From the course: Finding a Job in User Experience
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Do machines like your resume?
From the course: Finding a Job in User Experience
Do machines like your resume?
- With so many resumes out there, it's not surprising that most companies use some kind of digital tool to initially determine who's qualified for the role. Almost every job posting site has a recruiter interface that lets companies search, sort, and filter the resumes they receive based on criteria that they choose. Only after that will a real person start looking at the resulting list of resumes to further narrow down the set of people who'll be contacted for a first interview. So if you want to even get to the point of being able to talk to a human being, your resume has to first pass the machines. How do you make that happen? First, make sure that you have the qualifications listed in the job description. If you don't, then your resume will get filtered out. There's no point in lying or seriously embellishing your experience level or qualifications, that's just a waste of time for everyone involved. You really…
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