New-wave recruitment: Is your resume ready to be read by computer?

BOULDER — Job seekers, pay attention: Many employers now use electronic resume readers.

What that means is if you send your resume to a company, a computer might look at it before a human being does.

How it works: Using special software, a company creates a standard job description. When the job becomes available, people in the company can emphasize certain things in the description, calling on the computer to match words in the description with words on resumes. Next, resumes are scanned into a system where they undergo an extraction…