Since the employers are in the driver’s seat right now and they hold all the strings and since they are being overwhelmed by hundreds of resumes for even one job, they are devising creative ways to make sure they have the right person before they hire. The quality of the applicants has gone up tremendously and that is why the employers having a field day hiring people. It is not to say that they have a jolly good time sorting out hundreds of qualified and unqualified and over-or under-qualified applicants to choose from. It is just that they have more time to evaluate all the resumes and then call only the lucky ones.
Furthermore the minimum requirement for a job is now a Bachelors’ degree even if the job has nothing to do with a degree. It is like you need to have a ticket just to enter a park whether you take the rides or you just sit at the main gate. That is the requirement. So how to stand out among the overcrowded market of College Degree holders.
People have been lately becoming creative about how to stand out. You may have read out the MIT guy who had the word on a huge board saying he is unemployed standing on the street. Or how some guy has put his resume on the front of his T-Shirt and cover letter on the back of it. You really have to be desperate or bold or just plain crazy to do these sorts of things.
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