How does your résumé read?
Before a person sees it, something automated usually does, and it reads for keywords rather than for sentences. Paste yours below and see which lines it could take differently from the way you wrote them.
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The three things it looks for
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A qualification still in progress
“MBA Candidate” is honest writing. A parser that keeps the qualification and drops the word next to it stores an MBA.
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Two credentials written as one
“Series 6/7”, “RN/LPN”, “CPA/CFA”: each is one phrase and gets read as one thing, in any field. Forms work the same way: a combined checkbox goes on or off as a single piece.
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A credential that belongs to the sentence, not to you
Coaching people through an exam, or quoting what a job asked for, puts the name of a credential in a line that never claimed it.
What it is not
- It checks nothing about you. No records are looked up, because there are none to look up. Only the school or the board that issued a qualification knows who holds it.
- It reads wording. Every line it returns is a remark about a sentence you wrote, and you are the one who knows whether the sentence is right.
- Quiet is not a verdict. If it finds nothing, that means these three patterns did not appear. It is not a review of the résumé.
- It may point at a line that is perfectly fine. Then you have lost five seconds, which is the trade it is built around.