>Sanjay;
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>I agree - it seems these ads for technical personnel were written by Martians! The problem is you often have to go through the same person who wrote the ad through telephone conversation before "going to the next step". They also review your resume.
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>Here is a well known fact in Silicon Valley, which began about 11 years ago. A job will be posted in the news paper for a technical position. People will send in his/her resume. A scanner and software is used to check each resume and the following is accomplished:
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>1. Check key words
>2. Check font size
>3. Check font type
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>If the “corporate standard” has not been met – your resume is not accepted. We had the head of Sun Microsystems tell us this. They would get an average of 4000 resumes for one position. The advice we received was this: If you have a friend working at a large corporation in Silicon valley – have them check into whether or not this practice is used and find out the standards. This will improve your odds of getting an interview. There are many forms of this software in popular use by major companies. I am sure this is not limited to Silicon valley.
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>If you do get an interview then the fun begins! Now for .COM companies nothing like this was required. You only had to be a warm body and that qualified you. So in our area there are many “standards” in use to prohibit an individual from getting an interview while at the same time there may be “no” standard. We have it all!
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>Tom

Tom,

These 'keyword' search engines are notorious for the fact that they are only capable of searching uni-dimensional patterns. To have a true 'language search' engine (search for the Holy Grail?) would require the engine to recognise language context and meaning, and thereby evolve semantically.

Since we don't have that Rosetta stone as yet, does that mean that our ubiquitous simian will get an interview in the Silicon Valley having got a friend to find out prevailing standards in an organisation?