Why won't anyone talk to me? What recruiters look for in a resume • Hacker News Board

Re: Why won't anyone talk to me? What recruiters look for in a resume

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Post by rogerbinns » Wed, Nov 21, 2012, 5:47 PM UTC

eli_gottlieb wrote: post #53

rogerbinns wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My solution to your initial problem is to have a "note to recruiters" linked prominently at the top of my resume (and linkedin). It covers what kind of places I'd be a good fit for and vice versa. Things like I am not going to update the recruiter's database, tell me company names, small companies/startups etc. It becomes very apparent very quickly which recruiters have made any effort to read it and if they can't do…

I once had some programming languages listed on my resume that I didn't substantiate there. The actual meaning of that was "this resume will overflow one or two pages if I list everything I ever did to know every language I know." Now I have LinkedIn for that.

Length isn't that big a deal these days, and there isn't a need to write down every single language, framework and library you have ever written hello world in. If you listed 100 items there is no way you are proficient at all of them right now. The highlights will fit in a line or two.

Re: Why won't anyone talk to me? What recruiters look for in a resume

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Post by Uchikoma » Fri, Nov 23, 2012, 1:43 PM UTC

polymatter wrote: post #52

Uchikoma wrote: post #47

I mostly - for seniors - look in the experience and what projects the person did. I don't believe any skills in a skill section. This is the first screening, followed by a programming task during the the telephone interview, interview with me, interviews with developers, followed by practical programming work. So yes it is important to get through the CV screen (have experience), but it's only the first step. Side no…

How do you select Juniors then if the CV is mostly irrelevant? Do you go by github profile?

Sorry, didn't see your question.

I invite more of them.

Re: Why won't anyone talk to me? What recruiters look for in a resume

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Post by marcofucci » Fri, Nov 30, 2012, 3:27 PM UTC

smm2000 wrote: post #77

marcofucci wrote: post #54

"If you’ve had five jobs in the last five years, why should the recruiter think this time will be different?" Maybe because who is hiring is supposed to be better than the others? There are far too many terrible companies, especially the big ones, and honestly I would never stay in a company just for the sake of it. If recruiters think that this is a problem, it means that who is hiring is not confident enough or wor…

If it's only one short term job, it's totally ok. Two is ok but I will ask why. Three+ is a negative. 5+ short term jobs is pretty much no hire unless there is a very good explanation. There are no perfect companies and people have to compromise.

Well, I totally agree with you that there are no perfect companies but for the rest, I believe you don't have very good arguments.

I do understand that recruiters have to place people and they don't really mind/understand if the company is good or not but I can't see why this should be our problem.