I'm in week two of my new job. The job I accepted was the first one I applied to after having watched a bunch of your videos and applying the information I learned there. I had two other quality offers in the wings and had the comfort of picking the role I wanted most. The weeks before making changes to my resume based on these videos only returned low quality employers and offers for much lower than the offers I received after making those changes. Thank you so much for making these videos and helping job hunters improve their skills.
Listen to this advice. I followed his advice and it completely changed my job search culminating in a job I really like. I made a master functional resume, and then used it to pull items matching each job listing to create each customized resume. It really worked. Best wishes to all of you job seekers!
It was a RTA position for AWS and I found out last night that I didn’t get in and it has destroyed my self confidence. The thing is, in my previous position I had an amazing director that taught me so much! I found issues that in data that saved massive amount of time and money but i don’t have the certs. I think they all like me, I just wasn’t the best fit. I would still be at my old job but things got weird and my director couldn’t get me into the data analytics job he had planned on and it was take the separation package or risk just being laid off with nothing.
Customization hasn't been worth it for me. Since I'm in a very niche field and only looked for very specific types of jobs, all I do is look at sample job postings and make sure my resume has some key words before I start my search. Then I'm good to go. It has worked out well for me and led to job offers. Customization, of course, is necessary if you're looking for a wider range of jobs in different fields.
This doesnt make any sense to me.... If youre trying to cast a wide net in many different fields, how would customizing a resume for a specific role work for that? But making a generic resume works for looking for a job in a niche field with a specific role? Also.... when you look at job postings and then add key words for that job in your resume, like you said you did above, thats literally the definition of customization.
You probably have good experience. Not sure if you appreciate this, but I screen resumes for more mid-level (i.e. way younger than me:-) but also old enough that they should have more hard skils) operations jobs and there will be 500 resumes from people who have mid-level excel skills and that's about it. Not that that's bad per se, but everything seems so average and no one sticks out at all. If you have some hard STEM skills you probably stick out in the crowd even if you aren't aware of it@@weirdvideos8074
@@weirdvideos8074STEM is probably not the word you want be using, lol. It's almost a pure buzzword. It means nothing in most cases except "not froufrou art"
Fancy Templates: They may get you noticed, but it may not be a positive type of notice. As a recruiter, I DREAD reading resumes with a template that I have to slow down and search for the information I’m looking for. I will often skip these resumes and come back later. You want to be noticed in a positive light, for having the right skill set/experience, not for a fancy template. Agree 100% on customization.
Just here to say, that I remember when you were in the beginning stages of this channel and it is so great how your channel has grown. Congratulations 🫡
I totally agree with the customization and spending a good deal of time on your resume. But what's really frustrating is when you do all that and you get your resume customized and in line with the job descriptions/expectations, you still get rejected.
I also want to ask this: Why, after all of these years (I've been working and doing resumes for over 30 years) do we STILL have to fill out an application?? I literally cut and paste from my "attached" resume. This is such a complete waste of time and effort. Having to customize your resume for every job and then entering the info into an application... By the time you do this once, the job is already gone.
It's amazing how you noticed such minute details which are often undermined! A great resume is such an underrated tool that sets you apart! your points about the precisions are golden!
I did eventually figure out that customizing the resume and being very very careful (as in read the resume out loud) for grammatical and spelling errors did help a lot in getting interviews. I still didn't get many interviews compared to the number of customized resumes I had sent out but it was a bit better. I estimate it went from 1 interview per 150 applications to maybe 1 interview per 40 applications. However, at the same time I also stopped sending or accepting recruiters that were 3rd party W2 (ie foreign recruiters not in the US), domestic recruiters that seemed to be simply reposting other jobs, and any recruiter that tried to get me to sign a right to represent document without first having talked to the hiring manager.
Tailoring resumes definitely makes sense. The problem I've found is in the time it takes. Using your numbers, it's from a 0.67% success rate to a 2.5% success rate, or about a 4x improvement. So the question becomes, can you take your generic resume and send it to 4 or 5 places in the time it takes you to edit your tailored resume, proof read it, save it, export to a pdf for that company, and send it in? Online applications, and especially one click applications, are the worst thing to have ever happened to job seekers because quantity tends to out perform quality unless you're after a position at a specific employer. And that then results in just flooding HR departments and forcing more and more aggressive filtering.
