by Fahad Mughal, ERIEC Mentor and Diversity Magazine Columnist
This article was initially posted by Diversity Magazine in January 2017
It took me 10 months to realize that the reason I was not getting any response for a professional job was that I was not targeting the advertised job.
But how do I target the advertised job?
Most job postings have key words in it and most organisations use software which scans the resumes for keywords specified in job postings.
The more keywords you have from the job posting in your resume, the more likely it is for the software to pick up your resume from a pool of hundreds or thousands of resumes submitted for a particular job.
The following process model is a high-level view of how resumes get to the hiring manager, for a particular job (according to my understanding).
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About the Author: Fahad Mughal is a Pakistani-Canadian, a Business Analyst with the City of Edmonton, with core expertise in business process improvement, data analysis and visualization . He is a mentor at the Edmonton Region Immigrant Employment Council (ERIEC) – mentorship program in Edmonton. A former tax volunteer for Immigrants through Bredin Institute in Edmonton. Facilities Director at Blue Quill Community League and he calls himself a reformist who cares about justice, equality, equity, harmony, compassion and empathy for all human beings. He believes in being accountable for his own actions first.