Howto get the resume bots to read your resume:
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We all know that when your applying to a job that has a lot of applicants, the company in question wont even read half of the resumes. They will scan them in and have a computer look for key words that they are interested in for a future employee.
Here is the punch line: When your applying for a job online, throw in a line of text at the end of your resume that consists of about 50 key words that you think employers might like to see on a resume but aren't on yours. For example "I know absolutely nothing about MFC, Java, Microsoft, HTML, insert random high paying skill here". Now highlight it and change its color to the same color as the background color of the page. This only works when you submit your resume via email and in a text format that doesn't make the color change immediately visible. The effect being that the email parsing bots will read your resume and go "WOW this guy/gal is awesome, here boss read this guys resume right away." He/She will then print it up and read it over seeing only the information that you wanted them to see, thus getting you past round one.
I'm not advocating that people should do this, I just think it's a funny way to beat the system.
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We all know that when your applying to a job that has a lot of applicants, the company in question wont even read half of the resumes. They will scan them in and have a computer look for key words that they are interested in for a future employee.
Here is the punch line: When your applying for a job online, throw in a line of text at the end of your resume that consists of about 50 key words that you think employers might like to see on a resume but aren't on yours. For example "I know absolutely nothing about MFC, Java, Microsoft, HTML, insert random high paying skill here". Now highlight it and change its color to the same color as the background color of the page. This only works when you submit your resume via email and in a text format that doesn't make the color change immediately visible. The effect being that the email parsing bots will read your resume and go "WOW this guy/gal is awesome, here boss read this guys resume right away." He/She will then print it up and read it over seeing only the information that you wanted them to see, thus getting you past round one.
I'm not advocating that people should do this, I just think it's a funny way to beat the system.