The Electronic Job Search: Implications for Employers and Applicants  

Two different technologies seem to be colliding head-on as job seekers and employers attempt to improve their effectiveness in matching candidate with position. Job seekers dress up their resumes with different typefaces, type sizes, and other typographical treatments; and employers utilize scanning devices to enter resumes into huge corporate resume-management databases. But are today's scanners capable of reading all the font variations? And do the databases really achieve the results the employers are seeking?

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