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Subject:RE: Preparation for a phone screen interview From:Tom Murrell <trmurrell -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 8 Jan 2003 07:59:48 -0800 (PST)
--- Earl Cooley <shiva -at- io -dot- com> wrote:
>
> If your resume doesn't have the right buzzwords, it's very likely
> you won't get an interview at all; they have to screen out the
> hundreds or thousands of applicants some way, after all.
Every time I see this statement, or one like it, I think to myself that if you use
the T-Letter approach, you automatically have the right buzz words in your approach
to the company.
Now, if you're filling out an online application, you can do the same sort of thing
on the fly by parroting back their own words in the job description.
All in all, I find it puzzling that so many people complain that companies screen
applicants, and could screen out good candidates, but don't focus on any of the
strategies they can use to make the screening process work for them. I don't care if
you use my approach or not. Heck, I don't make anything on it. I do care that some
people (I'm not referring to you, Earl, though yours is the quote above.) are more
focused on crabbing about how they can't get interviews or jobs and how bad things
are but don't seem willing to consider any other way of marketing themselves.
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