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Spekkio

He bowls overhand.
That's all well and good, but you usually have to start somewhere in an industry before you can build professional connections.
 

jmcquate

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I was recruited for my current position at one of the world's premier research organizations purely from my resume on Linkedin. I didn't even apply. It is still done with resumes.
 

707guy

"You can't make this shit up..."
That's all well and good, but you usually have to start somewhere in an industry before you can build professional connections.

True - but networking is another reason to keep in touch with some of those old college buddies and others who may have left the Navy and gone into the field you're looking at.

I was recruited for my current position at one of the world's premier research organizations purely from my resume on Linkedin. I didn't even apply. It is still done with resumes.

Sure resumes are still used - but if they're not carefully crafted with the right key words they don't make it past the initial screen.

I don't agree with the computer screening btw - just saying that is where we're at with job recruiting in this digital age.
 

exNavyOffRec

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Networking is the key to getting hired. It is about who you know and who they know that can get your foot in the door. Resumes are nice and needed but the key is finding someone on the "inside" to get your name in front of the right people. Also I believe most large companies are using software to screen resumes. It doesn't even get to a human unless you have certain key words in your resume.

Computer screenings are going away rapidly, I work at a fortune 50 company and I have friends that work at other Fortune 50 or 100 companies, none use computer screenings anymore, it is too easy to figure out the key words and phrases and trick the system, my neighbor who is a hiring mgr at a big company said the computer screening added countless hours to the next step because he would find people that would get the key words but didn't actually have the needed background, then per policy they had to request all the resume's, so then he was digging through tons of resumes not doing his actual job.

I actually haven't run into any recruiters at career fairs in the past few years who work at companies that use computer screenings anymore, but I know there are some out there still.
 

707guy

"You can't make this shit up..."
Computer screenings are going away rapidly, I work at a fortune 50 company and I have friends that work at other Fortune 50 or 100 companies, none use computer screenings anymore, it is too easy to figure out the key words and phrases and trick the system, my neighbor who is a hiring mgr at a big company said the computer screening added countless hours to the next step because he would find people that would get the key words but didn't actually have the needed background, then per policy they had to request all the resume's, so then he was digging through tons of resumes not doing his actual job.

I actually haven't run into any recruiters at career fairs in the past few years who work at companies that use computer screenings anymore, but I know there are some out there still.

Well that's good to hear - didn't think that was a good way to do business in the first place.
 
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