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Thursday 18 October 2007

How to write a resume OR CV OR Vitae to be spotted by Google HR

I got a script running on this server that try to look for unusual referrers in my apache access.log, recently it found this line:

65.57.245.11 - - [xx/xx/xxxx:xx:xx:xx +0200] "GET /blog/data
/cv-maxime_biais-en.pdf HTTP/1.0" 200 54736 "http://www.googl
e.com/custom?q=intitle:(resume+OR+CV+OR+Vitae)+%22C%2B%2B%22+
%22Software+(Engineer+OR+Architect+OR+Programmer)%22+Python&h
l=en&client=pub-6116397745508461&cof=FORID:1%3BAH:left%3BCX:S
earch4Candidates%3BL:http://www.google.com/coop/images/google
_custom_search_sm.gif%3BLH:55%3BLP:1%3BGFNT:%23666666%3BDIV:%
23cccccc%3B&cx=003801465318207546779:5c5132mwnqy&adkw=AELymgW
0pVdk7NwNw7cXNIpOpKa3-mkuy3nVruyomR-uq_cmYbfti5RND-XpsliIWGfC
Ed_NEB3f--XthNt0VqWxOO4eTnZ5-Nc_XrqU_tmkWrslLS52BtRbBtRAgj_Dn
MTXeOGVw5_qjTNkBNF60wvDmXltsGdSSw&start=250&sa=N" "Mozilla/5.
0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070
914 Firefox/2.0.0.7"

So what ?:

  • The IP: 65.57.245.11 is the gateway of Google mountain view employees.
  • The referrer is a custom search engine and it searches for webpages that contains (resume OR CV OR Vitae) in title, and C++ and Python and (Software Engineer OR Architect OR Programmer) in everything.

Try the referer url.

Now, you know what to write in your resume title if you want Google HR to find you.

Jablit documentation

A small but sufficient documentation to configure, run and use jablit.

Tuesday 16 October 2007

Jablit: text mode jabber (google talk) client

I was looking for a good text mode jabber client to talk with my friends / distant co-worker. I only found centericq but I don't like the interface, so I begin to write a very small text mode client : jablit. The early first release is not documented but i'm using all day long, it's stable and perfectly fits my needs ( I hope it will fit your ;) ).