Literature Review: Motivation for Resume Grading System - Management

This report presents a comprehensive literature review focusing on the motivation behind resume grading systems. It delves into the significance of grading in assessing an individual's skills, knowledge, and experience as reflected in their resume. The report examines various elements of a resume grading system, including skills assessment, formatting, and content quality, referencing multiple studies and perspectives from authors like Reddan, Faliagka, and Cowgill. It highlights the importance of presenting experience, leadership abilities, and professional appearance in a resume. Furthermore, the report discusses the inclusion of GPA, the role of resume writing in career transitions, and the overall impact of a well-crafted resume in a competitive job market. The review covers the critical aspects of resume evaluation and offers insights into how individuals can improve their resumes to enhance their job application prospects. The report emphasizes the need for clear, error-free content and professional presentation to make a positive impression on potential employers.

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Topic- Literature Review (Background and motivation for a resume grading
system with literature review)
Introduction
This research report provides significant detail about motivation for the resume
grading system with the findings of existing papers. It is certain that grading system in
the resume gives a clear view about how an individual is progressing with respect to
skills, knowledge and experience about the field that the person is in. When it is about
grading, it is worth mentioning that Grading Point Average is one such number which
certainly implies how effectively the individual has scored in the course. It can be
mentioned that a GPA listed in education section of one’s resume could either help or
hurt the chance of getting an interview. There is no specific rule about whether or not
to keep or remove GPA from resume after college. Nonetheless, the general guideline
is that during the first year or two after university. It is fine to keep the GPA on the
resume.
According to Reddan (2013) an employer could particularly ask for GPA in the
job posting or application and the individual has to be sure about listing it properly
when it is required; thereby, the application receives the full consideration. Faliagka,
Tsakalidis and Tzimas (2012) mentioned that writing a resume is more of an art which
is not a science, this means there is no correct way of formulating the resume but there
could be some practices and standards which must be followed when preparing a
resume. According to this author, high quality content, clearly written content and
error free document are the major element of preparing a resume. In this context,
Cowgill (2017) commented that the most significant thing that one needs to know

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about the CV or resume is how one craft for Master’s application is that it should
convey how one understands their own achievement. It has also been identified that
resume could go hand in hand with academic letters of suggestions in which
professors further vouch for what the person has done.
Concept of grading system
It has been identified that there are certain elements which need to be
considered in the grading system of a resume. As put forward by Wang and Yorks
(2012), some particular elements such as skills, outstanding, good, areas need
improvement and unsatisfactory. The column of margins are balanced with the even
tab margins as well as spacing between lines and sections. The individual must have
to use or capitalize the key points to highlight the headings consistently. When
preparing the CV individual must have to use appropriate font and point size. The
brand must have to mention about the strongest experience and strengths that should
be usually listed at the beginning of the sections and moreover the length of the
resume has to be appropriate. Kirillov et al. (2015) mentioned that margins should be
balanced with some uneven tab margins and spacing between lines and sections.
Experience is another mandatory as well as the heart of any teaching resume,
nonetheless, it can be represented in myriad of ways. Individual needs to choose the
richest, concrete as well as relevant teaching experience to put on resume. When
preparing the resume, the brand needs to keep in mind that experience one such thing
that must be incorporated into the CV. In addition to this, grading system is one of the
significant areas in resume which must be considered when preparing. Brookhart et
al. (2016) mentioned that counselling experience tends to reflect the experience and

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other direct counselling experience that the individual must have had before to the
program; thereby, it should particularly follow the education section as well as take up
the most significant amount of space on counselling the resume. Iamarino (2014)
mentioned that grading system is highly required in the resume because grading
system helps to analyse how the individual is progressing in their career or the course
they are studying.
It is certain that grading system would help to monitor individual skills and
knowledge and moreover, when the individual is going to apply for a job position,
they are most likely to be judged and analysed with respect to their skills and
knowledge. Aithal and Kumar (2016) mentioned that due to the crowd of candidates
for a job application, the organization or the recruiter is most likely to choose
candidates on the basis of their grading point or numbers. On the other side,
Donaldson and Gray (2012) mentioned that it could be helpful to the reader to collect
a snapshot of the core competencies or the areas of expertise. This can often be a
bulleted list of overarching areas that exemplify the leadership experience. For
example, leadership experience is another significant area that the individual must
have to consider when formulating the resume; this means the organization or the
markers often look for the real world experience. This means that the committee that
the individual have led or participated and department and special position of the
individual hold in past should be categorized in the resume.
This means that resume should show and include the purpose and focus of the
resume should be clear with respect to how and why it is being made. In this context,
Huang and Soman (2013) mentioned that resume should show a very professional