@@phonyalias7574 I would say tailoring your resume for each job is valuable in the sense that halfway through the process you realize that's an inappropriate job. I do feel that sending out 250 to 500 resumes, and perhaps many more, is the new standard that we live with. And when you do get an interview, you do need to spend quite some time researching the company, and I personally creep on all the people on the email. If they wrote a paper or article on some subject, then just reading it gives you an advantage over other candidates. For the last job that I got, I probably spent at least 30 hours doing the take-home coding interview, researching the company, watching all their RUclips videos, looking at each and every interviewer's profile/white papers/work history (there were five interviewers). Add in a refresher in statistics, calculus, and spinning up a server to run FORTRAN and Python (two languages I don't know), and it's closer to 80 hours to get this job. And that's with 15 years experience in coding, DB design, data warehousing, and just a ton of other stuff I know including a master in CIS. On the other hand, the current job pays great for my situation (145K+), great benefits, remote work, relocation help to Western Europe/Asia if I want, moderate and flexible hours (not like a FAAN company, everything I hear is that they're horrible to work for), enjoyable work that's not just "code for a website", and so on. If you're not good at networking then you pretty much have no choice but to brute force your way into a job interview. You don't need many job interviews, maybe just one or two, before you get a job offer. I do think foreign recruiters are a complete waste of times, though. Simply cutting them out completely out of my life might have had more to do with my application to interview conversion rate than tailoring resumes.
Yeah.. No ignore the foreign recruiters. They are trying to get you to apply to jobs that are temporary, don't fit, if they are using a skill set that you have, it's one that you used 10-20 years ago. Or they're trying to get you to relocate for a temporary job that only lasts 3- 6 months. And when you do talk to them on the phone, they try and brow beat you into applying to jobs. I let them leave a message, and screen for that, and take it from there. The foreign recruiters, are very, very unscrupulous and a total waste of time. If you're an employer and you're using foreign recruiters, DON"T. That's why you're not getting a response. People ignore them, think the jobs are fake or don't trust them. They seem to have been a thing since the early 2000s
I don’t recommend changing your resume for federal jobs. Build one resume. Your job should be aligned with your skill set. Build a generic cover letter and tailor that. It’s shows your into the job and you may be one level up on competition
All you have to do is cut and paste the potential employers job description into one or some of your former jobs and update the career-work summary section, and you now have a customized resume, more or less.
What i like to do: upload both your resume and the job description and have chat gpt write you a resume tailored to the job, then edit! I’ve done this for help writing my cover letters.
Great advice! especially in regards to customization. The concept that I have learned throughout my career and your concepts is garbage in and garbage out. Customization is a must!
It's so hard that we have to network to get a job. I don't see referrals working. Also if I don't know many people then what? Or if I know people who are not in my field , then what.. it's hard.
I found I had the best luck being honest on my resume, only accurately describing each of my positions. Rather than spamming my applications out to 100s of jobs, I really spend the time to identify positions that I am a good fit without heavily modifying my resume. Obviously when I experienced a layoff, I spent more time customizing my resume out of necessity, like you said in this video, customization and job acquisition speed are related.
Had a hiring manager tell me I didn’t have enough laboratory experience. The listing asked for 10 yrs, I have 12 years with an engineering degree. Wtf?
Great series you have going on. Topic suggestions for a upcoming vlogs. You need to really get past two levels - Noticed by the recruiter (getting say in the top 10-15) and then standing out to the manager making decisions (the top 3) about granting an interview. How to make sure both are noticing. Now if the communication between the recruiter and hiring manager is good, they shouldn't be -- but they are usually two very different audiences. For someone with a 20+ year carer in a technical field a number of different jobs, and a good number of demonstrable accomplishments, or even 10+ years, what are the top 10 things one can do to cut the 5 page resume down to 2 or 1, and still demonstrate the depth and growth over those years. I know "they say" no one cares about what you did 5 years ago let alone 10 years ago, but depending on the role I was hiring for in my team, particularly the senior most technical role, I did. Also, how does one best navigate a job req that is designed (intentionally or not) to find people who look just like the unicorn that the team just lost, or that looks just like the person doing the interview (not physically but educationally, culturally, etc). I have seen the situation occur, both when I participated in interview teams, and as a manager reviewing that feed back when making the hire decision on a candidate.
