If you are an experienced “head hunter”, you, probably, had the problem of too many applications for one position. And most of these applications are not qualified or even just horrible, actually. So, it is very important to know how to find the one and only perfect candidate among the great number of poor-qualified persons.

Sometimes there is a storm of applications because of the one job announcement, and you have to deal with it. First of all, you should scare off the unqualified candidates by some special job descriptions. It will help you to have some manageable number of resumes. The description should be very specific. Try to give more details.

Specific job posting

Your offer should be very clear and have some well-defined description. There are lots of vague offers causing problems for companies, especially small ones.

You should not deviate and be concrete saying what exactly you need. You should have the discipline to do this task. If you say that person should know how to use some exact program or tool, it should be a point that can’t be discussed.

Job description parameters

Try to be explicit and do a short (but not too short) list of questions. The answers should be brief, just “yes” or “no”. Ask about applicant’s experience, the number of tears for the specific position, about some specific certification and things like that.

Also, you should reject those applications with grammatical mistakes, spelling errors, lack of experience you need, and some long, complicated and boring descriptions. Don’t forget to reject resumes with long period employment gaps. Besides that you can search for the specific job keywords in the resumes you take. You can try to automate this process with different digital tools.

Ways to identify candidates

You should not ignore cover letters. They can help you to identify great applicants and to indicate wrong people among them. Often right persons can just be unnoticed. You should read the letters and find people who know their job, knows your company and industry. It shows that these candidates did their research and homework. Of course, it is a plus.

Try to be fast on the first lap of reviewing resumes. It should be normal for you to do 80 percents of work within just a few hours. The second step is much more serious, and you will need time to do it well. For example, you can look for those applications with more years of experience you suggested in your job description. If it were three years, you should look for candidates with four or five years of experience.

About the Author: Ann Aldrich is the author. Besides that she is a writer and freelancer doing a guide for students at researchpaperkingdom.com trying to perform top-level academic assignments. She finished Adelphi University in NY, and now she can write on completely varied subjects.