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by Silhouette
4209 days ago
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I've been reviewing CVs recently, and there is a striking negative correlation between a candidate's amount of experience and the number of specific languages or tools they choose to highlight. It's also quite striking how the younger and less experienced candidates often have a first page that is pure keyword stuffing now, while older and more experienced ones tend not to. My suspicion is that the younger candidates expect to have to get past a computer and then HR before encountering anyone who knows what they're talking about technically, while stronger candidates tend to start from the technically competent end via a contact in their network and only expect to deal with HR right at the end of the process to dot i's and cross t's. |
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As someone who is currently reworking their resume, I can say your suspicion is correct. If I don't know someone in or around a company I am interested in, or I don't have a target company, I expect to be treated like a random person off the street. That means submitting my resume to some email / web form; then having it parsed and stored in their applicant tracking system until HR does a search using the job description keywords. Only after a sufficiently high percentage keyword match would I expect someone from HR to begin their process with some kind of form letter email.
It's like what happened with automated phone systems and ATMs. I no longer expect a person to answer.