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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. Sadly Enough by Whorhay · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From experience I know that one of the largest employers in the USA actually gives you a much better shot at a job if you do include the same key phrases in your resume. The mass crush of resumes that come in for any job opening requires that the HR drones put everything through an automated filter or three. If your resume doesn't pass those filters nothing else matters because no one is going to read it.

  2. Re:LMFTFY by cod3r_ · · Score: 4, Interesting

    what exactly is a community manager?

  3. "Standard Job Title"? by CptNerd · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What the heck is a "standard job title" anyway? I've worked at 12 different companies in my nearly 30 years in software development, and never have I had the same "job title." I'm pretty sure my current job title is meaningless to anyone else looking to hire me, as would the dozen other job titles I've had be.

    Get back to me when the "industry" publishes a list of "standard job titles" and makes every company comply with it.

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  4. Read an interesting tip... by Nexzus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...on another forum:

    Copy and paste the entire job description into a 1 pixel by 1 pixel box on your resume. Invisible to the naked eye, but parsers easily pick it up.

    Just make sure to watch the sites that parse and reformat for you (Monster, eg) when uploading.

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  5. Re:HWGA by _anomaly_ · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What? Posting a summary on slashdot of a Dice.com fluff piece from June 2011 isn't a good idea?!

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  6. See ya, Slashdot. by 1729 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We're getting this every day? And Dice is apparently deleting comments? Fuck that. Slashdot is done. Nice work, Dice.

    PS: I'm on my way over to delete my Dice profile too, since the company is clearly incompetent and unethical.

  7. slashdot as dice.com shill site? by argStyopa · · Score: 4, Interesting

    WWCTD

    What
    Would
    Commander
    Taco
    Do?

    Wonder how he feels about this. I mean, he got his pile of $$ and "is out" but still, I bet he cares.

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    -Styopa