Politically Correct Approach Towards Winning Resumes

Can there be a political approach towards writing a resume? Well... not that politics that we are accustomed to. Here political simply means the different approaches towards writing a resume.

There are two schools of thoughts; one says that the resume should be beautifully typed and printed on a linen paper the other shows a more radical view by saying that the resume should not be in use on the very first place. The person should be called for an interview and reviewed. Resume is not the best possible way to identify the suitable candidate, the best way is achieved when the person is hired at the cheapest cost and at the shortest amount of time.

I use the following approaches to use resume as a tool:

Once, someone asked a very famous writer, what is the hardest thing to do, he said 'writing', than the person asked again, after that?? The writer replied the same, 'it's writing', and when he was asked the third time, his reply was the same.

The very first thing that I realize is that it is not easy to communicate effectively for the majority of the people. Finding the right words and the right sentences is not always possible under some specific situations though may be for most. Secondly, the construction of the sentence itself is sometimes hard for example it may be difficult for some one to explain the situation in the most proper of the ways, some thing that is known as written language as oppose to verbal where expressing thoughts is easy and more of a user friendly. And I expect the same even from a PhD in English so seeing an un pressing C.V does not qualify the candidate IF there are signs of potential.

I also use the information on the C.V as a potential future source of hiring people. C.V that I reject for the current openings are not rejected entirely instead there information is feed into my data base which serves as a future reference tool in an event when there is a process of outsource going on. I keep the record of their past projects, firms, experiences, institutions where they got their educations from. I pay special attention to the candidates who are from the firms that are in a process of restructuring because such people listen more to the offers and most probably will accept anything reasonable rather that to stick to their demands.

Another important thing that I do is that I try to format all the resumes that I receive. It is not easy because not all formats are in match with the C.V received. Besides some inevitable errors do occur while receiving emails like N's becoming R's and M's becoming E's etc. I also tell my managers to not give importance to the grammar of the content but to the content it has like education and experiences. This takes a while granted, but it will save my many hours that I will spend in the future in search of a right person.