📝 How to fix your resume

Good Morning,

Plenty of resume resources in today’s issue, including what recruiters spend time looking at on resumes, and advice from a seasoned executive on what he’s found most compelling from job applicants.

Further, we reached out to Ramped - an AI-powered resume, cover letter, and job search tool - to see if they’d like to provide a discount to Remote Source readers.

They kindly offered an exclusive discount code: use REMOTESOURCE25 when purchasing any of their paid solutions. Thank you, Ramped!

Even though we’re at the tail end of a big hiring season, the economy is still strong and there are more jobs opening up week after week. Best of luck to those of you on the hunt!

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Need to Know

🔎 Over 50% of RTO workers want new jobs
A survey by Resume Builder found that 18% of workers forced to go back to an office for at least one day per week are actively seeking a new job, while 36% more plan to look for a new job this year. (Resume Builder)

👀 Using an eye tracker to see where recruiters look on resumes
YouTuber Jerry Lee used software to track exactly where recruiters look at resumes.

It’s well known that recruiters usually spend only a few seconds looking at resumes before deciding to interview candidates. So it’s especially interesting to see in this video where recruiters typically spend the most time reviewing.

In short: they spend the most time on the first (top) section of the resume, and then usually scan the bullets on the left side of the page in the “F” method visualized above. Only if they need to dig into more detail to they ever read through the bullets on the lower sections of a page. (YouTube: Jerry Lee)

📝 What this leader looks for in the top 1% of resumes
Michael Girdley estimates he’s looked at 25,000 resumes in his career, and he shares the 8 factors that make candidates stand out most to him, like having a clear narrative of making change, being a trusted referral, and avoiding basic mistakes. (GirdleyWorld)

🤦🏻‍♀️ Executive hubris driving office returns
The question we all keep asking: if logic and productivity figures aren’t enough to allow remote work, why do executives continue to push for a return to the office?

The two primary reasons are: returning to the same leadership styles that managers were comfortable with pre-pandemic, and signaling to investors and employees that leadership is doing everything they can to improve numbers.

Managers have to adopt a different style of work in a remote environment, and many managers who thrived in an office feel like they’re floundering while remote. This explains the return to “command-and-control” policies seen at some employers.

And second, if companies’ numbers aren’t looking good - UPS is an example in this article - CEOs need to signal to their bosses (board directors and investors) that they are doing everything they can to improve their numbers, in order to keep their own jobs. Sometimes, they insinuate that remote work is to blame for poor company performance, which at least buys them a little more time to address the actual reason their company figures aren’t optimal. (BBC)

💪 Scoop’s Q1 Flex Index shows happier sentiment with flexibility
In their quarterly analysis of flexible work arrangements, Scoop found that employee sentiment is higher for both Fully Flexible and Structured Hybrid policies than for Full Time In Office arrangements.

Today, companies are split almost evenly by whether they are fully remote, fully in-office, or operating with a hybrid office schedule. See the breakdown for companies with certain numbers of days required in office below:

It’s likely we won’t see too much drastic change in this distribution, but it’s worth noting the number of hybrid companies has increased by 12% overall since last year. (Scoop’s Flex Index)

🏝️ Brands’ big opportunity to appeal to digital nomads
For several reasons, including the new availability of remote work and a diminishing need for “rootedness” in one place, digital nomadism is going to become much more prevalent in the near future. This gives brands a new opportunity to develop meaningful relationships with potential customers.

A large ideological shift will lead to brands planting their flag to resonate with the new wave of digital nomads. Companies like Plumia - which advocates for global mobility - should take advantage of this time and ensure they’re communicating clearly to this new, growing demographic. (Harvard Business Review)

Stuff We Like

🚶WalkingPad: a simple home treadmill*
If you need to be more active during the day, the products from WalkingPad can help you stay active during work hours when you’re normally less likely to move around. (WalkingPad)

🪑 Herman Miller’s home office sale
Their Office Essentials sale ends today, offering 20% off all home office furniture, including some of the most popular ergonomic chairs in the world: the Aeron, Embody, and Sayl. (Herman Miller)

🌍 The cheapest (and most expensive) places to travel by month
For your next workation: Bounce, a luggage storage app, compiled tons of tourism data to discover all kinds of insights about when and where to get the best travel deals. For example, Malé, Maldives, Heraklion, Greece, and Cairo, Egypt see the most substantial drops in hotel prices depending on the month booked. (Bounce)

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