Resume Writing Tips & Free Resume Examples

A scannable resume is a resume that a recipient, usually a clerk in an employment office, scans into a computer as an image. Because computers read resumes differently than people do, you have to follow certain inconvenient rules, which I describe in this section, to be fairly sure that your scannable resume will be read as you intended.
After an employer has your scannable resume, computer software extracts from it a summary of basic information, pulling out factors like your name, contact info, skills, work history, years of experience, and your education.
Scanned resumes and their extracted summaries sleep peacefully until an HR specialist or recruiter searches the summaries by keywords to retrieve candidates who match the requirements of a job opening. The technology ranks candidates, from the most qualified to the least qualified. The relevant resumes get a wake-up call and pop to the recruiting screen, where human eyes take over the recruiting tasks. Today, Recruiters now prefer the newer intake systems that allow resumes to travel smoothly online and move straight into an electronic resume-management database without the need to conform to scanning rules.