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appearance, tone and style. It is certain that resume could receive poor remarks and
feedback when it does not have a professional appearance, tone and style. Bad or
negative remarks in a CV could indicate the fact that individual have difficulty
following the guideline and many of the sentences contains several errors and cannot
be understood. Streveler, Smith and Pilotte (2012) mentioned that candidates or the
individuals must be aware of such area where they can be misunderstood for general
flaws or mistakes. In addition to this, when preparing the resume, individuals should
proofread and cross-check each and every detail they put on the resume about
themselves.
Hernández (2012) performed a study and provided a grading framework of
Resume, in which a number of grading skills are often visible. According to the author
of this study, grading system in the resume could include ‘skills’, ‘outstanding’, ‘good
average’, ‘unsatisfactory’ and ‘total’. Firstly, the column of outstanding might include
some criteria, where the reader or the analyst may look at whether the margins are
adequate balanced with the tab margins and spacing between the lines, while, other
reader might see whether the resume holder uses the capitalization and bold to
highlight the headings consistently. The reader might use the appropriate font and
point size and strongest experience and strength which should be listed at the
beginning. Another criteria of grading system is ‘good’ which determines whether the
margins are balanced with some uneven tab margins as well as spacing between lines
and sections. Reader might see that whether the resume holder uses or capitalizes and
bold the major point to highlight the key findings. On the other side, Hernández

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(2012) mentioned that area improvement is one of the most significant areas in which
the individuals’ skills, knowledge and other areas are judged and ranked accordingly.
As put forward by Astin (2012), improvement area refers to the areas in which
the individuals should work to improve to meet a certain standards. For example that
the margins are balanced with some uneven tab margins and spacing between the lines
and sections. In this context, Manacorda (2012) commented that individual should use
the capitalization and bold to highlight the headings. It uses whether the individuals
use appropriate format and font styles to prepare their resume. Authors state the fact
that each individual should learn how they are being rated on the basis of the existing
skills and competencies. On the basis of rating given by supervisors or the analyst,
individuals should work accordingly.
On the contrary, Holm (2012) mentioned that rating and grading should be
given on the basis of some particular criteria such as reader might see how the
individual has prepared the Resume, whether it is typed or computer generated or it is
filled with the pages or whether the formats highlight the content. When preparing the
headings of Resume, it should be noted whether the individuals have given headings,
objectives, education, experience and reference covered in some details. It has also
been noted that there could be some scenario where the individuals tend to follow the
conventional system of preparing their resume but due to lack of creativity and
presentation skills, applications are often rejected. In such context, Xu et al. (2018)
added that grading system helps individuals to learn how the individuals should
improve their areas.

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Things to be included a GPA on Resume
Sonar and Bankar (2012) mentioned that the fact that in high school, job
seekers often include their GPA on their resume specially if those GPAs are strong but
it is after graduating from college, it could be difficult to know when to remove that
decimal number from the resume. Hanna and Linden (2012) performed a study and
added the fact that individual should follow and implement some steps.
It has been identified that as there is a number of professional resume writers available
to turn a phrase as well as put a spin on the qualification, the significance of writing
own resume could be reduced. So, across the professional career life, one does need to
summarize their work history, outline the skills and emphasize traits that one does
hold which could qualify their own future work. Without the ability of crafting, a
professional qualification statement just as a resume, career of an individual might
reach a dead end.
On the other side, it has been identified that resume writing is more of a technique of
making the transition from school to the professional work field. So when an
individual in the learning mode, they are most likely to pay attention to the theory that
certainly underlines the kind of work they wish to do. Nonetheless, when a student or
individual complete their education, they must have to pay attention to the practical
application to enhance their skulls. This is often true for an individual from high
school to the phrase receiving post-graduate university degree. So, it can be mentioned
that the ability to transfer learning to actual demonstration of skills and knowledge in
work environment could be the part of the description of the capabilities and
qualification in the resume. Xu et al. (2018) mentioned that resume is more of a

