By Choi Sung-jin
When businesses examine applicants' resumes, the first thing they look at is the would-be employees' career data, a survey shows.
According to an opinion poll of 733 recruiting officers by Job Korea, a job-seeking portal, the largest share _ 45.7 percent _ of the respondents, said they look at applicants' careers ahead of all else.
Following their careers were the applicants' photos (11.9 percent), aspiring areas of service (11.3 percent), college majors (5.5 percent), skills and training records (4.5 percent), academic backgrounds (3.5 percent), titles of resumes (3.5 percent) and schools (2.7 percent).
Career data was also the item to which recruitment officers give greatest importance in assessing applicants' CVs, as 45.3 percent of the respondents indicated. Coming next were areas of service (17.9 percent), skill and training (8.3 percent), majors (7.5 percent), and certificates and licenses (3.3 percent), the survey showed.
On the other hand, the officers attached relatively little importance to family relationships (18.1 percent), resume titles (9.8 percent), schools (9.7 percent), mug shots (9.5 percent), and linguistic scores (7.0 percent).
In examining applicants' cover letters, too, the largest portion of businesses (23.6 percent) placed priority on the applicants' work experiences, followed by reasons for applying (20.6 percent), aspirations after employment (11.9 percent), personal merit (8.9 percent), writing skill (8.6 percent), and challenges and accomplishments (6.8 percent).
It took an average of 11.4 minutes for personnel management officers to assess a resume last year, far longer than the 7.8 minutes it took in 2014, the poll showed.
This is because an increasing number of businesses want to certify the job competence of applicants from the stage of screening their personal histories, which tend to include job-related essays, the report said.
"As most businesses prefer applicants with excellent job competence, it is important for applicants to show they are ready to be put into ‘actual battle' anytime in writing cover letters," said Byon Ji-sung, a team manager at Job Korea.
When businesses examine applicants' resumes, the first thing they look at is the would-be employees' career data, a survey shows.
According to an opinion poll of 733 recruiting officers by Job Korea, a job-seeking portal, the largest share _ 45.7 percent _ of the respondents, said they look at applicants' careers ahead of all else.
Following their careers were the applicants' photos (11.9 percent), aspiring areas of service (11.3 percent), college majors (5.5 percent), skills and training records (4.5 percent), academic backgrounds (3.5 percent), titles of resumes (3.5 percent) and schools (2.7 percent).
Career data was also the item to which recruitment officers give greatest importance in assessing applicants' CVs, as 45.3 percent of the respondents indicated. Coming next were areas of service (17.9 percent), skill and training (8.3 percent), majors (7.5 percent), and certificates and licenses (3.3 percent), the survey showed.
On the other hand, the officers attached relatively little importance to family relationships (18.1 percent), resume titles (9.8 percent), schools (9.7 percent), mug shots (9.5 percent), and linguistic scores (7.0 percent).
In examining applicants' cover letters, too, the largest portion of businesses (23.6 percent) placed priority on the applicants' work experiences, followed by reasons for applying (20.6 percent), aspirations after employment (11.9 percent), personal merit (8.9 percent), writing skill (8.6 percent), and challenges and accomplishments (6.8 percent).
It took an average of 11.4 minutes for personnel management officers to assess a resume last year, far longer than the 7.8 minutes it took in 2014, the poll showed.
This is because an increasing number of businesses want to certify the job competence of applicants from the stage of screening their personal histories, which tend to include job-related essays, the report said.
"As most businesses prefer applicants with excellent job competence, it is important for applicants to show they are ready to be put into ‘actual battle' anytime in writing cover letters," said Byon Ji-sung, a team manager at Job Korea.
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