You believe that after all the painstaking labor, you poured into the preparation of your resume, it will be carefully scrutinized by the person or company representative, it has been sent to. You picture the individual opening the email or envelope with anticipation, and finding themselves impressed beyond their expectations. You imagine him decidedly placing your resume at the top of the file and making mental note to schedule your appointment for the first slot on interview day. You visualise the person poring over the resume with pleasure, absorbing each word that you wrote after hours of deliberation. You feel the well-thought out background and history of career achievements that you provided, would not fail to arouse his interest.

 For hours after submitting your resume you are brimming with confidence believing an interview call is just a matter of time. What happens then? A couple of days pass and you do not hear anything from the company, you sent the resume to. You begin to wonder if they even received your résumé. Rather nervously, you call them to find out, only to be told that it was received and will be reviewed in time.

Instead of blaming yourself , take heart from what we are going to tell you about the resume scanning process.

Most companies and large corporations hire human resource professionals, administrative assistants, secretaries, and other professional assistants just to go through multitudes of information available and obtain the material they need. Screening resumes, is a task that is often delegated to assistants and placement agencies. Even when your resume is addressed to a particular individual, it will be read by an employee who will focus on specific points of interest that he has been told to look for, by the hiring authority.

For every employer who advertises a job opening, or provides information about career opportunities on his/her website, there are a hundred (and this is a conservative estimate!)job seekers lining up with their resume in hand. Then imagine how an appointed representative, will be required to go through hundreds of resumes per week. Those who are charged with reviewing copious amounts of paperwork,have developed the ability to scan a resume quickly and one glance is enough for them to decide, whether the person is what a particular company is looking for. Seasoned professionals state that if the resume doesn’t display the information they want in the first half of the page, it will definitely end up on the rejected table.

 So do not mistakenly believe that your resume just wasn't 'good enough', it is the resume scanning process that is at fault!