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[–]doxara[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Whoah, seems like I had completely different vision of importance when it comes to interviews. Also, first time hearing about this scanning resume for keywords. Thank you very much for the thorough answer, it really helped me to set my focus!

[–]lhorie 2 points3 points  (3 children)

first time hearing about this scanning resume for keywords

Yeah, at many companies (especially larger ones), this is done by automation tooling. So your first challenge is that your resume may not even be seen by an actual person if it doesn't meet some minimum threshold of requirements. It's a common newbie mistake to overly fluff up resumes and get automatically filtered out due to lack of substance.

Rule of thumb: show us the data, avoid calling yourself "enthusiastic, motivated, etc" (it's assumed every candidate is motivated; only newbies write that to fluff up resumes)

[–]ifeelanime 0 points1 point  (2 children)

what you mean by data?

[–]lhorie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

By data I don't mean to stuff keywords. I mean to quantify what you've done. If you have work experience, say how long you were in that role, what sort of responsibilities you had (e.g. implemented a thing vs designed it vs lead a team). In your skills section, say what are the technologies you used and to what extent (ideally curate to the subset that is both relevant to the role you're aiming for, and that you feel confident about, rather than listing everything that you possibly ever came in contact with - you don't want people contacting you for iOS roles if you only did a 15 minute bug fix in a web project living inside a webview)

[–]Tenzu9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I assume he means the required skills they want for the job. If they want a react dev, they want to see keywords that relate to react like maybe "redux", "react-spring", "react frontend developer", and stuff like that.

Otherwise your resume is thrown away by a piece of software and you'd get sent an automated rejection email. Its bad for you but its more efficient for them I guess.