> >Most of the time, the resume goes first to the HR guy, who 
> really is so
> >dumb.  That is kind of one of the problems.  
> >--McD
> 
> I think it's a good idea to put the buzzwords in a blurb at 
> the top, and
> the "meat" can go in the accomplishments section...
> Spehro Pefhany --"it's the network..."         

In a large company, all the resumes in the 'pile' will be scanned for
keywords and only those with matching keywords will be forwarded to the
hiring managers for closer inspection.  Your keyword section should
contain all your appropriate acronyms, *and* their full text expansion.


Once we were specifically looking for someone with DSP experience, and
HR wasn't coming up with any good candidates.  When we started looking
at the same files ourselves, we found a guy who practically wrote the
DSP book, only on his resume, he had always said "Digital Signal
Processing", never "DSP".  HR had never connected the two.

Gary Crowell
Micron Technology

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