When tech recruiters in India look at résumés, 79% seek information on skill benchmarking stats or skill validation scores, according to a survey of 879 hiring managers released by TimesJobs.

Among the respondent group, 42% said that rank and achievements in industry-recognised competitions is the best way to show skill strength, according to TimesJobs. After this, skill quotient provided by tests was cited by 32% as the most effective way to show skill expertise. Next, skill recommendations from mentors and peers was cited by 16% and volunteer projects was cited by 9%.

“A conventional résumé — no matter how impactfully written — can never tell a recruiter about a candidate’s skill strength and his industry benchmarking of those skills,” said Sanjay Goyal, business head, TimesJobs and TechGig. “Hence the need for résumés that state industry-validation and benchmarking of skills to clearly tell about a candidate’s expertise in one skill versus the other skills.”

Goyal calls it “the emergence of pre-assessed résumés” and he predicts that all recruiters will eventually use such résumés.

The TimesJobs survey also found that 61% of tech recruiters still receive plain text résumés while 33% receive résumés in an infographic form and only 6% get video formats.

Thirty-one percent of respondents reported irrelevant experiences are most common in bad résumés, and 22% said misspellings and grammatical errors annoy them the most.