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科技的发展已经使得电脑浏览、挑选简历成为可能。负责招聘的人士通常使用几个关键词来挑选成千上万的简历。该如何寻找这些关键词，并将其纳入你的简历中呢?
Step Four: Keywords 关键词
In today's world of e-mailed and scannable resumes, make sure you know the
buzzwords of your industry and incorporate them into the sentences you are about
to write. Keywords are the nouns or short phrases that describe your experience
and education that might be used to find your resume in a keyword search of a
resume database. They are the essential knowledge, abilities, and skills
required to do your job. They are concrete descriptions like: C++, UNIX, fiber
optic cable, network, project management, etc. Even well-known company names
(AT&T, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, MCI) and universities (Harvard, Yale, SMU,
SUNY, USC, Stanford, Tulane, Thunderbird) are sometimes used as keywords,
especially when it is necessary to narrow down an initial search that calls up
hundreds of resumes from a resume database.
慎用首字母缩略词和缩写词。Acronyms and abbreviations here can either hurt you or help
you, depending on how you use them. One example given to me by an engineer at
Resumix was the abbreviation "IN." Think about it. "IN" could stand for
“intelligent networks”, “Indiana”, or the word “in”. It is better to spell out
the abbreviation if there could be any possible confusion. However, if a series
of initials is so well known that it would be recognized by nearly everyone in
your industry and would not likely be confused with a real word, then the
keyword search will probably use those initials (i.e., IBM, CPA, UNIX). When in
doubt, always spell it out at least one time on your resume. A computer only
needs to see the combination one time for it to be considered a "hit" in a
keyword search.
Soft skills are often not included in search criteria, especially for very
technical positions, although I have interviewed some companies that use them
extensively for the initial selection of resumes for management positions. For
instance, "communicate effectively," "self-motivated," "team player," and so on,
are great for describing your abilities and are fine to include in your profile,
but concentrate more on your hard skills, especially if you are in a high-tech
field.
The computerized applicant tracking programs used by most companies allow
the recruiter or hiring manager to personalize his or her list for each job
opening, so it is an evolving process. You will never know whether you have
listed absolutely every keyword possible, so focus instead on getting on paper
as many related skills as possible.
The job descriptions you found in step three are some of the most important
sources for keywords. You can also be certain that nearly every noun and some
adjectives in a job posting or advertisement will be keywords, so make sure you
use those words somewhere in your resume, using synonyms wherever you can. Make
a list of the keywords you have determined are important for your particular job
search and then list synonyms for those words. As you incorporate these words
into the sentences of your resume, check them off.
注意。One caution. Always tell the truth. The minute a hiring manager speaks
with you on the telephone or begins an interview, any exaggeration of the truth
will become immediately apparent. It is a bad idea to say, "I don't have
experience with MS Word computer software" just to get the words MS Word or
computer software on paper so your resume will pop up in a keyword search. In a
cover letter, it might be appropriate to say that you "don't have five years of
experience in marketing but can add two years of university training in the
subject to three years of in-depth experience as a marketing assistant with
Hewlett-Packard." That is legitimate reasoning, but anything more manipulative
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发表于 2016-7-9 23:40:43