An increasing number of companies only accept digital resumes. This allows them to scan resumes for keywords. How does this work? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the use of keywords for employers and applicants? Is this fair treatment?
Gone are the days posting a job requirement in a newspaper and applying for the position through a paper resume over postal mail. In the modern era and technology bound world everything is through digital media announcements. Applicants could well to get to know about the requirements through job portals or directly from the employer’s website. Now both employers and prospective applicants have a wide pool to choose from. But there are both advantages and disadvantages in this medium.
Because of the reach of announcement about a job requirement there is a humongous amount of resume that pile up for that particular position. It is not humanly possible to go through every single resume and shortlist a bunch of them. There comes the option to shortlist the resume using keywords. When employers or job portals use keywords, they might get the resumes using the most or repetitive keywords, but definitely not the best of the available lot. Somebody who is more technologically inclined can create a best resume for any available job using keywords, whereas somebody who is not so technologically inclined but really skilled to suit the job requirement might not get a chance. The other scenario is that keyword filtering saves lot of cost and time associated with short-listing the result. It makes the task easier for prospective employers and job portals to narrow down the matching applicants in a lesser time. So there are both pros and cons associated with keyword filters for employers and prospective job applicants.
It becomes highly imperative that the prospective candidate should well be able to market himself with the right mix of keywords. In most cases, it forces the applicants to tailor make resume when they apply for different jobs through employers websites. By doing this originality of the applicants gets compromised due to the nature of keyword filtering.
It is evenly fair and unfair to both employers and applicants by all means as it being played in a level field. So there is no question of who gets most of it, as both employers and applicants are mutually benefitted by digital resumes and keyword concepts, hence it is fair to be called a fair treatment.
Because of the reach of announcement about a job requirement there is a humongous amount of resume that pile up for that particular position. It is not humanly possible to go through every single resume and shortlist a bunch of them. There comes the option to shortlist the resume using keywords. When employers or job portals use keywords, they might get the resumes using the most or repetitive keywords, but definitely not the best of the available lot. Somebody who is more technologically inclined can create a best resume for any available job using keywords, whereas somebody who is not so technologically inclined but really skilled to suit the job requirement might not get a chance. The other scenario is that keyword filtering saves lot of cost and time associated with short-listing the result. It makes the task easier for prospective employers and job portals to narrow down the matching applicants in a lesser time. So there are both pros and cons associated with keyword filters for employers and prospective job applicants.
It becomes highly imperative that the prospective candidate should well be able to market himself with the right mix of keywords. In most cases, it forces the applicants to tailor make resume when they apply for different jobs through employers websites. By doing this originality of the applicants gets compromised due to the nature of keyword filtering.
It is evenly fair and unfair to both employers and applicants by all means as it being played in a level field. So there is no question of who gets most of it, as both employers and applicants are mutually benefitted by digital resumes and keyword concepts, hence it is fair to be called a fair treatment.
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