{"id":1157,"date":"2007-08-30T08:30:40","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T13:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/08\/why-i-dislike-keywords-in-ads\/"},"modified":"2007-08-30T08:33:04","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T13:33:04","slug":"why-i-dislike-keywords-in-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/08\/why-i-dislike-keywords-in-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Dislike Keywords In Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/08\/how-did-we-get-this-resume\/\">I posted on these automated response programs recently<\/a>.  Well, I just received a different promo email  for a more &#8220;automated&#8221; program:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the first time, there&#8217;s a service that finds 100&#8217;s of perfectly matched, available jobs &amp; instantly applies to them FOR YOU, every day. It&#8217;s called __________ and it automatically: searches all the top career sites at once, finds all new jobs matching your criteria, applies with your resume to matching jobs, personalizes your cover letter for each application &amp; provides a history report of jobs you&#8217;ve been applied to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Keyword-driven connections &#8211; both in the ad and the resume hunt &#8211; lead to, well, candidate spam.  At times I wonder if the attempt to automate resume submissions and applicant tracking systems dilutes the entire process.<\/p>\n<p>I know it does for sales.  We need to see the applicant&#8217;s approach, listen to his or her abilities and observe how they handle pressure.  None of these tasks can be easily accomplished with an automated approach process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted on these automated response programs recently. Well, I just received a different promo email for a more &#8220;automated&#8221; program: For the first time, there&#8217;s a service that finds 100&#8217;s of perfectly matched, available jobs &amp; instantly applies to them FOR YOU, every day. It&#8217;s called __________ and it automatically: searches all the top career sites at once, finds all new jobs matching your criteria, applies with your resume to matching jobs, personalizes your cover letter for each application &amp; provides a history report of jobs you&#8217;ve been applied to. Keyword-driven connections &#8211; both in the ad and the resume hunt &#8211; lead to, well, candidate spam. At times&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/08\/why-i-dislike-keywords-in-ads\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,16],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-iF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->