{"id":101,"date":"2019-09-26T18:24:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T18:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design.urecommendme.com\/?p=101"},"modified":"2019-09-26T19:11:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T19:11:54","slug":"top-level-resume-qualities-for-landing-on-a-dream-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design.urecommendme.com\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"Top-Level Resume Qualities For Landing On A Dream Job"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a recent study carried out<\/a> by researchers Joanna Lahey and Emily Johnson, \u201cpost-high school training and education, like from a professional training program or a college, are main factors in determining  if a woman would secure an interview.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unemployment today has risen up to 9% and most of all, women are having difficulty securing a gainful employment, particularly if they are making a re- entry to  the workforce subsequent to a long absence. This encouraged researchers Lahey and Johnson to carry out a r\u00e9sum\u00e9 audit. \u201cThe point of this research was to find out which resume attributes are considered significant by potential employers of working-class women coming back to the workforce,\u201d according to the researchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the study, Lahey and Johnson came up with roughly 8,000 different r\u00e9sum\u00e9s which they later submitted pairs of r\u00e9sum\u00e9s that were randomly categorized to 3,996 hiring firms across US. The firms chosen represented a range of industries such as manufacturing, sales, law firms, services and health care. Of course all included entry-level jobs that needed up to at least a year of post-high school education in addition to experience. The researchers observed at the effects of one\u2019s age, vocational training, job-related experience, other non-work related activities and span of gaps in employment history. What they discovered was rather unexpected:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Employment-related experience included on a r\u00e9sum\u00e9 doesn\u2019t increase the likelihood of an applicant to secure an interview:<\/strong> Although these results were \u201cvaried and statistically irrelevant.\u201d Employers showed more interested in education compared to previous employment experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Including activities outside of work also doesn\u2019t necessarily increase the possibility of securing an interview:<\/strong> Surprisingly, this seemed to contrast across geographic regions. For instance, \u201cin Massachusetts, volunteerism poises an important positive effect on one\u2019s r\u00e9sum\u00e9, while sports is statistically irrelevant. On the contrary, in Florida, sports initiated a positive effect on the possibility of securing an interview, whereas volunteerism has no important effect,\u201d according to the researchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Showing a gap in employment history between jobs doesn\u2019t affect any odds an applicant will secure an interview:<\/strong> This finding in reality runs counter to what most r\u00e9sum\u00e9 coaches advise their clients in relation to employment gaps. Contradictory to what researchers expected would happen, \u201cshowing a gap in employment history has nearly no effect on the likelihood an applicant will receive an interview ca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a recent study carried out by researchers Joanna Lahey and Emily Johnson, \u201cpost-high school training and education, like from a professional training program or a college, are main factors in determining  if a woman would secure an interview.\u201d Unemployment today has risen up to 9% and most of all, women are having difficulty securing a gainful employment, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.urecommendme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.urecommendme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.urecommendme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.urecommendme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.urecommendme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/design.urecommendme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/design.urecommendme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.urecommendme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.urecommendme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.urecommendme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.urecommendme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}