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Old 29th Jan 2008, 11:15
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c130jbloke
 
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Got this tip from my CTW (cheers Jez):

When uploading an electronic CV, take a good look at the advert and pick out the key words within. Write just the words and any other adjectives you can think of, for example:

Decisive leadership manager experience excellence expertise specialist conversant understanding familiar sound knowledge responsibility conversant comfortable conducting bigbrains etc etc

Then reduce that paragraph to the smallest font you can and change the colour to white. That way, you cannot see it when the CV is printed and it does not bugger up the layout. However, if the employer is using keyword recognition software their IT will "see" the keywords and "accept" your CV. Also, your CV then stands out a little bit, "how did this CV get through if the "key" buzz words are not evident?
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