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Bar Admissions:New York, Southern District of New YorkMember, American Bar Association, New York State BarAssociationSkills:Windows, Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis,Other Litigation Software andData Management ProgramsWe expect that resume-scanning technology will continue to improvewith each passing year and, in future, your designed resume will be theone that you can upload to company databases. But for now, use the textversion to be 100% certain your information translates correctly.#9: TEST YOUR RESUME’S READABILITY FACTORWe’ve discussed how critical the first half of the first page is. That’s theacid test of your resume’s “readability factor” – a measure of how easilysomeone can scan your resume and quickly identify the most importantinformation. That’s the information that will get you noticed and give youan instant advantage over your competition.CHAPTER 5 : Designing the Professional’s Resume135