ADVANCED ICT RECRUITMENT CAREER SEARCH ADVICE FROM LEADING EDGE CONSULTING

March 7, 2011 · Posted in Historical Jobs · Comment

Posted Monday 7^th March 2011. Should you be preparing your resume ready to embark upon a career move into 2011, you must lever “online smart techniques” to ensure that your skills set achieves a top ranking on the job sites.

The reason for this is that loads more people are using career portals to find jobs, hence the staffing industry and talent scouts are using Speed Reading Technologies such as Spiders and Boolean based search technologies to spot talent.

To stand out from the masses a winning approach is to author your resume in the same way that you’d write an ad to sell something on-line.

Doing our research the key lays in including great content in a simplified resume to generate hits based on Google logic.

Looking into how international professional’s present themselves on off shore career websites a winning technique is to:

A – Build your resume to clearly communicate your skills set, To do this cut back on gumph and concentrate instead on incorporating as many key words as you can which describe what you do for a living.

B – Present your online resume as a “Taster” only going back 2-3 years, inviting interested parties to view your complete CV as a attachment else on your website.

C- Use your full name and include your DOB and detail the exact suburb and town that you live In else want to reside..

D – Should you have more than one skills set to trade on, release multiple taster resumes to reflect each competency.

E – Use straight forward English in your resume, steering clear of ( ) / “ “ abbreviations and watch out for spelling mistakes.

F – For Information Technology resumes, you know that systems do not enjoy # ++, to get around this use Csharp Plus Plus else allied terms such as .Net Developer Express Silver Light for C# and Low Level / Embedded Scientific Programming….Strong words in support of C ++

G – Should your career search be urgent pop your resume onto the job sites everyday to remain top of mind.

H – Build a LinkedIn profile .. a brilliant way to introduce yourself whilst adding to your professional standing.

In closing, our guess is that before we know it we will be seeing thousands more people from all walks of life either place else refresh their resumes on job portals else social platforms daily within months …Hence the skill in being spotted today lies in levering google logic to your advantage.

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Our 011 644 5110 number is unstable…If you cannot get through use 082 413 6786 or +44 1202 720 197 else Skype Vaughan Storey. Read up on Leading Edge Consulting at www.lec.co.za In need of IT skills for your organisation?… We’re passionate about identifying them for you.. Pop all hire requests and updated resumes to info@lec.co.za Systems Talent Scouts since the mid 90’s.