By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Can an employer track if you have used the same resume and cover letter for multiple job applications?
Another question I received was, “Can an employer track if you’ve used the same resume and cover letter for multiple job applications?”
Certainly in their system that they they can. Certainly in theirs. So, you know, if you’re just generically sending the same resume and cover letter for every job, whether it’s a similar job or a dissimilar job.
Uh, I remember interviewing someone from my other podcast I dis I I um I discontinued many years ago. Uh, and he was a search professional working with one of the large accounting firms or a hospital. I don’t remember which one it was.
And what he said to me was that if we start to notice that a person is submitting their resume to lots of different jobs in lots of different fields, we can block them as a quote “serial applier.” Oh, a serial applier! Oh, the horrors. But they’re trying to save themselves time, so they can see in their system that you’ve applied multiple times. Of course they can. They can see that you’re applying for things that don’t relate to your background also.
So, don’t make that mistake. Don’t keep spamming your resume and thinking you’re gonna get a different result. Always tailor your resume to demonstrate your fit for the role. If you’re applying for a a a programming position and an orderly job at a hospital, how does that work? You don’t have the skills in one of these, or both.
So, the long and short of it is, don’t fool around with this stuff. Yes, they do track it, they do block people. It’s not worth it.
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