Last Friday's unemployment numbers coming in at 10.2% should have been the stake in the heart of calls for more stimulus spending. Didn't we commit $787 billion to spur job creation?

Thank goodness Congress didn't authorize a trillion dollars. Then we might have unemployment at 13% right now!

Unfortunately, some members of Congress are again starting to ramp up calls for another round of stimulus.

It's lucky for all of us fiscally conservative taxpayers that  Otherwise Congress might take to the skies and start dropping dollars out of planes to "help" us.

If you're confused by the difference in numbers of unemployed, the 10.2% only counts those who have looked for work in the past four weeks while the broad measure counts all unemployed and under-employed (part-time) workers who would like full-time employment. It also includes in the count discouraged workers who have given up looking.

We bring up all this pain, not to depress you or to make a political statement, but to share with all of you looking for work a little gem of information that may help you in your hunt for a job.

As the internet has taken over the job application process, rarely does a job seeker have the luxury of handing a resume to someone face to face. To apply for a job nowadays you must submit your resume to the company online, a faceless, personality-less piece of data.

This makes it virtually (no pun intended) impossible to stand out from the crowd.

To complicate your search further, often no human hands ever come in contact with that resume. Instead a computer program "reads" it and then spits out the resumes "fit for human consumption" to H & R workers.

To make sure your resume gets "spit out" in the right direction, here's how to tilt the virtual playing field in your direction.

- Customize EVERY resume you post on line to the EXACT job for which you're applying. One resume fits all no longer works.

- Use the words and terms found IN THE AD. Those computer programs search for those keywords when making the choice of which resumes will be seen by humans.

Just getting your resume seen by a human being is huge in this high-unemployment environment. And the only way you'll be able to dazzle them with your sparkling personality is if you're asked to come in for a face to face!

Go get ‘em!

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