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Resume Roast for Talent Acquisition Specialists

Talent Acquisition Specialist resumes get scanned for funnel numbers and sourcing craft: requisitions carried, fills per quarter, source mix, and pipeline conversion. Partnered with hiring managers to identify top talent is a sentence with no pulse. Carried 20 open reqs, filled 14 a quarter, built a sourced pipeline that cut agency spend 40 percent: that reads like someone who owns a funnel.

What Gabe checks first on a Talent Acquisition Specialist resume
  • State your req load and fill rate, like 18 concurrent requisitions with 12 fills a quarter across corporate functions. Load-bearing capacity is the first question.
  • Break out your source mix, like 55 percent sourced, 30 percent applied, 15 percent referral, with sourced candidates converting to hire at twice the rate.
  • Include employer-brand or process work with results, like structured interview rollout that raised onsite-to-offer conversion 15 points.
Worth knowing

The claim that ATS systems auto-reject 75 percent of resumes traces to a 2012 marketing claim, not research. (traced to a 2012 vendor marketing claim)

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