“I sent my rsum in and I haven’t heard back from the company yet. It has been weeks now. What is going on?”
A familiar refrain? For many job seekers it is an all too common feeling. You’ve researched the company, found a position that interests you, crafted a cover letter and sent it off with your rsum expecting to hear something, anything over the next week or two. Instead, nothing.
While you can’t control what a company does in their hiring campaign — whether it is for one employee or a group of employees — you can increase the chances you will be contacted for an interview by making some careful choices ahead of time. Without an interview you can’t possibly be considered for work.
Let’s look at some of the reasons why you might not have been called:
You attached your rsum. This is a big beef with Human Resources people. You sent your information to the company, but the way you sent it to them was incorrect. If a company tells you to send your rsum within the body of an email, you must send it to them that way. With the overabundance of viruses and worms on the internet, attachments are...