What Color Is Your Parachute 2018 by Richard N. Bolles copy

companies or organizations are looking at that huge stack of resumes on
their desk, with a view—first of all—to finding out who they can
eliminate. Eventually they want to get it down to the “last person
standing.” On average, a vacancy receives between 118 and 250 responses
or resumes. On average, employers want to interview only 5.4 candidates.
Getting that stack of 118 to 250 down to 5.4 is the employer’s first
preoccupation.