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summary about what an individual do for a living, so whether the individual is an
executive manager of a large firm the individual must be able to explain what they do.
The capability to explain the responsibilities and the purpose of the duty is something
that enables individual to move from one position to another. This means a well
written resume is more of an evidence that individual effective understand how their
tasks and responsibilities fit into the overall goals of the organization for which the
individual work.
Even though the resume is not the best way to show composition skills, it
demonstrates individual’s ability about writing in a comprehensible manner thereby,
the recruiters as well as the hiring managers understand the capabilities of the
individuals. It has been noted that a resume is widely written in a fragmented language
and it is therefore, not an ideal illustration of writing skulls. This means a solid resume
is most likely to describe the background areas of expertise and qualification. So, this
is more of an important tool to help individuals compete with the applicant in the job
market. Thus, it can be added that writing and updating individual resume forces
individual take inventory of individual skills, education and work history.
Putting in the Education section of the resume: According to the authors,
GPA of the individuals should go in the education section of the resume and this
section should include where one does want to school and what degree the individual
received and this means the candidate can mention about any academic honours and
awards in the section.
Emphasizing other academic accomplishments: Reddan (2013) mentioned
the fact that individuals should include some academic accomplishments along with

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the GPA to demonstrate that the individuals along with the GPA to demonstrate that
the individuals are hardworking and they are well rounded individuals.
Maintaining the transparency: It has been noted that the individuals should
be aware of the fact that the information they have put are real and authentic. While it
is okay to leave GPA, it is not okay to lie about the GPA on the resume and it is very
easy for an employer or the organization to verify GPA by looking at the transcript;
this means if the candidates lie, there is a chance that individuals might lose a chance
of getting the job in their desired organization. Maintaining transparency is another
crucial area that individual must have to follow.
Faliagka, Tsakalidis and Tzimas (2012) arguably mentioned the fact that some
employers could ask an interview that the individual should be prepared to tell them
and describe any reasons behind a poor average GPA. Authors of the study have
added the fact that it could take a lot of time to find one very good resume in stack of
resume than to eliminate almost 75% or to have some obvious flow or the
shortcoming.
So it can be added that due to the inclusion of useless, irrelevant as well as
potentially negative information on the resume almost guarantee that the individuals
resume could fall in No pile as well as the individual will not get a call for the
interview. Thus it can be added that resume should avoid typos, excess of information
which could clutter the page and it helps to keep a good visual appearance.
Qualification and the content are clearly significant but do not ignore these aspects as
well.

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Grading System
Individuals should set up a system to grade the resume on the basis of
qualification, education, skills and similar experience. Wang and Yorks (2012) gave
an example that of the analysis has more than 25 resumes, the individual needs the
system to keep a track of candidates’ qualification, Hence, the authors have
recommended a rating system to determine which candidates are the most qualified
for the particular position. According to the authors, a rating system should allow you
to defend the individuals’ decisions if the candidate asks why he or she was not
selected.
Hence, the hiring decision should be based on a fair as well as equitable system
implemented to all candidates on the basis of their qualification. Kirillov et al. (2015)
mentioned about some particular system which is pretty straight forward. According
to the authors, job in question might require a bachelor degree is the least requirement
and Master degree’ is the most preferred requirement in the education system. For
example, the reader could assign one point for education for all candidates who hold a
bachelor degree and 2 points with a Master’s degree.
In addition, the individual should do for all specific on qualification for the
position in question such as skills, range of experience and experience in the industry.
So the recruiter could assign points for their appropriate experience in the field for
working in a similar organization and for having specific talents or skills. In this
context, Brookhart et al. (2016) commented that ABC system is quite similar to the
grade that people received in school and they should assign candidates ‘ significant

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grade system on the basis of their overall qualification for the job, experience and
education.
Authors have arguably mentioned the fact that stated method is more
subjective. This is a method which is used by seasoned resume screeners as they have
years of experience. It can be added that the objective of the CV is to allow the reader
about evaluating the individual for the internship. Thus, the resume should highlight
the educational qualification with the grades and the project or the earlier internship
that the candidate has done before.
In this context, Iamarino (2014) commented that candidates should create
standards which the individuals will use throughout the resume review, and avoid
ranking candidates from best to least 1 to ‘N’. Candidates can review the position
description before reviewing applicant’s materials and review the advertising for the
vacant position. The brand should use a pre-determined screening instrument to make
evaluation of the candidates against the objective criteria.
On the other side, individuals could make comments, notes and other
observation on screening instrument regarding the candidates who could be useful
reminder when the individual start discussing the candidates’ with the organization as
a whole.
It is worth telling that grading system in the resume is always necessary for both
fresher and experienced candidates. It can be added that grading system helps to
identify how the individual is skilled and experience in their field or domain. In this
context, Aithal and Kumar (2016) commented that your interviewer understands that