Resume Evaluation: Avoidance of Hidden Disqualifiers

This is one of series of articles being written by Alpha Dog Resumes.com explaining how the online resume writing service evaluates the thousands of resumes that are sent to it each year.

One of the ten criteria that is reviewed is Avoidance of Hidden Disqualifiers.  The resume is given a score of 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest score.

A score of 3 or lower indicates that your resume contains information that likely disqualifies you from jobs before you will even be considered for an interview.

As examples, are you older, have you been out of the workforce for a couple of years, do you have gaps in your experience, or are you changing careers?  These are few of the red flags that may result in HR personnel and computers unfairly removing you from job consideration.  It happens all the time.

We work with you to address these issues so that you have the best chance at getting the interview and proving in person how valuable you will be to that employer.

How “Hidden Disqualifiers” in a Resume Can Kill Your Job Chances

How old are you?

Have you ever been unemployed?

How often have you changed jobs?

What’s this about owning your own business?

Your answers to these questions may be perfectly reasonable. Your answers may actually suggest that you are a perfect employee, person, friend, family man or woman and community member.

Your answers may also unfairly prevent you from ever getting a job interview. Without interviews, you will get no job.

Perhaps you are over 40 and have great experience, you took time off from work to travel the world to learn about art, you changed jobs 3 times in 5 years because you kept getting better and higher paying job offers and you started a successful business on your own straight out of college.

Or, in the eyes of the HR person, you are too old to respond to rapid change, you must not be very good at what you do since you could not find a job for a couple of years, you are indecisive or worse because you cannot stay in one position and you do not take supervision well since you want to run your own business.

Which way will you be viewed?

When looking for a new job, your resume must eliminate any chances that you will be perceived poorly. It must do it in a completely honest way that will not cause you problems later in the job process. You cannot predict how people react to these types “hidden disqualifiers.” Prejudice, preconceptions and generalizations abound in this world.

Ensure that your resume eliminates these unfair issues. AlphaDogResumes.com can help you Dominate Your Job Search®.