Saturday, December 03, 2011
Resunate Is a Smart Automatic Resume Builder That Tailors Your Resume To the Job
LifeHacker: The best resumes are strategically tweaked to precisely match the job description, which means making multiple resumes for the multiple jobs you apply for. Resunate takes the hassle out of tailoring your resume, quickly creating focused, job-specific resumes.
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Resunate accounts are offered free to all Pitt business students, so I took a crack at it with a theatrical resume and a Stage Management job posting from Disney World (since I figured they'd be one of the most likely companies to use similar keyword software). Suffice it to say, the system didn't handle it too well. The program is built with modules, so trying to fill those with tons of independent projects makes your work experience seem erratic to the computer, leading to Match scores of 2-3. The system's AutoFocus chose to drop projects from the resume rather than reformatting, which would have been appropriate with a list of 15 skills and qualifications. Although I plan to test out the system again when I write a "real person" resume out of my experience, this system simply isn't fit to evaluate the peculiarities of the theatrical resume.
I'm a bit mistrustful of any product that offers to "auto" anything as important as a resume. Computers and the algorithms they use, though getting increasingly more "intelligent," can only do what they are programmed to do, so while those programs are certainly getting more advanced every day, I still believe that I'll be able to format a resume more cohesively and more successfully than a system of equations.
This tool seems like a great tool for people that are trying to get a job and apply for a lot of jobs but it seems somewhat expensive for people that are applying for jobs. I just wonder how well it works for theater people. I am sure that this is set up for people that are applying for jobs in big business. I would love to try this and see how it works. One other thing, in the theater world you resume is a lot of the way it looks and the style that you present it, this may not work here. The way that theater people lay out their resume is unique to the way that we work. I hope that people find this program and get lots of jobs from it.
Oh dear Lord. Great, I am glad that this automated system can tweak my resume based on a series of words important to a company that I may be sending it to. But this computer software may not know that I worked with the best friend of the employer at another gig, and may leave that resume credit off. So, unfortunately to say, it won't be much help because it doesn't have a brain and can't make connections that aren't directly written into its code. I just also don't know why you would pay for this kind of service. It seems like a major cop-out, and an extremely lazy fall-back. If you actually care about a job that you are applying to, I would hope that you would take the few hours it takes to compile your application, and submit something that you are truly happy with and that puts you in the light that you want to be seen in.
This tool is ridiculous!
I do not understand why someone would (or even would want to) have their resume "auto-tailored" to a specific job. Especially in our field. So much of the resume is about formatting it to present the most pertinent information that to leave this up to a computer who has no way of knowing either the applicant or the employer and any personal or professional relationship they may have.
I'll stick to writing my own resume, thank you very much. While this system might be useful as a starting point for creating resumes or for someone who is making a resume for the first time, I don't think it can accurately represent you in that document any better than you can yourself. It's better to just create your own resume, and tailor it as you need to for various jobs. Computers have made that easier already with the ease of changing certain details in resume, there is no need for a program (let alone one you have to pay for) to replace what you can do on your own, and what you can do probably much better than it can
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