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Scannable Resume
Design
by
ResumeEdge.com
- The Net's Premier Resume Writing and Editing Service
Like
it or not, we are all caught in the loop of modern technology.
Place a call to your favorite store or banking institution,
and you’re usually dealing with voicemail and automated menus,
rather than reaching a real individual.
The
same is now true when you send your resume to the human resources
department of major corporations (and in increasing numbers, hiring
managers at smaller companies).
Because hundreds or even thousands of individuals apply
for one opening, software that is preset to determine applicant
skills and qualifications is used to “weed out” those individuals
who don’t match the job criteria.
Therefore,
to make the most of a job search, it’s essential for the modern
resume to:
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Be
in a format that can be read by optical character recognition
(OCR) software, if the targeted company is using this tool.
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Contain
essential keywords* related to the job opening or industry.
*
Keywords are nouns or noun phrases that the software has been
programmed to search for.
The more keywords or “hits” the software finds in the resume,
the more likely the document will be read by a human resources
professional. In fact,
for some federal job openings, a resume must have a 95% or higher
hit rate if the candidate is to be given serious consideration
-- that is, a moment of the hiring authority’s time, and perhaps
even an interview.
Sound
daunting?
It
doesn’t have to be when you know the tricks of the trade in creating
this modern resume. The
essentials include:
 OCR
Technology
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