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RP Members, Supporters, & Recruiters have you heard of this?
Does this really work?
Your thoughts?
Submit Your Resume to be Read
Published on January 25, 2015
By
Walter Harris III
Detroit Police Department Special Services
To give you a leg up in your job application process, it is believed that identifying keywords in a job description and using them in you resume and cover letter will give you an edge.
In this age, it is likely that your resume is run through a resume scanning device. This device breaks the text down into recognized words or phrases. The device then sorts that content into different groups like experience, skills and education. The employer's desired skills or keywords are matched against the results. The resume is scored on relevancy—using the employer's search terms.
Find a Word Cloud Tool (a tool that helps you gather keywords from a job description) and paste the job description into the tool and follow the instructions. In your results, the largest words are ones that appear prominent in the employers job description. Plug these words into your resume and cover letter. Or, take as many keywords as you can, put them at the top and bottom of your document(s), color that text white. The keywords will not be seen by the naked eye but will be detected by the resume scanning device.
RP Members, Supporters, & Recruiters have you heard of this?
Does this really work?
Your thoughts?
Submit Your Resume to be Read
Published on January 25, 2015
By
Walter Harris III
Detroit Police Department Special Services
To give you a leg up in your job application process, it is believed that identifying keywords in a job description and using them in you resume and cover letter will give you an edge.
In this age, it is likely that your resume is run through a resume scanning device. This device breaks the text down into recognized words or phrases. The device then sorts that content into different groups like experience, skills and education. The employer's desired skills or keywords are matched against the results. The resume is scored on relevancy—using the employer's search terms.
Find a Word Cloud Tool (a tool that helps you gather keywords from a job description) and paste the job description into the tool and follow the instructions. In your results, the largest words are ones that appear prominent in the employers job description. Plug these words into your resume and cover letter. Or, take as many keywords as you can, put them at the top and bottom of your document(s), color that text white. The keywords will not be seen by the naked eye but will be detected by the resume scanning device.
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Oh yes! It is called Applicant Tracking System (ATS) Does it really work, ask 5 people and you will get 10 answers. The system scans a resume/CV for specific words per each position description. So one must read the job description and then re write their resume/CV to 'marry' the specific position they are interested in. Many pro & con articles have been written about these types of systems. A great resource is the postings/hints from the Recruiter group on LinkedIn. Most resumes are prescreened by these software applications before human eyes glance at them for a mere 30 seconds. Hope this info helps a bit.
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"...take as many keywords as you can, put them at the top and bottom of your document(s), color that text white. The keywords will not be seen by the naked eye but will be detected by the resume scanning device."
What a crafty idea. But what happens when a human actually reads the resume and doesn't find it to be appropriate?
What a crafty idea. But what happens when a human actually reads the resume and doesn't find it to be appropriate?
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
Capt Seid Waddell Exactly! I bleieve the author is referring to jobs that the applicant is qualified for, but gets lost in the quick delete button that HR personnel are now using to get through the hundreds of applications and resumes submitted online! Just a guess!
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Instead of just putting these words at the top of your document as it might affect the layout, it might be better to use in the header and footer of the document settings.
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