can only be justified being at work. So if you are hiring anybody just because of the reason that his/her resume is shouting out loud years of experience, you can land on a wrong platform.

Even I knew such an experience which one of my HR manager friend once told me. He was interviewing for a business development senior executive. A guy with experience of almost 6 years was looking confident enough while enlisting the clients of his previous organization. He was also highlighting his responsibilities and roles in bringing all those clients to the company. Not to mention his resume was indicating the skills simply larger than life. Depending upon the same, my friend hired him and that too at an attractive salary. Not many days were passed, even some of the

renowned clients of his organization were gone. Reason being the lack of communicating proficiency of the guy he had hired.This is only one example but if you look around, you’ll find many. Unlike expert employers, various HR managers primarily focuses on resume which I think has two sides like a coin. As I have explained earlier a well, having a nimble resume is a good thing but one must justify the skills that he’s presenting in the CV. Generally, most people failed to prove the written skills where as some having even weak resumes can hit the bull’s eye easily.

It‘s advisable to have a deep discussion on the points that are written in the aspirant’s resume. However, try avoiding being attracted by a good cover letter or resume formatting. If you start judging the skills keeping the CV aside, chances are high that you’ll find a suitable candidate for the job. Resume speaks for the candidate but never avoid the words directly from the horse’s mouth.

In Short — Hire Character, Train Skill.

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Amit Singh
Blog — Global Jobs Network LLC

Digital Marketer at @JustDotJobs and @xoxotours #DigitalMarketing #SEO #PPC #Contentmarketing