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Re: Show HN: Resume Worded – Write impactful resumes

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Post by sotojuan »

sdiupIGPWEfh wrote: post #70
komali2 wrote: post #52

>Led the transition to a paperless practice by implementing an electronic booking system and a faster, safer and more accurate business system. Reduced costs of labor by 30% and office overhead by 10%. Just looking at the first example, this nails the head for me as an ex-recruiter about the best way to write a resume tagline. You didn't "use simplybookly.me," you "( action verb )implemented a ( description of thing…

I hate this advice so much, even if it's true that it works. How many people actually have any sort of knowledge of (or access to) such measurements? If you're in sales or management, great, but the bulk of the workforce, especially those who desperately need their next resume to land them a half-decent job fast, are not in such positions. Even as a developer, I've had exactly one gig where I had access to quantifiab…

I'm engineer and I've had direct knowledge of how my work has impacted other departments. I don't even have to ask - sales or ops will just say "thanks to X project, we reduced touch time by 30%" at all hands or general meetings. I can't imagine working at a place that hides this info from either the engineers or most of the company.

Re: Show HN: Resume Worded – Write impactful resumes

#72

Post by gggdvnkhmbgjvbn »

sdiupIGPWEfh wrote: post #70
komali2 wrote: post #52

>Led the transition to a paperless practice by implementing an electronic booking system and a faster, safer and more accurate business system. Reduced costs of labor by 30% and office overhead by 10%. Just looking at the first example, this nails the head for me as an ex-recruiter about the best way to write a resume tagline. You didn't "use simplybookly.me," you "( action verb )implemented a ( description of thing…

I hate this advice so much, even if it's true that it works. How many people actually have any sort of knowledge of (or access to) such measurements? If you're in sales or management, great, but the bulk of the workforce, especially those who desperately need their next resume to land them a half-decent job fast, are not in such positions. Even as a developer, I've had exactly one gig where I had access to quantifiab…

Doesnt have to be about money. I reduced page load times by x%, measured it with the chrome inspector network tab and it was brought up in an interview.

Re: Show HN: Resume Worded – Write impactful resumes

#73

Post by enraged_camel »

sdiupIGPWEfh wrote: post #70
komali2 wrote: post #52

>Led the transition to a paperless practice by implementing an electronic booking system and a faster, safer and more accurate business system. Reduced costs of labor by 30% and office overhead by 10%. Just looking at the first example, this nails the head for me as an ex-recruiter about the best way to write a resume tagline. You didn't "use simplybookly.me," you "( action verb )implemented a ( description of thing…

I hate this advice so much, even if it's true that it works. How many people actually have any sort of knowledge of (or access to) such measurements? If you're in sales or management, great, but the bulk of the workforce, especially those who desperately need their next resume to land them a half-decent job fast, are not in such positions. Even as a developer, I've had exactly one gig where I had access to quantifiab…

You should always strive to measure the impact of your work. Always.

And if you can't measure it, you should ask your users for ballpark estimates. "Hey George, how many minutes a day does the new feature I added save you?" From there you can convert it to an estimated average financial impact fairly easily.

Re: Show HN: Resume Worded – Write impactful resumes

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Post by ant6n »

sevensor wrote: post #34
rohanm93 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks so much for the feedback! It's really funny because my partner and I jumped between 'effective' and 'impactful' for the main copy a couple of times! I'm curious to know what others on HN think? I'll make a round of changes this weekend and will update the headline.

It's a matter of audience. "Impactful" is a corporate buzzword neologism, so it turns some people off. But it will definitely attract the kind of people who leverage synergies to align their processes for the win-win-win. Who do you want using your site?

The win-win-winners!

Re: Show HN: Resume Worded – Write impactful resumes

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Post by blackkettle »

taco_emoji wrote: post #21

There's a real lack of transparency that makes this look shady. How did you get your hands on these resumes? How do I know that these were actually successful resumes? Are the resume writers getting compensation for their work that you're selling?

