So, one of the problems with job hunting is hitting obstacles...lots of them. The biggest one is not getting responses from the people you apply to. Government jobs, with the security clearances and bureaucracy involved, seem to take longer than most. It is here I find myself at this point. Now, while I started the blog a week ago or so, I have been searching for work for about a month. I filed several resumes to the government (USN predominantly) and am now about to start reapplying for positions.
This is the frustrating part of being unemployed...not getting the callbacks. And I know more of why it happens to more people theses days. It goes a little something like this:
- You submit a resume electronically
- Their computer scans it for specific keywords and then rates it according to those keywords.
- If you don't have many, you disappear
So the trick now is to tool your resume to have the keywords that each individual job wants. How whacked out is that? You could have the credentials to do the job perfectly and the experience to excel at it but if your resume isn't playing the same game as their scanning, you're hosed! I find this both exciting and irritating. Both? Yes, on the one hand we have the technology to do an optical scan and pick out words exceptionally well but on the other it weeds out potentially good applicants from even getting face to face with a person. Ahhhh well...one more thing to learn while I am collecting unemployment I suppose ...
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