few points or advices for those who apply job in jobstreet.
1. Always use the wizard that jobstreet provide to complete your resume. (This is very important)
2. Straight to the point, just mention your professional skilset, and make your resume short, tidy and easy to read. Don't fill up your funny tool skill which is not job related like Microsoft Word, Excel (Do you think I care all this Office shit if I want to hire a programmer?)
3. Hightlight 1 or 2 important projects you did in the past. (for fresh grad, write down your finaly year project or the most "gemilang" project you can thought of, don't write small project like "My first Pascal project" just for the sake of filling up the space.)
4. DO NOT BULLSHIT in your resume! You are wasting yours and interviewer time.
5. Always upload your BEST photo in the resume.
6. Don't simply submit your application!
7. Stated down any job promotion or award you got.
8. Fax your IC to jobstreet to certified your info if possible.
9. Always update your resume! Some tends to submit out of date resume.
Reason behind why I advice you all to complete the Jobstreet resume wizard is because, there is a rating system in jobstreet. Each and every resume submitted to the employer will appear with a resume rating and by default, the applicant is sort by the rating number in decending order. From 100, 99, 98 to 0. By completing the jobstreet wizard, it tends to give you higher score.
Imagine, 300 applicants apply for a position, do you think the HR or interviewer will read every single applicant? I don't think so. In my practise, I'll only go throught first 20 candidates (unless I'm really desperate to look for someone), sometime i don't even bother to read those resume with less than 85 in their resume rating.
Jobstreet do offer "Priority Application" with a fee. Up to certain level, your application will catch the eye to the interview picker (with highlight), this features make your application very eye catching. Of course, if your resume suck you will still screw up the entire thing, but at least ppl will read your resume first. :D
Believe me, a photo will help, and a GOOD photo will help a lot.And Please DO NOT submit a web cam photo! I really doubt how professional you are with a web cam photo quality! Spend some money to take a passport size photo in the sutdio, scan it and upload it to your resume
I'm not bias, but if I have 2 resume with the same qualification in hand, 1 with photo and the one without the photo, I' ll tends to call the resume with photo attached for interview. In certain level, if shows that you are more sincere to get the job compare with the 1 without photo.
Some applicant tends to click "Submit" button to do mass resume submission, some can even submit 20-30 applications in a night.
BAD move. In your resume rating or ranking, it will stated how many application rejection you had in the past. :D And I always try not to call those ppl (with high rejection rate) for interview, because ppl reject you for a reason, isn't it?
just my 2 cents to share.
Happy job seeking. :)