Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: 10 years experience, 200 resumes, almost zero responses. Do I give up?

news.ycombinator.com

21–22 of 22 posts

Re: Ask HN: 10 years experience, 200 resumes, almost zero responses. Do I give up?

#21
This may help you (not my site) https://www.resumeviking.com/samples/front-end-developer/

A quick glance this seemed to be something you could adapt to your resume.

Get rid of the video, clean up the formatting, and say what you actually achieved at the job not what you did.

Re: Ask HN: 10 years experience, 200 resumes, almost zero responses. Do I give up?

#22

For anyone that's interested here's a link to my resume. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Td1sMpgE53fQn5LIhCA77Hix...

Including a video resume seems like a bad idea. Remember, the purpose of a resume is to get a face-to-face interview (or COVID-19 equivalent). Your video, IMHO, only allows people to form superficial opinions about you without the time commitment or interaction of an interview. They can think "That guy seems hesitant/cocky or older/younger than I expected" and form judgements without any chance for you to react and prove otherwise. I've interviewed plenty of developers who come off unsure of themselves or full of themselves at first impression until you probe them a bit. You're letting people stereotype you (with whatever personal biases they have) without any chance to get passed those biases. Also, you aren't a professional performer (probably, few people are) so what are the chances that your "performance" is an accurate representation of who you really are? Yet, you're being judged by that.

I agree with others that your resume needs to be more accomplishment driven with lots of action verbs and results statements. You want to include a sample (but not a laundry list) of interesting problems you solved and value you delivered. Employers are far more interested in that than who you are and what bag of skills you have. Granted, you need to include buzzwords to be seen by resume filters but your resume should scream "Here's the kind of great stuff I can do for you" in the first few bullet points or so rather than a technical checklist.

Post reply on HN