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Review a resume in one minute – The secrets behind how employers choose resumes. Following the survey on China’s best employers, 365class.com launched another study on what employers look for when selecting resumes. We sent a total of 200 resumes of university graduates to 52 personnel professionals from 37 companies, asking them to select those they believed had a chance of success and to explain their reasons. Although this is a small-scale survey, we can still identify some important issues from it. 　　 1. Length and thickness of resumes: We found that recruiters spend an average of 1.4 minutes per resume. Generally, 1.5 pages of material are read. In other words, an overly long resume is useless and does not help to highlight the key points. Appending a large number of supporting documents to the resume does not increase the chances of being hired, but no negative effects have been observed. 　　 2. Method of submission: Electronic resumes submitted via email and website receive less attention than those sent by regular mail. It will decrease by about 23 seconds on average. Furthermore, we found that about 5% of electronic resumes fail to reach the recruiters due to network or other issues. Therefore, we recommend using traditional mail, unless the employer explicitly shows a preference. 　　 3. Selection method: Approximately 20% of employers admit that they use lower-level assistants to review resumes, and these assistants have certain strict selection criteria. Another 45% of employers believe that when conducting preliminary selections, they also mainly consider these hard criteria. We list the common criteria here (in order of frequency of use by employers): 1) English proficiency certificate at level 6, 2) household registration, 3) professional background, 4) reputation of the school, 5) academic performance at school (it should be noted that these criteria are not necessarily specified in the job requirements). ) This means that the first round of resume screening is basically quite fixed. If you do not meet certain clear criteria, only about 1/3 of companies will offer you a chance. But blaming the complete disappearance of one’s resume on household registration, major, or school is also incorrect. 　　 4. Key points to note: Among the standards mentioned earlier, we observe that there are certain differences in the priorities of Chinese companies and foreign-funded enterprises. Generally speaking, foreign companies place more emphasis on English proficiency and the reputation of the school, while Chinese companies value professional skills and household registration. The more popular a company is, the more emphasis it usually places on academic performance. We recommend that students create different resumes to highlight various strengths. 　　 5. Resume content: What does a HR manager look at in just 1.4 minutes? In addition to the items mentioned earlier, they will also look at some students’ campus activities and part-time jobs. But we found that only 23% of people were able to roughly describe the specific activities and positions of the students on the resumes they had viewed after half an hour. They only have a general impression of the student’s personality. So: it doesn’t matter whether you are the vice-president or the president of the student council; what’s important is that you don’t give off the impression of being a bookworm. But there is one type of work experience that is an exception; all HR managers value work experience in the same industry as their own company. This will be an advantage, but lying can also lead to elimination easily. 　　Many resumes list the courses one has taken, but only 4% of companies read them carefully. Suggestion: You can list them, but they must be important and should not exceed one line. 　　 6. Expressive ability: We find that having the required expressive skills is very important. A person’s resume, when revised by experts, can increase their chances of being hired by 43%. We found that common problems with resumes include: lack of conciseness in expression, excessive use of emotional language, irregular English usage, being too long without a clear focus, and improper formatting.