Is Your Resume Ready for Mobile Recruiting - Chameleon Resumes

Is Your Resume Ready for Mobile Recruiting - Chameleon Resumes Written by  Lisa Rangel, Executive Resume Writer Can your resume ready be viewed on a smart phone? Your resume and job search has to now contend with smart phones, iPads, iPhones, Android phones, Blackberries and every other type of old and new tech device in between. The job search and the recruitment model is going mobile like the rest of business and every other industryâ€"if they are smart and want to stay ahead of the competition. So how can job seekers be ready for these technological adjustments and what should they expect? (1) Make your communications ridiculously concise. Cover letters should be as short as a screen shot. For certain social media channels, you have to convey your intent in 140 characters or less to get the ping back from the job poster to contact them offline. (2) Test your resume and cover letters on various mediums and devices to ensure they open and appear properly. I have been opening resumes on PDAs, and now smart phones, since 2006 (maybe 2005). Some recruiters have been doing it much longer than me. Resumes in dated Word versions have a lesser chance of opening on a newer phone. Are your Mac docs compatible with PC, Droid and other non-Mac gadgets? Can your PC-based docs open on iPhones and iPads? Perform some quality controls with your documents and see what can open where. (3) Use your mobile phone number on your resumeâ€"remove land lines from your applications. This will enable you to receive recruiting SMS text messages from employers who use this technology. ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems) such as Bullhorn and Bond Adapt house this information in applicant data files and can send out mass job alerts via SMS text, as well as email, automated phone messages, etc. Landlines cannot receive textsâ€"and who knows if your kids or parents will answer the phone!! Yikes! (4) Get your QR Code. Jury is out on how these codes will be used en mass by corporate and search firm recruiting departments to benefit from their features in an economies of scale capacity. But until that is figured out, get your code and look like you are cool, hip and happening (without using those words, of course). QR Codes are being used at job fairs for all types of candidates, especially technology and digital jobs, and at various types of industry conventions at vendor booths and promotional venues. Currently, they are in use and can help vying recruiters find you as an early adopter of this technology. Vizibility.com is a great place to get this done (5) Engage recruiters online on Twitter, LinkedIn and other appropriate social media venues (blogs, industry groups, networking groups) for your career. If a company is seeking a social media savvy marketing executive, they will not post an ad in the NY Times. They will find relevant sources and viable candidates where they expect this next hire to already reside. Be the job you wantâ€"and they will find you. (6) Get your resume