目前，很多公司在招聘员工时，会采用电子化的方式来筛选简历。应聘者的简历统一进入数据库，根据事先设定好的各类条件和信息，由计算机软件自行进行筛选。对于招聘人员来说，这一举措无疑使得招聘工作变得更简单，因为以往需要花上很长一段时间的人工完成浏览简历的工作，现在轻而易举便完成了。但与此同时，由于计算机软件设定的死板，会使一些符合条件的应聘者因为技术原因而被淘汰。
究竟使用软件来帮助筛选是利是弊呢？在听完行内人士的专业意见后，我们在了解这一问题的同时，也能得到一些非常有益的建议。
Guy Raz (Host): The unemployment rate is at its lowest point since January 2009, and this time, the size of the workforce didn’t 1)shrink, so more people are working and more people are looking for work.
And of those looking, technology may pose a slight 2)obstacle. Most big companies now use 3)screening software to 4)scan through resumes, and so it could make it even harder to catch an employer’s eye. Here’s reporter Ben Bradford with more.
Ben Bradford: It’s estimated about 90% of large companies use some form of screening software. So I asked Barbara Safani, a Manhattan career consultant, how does my resume 5)stack up against the machine.
Barbara Safani: There are a lot of things I see here that could immediately just kick it out just because the software can’t read it.
Bradford: Like what?
Safani: For example, on your resume, you have your dates of employment going across columns.
Bradford: Mm, the eye reads left to right, and it goes left to right. Apparently, this is not as great an idea as I’d hoped. It turns out, my resume has all kinds of problems. It’s a PDF; that’s harder for machines to digest. My dates are in the wrong place. My work experience goes the wrong direction, and I have this beautiful side column showing off my impressive digital skills, but because it’s not (本文来自：WwW.BdfqY.Com 千叶帆文摘:软件帮助筛选简历是利是弊？)6)offset below my job experience, the software might think it’s another job that I worked at some company called Digital Skills. Thankfully, Safani says these things are easy to fix, and that it’s not that hard to create a resume the software can read.
Safani: I think it can add a layer of complexity to the process. It’s not rocket science, though.
Bradford: Eric Lochner is an executive at [1]Kenexa, one of the biggest employment software companies. And Kenexa has some big clients: Wal-Mart, General Electric and Starbucks.
Eric Lochner: Our largest client receives over a million candidates a month. Our average client will receive anywhere between 15,000 and 40,000 candidates a month.
Bradford: Lochner says automation means companies can find quality candidates in a day where it used to take weeks. And job hunters benefit too.
Lochner: The process is so much more simplified and 7)streamlined. All of these CVs go into one database. And the CV doesn’t get put in an outbox or accidentally deleted.