In many cases these days, resumes are initially screened by software that is looking for “Key Words”. Only when the software identifies a match of key words does the resume even get to e person to review.

It’s at this point that your article is relevant, however, I must first get the software to put me on your desk.

My personal experience is that when I added a 3rd page to my resume that listed specific skills and capabilities, and some of the equipement and systems I have worked with, I started to get more responses and calls from potential employers and recruiters.

This page incorporates mostly the key words I had been seeing in job postings as requirements. As a result, apparently I started to get passed on by the software screening routines.

It has also been suggested to me that this third page could be written with a white font. This way, the screening software will still see the words, but the eventual reviewer will not be bothered with more to read.

In today’s job market it is essential to incorporate every possible method to get your resume in front of a person, and this seems to work for me.