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Re: Having fun with your resume - good idea/bad idea
Subject:Re: Having fun with your resume - good idea/bad idea From:Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> To:Steve Schwarzman <steve -at- writersbookmall -dot- com> Date:Thu, 6 Sep 2012 10:29:05 -0700
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Steve Schwarzman <steve -at- writersbookmall -dot- com
> wrote:
> That said, recruiters/HR first screeners do search by keywords. As a human
> reader, I'm not offended by a paragraph at the end of an otherwise
> human-oriented resume called Keywords, listing software, industries,
> customers, etc. You can probably keep the body of the resume shorter by
> moving the relevant words to such a section.
That said, does it look favourably if a competent web writer follows the
practice of keyword stuffing, rather than embedding the keywords into text
organically?
-Tony
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