oh, and

[rone]

Google sent e-mail this morning regretfully turning me down, because it turned out that my skillset and experience didn't fit the job req.  This, of course, after phone and in-person interviews.  DERE GOOGUL: U R TEH LOL

Anyway, it looks like the job probably went to a more worthy candidate, and i already have a job, so it's all good.

Comments

[frosch.livejournal.com]

I've gained quite a bit of exposure over the last couple of years to the modern art of processing resumes. Suffice to say that practically no one actually reads resumes themselves any more; they read the output of automatic resume preprocessors that cherrypick keywords. The more keywords in your resume, the more qualified you are.

It goes without saying (or should, although I guess I'm saying it) that someone with long years of reasonably diverse experience is going to have a lot of keywords, and is going to rank highly on a relatively larger percentage of the available requisitions.

God help you if you have language in your resume saying "I have NOT done the following things..."

[talus21.livejournal.com]

Actually that might work to your advantage. List eveything you haven't done, that way it pick those up as the keywords.

[frosch.livejournal.com]

and you get called for a bunch of bizarre time-wasting interviews for jobs for which you are utterly unqualified.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Hey, that already happens even when you accurately list your qualifications.