Faced with a job offer, a CV can change everything. But you have to be able to avoid mistakes, because even the best route can go unnoticed if it is not presented in the right way. Here is an often neglected detail, however capable of boosting your application.
With each new job offer, the same question comes back: how to get out of the game? You have tried everything in the past while respecting the sacred instructions of the perfect CV. Careful layout, clear, concise but precise content, well presented experiences, and valued skills without doing too much. You are sure you have forgotten anything. You have adapted the CV to the offer to which you apply. But there is no doubt … Wouldn’t something be missing? Well yes, there is a detail that applicants to a job offer often forget. However, recruiters necessarily pay attention to it.
Before even analyzing the content of your CV, you must keep in mind an essential data. This is the time that the recruiter spent on applications. According to a study conducted by Tilkeestart-up specializing in the “tracking” of documents, a recruiter spends an average of between 30 and 45 seconds to travel a CV. In other words, just a few seconds to make a first impression. In this very short period of time, he has neither the desire nor the time to make efforts to understand your journey, especially when he has to review dozens of applications. Your CV must therefore be immediately accessible, in all formats.
Indeed, many candidates still design their CV as a document intended to be read exclusively on a computer. However, with the rise of smartphones and tablets, the habits of recruiters have evolved: the preselection of candidacies is no longer done only behind an office. Already in 2019, 28 % of CVs were consulted from these mobile devices according to the study by Tilkee. A figure that has continued to grow since. This development therefore requires new reflexes to candidates! That of creating a readable CV on smartphones and tablets.
As Sylvain Tillon recalled, co -founder of Tilkeein an interview with Figaro Employment : “The screen on which their CV and cover letter will be viewed is reduced compared to a desktop computer. Better to choose a larger, airy font in order to facilitate reading by its recipient“. It is therefore no longer enough to think of his CV so that it is beautiful, it must also be readable on all supports.
