You may be assuming that a person will read your hard-copy resume when it arrives at a potential employer’s address. Instead, your resume could encounter a nonhuman “reader”: the resume scanner.
Resume scanning, although not widespread, is something you might run into, in which case you’ll need to know how to create a resume that passes the scanning test. This chapter will tell you when and how to submit a resume that’s specially prepared for the almighty scanner.
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