What Recruiters Look For In The First 10 Seconds
What Recruiters Look for in the First 10 Seconds | Apticareers You have spent hours writing your resume. You have tailored it to the job description, chosen the right keywords, and formatted everything carefully. Then a recruiter looks at it for less than ten seconds and moves on. This is not an exaggeration. Eye-tracking studies on resume review behaviour, most notably the Ladders' 2012 research and more recent follow-ups, consistently find that recruiters spend between 6 and 10 seconds on an initial resume scan before deciding whether to read further. With average job postings now receiving 200 to 300 applications, recruiters reviewing each one for even three minutes would spend over 10 hours on a single role before speaking to anyone. The scan is not laziness. It is a maths problem. At APTI Careers, an AI interview platform that works with both candidates and hiring teams, we see this play out every day. Candidates...