Resumes can emphasize the wrong data for screening. As a result, candidate pools shrink because recruiters use inappropriate yet conveniently available data.

This makes for an easy query but isn’t necessarily an effective way to find the best candidates. The following video explains more about what absolutely to avoid in resumes:

Resumes have made life difficult. Example: Company A. This company had historically received 500 unsolicited resumes through the mail each year.

After putting an “e-mail your resume here” button on their website, they received about 5,000 unsolicited resumes the next year. No changes were made in recruitment advertising…

The unintended consequences were resume spam, higher candidate expectations for communication, data storage and retrieval challenges, and the need to create a labor-intensive, manual process to sift through large numbers of resumes.

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Recently, Amazon announced it will cover university and college tuition for its hourly workers at more than 180 higher education institutions across the US.

This support is available through the company’s Career Choice Program to both full-time and part-time employees that have worked with Amazon for at least a 3-month period. This video explains it very well:

The program allows the company’s more than 750,000 workers to earn a certification in a relevant industry subject field or earn an associate’s or bachelor’s degree from one of the participating schools at Amazon’s expense.

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