Thank you for the valuable lesson! I am currently working on a career change and revising my resume, so your insights are incredibly helpful. Just started following you and looking forward to learning more!
What if someone sends 80 customised resumes and then a company x calls and we don't even remember what company it is and what resume we sent😂. It happens to me when i send above 10 resumes, i struggle to remember the company name and the position i applied for. Luckily i usually apply for one and the same position in every company only and the requirements are usually similar in most companies. But once i applied for something different and i didn't even remember it when they called me.😅
I have a simple sheet in my Google drive to keep track of applications (just the company name, position I applied to, and date). Recently heard that it’s a good idea to save a copy or screenshot of the job ad as well, in case it’s taken offline before you interview. Only takes a few seconds to fill in the sheet each time. It’s also a really good visualisation of the job search process and I like to look at my sheet to remind me how far I have come in my jobsearch. Really helped with the frustration 😃
Really difficult to convey prior relevant experience on a resume when changing careers...lord knows I'm trying though, along with networking (I think this will more likely be what leads to success)
@@herogebrial Past SCOTUS member Lewis Powell wrote the document and published it it 1971. That document controls EVERY aspect of your financial life. Maybe you should read the damn thing.
Great advice and perspective! Although I would’ve liked to hear a suggestion on how to shorten bullets when we feel “they need this context”. Which makes for a massive bullet! I’ll check out your services!
Hm. Tried 6 months of general resume approach and then 6 months of customization of each application. Exactly the same results - nothing. Completely ZERO. Still at the same position, but not discouraged, just switching gears and trying a different take on it. My conclusion: why even wasting 10 minutes of my super precious time to yield same results?Supposedly, where I’m aiming in terms of income and position people NEVER get hired by external resumes. Only hidden job market and references. You still get the like for all the efforts in supporting job seekers.
Is there a such thing as targeting too hard, and not putting enough generic detail in my resume? I often end up being barely 400 words trying to fit it all on one page, and I try to make sure every bullet connects to the job description. But I almost feel I am trying to hard to do that, because I have had people tell me my resume doesn't explain my background well. If I make it go on for an entire other page, I would be adding a lot of fluff.
I am by far a hiring/resume expert, and even I am shocked people are still doing the white font on the white background trip…. That’s a 20+ year old trick!!!!
Of course the secret sauce of customization is behind his paywall.....eyeroll I call BS on looking at thousands of resumes per role. They look at however many they have to to find a few diverse candidates, then move on to the next role. Nobody has that kind of time...
Question: Without having searching previous content, I need resume help: During the C-word in 2021, & mortgage inflation, I was hired for a mortgage company for six months, and a bank for three. I quit the mortgage company due to questionable ethics, but I got dismissed from the bank in the 90 days because I didnt work fast enough. Mind you, I was the only loan operations servicer for 21 banks, and trained over the computer by someone who was also working on year-end book keeping tasks. Training was over Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year holidays (leaving a learning gap); I was let go right as I was getting the grasp of how all of the programs work and it sucked. Regardless, I have these two glaring jobs for 9 months total. How do I tackle that? I live in a "at will employment" state, but it seems to me that is meant to benefit the employers, not employees.
Never say you were fired, let go, terminated, dismissed from past jobs. Why, because all the other applicants aren't saying they were either- no joking! Employers will quickly trash your application if you say you were previously fired. Stretch the dates of your mortgage and bank jobs that get listed on applications/resumes, describe them as temporary contract positions. Never apologize for wanting to work, as a citizen you have that right. Keep your head up, try applying for 7 jobs a week, you'll start to get interviews.
Thanks for all of your awesome content. I have been devouring it. Can you share your thoughts on the résumé length limit? I feel like two pages is fine with modern ATS screening and digital file formats versus the old-school one page limit. What do you think?
