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Resume Miners has partnered with ResumeEdge.com the internet's leading portal of resume writing services to provide you with the most comprehensive free resume center on the internet. In this section you will learn how to design a scanable resume. In this section you will learn what happens to your resume when a company receives it.

Understanding the Technology

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When your paper resume is received by a human resource department that uses a computerized applicant tracking system, your resume must first be transferred from paper into binary information that a computer can read before it can be stored in the resume database. This is accomplished with a scanner that is connected to a computer running a special kind of software that can examine the dots of ink on your printed page and determine by their shapes which letters they represent. This is called optical character recognition, or OCR for short. This software matches patterns with sets of characters stored in its memory, which is one of the reasons why it is important to choose a type style (or font) for your resume that conforms to normal letter shapes. If you use a highly decorative type style, the OCR software will have difficulty making matches and will misinterpret letters. This means your words won't be spelled correctly, which of course means that a keyword search for the word bookkeeping will never turn up your resume if the OCR thought you typed bmkkeepmg.

For now, let's assume that you have designed a resume that the scanner can read. First, depending on the company's procedures, your resume will be received directly by the recruiter assigned to fill a certain position (if the job was advertised) or by the human resource department in general (if you have sent your resume unsolicited).