{"id":30831,"date":"2012-10-24T15:31:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T21:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/24\/sifting-through-resumes.html"},"modified":"2012-11-01T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T15:20:00","slug":"sifting-through-resumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/24\/sifting-through-resumes.html","title":{"rendered":"Sifting through resumes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am building a list of advice for folks who apply for IT jobs. Or at least for the IT jobs I have openings for at the moment. Unfortunately, since I am in the process of hiring same, I think I will wait until after the dust has settled. \u00a0But &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; well, <i>reading the job description and being sure your resume (and optional cover letter) actually address said job description<\/i> is an excellent start to \u00a0not having your application virtually round-filed. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/4ZMQFDJfRd4' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am building a list of advice for folks who apply for IT jobs. Or at least for the IT jobs I have openings for at the moment. Unfortunately, since I am in the process of hiring same, I think I will wait until after the dust has settled. \u00a0But &#8230; &#8230; well, reading the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/24\/sifting-through-resumes.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sifting through resumes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-job-jollies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29100,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/03\/the-job-numbers.html","url_meta":{"origin":30831,"position":0},"title":"The job numbers","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-Aug-12 11:28am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's cold comfort to those who still don't have jobs (or decent jobs), but the numbers for the recovery really aren't that awful, given where they are coming from. 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