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Reasons You're Not Getting Interviews; Plus Some Crazy Real Resume Mistakes

Posted by Slashdot on from the don't-sign-your-cover-letter-in-blood dept.

Yvonne Lee, Community Manager at Dice.com writes, "Not using standard job titles, not tying your work to real business results and not using the right keywords can mean never getting called for an interview, even if you have the right skills to do the job. I once heard advice to use the exact wording found in the ad when placing your keywords. I think you're even more unlikely to get a job if you do some of the things on this list."

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  1. Re:LMFTFY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    What she really thinks she's doing: "Using job and industry news to increase user stickiness, SEO performance and conversion into jobs database". I wonder how that's working out?

  2. To Yvonne Lee from all slashdot readers, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Since you didn't read my post from yesterday, here it is again: Please go fuck yourself. Seriously. Everybody here means it. That's all. Thank you.

  3. Re:LMFTFY by richlv · · Score: 4, Informative

    wahaha. i only opened this article to comment that it's an annoying amount of non-geek advertisement-like stories from dice - thanks for putting it first in a more humourous way :)

    my search for previous adverts revealed lower right corner text "Slashdot is a Dice Holdings, Inc. company"

    bad website, bad. sit, no bone for you.

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    Rich
  4. Re:See ya, Slashdot. by samzenpus · · Score: 5, Informative

    We didn't delete anyone's comments. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3455889&cid=42890287

  5. "Slashdot Staff".... by Nidi62 · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...has now been excluded on my options. Hopefully that should take care of all the Dice stories for me.

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    The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
  6. Re:LMFTFY by smellotron · · Score: 3, Informative

    You'll continue to open a new tab and type in "slashdot.org" when you're bored, completely out of muscle memory.

    It's worse for Opera users. I type /. into my address bar to get here. Including the Enter key, that's 3 keystrokes all in an addictive little cluster.