On Oct 27, 2005, at 3:12 PM, Vitaliy wrote:
>
>> Most of the time, the resume goes first to the HR guy, who really is 
>> so
>> dumb.

>> If the resume escapes the HR guy's shredder, then it will most likely 
>> WILL go to someone who has a clue.  So you need to provide enough of 
>> the appropriate buzzwords to get to get past the HR guy, but not so 
>> much as to turn off the technical guy (who very likely has as much 
>> patience for bull as Olin, if not less).
>

> Where do you get this information?

That sounds typical to me, for a medium to large size company.
ALWAYS try to get past the first-level HR people, whether that's
by finding a contact directly in engineering, or at least the HR
person who deals directly with engineering (not ALL HR people
are clueless, but HR departments tend to be collectively clueless.)
(It follows that it is much better to send in a resume specifically
mentioning a particular job advertisement than to send one in blind.)

You don't so much want to AVOID buzzwords, as to make sure that they
appear in their correct context and make sense...

BillW

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