My resume has not been short listed for the job, “I am qualified for that job, and still recruiters reject my resume for interview”. This is the most common question for more than 75% job aspirants in the market. If a recruiter rejected your resume, it means he didn’t like your resume; maybe you are not qualified for the job. Recruiter wants to shortlist first resume, because it makes their work easy, they don’t want to source too many resumes for a particular position. Still they reject reason you are making mistake some where in your resume.

“First impression is the last impression”, this the most important quotes implies in recruitment for any kind of position. First impression is not your physical appearance, technical skills, etc but it is your resume presentation. Most of the candidates don’t know how to present their resume to the Agencies and Organization, due to this they failed to get the job. To get selected for an interview, what happens next greatly depends on your performance at the interview table. For each vacancy, they advertised in number of portals as well as local new papers, the number of resume received can be in hundreds and thousands. When that happens, a typical recruiter can not spend, at maximum, more than 30- 60 seconds on each resume while short listing from the initial list.

If your, resume does not get selected at this stage, YOU have been dropped from the selection process. Again after initial screening, recruiter once again goes through the selected resume more than 2-5 min each and starts picking the resume of the candidates who would be called for the telephonic interview.


So, to get your resumes short listed, you need to know what kind of resumes recruiter hate most.

• Resume written in essays and long paragraphs
• Poorly formatted
• Resume longer than 3 -4 pages.
• Irrelevant Information/ Negativity

You can’t afford to have your resume trashed just because you didn’t understand the basic rules for a successful resume and suffer resume rejection. Resume rejection starts with a misunderstanding about what a resume can do for you. First of all, a resume doesn’t get you a job. Only decisions by hiring manager can get you a job. Therefore, the best resume can get your resume to hiring manager.

Remember few things for next job, when ever you apply.

• Your past accomplishments
• Whether you standout from the other resumes
• Overall impression the recruiter gets