New Delhi, October 28, 2021: ‘Are resumes a thing of the past?’ – This question looms large in the hiring industry as most tech recruiters (79%) now trust the skill benchmarking stats or skill validation scores cited in the resumes over all other information to shortlist candidates.

This was revealed in a new TimesJobs survey of 879 hiring managers to understand the relevance of resumes in the present work world.

Among this respondent group, most (42%) said that rank and achievements in industry-recognized competitions are the best way to show skill strength. After this, the skill quotient provided by tests (32% votes) was cited as the most effective way to show skill expertise. Next, skill recommendations from mentors and peers (voted by 16%) and volunteer projects (9%) appeared as recruiters’ choices for gauging skill proficiency. The respondents of the TimesJobs survey belonged to the IT & ITeS (42%) sector, BFSI (18%), Retail (12%), and remaining Manufacturing, FMCG, and other sectors.

TimesJobs asked hiring managers about how frequently they got skill recommendations or verifications quoted in the candidate resumes. Here are the responses:

Explaining the survey findings, Sanjay Goyal, Business Head, TimesJobs and TechGig

‘the emergence of pre-assessed resumes’ and gradually all recruiters will use such resumes”.

“My advice to all job seekers: take skill tests at industry-revered platforms or competitions and include those deep stats in your resume,” he added.

Other key findings from the TimesJobs survey are:

Skill updates should be the first thing on your resume

TimesJobs asked recruiters about which information should be updated first in a resume and most (47%) respondents said that a candidate must update their (new) skills as the first thing on their resume. This was followed by a preference for job updates to be mentioned as the first thing (voted by 25%), professional achievements as the first mention (voted by 19% of respondents), and client handling experience (mentioned by 9% of respondents).

We’ve all had the dilemma if fancier fonts and jazzier formats getting noticed by recruiters? Here’s the truth, 61% of recruiters still get a plain text resume, followed by 33% who receive infographic resume format and only 6% get video formats.

Irrelevant work experience is the biggest blunder in resumes

A resume is a medium for a candidate to tell the hiring managers about his skills and expertise but bad formats, silly mistakes, and incomplete details are big blunders that break the deal for a candidate. The TimesJobs survey asked hiring managers about the biggest resume blunders they have seen in their resumes. Here are the responses:

31% of respondents said that irrelevant experiences are most common in bad resumes
22% said misspellings/ grammatical errors annoy them most
18% of recruiters come across messy and untidy resumes, which makes a bad resume
17% said they get resumes with irrelevant personal details, a big put off for them
Lastly, 12% said that they get resumes with vague objective statements
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