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New cyber-rules for resume writing
By Randy Woods
NWjobs

You think you know everything there is to know about resume writing?
Fuh-gedd-aboud-it, says Paul Anderson, a career and psychology expert with Kirkland-based ProLango Consulting. “The algorithm for resumes has changed significantly, even since last October,” he says.

The most noteworthy shift since the economic meltdown began last fall is that most people make the mistake of writing resumes for actual people. “Humans aren’t reading resumes anymore.”

Instead, they are being fed and processed to online resume software systems that are programmed to look for specific key words. If certain skill sets are not detected, the resume is summarily rejected well before an actual breathing person has a chance to read that you have an interest in photography and “work well with others.”

Anderson, who teaches free seminars on career search advice, interviewing tips and resume writing, says this online resume revolution has rewritten the basic rules of how resumes are crafted. Here are a few pointers to write for these resume software algorithms:

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