As we all know times are changing and the recruitment and candidate market place is changing with it. Candidates no longer submit hand-written, hard copy resumes; they don’t always interview face-to-face. No-one expects a job for life these days; candidates have a wealth of job search information resources available to them on the Internet and they can apply for jobs at the click of a button.

These changes to the recruiting and job seeking landscape are beginning to filter through to the resume short-listing process, which must adapt to suit the modern marketplace. For example, where once a candidate who changed jobs twice in a decade might have seemed unstable, in the modern age this might be the norm and could even constitute a long tenure. So, I thought it would be a good time to take stock five of the key resume red flags and update them to ensure they are in line with the modern age.

Takeaways

•     Leonardo da Vinci wrote the first professional resume in 1482.

•     Between 1930 and 1960, resumes went from being on scraps of paper to being expected – an institution.

•     In the 1980s, VHS resumes were used!

•     In 1983, Microsoft Word was launched – creating a new template for resumes.

•     Video resumes hit YouTube in 2007.