Writing for the robot: How employer search tools have influenced résumé rhetoric and ethics

Business Communication Quarterly

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-60

  Amare, Nicole ^a   Manning, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Job searching; Keyword; R sum ; Searchbot; Textbook instruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 59449097804     PISSN: 10805699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1080569908330383     Document Type: Article

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