Yeah, not customizing my resume to cater to EVERY different job out there. You either accept me or reject me. What’s worse is customizing to standout and they still reject you anyways.
lol people like you deserve to be unemployed. You are so lazy and arrogant that you wont even tweak a few words in there to help yourself? Even after the expert tells you how important it is? Woooowwww so difficult. You are legitimately a sad person with the emotional hardware of a pissy child.
Seriously. Just more hoops recruiters want you to jump through so when you get to the end of the process they can lowball you and you’re more likely to accept
Lol okay. Thats about the laziest thing i've ever heard. Why are you even here then? The expert tells you 'ya gotta do this to get a job' and tweaking a few words/sentences is just toooo muuuuccch work? Seriously?
@@sugarshack5129 I don’t care how “expert” one is. But I’m not about to tamper my already great resume every single time I apply to a job to try and standout to these people who won’t even look at your resume for more than 2 minutes. Imagine having to change your wording for all the hundreds of resumes you have to send out, it’s overwhelming and unnecessary. They either accept you or deny you, simple as that.
In interviews, be genuine and explain why you've applied. Yes, my organization wanted to know why I applied with them, as they could not match top dollar and located in a rural town. Why do you want to work with us in the middle of nowhere? My requests were doable and reasonable. I have benefits and my boss very understanding. I am now closer to family, friends, and in a nice town with low crime.
Yeah but in the end, you just want a job. They want you to act excited about a boring job. So fake. Few jobs are truly exciting or different than the next company's job.
I have been trying for 2 months to get a remote job. I have no issues getting a job "on site." How can I set myself apart from others when hundreds of people are applying for the same positions when I am 100% fit??
I agree strongly on the "don't take advice from those who haven't hired before" But the who - HR Recruiter / Head hunter - Technical guy/gal - Hiring Manager Often hiring manager gives resume advice, that it has to be minimalistic and design oriented / with a template that came from a designer when we are on the tech field. - recruiter / head hunter wants the "keywords" - skills + years of exp - technical wants in-depth knowledge - "challenging keywords", "hints", and "easter-eggs about potential competence" -- oh he knows XXXX, I guess we gonna find that out. - hiring manager - is just for formalities and just gets the feedback of #1 and #2
One can only customize a resume so much. Either a person has the skillets the employer is looking for or not. It may get conversation with an employer but once the skills of the candidate are known, then all of the work to customize the resume is worthless.
Do you have tips for people that are doing interviews? I recently started a position where I do some hiring and a lot of interviews, but I feel like I don’t know what I’m doing or what I should look for.
Don't worry too much. They have literally done studies on this. If you interview for the perfect candidate or just draw random names out of a pool of people, your odds of getting good employees is about the same (random chance often makes it better, but not statistically relevant enough to say it is better for sure). So, there's no need to worry.
How do you handle the drop down menus w/red “mandatory” asterisks for gender, race, have you ever had a disability (yes even asthma is on the list)? The page doesn’t advance to the next screen w/o answers. 😢
Customize every single resume... To job applications that want everything and the kitchen sink? I don't see how this is possible for most I.T./Software development roles.
The internet loves to tell young people to job hop to get a better salary....then I get 500 resumes when we do hire. All 28-32 year olds who had 5-7 jobs pushing paper and spreadsheets, few accomplishments, no explanation for why they had so many jobs and nothing tying them together....I can't contact any of them. They don't realize how scattered and generic their experience is. TBH I don't even know if all of them actively applied.
I handed in a resume with two lines on an a4 paper. The guy screwed it up and chucked it in the bin and said it was the worst cv he had ever seen. I got the job though. However it was only a temping agency.
You work for 40yrs to have $1m in your retirement, meanwhile some people are putting just $10k in a meme coin for just few months and now they are multi millionaires. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life.
Those are excemptiond though, the former method is much easier to reproduce. I get that feeling though, I was a broke 20yr old when I realized bitcoin would be big. It was $9.14 at the time. This was back before the big exchanges. Had to send certified mailed and shyte.
