Cruel truth about recruiters and your resume

Job seekers spend hours perfecting their resumes in hopes of impressing job recruiters and hiring managers.

Recruiters say they spend an average of 4 to 5 minutes reading it over, but new research says that it all wrong.

Job-matching service The Ladders used eye-tracking software to study the way people vet resumes. It turns out, a resume gets only 6 seconds of attention.

In those 6 seconds, recruiters spend 80 percent of their time focusing on the following key information:

Name

Current title/company

Previous title/company

Previous position start and end dates

Current position start and end dates

Education

Anything else you provided probably never got looked at.

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