Get the Edge: Using Buzzwords in Your Resume

AOL Jobs Contributor
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CareerBuilder.com

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Wouldn't it be great if you could sprinkle a few magic words into your résumé that would miraculously catapult it to the top of the heap in an interviewer's office? No hocus pocus is needed -- adding certain "buzzwords" or keywords to your résumé could do just that.

How résumés are being distributed and retrieved is changing the way they are prepared. Today, a resume often has two audiences:

  • The traditional interviewer who will read the actual paper copy of your résumé, and

  • The high-speed résumé scanner or online posting site that flags particular résumé2 for the interviewer to review based on specified search requirements.


With this in mind, you must cater to both audiences -- the autonomous and the automated -- and showcase your experience in a way that gets you noticed by both.

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