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How to beat tech screening in job applications

Filling out an electronic job application isn’t as easy a way to get a job as technology makes it look. First you have to get past the initial online screening process.

And remember, it’s usually not a human being who does the initial screening. Increasingly it’s a computer program that rules you in — or out.

"It looks easy to apply for a job on the Internet, so employers get hundreds of applicants for one job," said Kevin Marasco, director of marketing for Recruitmax Inc., a Jacksonville, Fla.-based provider of technology and services for hiring and workforce management.

"Because employers get so many responses, they prescreen by filtering the answers," Marasco said.

By Carol Kleiman, Chicago Tribune

Full Story:http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/business_columnists/article/0,1713,BDC_2466_4123612,00.html

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