Two of my recent companies have preferentially looked for old guys.

A different one, based in New York screamed in fear, until they found out that they didn't have to buy me health insurance. They literally didn't know that the entire rest of the world doesn't soak the employer (;-))

I figure I win about as much as I lose in the recruiting sweepstakes.

--dave

Have you considered that you may have been tagged as an old white guy.


On 2024-12-17 12:42, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote:

I have a little section called "keywords" at the very bottom of my resume, for the convenience of the scanners we used at zylog, who owned brainhunter.

--dave

On 12/17/24 11:13, William Park via talk wrote:

Yeah, hard part is getting past the scanner.  They have so many applications.  They aren't going to read them all.

I include both cover letter and resume in one PDF in my application. Cover letter is where I use the same/similar keywords as in the job posts.  Resume is pretty much static.

You have to get the a human being.  Eg. You see "robotic" a lot. But, if you really drill down, you have "local" robotic task, and you have "external" integration with outside system.  So, a human being will be looking for fundamentals, like network skills, reading/writing API, server/client expertise, etc.  But, a scanner will be looking for robotic vision, machine learning, AI, etc.

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David Collier-Brown,         | Always do right. This will gratify
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davecb@spamcop.net           |              -- Mark Twain