When searching for a new job the most common complaint we hear from job seekers is that they don’t know what employers want from them. Being unsure and working based on assumptions of what we think someone else wants is never a good feeling, so we at Beyond decided that something needed to change.
We went straight to the horse’s mouth, or in this case the employer’s and we asked hundreds of HR pros what they look for when they evaluate a job candidate. We asked them everything from what mistakes irk them the most on a resume, if where a candidate went to school matters, how a candidate should dress, and here’s what they had to say.