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Scannable Resume
Design
by
ResumeEdge.com
- The Net's Premier
Resume Writing and
Editing Service
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:
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Be in a format that
can be read by
optical character
recognition (OCR)
software, if the
targeted company is
using this tool.
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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 likely the document
will be read by a human
resources professional.
In fact, for some
federal job openings, a
resume must have a 95%
or higher hit rate if
the candidate is to be
given serious
consideration -- that
is, a moment of the
hiring authority’s time,
and perhaps even an
interview.
Sound daunting?
It doesn’t have to be
when you know the tricks
of the trade in creating
this modern resume. The
essentials include:
 OCR
Technology
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