How to make your CV more readable to… machines

How to make a CV more readable to… machines

Drawing up a curriculum vitae or professional curriculum vitae or writing a motivational or presentation letter capable of making a difference is not easy

It goes without saying that the more the economy experiences moments of contraction, the more companies will be inclined to carry out individual layoffs or personnel reductions. Paradoxically, on the flip side of this phenomenon, this means that companies will be increasingly overwhelmed by requests for employment from people looking for a new job.

If an employer nevertheless finds itself in the need to acquire new human resources, despite these negative circumstances, or if an employment agency has to scrutinize a large number of CVs and letters in a small unit of time, what criteria will it adopt?

Few people know, but it can easily be guessed, that the initial process of selecting curriculum vitae or professional curriculum vitae and cover or motivational letters is entrusted to scanners, monitored by computers, responsible both for storing the data contained in the writings for archiving purposes, and to carry out an initial compliance check.

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The selection actually entrusted to a robot rather than to human resources

Not a human eye will read the documentation initially.

A purely technical trick to "fool" the machines, an activity in which younger candidates could excel as digital natives, could certainly be to insert in the text of the CV or letter a series of keywords congruent with the mission, the values and the vision of the chosen company, as well as with their own individual skills.

These "passwords", pertaining to what the employer is looking for and what the employee is able to bring with him, should not find a place only in the "traditional way" in the curriculum or in the self-presentation.

Here's the secret: it will always be worth stuffing the document in Word format or in the PDF version with the aforementioned keywords, possibly in tiny characters, in white or even "abandoned" between one line and another of the clear text.

A kind of "coded message", similar to those that in ancient times were written with lemon juice and were visible through the parchment when the latter was heated to the gentle heat of a candle: a "blind ink" trick, declined, however, at the time of artificial intelligence and computers.

To the human eye of the corporate recruiter, the aggressive headhunter or the professional recruiter these characters hidden in the folds of the writing sheets will certainly escape.

However, they will not go unnoticed by the cataloging and archiving machines of potential employers or placement and recruiting agencies, which will implement an initial "promotion" or favorable screening of the worker's candidacy on the basis of these "secret messages" hidden in their correspondence ...

“Espionage could be tolerable if it could be exercised by honest people”
(Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron of La Brède and of Montesquieu)

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