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I've considered making a resume where the first half of the first page is just a paragraph filled with as many high-profile buzzwords as possible. I'm still curios to see what would happen.


The real trick is to put this in the footer of the resume in size 1pt font. When you print off or look @ your resume it is pretty much not visible. But, you can kick resume scanning software in the face, hi-ya!


+ Set the font colour to white!


So simple! How did I not think of this? Cheers mate!


I've seen CVs that literally have most of a page filled with buzz words and acronyms - pretty much SEO for whatever tools recruiters use to search.

Unfortunately, candidates who take this kind of approach seem to list a lot of technologies they have only heard of or been in the same room as. If someone lists a technology in their CV I do rather expect them to know what it is and what it is generally used for and good and bad points.


I did have a buzzwords section in my last resume exactly like you mentioned. Me and the people that interviewed me for the company I currently work for had a good laugh about it.




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