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My friend's job hunt got stuck because his resume kept getting filtered out by a system
He applied to 47 marketing jobs in Chicago over two months and got zero callbacks, so I looked at his resume and saw he was missing the exact keywords from the job posts. The hiring software was just tossing his application before a human ever saw it. Has anyone found a good way to check what keywords these systems are looking for?
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hannah40012d ago
Try copying the job post into a word cloud generator to see what stands out.
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grays1312d ago
Oh man, that reminds me of when my friend did that for a marketing job. His whole cloud was just "synergy" and "rockstar" over and over, like a weird corporate poem. He said it looked so dumb he just closed the tab and applied somewhere else. I mean, it really shows you what they actually care about, right? It's never the real day-to-day stuff.
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seth_singh2012d ago
My word cloud would just be the word "teamwork" in giant, sad letters.
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