Bangalore: People often spend days, weeks or sometimes even months working on their resume. They generally fiddle with fonts, wordings and very cautiously get the resume into the desired shape for their dream job. Then the recruiter looks at the resume merely for seconds before taking the decision about their potential employee.

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Have you ever wondered why some resumes / CV’s end up at the top, while majority end up at the bottom of the pile? Did you know that the recruiters spend merely 6 seconds before making an initial fit or no fit decision on the candidates, as reported by the TheLadders survey? Of course, most of the candidates would like to know precisely what kind of significant information a recruiter is looking for in those decisive seconds. While there had been numerous unreliable theories on what recruiters are looking for in a CV/ resume, until now there has not been any reliable research based evidence.

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