Word: skim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most resumes are read in one of two ways. In the first scenario, a person reads through one or a stack of several hundred resumes. Most readers read twice. They skim the resume seeking to understand the nature of your experience and how it might have the potential to meet their needs. Then they go back, seeking more depth which will establish the connection between their needs and you. In the second scenario, the resume is "skim-read" by computer. It is actually assessed through a keyword search. Specific qualifications, skills, traits, or languages listed in the position description...
...Morgan program held last night in the Charles Hotel's thirdfloor ballroom was the convocation of this year's recruiting process. Later in the week and throughout the fall, financial-service institutions will be lining up to skim the best and brightest from the Class...
Crouched in the undergrowth around the village of Samaki in northern Cambodia are several dozen men wearing protective vests and visors, looking like alien invaders. They skim the ground in front of them with metal detectors, and occasionally one raises an arm, a whistle is blown, and everyone moves back carefully. The land mine just discovered is detonated remotely, an explosion jogs the ground, and the field officer gives the all-clear. Then the Cambodians, who work for a British-based de-mining organization called Halo Trust, resume methodically clearing the heavily mined land around the village, one square foot...
...philosophy to be rather thin, and eventually turned to banking. In 1956 he moved to the U.S. By the end of the '60s he had delved into the obscure discipline of arbitrage--a branch of financial physics that involves buying and selling securities in different markets in order to skim profits off the transactions. He discovered that a lot of money was to be made by moving money around the world to profit on the rise and fall of currencies...
...disgustingly healthy sight of all those UPS workers being active again. Not to mention the trim Mir cosmonauts and their astronautical acrobatics. As if to rub it in, the very first space commercial released this week in Israel featured Commander Vasily Tsibliyev downing a gooey gob of ? ugh! ? skim milk...