If you want your resume to succeed in today’s world of database-driven recruitment, you have three major considerations:
1. Your resume needs to be data-dense to be found in database searches.
2. Your resume needs to be succinct and focused on a specific target job.
3. Your resume needs to be visually accessible and readable
Resumes: Focus and Data-Density
When recruiters search resume databanks, with their millions and tens of millions of resumes, they always have a specific job in mind, so searches always begin with a sequence of keywords from the job description.
Recruiters have endless resumes to choose from, so the first time they see your resume they just give it a quick scan, not a full read. In fact, a recent study estimates that recruiters only need about six seconds to rule your resume in or out.
Unless your resume is properly focused on a target job, describing it in the ways that employers have defined that job, it is unlikely to make it high enough in the search results to be reviewed.