On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:35:38AM +0000, Nigel Hamilton wrote: > Unfortunately some agents do a naive acronym match, between job spec and > your CV. > > Because they often can't discriminate between the important acronyms and > the less important ... they often wait until they find a CV that is fully > 'acronym compliant.' > > Which is also, scarily, how their CV databases do information retrieval - > and unfortunately the acronym count helps the order in which CVs are > displayed. > > I hope that their CV databases weed out CV's that contain acronym > 'payloads' hidden in whitespace, headers and footers. For example, > <snip>
Don't laugh. One agency told me my CV wasn't acecptable, and that I needed to send it back with more buzzwords in it. The agent then listed off a long list of them as examples to be spread throughout. -Toby -- Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
