As a human resources professional, you know how difficult it is to screen all the resumes sent in by candidates who are interested in employment with your company. Fortunately, staffing and recruiting professionals can now view career snapshots with the Nexxt Career Portfolio. Career Portfolios help candidates produce visual snapshots of their careers to supplement traditional resumes. They also have several benefits for staffing and recruiting professionals.
Mary Nestor-Harper says that traditional resumes are not enough to attract the attention of busy staffing and recruiting professionals. She recommends portfolios to help candidates set themselves apart from others in a competitive job market. With the development of the online Career Portfolio from Nexxt, recruiters now have an additional tool to make it easier to handle their staffing and recruiting responsibilities. The Nexxt Career Portfolio allows candidates to create pictorial layouts that make it easier for recruiters to find information about skills, certifications, education, and relevant work experience.
A Nexxt survey revealed that staffing and recruiting professionals feel that some applicants do not use the traditional resume effectively. Some recruiting professionals also feel that not all applicants effectively demonstrate their relevant skills when applying for job openings. The Career Portfolio helps applicants do a better job of organizing relevant information, which also makes it easier for you to find suitable candidates for open positions. Lars Schmidt, a talent acquisition professional at National Public Radio, says he prefers applicants to organize their portfolios by category. If you have the same preference, the Nexxt Career Portfolio will make it easier for you to decipher all the information submitted by applicants.
The Career Portfolio also helps staffing and recruiting professionals save time by condensing a great deal of information into a timeline. This allows you to scan the timeline and identify relevant information quickly. It also makes it possible to overcome the limitations of traditional resume templates, which do not always leave room for candidates to include information that HR professionals would be interested in learning. The Career Portfolio is an efficient way for you and other staffing and recruiting professionals to gather data from multiple applicants. Because so many traditional resumes can look the same when you try to compare them, the Career Porfolio will also help you identify the best candidates without having to read every resume in its entirety.
If your current job description includes staffing and recruiting responsibilities, finding a way to cut down on the amount of time spent reviewing resumes will improve your results and reduce the amount of time it takes you to fill open positions. It can also help you identify better candidates, which may reduce your company's turnover rate and lead to improved hiring outcomes. These benefits make the Nexxt portfolio a valuable tool for staffing and recruiting professionals.
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