Here at Epitome HQ we are celebrating our busiest January to
date and thought this picture summed up our last couple of weeks nicely! Do you
find yourself getting frustrated when looking through CVs/applications from
potential new employees only to find next to no information about what they did
on said documents. With the birth of social media many candidates are attaching
links to their profiles expecting you the employer to do your homework on them,
it’s like they are saying ‘look me up I’m so good my profile says it all’. And
whilst LinkedIN profiles are great (and we use them everyday) you want to feel
that the person you are looking to hire has put some effort into their
application and can demonstrate they want to work for you.
A well written application, CV says a lot about a candidate,
it is so frustrating when you find yourself drowning in CVs only to go through
the first 50 and feel like you know nothing about those applicants or despair
because you don’t think you will ever find one that matches your criteria. It’s
the applications from candidates who don’t come close to meeting your criteria
that is so frustrating, and I mean they don’t even match ONE of your essential
criteria? Maybe ‘googling’ someone would help but who has the time for that? It
is very easy to be tempted and just give up and pull out a few random ones and
hope for the best. Tempting? Yes....Wise?
Absolutely not.
Every month we are awash with applications but instead of
drowning we simply sail along sifting and telephone screening candidates for
our clients. We don’t go as far as
‘googling’ people to find out their experience but we will happily go through all
the applications and speak to people on your behalf to clarify how they meet
the requirements of your role, it’s what we specialise in so you don’t have to.
So, if you feel like your drowning in the sea of
applications, being smothered by CV’s or deflated by responses....give us a
call...we are always here to help.
