What does the recruitment industry do with your resume?

In 2012, the people behind behiring.com published “Confessions of the Recruitment Industry”. Here are the cold facts:

• Average time spent looking at a cv or resume is 5 to 7 seconds

• The chance that your cover letter will be read is 17%

• 1 spelling or grammar mistake will send your resume to the trash can

• 68% of employers will find you on Facebook

• 76% of resumes and CV’s are ignored if your e-mail address is unprofessional

• An average of 250 CV’s or resumes are received for each job position

• 88% of CV’s or resumes is rejected if it contains a photo of the applicant

• 33% of candidates is rejected because employers found something about them online

• 427,000 CV’s and resumes are posted on Monsterboard every week. That number just about equals the population of Luxembourg, a small country in Europe.