SPUG: Giving up on computer jobs & usefulness of placement fi rms

Jonathan Gardner jgardner at jonathangardner.net
Wed Aug 13 14:22:51 CDT 2003


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On Wednesday 13 August 2003 11:04, Aaron Salo wrote:
>
> Getting through the software screener is similar to the arcane
> discipline of search engine placement. There is very little concrete
> info on how to improve your scoring, but a safe bet is if the posting
> has specific requirements for discipline based experience, make sure
> you state them all, and exactly as set forth in the job announcement.
>

I've found that if you use the exact same words as the recruiter uses 
when they posted the job, your chances of getting a phone call go up 
significantly.

One job I was looking for had the word "ecommerce" in it three times. I 
put that word in my resume twice, along with "object-oriented perl", 
"apache", and "postgresql", which were all mentioned in exactly those 
phrases, and I scored an interview.

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Jonathan Gardner <jgardner at jonathangardner.net>
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