The automated systems are well equipped to meet a heightened demand for very specific kinds of applicants, and they offer the capacity to compare them at a glance. It was not always thus. In the past, employers had to manually sort through stacks and stacks of paper resumes. Even the most qualified applicants didn't always get invited in for personal inspection because some of their qualifications were overlooked. Good resumes may have gone untouched simply because they were too far down in the pile.
Computers take their work very seriously.
Our guide is for people who do not intend to get left behind in the wake of the new technology that is changing how resumes wend their way through corporate America today. As we frankly admit in our companion book, Electronic Job Search Revolution, which gives you the big picture of how the nation's employment processes are changing, we are not gifted in technical areas. Ultimately, this may be for the best because we don't know enough about the workings of technology to get too carried away with it. Our interest is in how the technology affects the chances of your resume winning you a job interview, and how to improve your odds. We tell you what you need to understand about producing a new kind of resume that can lick any computer and survive to be read by human eyes.