Create a "Buzz" by Using Keywords to Screen-in Your iHispano Resume while Others are Screened-out

08-11-2008 09:02:18

ONE TINY WORD had been left out of Maria Ortiz's resume. Unfortunately, this 3-letter omission (EEO, short for Equal Employment Opportunity) was on her potential employer's "must have" list. Without it, Maria failed to qualify for the human resources job she wanted with a leading corporation.

Maria put a great deal of effort into writing and fine-tuning her resume, but she made a classic error. She assumed that employers would read between the lines, interpret the facts, and comprehend the sum total of her experience – a costly assumption in this case. If Maria had taken the time to research and find out which keywords were important to this employer, she might have landed her dream job several months earlier!

What job seekers need to know is that 80% of resumes are processed (screened) electronically, sorted, scored, and selected based on their keyword content. To get an edge in this competitive employment market, job seekers must build their resumes around job t

ONE TINY WORD had been left out of Maria Ortiz's resume. Unfortunately, this 3-letter omission (EEO, short for Equal Employment Opportunity) was on her potential employer's "must have" list. Without it, Maria failed to qualify for the human resources job she wanted with a leading corporation.

Maria put a great deal of effort into writing and fine-tuning her resume, but she made a classic error. She assumed that employers would read between the lines, interpret the facts, and comprehend the sum total of her experience – a costly assumption in this case. If Maria had taken the time to research and find out which keywords were important to this employer, she might have landed her dream job several months earlier!

What job seekers need to know is that 80% of resumes are processed (screened) electronically, sorted, scored, and selected based on their keyword content. To get an edge in this competitive employment market, job seekers must build their resumes around job target keywords – the specific hard skills, soft skills, and transferable skills that employers list in the jobs they post.

iHispano.com makes it easy to research your job target so that you can "keyword optimize" your resume. It's a 3-step process:

Taking the time to research your job target will not only optimize your resume's keyword "score" but the process itself teaches you about keywords and how the electronic job market works!

For more information on writing successful resumes read 'HISPANIC Résumés Generate Job Interviews'));?>

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