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12 things you NEED to know. Writing a résumé is a task that every job seeker needs to undertake, but it can be difficult condensing your life down to two pages. Writing a Web résumé is even tougher. Heres how to create a document that will put everyone on the same Web page. Whats in Your Résumé? 1. Think Nouns, not Verbs. Career counselors used to advise job seekers to pepper their résumés with action verbs that would impress personnel managers who scan résumés with their eyeballs. Web résumés also get scanned but today a machine which is without emotional responses to verbs scans them. When a position opens within the company, personnel staff uses software that searches through résumés for words that signal job titles, technical skills, and levels of education or experience. Most of those words are nouns. 2. Think Buzzwords. The more buzzwords, the better. Career counselors also used to advise clients to avoid buzzwords in their résumés. To have a successful web resume, buzzwords are necessary. Applicant-tracking systems rank résumés by the number of keywords in them. If a company is looking for a clerk with experience in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Simply Accounting, it can rank résumés according to which ones include all three programs, which have two of them, and so on. Turn your experience into keywords, urges Margaret Riley Dikel, co-author of The Guide to Internet Job Searching and maximize the number of them in your résumé. 3. Personal Attributes. Dont forget to describe your personality and attitude. Just because most résumé searches are computerized doesnt mean that companies dont search for human qualities. A tracking system can identify behavioral traits - dependability, responsibility, and a high energy level - as easily as it can technical skills. Be enthusiastic, says Yana Parker, author of Damn Good Resume Guide. Let your passion show. Dont use tired language. 4. Personal Home Pages should be ALL Business. Like many job seekers, you ma