彭蒙惠英语：Job Hunting in the 21st Century Goes High-Tech

Job Hunting in the 21st Century Goes High-Tech¹

 

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Don’t rely on e-mail alone. “Some company networks are flat-out deleting e -mails that have attachments,” says Kevin Donlin, president of Guaranteed Resumés. This “gives you a perfect excuse to call the employer.” Make the call brief, along the lines of “since e-mail is not entirely² reliable, I just wanted to call to make sure you got the resumé I sent,” he says.

 

Get to know ASCII. If you don’t know already, figure out how to save your resumé in ASCII format³, which is the plain text version that employers increasingly require.

 

Do a test run before sending it. “You want to save it as plain text and open it again using your text editor,” Donlin says. For instance, if it replaced all your bullets with question marks, replace them with asterisks⁴.

 

Include keywords in your ASCII resumé to ensure your resumé pops up when hiring managers search resumé databases. To figure out which keywords to use, “you want to reverse-engineer job postings,” Donlin says. “Take the relevant keywords and put them into your ASCII resumé.”

 

Find a proofreader. Often job seekers trust their own eyes—without realizing what they’re missing. “Send the resumé to three friends,” Donlin says. “Ask them: ‘What’s your first impression? Do you see any mistakes? Would you call me?’ You’re getting free proofreading⁵, but you’re also networking at this point. Now your resumé is in the hands of three other people.”

 

Get someone in the company to refer you. “Thirty to 60 percent of employees in most companies in the U.S. get hired by employee referral,” Mehler says.

 

Donlin agrees: “There’s no need for a resumé if you’ve been doing your networking properly. A job can be created for you. The key is to try to short-circuit the whole hiring process by getting into the hiring manager’s mind before he places a want ad.”

 

Vocabulary Focus

along the lines of (idiom) in a similar way

test run (n phr) a practical exercise with something new or unknown to discover its effectiveness

network (v) [5netwE:k] to communicate with people who might be useful to know, especially in one’s job

short-circuit (v) [FC:t5sE:kit] to use a quicker and more direct way to accomplish something

 

Specialized⁶ Terms

plain text (n phr) 纯文字 a generic⁷, text-only computer file format that can be read by almost any computer program, useful for text that does not need any special formatting⁸

text editor (n phr) 文字编辑器 any word processing program that one can use to type, as well as cut, add and arrange text

keyword (n) 关键词 a term entered into the search field of an online library catalog, database, electronic index, or Web search site

reverse-engineer (v) 追溯，逆向或还原操作 to analyze⁹ an existing system to identify its components¹⁰ and how it works, possibly to create representations of the system in another form

 

21世纪的高科技求职工具

 

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不可完全依赖电子邮件。凯文·唐林是网络简历撰写公司 Guaranteed Resumes 的总裁。他说：“有些公司网络会直接删除含有附件的电子邮件。如此一来，你便有借口打电话给该公司了。”他说，打电话时尽量长话短说，大致只要说“因为电子邮件并不完全可靠，我只想确认你收到我寄的履历表”。

学会如何使用 ASCII（即 American Standard Code for Information Interchange，美国信息交换标准码）。你若还不会，设法了解如何将履历表以 ASCII 格式存盘。ASCII 是愈来愈多雇主逐渐要求的纯文本格式。

履历表送出前先测试一下。唐林说：“最好将档案存成纯文本，之后再用文字处理软件开启。”若文字处理软件将所有项目符号取代成问号，则你必须将它们换成星号。

在你的 ASCII 履历表中键入关键词，以确保当征才经理搜索履历表数据库时，搜索结果可显示你的履历表。若想知道应使用哪些关键词，“你必须追溯参考征才广告”，唐林说：“将广告中的相关关键词，键入你的 ASCII 履历表中。”

找人帮忙校对。求职者通常会相信自己的双眼，而不了解自己可能有所疏忽。唐林说：“将履历表寄给3位朋友看，问他们‘第一印象如何？发现错误了吗？你会回电吗？’这样你不仅可获得免费校对，同时也建立人际网络。现在已经有3人拥有你的履历表了。”

请公司内部员工介绍。梅勒说：“在多数美国公司里，30%~60%的员工都是经由其它员工介绍而来的。

唐林同意说：“你若人际网络建立良好，就不需要履历表。公司可以为你创造一份工作。重点是在整个征聘过程中走快捷方式，在征才经理刊登广告之前，就在他的脑海中留下印象。”

 

1 high-tech   

adj.高科技的

参考例句：

• The economy is in the upswing which makes high-tech services in more demand too.经济在蓬勃发展，这就使对高科技服务的需求量也在加大。
• The quest of a cure for disease with high-tech has never ceased. 人们希望运用高科技治疗疾病的追求从未停止过。

2 entirely   

ad.全部地，完整地；完全地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
• His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。

3 format   

n.设计，版式；[计算机]格式，DOS命令:格式化(磁盘)，用于空盘或使用过的磁盘建立新空盘来存储数据；v.使格式化，设计，安排

参考例句：

• Please format this floppy disc.请将这张软盘格式化。
• The format of the figure is very tasteful.该图表的格式很雅致。

4 asterisks   

n.星号，星状物( asterisk的名词复数 )v.加星号于( asterisk的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• He skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details. 他曲解事实，给你一些下流的细节内容。 来自互联网
• Make lists with dashes, asterisks, or bullets if you use HTML email. 如果你写的是HTML格式的邮件，用破折号、星号和子弹号立出清单。 来自互联网

5 proofreading   

校对，校勘( proofread的现在分词 )； 做校对工作； 校读

参考例句：

• Martha, when can you finish proofreading the script? 玛莎，你什么时候可以校对完剧本？ 来自轻松英语会话---联想3000词(上)
• Attention, an important factor in editing and proofreading, affects editing quality directly. 注意力是编校过程中重要的心理因素，直接影响编辑质量。

6 specialized   

adj.专门的，专业化的

参考例句：

• There are many specialized agencies in the United Nations.联合国有许多专门机构。
• These tools are very specialized.这些是专用工具。

7 generic   

adj.一般的，普通的，共有的

参考例句：

• I usually buy generic clothes instead of name brands.我通常买普通的衣服，不买名牌。
• The generic woman appears to have an extraordinary faculty for swallowing the individual.一般妇女在婚后似乎有特别突出的抑制个性的能力。

8 formatting   

n.格式化v.使格式化( format的现在分词 )；规定…的格式（或形状、大小、比例等）；安排…的格局（或规格）；设计…的版面

参考例句：

• Select the block of text and-click and choose Default Formatting. 选择目标文字块，点击鼠标右键，选择默认格式。 来自互联网
• There are emerging conventions about the content and formatting of documentation strings. 这里介绍文档字符串的概念和格式。 来自互联网

9 analyze   

vt.分析，解析 (=analyse)

参考例句：

• We should analyze the cause and effect of this event.我们应该分析这场事变的因果。
• The teacher tried to analyze the cause of our failure.老师设法分析我们失败的原因。

10 components   

（机器、设备等的）构成要素，零件，成分； 成分( component的名词复数 )； [物理化学]组分； [数学]分量； （混合物的）组成部分

参考例句：

• the components of a machine 机器部件
• Our chemistry teacher often reduces a compound to its components in lab. 在实验室中化学老师常把化合物分解为各种成分。