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Please Help Me Find a Remote Job.

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Re: Please Help Me Find a Remote Job.

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Post by pclark »

spoiledtechie wrote: post #44
pclark wrote: post #2

You haven't listed any of your needs or wants that you wish to satisfy. Why isn't that just a short bullet point list somewhere? Why isn't all of this a collection of short bullet point lists: * Skill set * Achievements at last company * Education Considering the whole point of this page is to generate leads to request your resume why is it so long? why not keep it vague? Some of your opening sentences need a lot of…

Keep it vague and remove words? I used to do that with all my resumes actually. Concise and to the point. Though as I went further along, I started hearing what HR reps looks for and what Recruiters want. They want people to explain more about what they have accomplished. I figured to separate things by knowledge of a certain subject then push it out to what I have built, instead of saying what I built then and what…

Keep this site, the lead generator for your resume, vague.

Re: Please Help Me Find a Remote Job.

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Post by ckb »

First, I recommend cleaning up your writing. It is long-winded. There are several grammatical mistakes. I interview job candidates a lot and reading a super-long resume that doesn't tell me anything about what you have done wastes my time. I want to see that you can clearly, and concisely tell me what you should be hired. Think about it this way: would you want to read code that could have been written using 1/8 the number of lines?

If it doesn't fit on 1 printed page (or in this case my 13 inch screen without scrolling), then it's too long.

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