Does Your Résumé Pass the Six-Second Test?

I was just about to make a comment along the lines as well Kim.

Most (larger) companies I know use an automated filtering of resumes that they get from scouring online sites. They do keyword matches and then notify the screeners of potential matches. This doesn't 'weed out' resumes that are submitted to the company, but if your resume is referred to the screener by the system, they usually give it a bit more time when they look it over.

COL Randall C. Maj Kim Patterson You're both right with large firms, but not necessarily those under 500 or so employees. I was speaking from my experience as a recruiter hired by many of those firms to fill senior management level positions. We were a small to mid sized firm and not large enough to afford computer assisted screening. I'm still friends with the owner of that company and they still don't have anything but the human screener despite the advances since I was there.