Re: Creative resumes

Subject: Re: Creative resumes
From: Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 09:07:29 -0700

At 01:38 PM 7/25/97 -0700, John Wilcox wrote:

>Sorry, Geoff, but many companies these days are actually requiring
>standard paper -- copier stock -- no colors or textures. This is
>because they don't have an "HR geek" looking at them at all. They just
>do the OCR thing and then scan for keywords. If you were to submit a
>"pretty" resume as you described, it would be liable to have the exact
>opposite of the desired effect.
>
Hell, email them ASCII and save them the trouble of scanning.

--Wayne
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