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After HR has seen your resumé, what happens next depends on the firm. Your CV may be passed to a hiring manager for review. Hopefully, you are dealing with a hiring manager who has expertise relevant to your position. If they do not, they will likely do the same thing as the HR person did, and look for keywords. So the same features of your resumé will appeal to them.
If the hiring manager is technically savvy (or when it gets to a member of the technical team to review), they will dive deeply into your experience. They will care not just that you have just used version control, but that it was git, Mercurial or Subversion. They'll read the entry in the project's issue tracker when you landed the mission critical patch. They'll go to your website and see the CV online and click all the links, and confirm that you are indeed mentioned in the release notes for the last six releases, as you claimed.
If they find you've written the truth and they like what you've written, your name may be put forward for interview. The goal of your resumé is to persuade the company to interview you. Don't put anything on it which doesn't help achieve that.
==General Advice==
People will review your resumé on paper, so make sure your CV is something which is useful without being able to click links. Put a URL to the hyperlinked version on the resumé. It's worth tracking your analytics - these will tell you if your CV is interesting to employers. If no-one's looking, either it's not well-targetted, or there's a global economic crisisgoing on.
Also, when job hunting, you may have better luck looking in places that value free software job experience, such as the Free Software Foundation's [http://fsf.org/jobs job listing's listings page].
Best of luck!
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