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I work as a recruiter for a large Government Contractor. We get a job description directly from our customer and post the positions based on what they are looking for. Typically we are not "clueless" as to the skills that the customer is looking for. Most of the candidates that we talk to at my company don't have the skills we are looking for listed on their resume, so we have to dig deeper to find out what they have used, and what they have not used. I have not hear of recruiters getting a list of preferred software packages and writing up job descriptions based on that.
> I guess it's time to go buy
> some
> > Microsoft and Adobe stuff and see if I fare better using tools
> people> recognize.
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> This is a big problem. Lots of recruiters get a list of
> preferred software packages, write up a job description and focus
> only on that software. They are cluless as to the real skills for
> the job. When I got laid off, I had experience in the entire Adobe
> suite and the Microsoft suite, VB6, Mac and PC, HTML and XML. The
> real sticking point for me was Robohelp. The 15 years experience
> was completely eclipsed by one little program.
>
> I kept getting jetisoned for not using robohelp, heck it is an
> HTML editor. I finally bought a book and downloaded the free 30
> day trial. And I worked with it every day for the trial period. So
> now I know it and I put it on my resume.
>
> Adobe has the same program. You can download fully function
> trial versions and learn the program. Check Amazon where you can
> get a good tutorial book and download and learn.
> Joanne
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