LinkedIn Jobs: Apply First or Last
If you ever put a job ad on LinkedIn or a similar platform, you’ve probably been inundated with applications, this is certainly what happened to us recently.
One thing that struck me was the forgotten middle:
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I looked at a few of the first CVs that arrived.
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I then devised a system to sort through the literally hundreds of CVs and using that system I did a sift of CVs.
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Most CVs after the sift were looked at because they trickled in rather than flooded in.
So my takeway here is:
The early bird gets the worm, the latecomer gets the glance — the middle just feeds the algorithm.
tongue off cheek now please.