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Did you know when you apply for just ONE job on the internet, there could be up to 1000 other applicants applying for the same job? Did you also know that when sending your resume out electronically and it leaves your computer, the first stop it makes is not a human but another computer – with a software program designed to scan your resume seeking particular keywords and phrases before it ever reaches the eyes of a human HR person. Does this mean you should compose your resume as if you are speaking to a machine or PC – in desperate need of a spell check and devoid of any emotion and enthusiasm? No. Yet, this is the way many resumes in their BEFORE stages reach my desk. So what can be done to breathe life into your resume? What are these mysterious software programs that seek these mysterious keywords that no one knows about? Why hasn’t anyone ever told you?!
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