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Show HN: Resume Worded – Write impactful resumes
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#42These 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
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#43Never use this if you’re applying in Germany or other European countries unless it’s an American company. Most companies hate exactly this kind of lines and they will ignore your CV
> Most [EU] companies hate exactly this kind of lines and they will ignore your CV
Disagree. Finally it depends on the content your actual achievements but the wording is totally fine + learned. Most EU companies shouldn't have any problems with this style.
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#44There are some good text snippets on the linked site, so if your strengths do not lie in written English then it could very well be a helpful resource for how to word things. However, beware the mentality that the only thing standing in the way of your dreams is the perfect one-page summary of your accomplishments to date. A resume is just a marketing document. Economy of prose and short declarative sentences are you…
On the marketing document analogy, a service might reduce the overall effectiveness of these types of lines as a signal. Right now these lines are a differentiator not so much for their literal content but for the signaling that the person who uses one knows about how resume writing is advancing and is tapped into that. Sure, the content matters too but as hiring manager I can tell you these lines get similarly super…
There's still a bit of an acid test going on in that you understand the person has a) bothered to learn how to communicate business value and b) whether they are putting value-add to your organisation in front of their ego.
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#45I entered a search term for a programming language and got a bunch of lines to "copy" that seemed to be for accounting or sales, not tech.
So, either that's the secret to getting placed in good development positions -- to show that actually you are something else -- or, this site is Doing it Wrong.
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#46These 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
Step 1 of having a good resume: copy a good employee's resume. :P
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#47There'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?
I started testing topics and the lack of technical resumes actually made me wonder - how will they continue to get more?
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#48Looks pretty. However for a service that claims to provide me the best words to put on my resume, the tagline "write impactful resumes" is rather harmful. "Impactful" is clunky. "Effective" is what you want. But neither word offers a specific pay-off, which is what you actually want in both a head-line on a site and a bullet-point on a resume.
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.
You're welcome! Didn't mean to sound like a jerk, but I run a service that helps copywriters and content-writers write better, so this kind of thing tends to jumps out at me.
Best of luck!
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#49These 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
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