Originally Posted by
myNZadventure
Hi newbie to the forum here as well as to NZ. I have a SMC JSV and have been here in AKL since the start of the year and have diligently been sending out my CV. There are times when the JD of a vacancy perfectly describes my previous work before coming here and I thought I have reflected that in my CV but much to my surprise, I often get rejected even before I've been called for an interview. It's certainly disconcerting to see it happen as I come/worked in 2 countries previously where an applicant doesn't get rejected before an initial interview (and we're not talking about a totally misaligned application of a sales person applying for a mechanical engineer role here). Sometimes the JD itself is (almost) a copy of the CV but still a rejection.
I heard that most (all?) agents here use resume scanning software. Is this true? And anyone has any CV format they can share that generated multiple calls?