For years we’ve heard that hiring managers and recruiters will spend five to ten seconds reading your resume — and no more. Of course, you cannot really read a resume in five or ten seconds. I’ve read tens of thousands of resumes over the year and I still read resumes every day. However, managers and recruiters are famous for “reading” resumes in a single glance. When you talk to a recruiter on the phone, it’s your turn to screen them the same way they screen job-seekers like you.

Source: Forbes November 28, 2016 03:50 UTC