Career Builder Survey

Career builder recently published survey results of 31,000 hiring managers. Of interesting note,

49% of hiring managers reported applicants lying on their resume with 57% of hiring managers pulling the application from the candidate pool. Never lie on your resume, if you are not a right match for the job based on what you put on your resume, your company will eventually find out.

43% of hiring managers spend less than one minute on resumes. This is not a big surprise of course. Hiring managers will receive hundreds of resumes for one position and do not have the time to thoroughly look over your resume. The important message here is make your resume stand out.

What the Career Builder survey did have was a list of key words hiring managers use when looking through resumes:

• problem-solving and decision-making skills (50 percent)
• oral and written communications (44 percent)
• customer service or retention (34 percent)
• performance and productivity improvement (32 percent)
• leadership (30 percent)
• technology (27 percent)
• team-building (26 percent)
• project management (20 percent)
• bilingual (14 percent)

Of course this does not mean you should blanket your resume with these key words unless you truly have the experience to do so.

Career Builder Survey [CareerBuilder]