The best plan is to mostly invest in traditional investments and also put a small percentage in other types of assets like previous metals, fine art, and crypto. Don't fight change and don't dismiss it. Instead, try to fully understand it.
Question for you, or anyone who might be able to give some insight. I understand that quantifying success in numbers on resumes is important. Is it worth it to quantify, (maybe in percentages?) revenue of a very small, 3 year old business? Basically, I’m trying to re-enter the workforce for more financial stability (and to fund this small business) but, I launched a small business in 2021 and gained a lot of experience in various areas. We started making sales by the end of 2022. In a dollar figures, the revenue likely won’t be very impressive, and we still have not made a profit. I personally thought that including revenue numbers at least in percentages might be the right way to go. I don’t know if it’s because I have always fought imposter syndrome about everything in my life, or if I’m now second guessing that I should include it, since I also received advice from someone *not* to include it on my résumé, since the numbers dollar-wise aren’t impressive at all. But I also do see all the other advice that says it’s always good to quantify. Thanks for any insight you can give!
And what happens when you are a near perfect fit for the role and, the Talent Acquisition person says, "you are overqualified" and the rest of the interview panel (online video session) are too wimpy to contest her/him despite knowing that that they are NOT going to get another candidate at their offered pay rate WITH the credentials that the current one has. I write separate, individual, customized resumes for every single role that I have applied for. But...I have to say this here...five interview panels seemed to have been so intimidated by my experience/credentials that the only face-saving device for them was to declare me as over qualified for the role. So....getting huge experiential knowledge to the interview is a massive negative, especially when you have the correct answers to every single question that is pitched at you. Your videos are educative. Yes. If you can do some to address this dimwitted "over qualified" rubbish dished out, for people like me with 26 years of active military service AND 03 years of an over-arching role, post military service, handling all verticals of a business, it will be of great help to develop a strategy to dumb yourself down to the level of the panel.
Yeah, that. . .or we could realize this is just more of the hr & business dog squeeze being just more of the bob iger example : blaming the rest of us for their hot garbage. Telling us it's really our fault for being lazy and stubborn. That we're just not writing and speaking in meaningless buzzword bingo babble well enough, just aren't good enough at answering mickey mouse interview questions that have nothing to do with anything, that we just dont fit the 'culture.' And our response should be exactly what Musk said.
There was a time when I had a big pile of resumes to go through, so I divided them into two piles: one pile from applicants whose names I could pronounce and another pile I could not. It's embarassing to call someone whose name I couldn't pronounce properly, right? I planned to go through the second pile only if I could not find any suitable candidates from the first pile, but the first pile gave me more candidates than I could handle already. It was tough screening through resumes when there were so many applicants.
Absolutely. It can also be a good general indicator (general, not individual, for the people who are about to try to be offended) of how well someone will work in groups. It correlates with ability to fit into a company or national culture. There are too many facotors to explain here, but even their parents willingness to assimilate to a culture by choice of their children's names can show. It can indicate how well they were integrated into a society, and thus their ability to communicate effectively and work in a team. They can have a different culture, sure, but the company has its own that they're trying to fit into. Fit and be more effective, or don't.
Does the Ultimate Job Seeker Bootcamp have the same info about writing resumes as Resume Rocket Fuel (since writing a resume is part of getting a job)?
The UJSB focuses on job search strategy, interviewing and offer negotiation. If you are looking to write a resume, RR and RR Essentials are a better option.
Your videos, while helpful, always have the most negative titles imaginable (not this video). They have such negative titles that I had to unsubscribe, and then take further actions so that your videos don't pop up in my stream and are the first things I see in the morning. Yeah, they are THAT negative. I have to comb through this negative crap just to get to the one or two crumbs of what could be considered reasonable points? Come on, man. Can't you do better? Or do you need the clicks that badly?
My resume is not the main problem. The real problem is that I have Autism and it is holding me back extremely much. I have a bachelor of science in Mechanical Engineering and an Associate degree in computer-aided drafting and Design and almost everyone is ignoring that because I have Autism. I can change my resume as many times as I want, make it better, and have it written better, and still will be rejected because of my Autism. My Autism is holding me back and there is nothing that I can do about it because society does not want a cure developed for those of us that want to be cured of it. I do not want to hear that my resume is holding me back because that is complete bullshit. The real reason why I am being held back is because I have Autism, that is it.
