Sentences with phrase «copy scannable resumes»

Sidebar: hard - copy scannable resumes are rapidly losing favor in the marketplace as databases are increasingly able to accept resumes directly from email, negating the need for someone to sit around physically scanning paper.

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«Scannable resume» refers to a hard copy document that can be successfully scanned using technology (OCR = Optical Character Recognition; developed in the 1970s) that scans the content of a paper document as a graphic image and then converts it back to text.

A scannable resume may start life as a paper resume that you can postal mail, hand deliver, or fax on a fax machine; the employer uses a scanning machine to enter a hard copy resume into a candidate database.

If you are applying to a job bank or a medium to large - sized corporation or company, you must have a scannable copy of your resume.