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Re: Why don't job descriptions explain what the company does, and how?

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They don't?

No, they don't of course. Maybe 99% (or more) resumes are full of fake info or included what entire department did. I help our clients to find the right people for positions and this is a daily challenge.

I need a service that will take my accurate resume and inflate everything so that it aligns better with what is available in the market.

Re: Why don't job descriptions explain what the company does, and how?

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No, they don't of course. Maybe 99% (or more) resumes are full of fake info or included what entire department did. I help our clients to find the right people for positions and this is a daily challenge.

I don't believe that, or at least I think 99% is a considerable exaggeration. My resume has never been based on anything but what I did, because every person I've worked with in a department has a different role. I couldn't take credit for their work because it's palpably not what I do. And if I did, I'd end up doing similar things, which is not what I want or I already would've been doing them.

I think you might be surprised, I have had people standing right in front of me take credit for my own work. The reason we have such byzantine interviews in this industry is because you cannot trust what most people put in their CV.

Re: Why don't job descriptions explain what the company does, and how?

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Most people writing job ads spend far too little mental effort to figure out how to write a job ad: they don't read 100s of existing job ads, they don't read a book or blog posts, they don't reflect on what they're trying to achieve at that stage of the process etc.

Instead, they copy and paste phrases from existing job descriptions (internal and external). The more specific the phrase, the more likely it's not relevant to the new job, so the less likely it gets copied.

So what does the job ad contain? The most abstract and meaningless phrases collected from a bunch of existing job descriptions.

Rinse and repeat, and you get to the situation we have today.

Re: Why don't job descriptions explain what the company does, and how?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, they don't of course. Maybe 99% (or more) resumes are full of fake info or included what entire department did. I help our clients to find the right people for positions and this is a daily challenge.

I need a service that will take my accurate resume and inflate everything so that it aligns better with what is available in the market.

Haha yeah that would be great. "Resumflate" or something. Get an AI to read billions of resumes and then insert buzzwords.
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