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Maintaining different resumes has become a nightmare for some students, especially those that try to track changes over time. Mosts Most students clutter their desktop or other folder with different versions of resumes with confusing filenames such as "Resume_Sophomore_Fall_v2.doc". Whenever new experiences need to be added to the resume, a student might remove or modify some of the prior experiences and save down a new version. Students were frustrated keeping track of so many resume files. One upperclassmen noted that this process became worse when applying to graduate school and post-graduation jobs simultaneously; he was often uncertain that a specific file had the most up-to-date information. This was especially difficult to the student's stretched schedule while attending class and dealing with applications and interviews.
4) Recruiters sort through a set of resumes to find the best job candidates.
Recruiters, especially of at large companies, have to filter through many candidates by quickly scanning their resumes. One recruiter from a large multinational corporation said that if a resume does not look professional, she will not bother reading it, even if the candidate looks somewhat promising from a glance. She said that while she knows she turns aways some technically skilled candidates, one must look professional, and the resume it is the first impression and a good opportunity for a candidate to show that he or she is a professional. Two of the three recruiters we spoke to with find recruiting online a pain, because they do not think that there is an easy way to get promising candidates into their internal recruiting pipelines. They told us that, when confronted with a resume book, all they want is a way to filter through resumes by school and GPA in order to focus on the most relevant candidates. Speed is essential, given the number of resumes. The most common errors at this stage of recruiting are 1) letting a solid candidate accidentally "slip through the cracks" because of resume overload and 2) eliminating strong candidates with weak resumes.
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