They've set themselves up perfectly for their next product/service:

ResumeDetected: detect resume plagiarism; our solution goes beyond verbatim phrase matching and identifies risky and dishonest behavior using our state-of-the-art proprietary deep-learning systems and one-of-a-kind annotated corpus of real world resumes.

Pay to get the clever phrases. Pay to see who paid to get the clever phrases. Pay more to obfuscate your data from those who paid to see if you paid to get them!

Re: Show HN: Resume Worded – Write impactful resumes

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Post by [deleted] »

tedsanders wrote: post #53
rohanm93 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks so much for the feedback! It's really funny because my partner and I jumped between 'effective' and 'impactful' for the main copy a couple of times! I'm curious to know what others on HN think? I'll make a round of changes this weekend and will update the headline.

Agree that impactful jumped out as clunky (and I say this a corporate consultant). Also agree that effective is better, but still too non-specific. Maybe: "Write resumes that get interviews." Interviews are specific positive outcome directly tied to resume quality.

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Re: Show HN: Resume Worded – Write impactful resumes

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Post by [deleted] »

ghostbrainalpha wrote: post #49
headhunter wrote: post #42

These people weren't successful because of their resumes - they were successful in their past roles, which is effectively communicated on their resumes. Because of their past success, they were hired into a different better/more prestigious/more impactful role. Step 1 of having a good resume: be a good employee Step 2 of having a good resume: effectively communicate how/why you are a good employee

Failing up is a real thing.

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Re: Show HN: Resume Worded – Write impactful resumes

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Post by bsjob »

enraged_camel wrote: post #73
sdiupIGPWEfh wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hate this advice so much, even if it's true that it works. How many people actually have any sort of knowledge of (or access to) such measurements? If you're in sales or management, great, but the bulk of the workforce, especially those who desperately need their next resume to land them a half-decent job fast, are not in such positions. Even as a developer, I've had exactly one gig where I had access to quantifiab…

You should always strive to measure the impact of your work. Always. And if you can't measure it, you should ask your users for ballpark estimates. "Hey George, how many minutes a day does the new feature I added save you?" From there you can convert it to an estimated average financial impact fairly easily.

So by that point, I've already made like three things up because there's absolutely no way for them to fact check this nonsense. Why talk to George when I can just pull something out of my ass? "Yeah, the process totally saved a half hour every week, which is about $500 because BUSINESS. Good luck verifying that, asshole."

Re: Show HN: Resume Worded – Write impactful resumes

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Post by bsjob »

ryandrake wrote: post #67
komali2 wrote: post #52

>Led the transition to a paperless practice by implementing an electronic booking system and a faster, safer and more accurate business system. Reduced costs of labor by 30% and office overhead by 10%. Just looking at the first example, this nails the head for me as an ex-recruiter about the best way to write a resume tagline. You didn't "use simplybookly.me," you "( action verb )implemented a ( description of thing…

This is a very standard format: Action, quantifiable result. Action, quantifiable result. I think one of the best edits one can make to their resume is to at least convert to that format. "Responsible for C++ implementation of WhizBang Product's codebase" = ??? "Implemented BarFoo feature resulting in an additional $50M in revenue and 3 industry awards" = ahh, here's something this person can do for me!

"I made up useless nonsense because that's what you want to hear and it resulted in me getting a job."

Re: Show HN: Resume Worded – Write impactful resumes

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Post by Cyph0n »

ryandrake wrote: post #67
komali2 wrote: post #52

>Led the transition to a paperless practice by implementing an electronic booking system and a faster, safer and more accurate business system. Reduced costs of labor by 30% and office overhead by 10%. Just looking at the first example, this nails the head for me as an ex-recruiter about the best way to write a resume tagline. You didn't "use simplybookly.me," you "( action verb )implemented a ( description of thing…

This is a very standard format: Action, quantifiable result. Action, quantifiable result. I think one of the best edits one can make to their resume is to at least convert to that format. "Responsible for C++ implementation of WhizBang Product's codebase" = ??? "Implemented BarFoo feature resulting in an additional $50M in revenue and 3 industry awards" = ahh, here's something this person can do for me!

And what do you do when you don't have access to that data? Lose the position to those who do or are willing to lie about it?
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