More Resume Trickery!

BOSTON, MA - Today I was looking for a resume with the following keywords:

coremetrics omniture SAS analytics decision store applications research merchandising behavioral usability “user experience” abandons consumer content agency multichannel dashboard statistics mining segmentation email testing

And glory be!  After reviewing roughly 200 resumes, I found a guy who's introductory "Experience" paragraph included nearly every one of these terms.  Yet just before I bookmarked it (meaning that the resume had made the all-important first cut in my search process), I glanced down into the resume's body to see that only THREE of those terms actually appeared in the candidate's detailed work history.  He had keyword stuffed the rest.  >delete!!<

One bad apple and now I have to have a stupid policy:  From now on, the only part of a resume I will review in the first ten seconds is the actual work history section, the part that can be -- and will be -- verified later by your references.
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