A loved one sent out 5 resumes.
He didn’t get any interviews
and he was convinced his resume was the issue
so he spent a week reworking it.
Another loved one has sent out
100’s of resumes.
She hasn’t landed any interviews
but she tells me
her resume doesn’t need tweaking
because “it is perfect.”
Job hunting is like any marketing program.
If the program is working,
we should expect reasonable results.
But what are reasonable results?
According to Priscilla Claman
of Career Strategies, Inc,
we should be getting 5 or 6 interviews
for every 100 reasonably-targeted resumes
we send out.
(I personally have a 10% hit rate
but that is because
I’m in a professionally designated field).
Other Job Hunting Ratios?
We should snag one second interview
for about every 8 first interviews
and
received a job offer
for every 8 or 9 positions we’ve been a finalist in.
Any less than that
and it indicates some part of
our job hunting strategy
is not working.