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> Now I am wondering if that's the direction resumes go for some short period of time. It is. I have (reliable) reports of CVs listing words like "Stanford" in
by Al-Khwarizmi 8y ago
> Now I am wondering if that's the direction resumes go for some short period of time.
It is. I have (reliable) reports of CVs listing words like "Stanford" in white on white background, to pass the automated filtering at some companies.
- Balgair 8y agoI used to do that kind of thing when I just got out of school but later took it all out. I had heard the algos were smarter and went through hoops to take all that out. Guess that 'hack' still works.
- rdiddly 8y agoI'm tempted to do this, but openly. Like a bold heading that says "Buzzword Section." Maybe with a parenthetical explanation that although it makes no sense, there are no lies in it.
- marssaxman 8y agoI've been doing that for years - my resume has a block labeled "buzzwords" immediately after the contact info and just before the job history. My resume is also kind of aggressively old-fashioned, a single page of 80-column ASCII text, because that's the kind of person I am and I figure anyone interested in hiring me ought to know what they're in for. :-)
- sleavey 8y agoHow's that working out for you?
- marssaxman 8y agoIt works really well. I've never had to spend more than a couple of weeks looking for a job.
- Aeolun 8y agoHard to say if it’s due to the CV or general awesomeness though.
- gota 8y agoCold-search or are you consistently being referred to by friends and former co-workers? Because if the latter you CV document might not even factor in your success rate
- marssaxman 8y agoIt is mostly the latter, as you'd imagine, and therefore most people encountering my resume already have some reason to pay attention. I think that lets me get away with being more opinionated in the way I present myself.
- dmd 8y agoYeah, but I happen to know that one of those jobs involved working on a BASIC compiler, so... (Hi Mars!)
- zippy 8y agoyeah, what slayed me about this resume tool for coders is that it doesn't accept plain text, but does accept word/doc
- plasticchris 8y agoI do that too! The fixed width, not the buzzwords. I've gotten a few double takes, but it works. Mine used to be longer but one page is plenty, and more than most interviewers will read in any case.
- nachi 8y agoJust for laughs, I just wrote a simple script that achieves exactly this: https://github.com/nachowski/cv-warfare https://github.com/nachowski/cv-warfare