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A CV tip

Started by paulmwatson · 11 months ago

If you are applying for a programming job don’t explain what the acronyms in your CV stand for. Seriously, I feel belittled reading “I have experience in JSP (Java Server Pages) and ASP (Active Server Pages.)” If I don’t know what JSP or ASP stands for then applying for a job with me isn’t going [...] ... Continue reading »

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Brian Delahunty
2 years ago

I think a lot of people do this (I see it here also) because in this day and age you just don't know if a real person will see your CV or not and it's generally good to have keywords in the CV that non-techy recruiters/hr people would look for.

Does get a bit annoying though.

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