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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. 

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* 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.

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