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> First, you need to understand how a hiring manager approaches an interview.

I stopped reading there. Does the author know before your resume even gets to an interviewer that it will go through keyword screening software then be reviewed by HR and binned, all long before a hiring manager sees it?



I've worked at dozens of companies, startups and big tech, none of them used keyword screening, none of them got reviewed first by HR. I'm sure it happens at some places but certainly it's not 100%.


Those must be some crazy out of the way employers.


I can honestly say that I have never once worried about keyword screening software. I don’t blindly submit my resume.

But even if that’s the case, I’m still going to use keywords as part of the narrative.

“Using <technology> accomplished <result>”


On my resume, I use English descriptions of what I did to develop business-level features. At the end is "Keywords: Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform" for the keyword screening software.

A human can see I learned different tech for each job, and other tech has been mastered and is re-used over the years.




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