Re: [tlug] [OT] Good IT Resume

["Keith Bawden" <keith@example.com>]

On 7/19/07, Sam Morrison <sam@example.com> wrote:
> Just wanted to point something out for those of you who might not be aware.
> This only applies to those of you who are working through the headhunters.
> Most of these companies use a resume parser to index their applicants. My
> last employer was a recruiter in Honolulu. We even used a tool that could
> reverse match job descriptions to rank indexed resumes. So moral of the
> story: keywords are important. You want your resume to show up in the
> applicant searches. And for what is is worth, most of the account managers
> really do not understand the IT applicants they are working with.
>
> > I put an extra amount of technical stuff in the projects description.
> > I did mainly system admin projects. Now I'm thinking about that maybe
> > a lot of tech info can confuse the HR that have to understand what do
> > I know.
>
> Pietro, this is spot on. These guys see a million people a day and they have
> way more applicants than positions. Make their lives easy.

This seems to be a catch 22. we need to put keywords in so an
automated tool can then match said keywords with a job description.
However if we use too much technical jargon (which is likely to be the
bulk of the keywords) we will confuse some poor sap who has a resume
flagged for his attention.

Maybe we need to embed the keywords as a jumbled up mess of jargon at
the bottom of the resume, with the more "human" readable fluff above
that :-)

Regards, Keith