Resume – what info is important to recruiters?

When searching for your second job, if it involves sending in a resume, is your resume formatted for easy scanning and have the important features about you pop out for them?

According to this article in Business Insider, recruiters will make a decision about you within 6 seconds of scanning.  Here’s a heat map of two resumes, the one on the right being the most effective since it is broken into scannable sections, placing bold sentences in key areas-

In the short time that they spend with your resume, the study showed recruiters will look at your name, current title and company, current position start and end dates, previous title and company, previous position start and end dates, and education.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-what-recruiters-look-at-during-the-6-seconds-they-spend-on-your-resume-2012-4#ixzz1rxpL6j00