start now and move quickly   I recently advertised 3 jobs on Seek, Indeed and Linked In. I received hundreds of responses, and was forced to read hundreds of resumes.   With hundreds of resumes to read and a limited time to read them, I had to skim them and apply an exclusion strategy to […]

start now and move quickly   I recently advertised 3 jobs on Seek, Indeed and Linked In. I received hundreds of responses, and was forced to read hundreds of resumes.   With hundreds of resumes to read and a limited time to read them, I had to skim them and apply an exclusion strategy to identify a smaller number that I would study in detail. I am sure most employers and Hr consultants do the same thing. As had occurred previously when i have reviewed resumes, this brought two things to mind:   The importance of the first page of a resume The importance of personal branding for everyone   I suspect that few people drafting a CV understand just how quickly readers of their resume paints a picture of them in their mind. I realised that I form a judgement very quickly. I very quickly formed a view on…