2) Get your resume in order, yesterday. Make sure it's up to date with everything that employers like to see. Consider building multiple resumes for different sorts of jobs (depends on your outgoing budget, but you don't want problem-solving on a fast-food application, and you don't want unthinking adherence to authority on a managerial position).
The Secret to Resumes and passing the bullshit auto filters is to take the job posting with the key words and paste it into your resume at the bottom. then manually change the size to 1. you will not be able to see it but when it is scanned through, the auto filters will pick it up. you can play with the sizes and watch how small they really get, size 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. A paragraph looks like a small dot at size 1.
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