If you have recently advertised a job post then you may find yourself inundated with potential employee’s CV’s. Finding the time to go through all of the CV’s can be hard, often as you are trying to carry on with your day to day tasks at the same time.

When sorting through CV’s you need to decide what is important to your business. For some businesses, qualifications and experience are the most important factors so they will instantly illuminate anyone that does not meet their criteria.

For other companies, it may be reliability, so they may have a look through the CV’s are remove anyone who has had a large number of short term jobs with no real explanation or someone that has been out of work for a long period of time. By being ruthless you may miss out on an ideal candidate but you do have to start somewhere and try and narrow your search down a little to be able to invite a select few for an interview.