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Does anyone have some examples of resumes they've used successfully; or from the hiring side, resumes that stood out to them? Anyone A/B testing their resumes?
Surprisingly, I have the opposite trouble: how do I stop recruiters trying to recruit me? I have about 15-20 recruiters contacting me per week however what I put it down to is: 1. Location. Since I moved to SF the job offers have increased substantially . 2. Skill set. Fortunately I'm skilled in some "popular" languages. 3. Years of experience. I'm in the "hot spot" - not too old, and not too young (sorry - it does s…
However, now I am on the market (at the worst possible time of the year). Logically, a recruiter would be the best person to go to for work, but my relationship with recruiters is tainted, and it appears that there are a lot of good companies that simply won't deal with them.
Christmas isn't the best time to be looking for jobs, but even following all the rules won't necessarily get you noticed.
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Funny in my part of the world, the bad ones are the private universities. The reason being the only people that go to private universities are the ones without good notes to earn a place at the public universities, but whose parents are rich enough to pay for the university. People with degrees from private universities are told they bought the degree.
What part of the world is that?
Surprisingly, I have the opposite trouble: how do I stop recruiters trying to recruit me? I have about 15-20 recruiters contacting me per week however what I put it down to is: 1. Location. Since I moved to SF the job offers have increased substantially . 2. Skill set. Fortunately I'm skilled in some "popular" languages. 3. Years of experience. I'm in the "hot spot" - not too old, and not too young (sorry - it does s…
"If you wish to contact me, please put the word 'Waffles'
in your message. It sounds silly, but it lets me know that
you have taken a little time to asses my profile, rather than
mass messaging people based on a keyword search."
> Resumes should be summaries, with more detail for recent positions, less detail for more distant ones. If you’ve been in industry for ten years, you can have a second page. No one needs more than two.
I agree with this in principle, and strongly 'implemented' this approach as well in an earlier version of my CV.
[To be fair, I'm looking for a product management role, and not a dev job, so maybe it's different here?]
But recruiters just kept asking me for a more detailed version so often, that I just gave up and made a 2-pager. I personally believe it goes into far too much detail than is necessary, but the difference in response is quite stark from both startups and BigCos alike.
From the other side of the issue, when recruiting PMs or analysts, I always made a conscious effort to ensure that CVs that fell afoul of 'industry standard guidelines' weren't overlooked solely for those reasons. As in, I honestly didn't give a shit if it was one page, or two, or six, as long as it gave the information I was looking for. (However, I suspect I may have been in a minority then..)
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Upvoted for University of Waikato reference. Hamilton is a wonderful city, but I opted for Victoria and Wellington instead..
New Zealanders other than me come here! It's funny that the Waikato reference is used the same way in an international forum as a it would be on a New Zealand one. Edited to make sense.
While I've never been a recruiter, I've been a hiring manager at some mid-sized companies and worked closely with their recruiters. Side projects or attempted startups are great, but I've seen countless resumes where they get completely overlooked because of how they appeared on the resume. Ultimately whether I saw a resume was dependent on some sort of subjective pattern matching done by the recruiter. This pattern…
I'm not so sure about this bit: > Resumes should be summaries, with more detail for recent positions, less detail for more distant ones. If you’ve been in industry for ten years, you can have a second page. No one needs more than two. I agree with this in principle, and strongly 'implemented' this approach as well in an earlier version of my CV. [To be fair, I'm looking for a product management role, and not a dev jo…
So the only sensible thing to do is go with the length that you feel sells you best.
Wow, if you are skilled technically and aren't annoyed by constant recruiter outreach, you are doing something majorly wrong. I'd also say technical recruiters are also doing something majorly wrong if your resume reflects your abilities. If you've coded anything that does something interesting, you should have no problem finding interviews, and frankly offers. If you haven't coded anything interesting, then why woul…
I'm 19 and skipped college and university to travel, I freelanced for a couple of years and worked on games and personal hobby projects during this time and currently work at a small web development company. I only have 6 months of commercial experience but I get approached literally daily by recruitment companies because of a single resume I posted on a website and it is driving me crazy. They all ring me up and say…