Re: Tech writer who can't write a resume

["Marvin W. Miller" <Marvin_Miller -at- SEC -dot- SEL -dot- SONY -dot- COM>]

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In the Great Land of Oz, a.k.a. the Silicon Valley, it is not uncommon for
companies to scan in all resumes and eliminate those without words pertaining
to the job description ("buzzwords"). Some cold-hearted piece of silicon and
plastic performs this task!

To be certain your resume is at least glanced at by a human, you must place
these buzzwords in your resume. For example, if the job description includes
web page authoring, you would want to make sure the acronyms HTML and WWW
appear somewhere.

I include most of my buzzwords in a Software Expertise section so I don't have
to rewrite the current job description each time. I saw one with a section
tagged on the end called "Scanner Topics."

BTW, we don't use a resume scanner here. Still have the human touch. :-)




> On Wed, 6 Dec 1995, Marvin W. Miller wrote:

> > I always thought I had a great resume. Just for kicks, I had a friend
> > at a resume service review it. Turns out that there were many things
> > I had not considered, such as a section for scanner buzzwords. She
> > also suggested that I have separate resumes for management and for
> > Sr. Writer. It certainly was an eye opener for me.

> For the sake of those who are not sufficiently familiar with this
> approach, where and how do you incorporate the section for
> scanner buzzwords?
> I have yet to see a resume that contains such a section.

>         RoMay Sitze,  rositze -at- nmsu -dot- edu



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Marvin W. Miller
Supervisor, Technical Communications Group
Sony Systems Engineering Center - San Jose, CA
Ph 408-955-4251
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Opinions expressed here probably differ from that of my
employer. If I ruffle your feathers, get mad at me - not Sony.
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