Turn Your Resume Into A Lead Generating Machine

Make these minor tweaks before posting your resume online

April 08, 2023

Intro

Follow enough recruiters on LinkedIn and Twitter and you’ll see some good strategies on how to apply to jobs and network every day.

While that’s important, and underrated part of your job search is tweaking your resume for when you post it on the job boards you show up in our search strings easier and faster.

Why is that important? Because when we run our searches on job boards like Dice, Indeed, Monster, Career Builder, etc., you’re being compared with hundreds of other candidates.

You’ve heard that recruiters go through their ATS to review every job applicant. That’s not the case when they are running searches on job boards. The major difference is when you apply to their jobs online, that’s an inbound search. When we are seeking you on LinkedIn & the job boards, that’s outbound.

There is a difference between posting your resume online and applying to a job board online. We review all applications if you apply to a job on dice. But we do not review every single resume that shows up in a search string - big difference.

For example, take a look at this simple search for a Data Engineer in the greater Dallas Area. How are you going to stand out against 573 other candidates?

 Behind the scenes

Let’s pull back the curtain a little bit so you can understand what we are looking at. Remember, you’re the one who needs a job, and we are the ones searching for you. Make these tweaks so we can find you easier and faster, so you don’t end up like candidate number 573 in the example above.

For this exercise, we’ll continue on using this data engineering search in the greater Dallas area using Dice.

First, here is what we are looking at before we put in a search. We can search using boolean, specific skills, location, mile radius, and more.

Next, we have additional filters we can use to narrow down the number of applicants and make our searches more specific. Personally, I like to keep mine broad to cast a wider net, but I know a good amount of recruiters who like to narrow down as much as possible.

When we are searching by skills (and yes, a lot of recruiters do this because many are too lazy to run a boolean), we have the option to search not only by skillset, but by years of experience with said skillset.

So make sure to add X skill under EVERY job that you’ve used it, not just the most recent.

Let’s run a search

I ran a search for a data engineer, within 50 miles of Dallas, who has experience with spark, scala, and sql.

This profile popped up and looks like a great match. However, he posted his resume 1 year ago and I’m not sure if he is even still on the job market.

The recruiter can say to themselves “great resume, great search, but I want to contact people that are more active on Dice or have posted their resume more recently to have a higher chance they’ll get back to me” and then they will change the search

They will then edit the search to filter resumes by “recently active” or “resume recently posted”

Recently active means you’ve logged onto dice and clicked a few buttons, and logged off. So - if you are actually on the job market and want recruiters like me to contact you, make sure you do this at least once a week so you don’t end up like this guy and go to the bottom of the list if we search by recent activity or recently updated resume.

Do these tweaks, and you’ll end up like this candidate who shows up on the first page in all 3 types of filters above:

Call To Action 

Make these resume tweaks and you’ll be well on your way to getting more calls from Recruiters like me to place candidates like you.

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