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Scannable
Resume Design
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: Be
in a format that can be read by optical character recognition (OCR) software,
if the targeted company is using this tool.
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
Sound
daunting?
It
doesn’t have to be when you know the tricks of the trade in creating this
modern resume.The essentials include: |
