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Subject:RE: Employment history low points From:"Kane, Beth" <Beth -dot- Kane -at- ncslearn -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:35:34 -0600
Well said, Mike O.
I've also "gamed the system" by pasting in cover letter text. Worked for me,
I got that job.
I've hard-coded line length to fit their fields, and made an effort to
format as nicely as possible using only Courier plain text. And I got it
perfect in Word before pasting it into the online form. Maybe I've wasted my
time perfecting formatting, if all the text is only used as search hits. I
had no idea how employers were using the text.
Beth Kane
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...so don't follow the rules. Use your knowledge of web forms and databases
to game the system.
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