I'm not sure what you're asking for here. Just venting or asking for advice? The cure was for your parents to avoid toxic substances and damaging DNA and the fetus during the development process, and early childhood including vaccinations. (Yeah, yeah, "they" say otherwise, but they're the ones profiting, but I've been through the data. That's a whole other huge discussion we can have). Medical industry doesn't care, and the people owning that industry are mostly of the survival of the fittest type, so they figure if they're not figuring out what to avoid, it's basically deserved. Anyway, you can help by getting off the internet and practicing, just having more conversations. It can be extremely uncomfortable, but it has to be in order to rewire portions of your brain. Don't expect miracles.
@@ALifeAfterLayoff hi Bryan! You'll see I have just amped my LinkedIn account. Aside from the offer to connect from 🇳🇬 Nigeria 😁I am seeing instant results ( nothing mind boggling, but I also have studied your resume writing, cover letter and interviewing tips👍🏻💯). Thanks for the tips 💁🏼♀️!
Damned if you do, damned if you don't! All of this jumping through hoops, I'm just gonna apply for the circus. "Come see this unemployed software engineer jump through a ring of fire suspensed 50 ft into the air above a tank full of hungry sharks!"
An executive assistant role I recently applied to dinged me for not having "industrial polishing" as a skill. There's no point wasting the emotional energy on customizing each application when finding a job is already such a soul-crushing nightmare. (This high-end, boutique firm let you test your resume against their filter for each listing.)
personally I only ever bother customizing my application and resume when it's a job I really want if it's just something that looks a little better than my current job but not something I really want for my career I go minimum effort until they prove the offer is actually worth my time, more money and benefits is good and all but it's not enough in the long term, especially with the risk of getting stuck in a career path that's unfulfilling(again)
I'm a generalist. I can't be a "great fit" FOR ANY job. There is no way for me to do this. Like at all. Please just do not make it a freaking flaming hoop to jump through. I'm a broken beaten down, dirt poor, disabled man, not like some ninja guru gymnast...
You’re just encouraging me to lie on my resume at this point. If I’m a great applicant but I’m missing a minor skill that would get me off the consideration list, I’ll just add that skill. Sorry, I meant I would “tailor” my resume.
Totally frustrating process. I write my own resume and I’m on revision at least 15 if not closer to 20. I’ve trimmed it from 3 pages to just over a page. In the past 3 months I’ve applied to 29 jobs and heard back from 3 people. I keep hearing the same thing, customize your resume, add a cover letter get references - none of it has helped. At least not that I’ve seen so far. Guess I’ll keep banging my head against the wall and maybe some day I’ll break through.
I'm in week two of my new job. The job I accepted was the first one I applied to after having watched a bunch of your videos and applying the information I learned there. I had two other quality offers in the wings and had the comfort of picking the role I wanted most. The weeks before making changes to my resume based on these videos only returned low quality employers and offers for much lower than the offers I received after making those changes. Thank you so much for making these videos and helping job hunters improve their skills.
My pleasure and much appreciated!
Listen to this advice. I followed his advice and it completely changed my job search culminating in a job I really like. I made a master functional resume, and then used it to pull items matching each job listing to create each customized resume. It really worked. Best wishes to all of you job seekers!
36 years as a Agency IT Headhunter, can confirm all of your points. It's why I still have a living!
Great tips for a broken system.
Can you do a video on examples of how you'd customize a resume for a few specific roles?
Just finished my final interview for Amazon. Your info really helped!
What position at Amazon did you apply for? Did you get the job?
It was a RTA position for AWS and I found out last night that I didn’t get in and it has destroyed my self confidence. The thing is, in my previous position I had an amazing director that taught me so much! I found issues that in data that saved massive amount of time and money but i don’t have the certs. I think they all like me, I just wasn’t the best fit. I would still be at my old job but things got weird and my director couldn’t get me into the data analytics job he had planned on and it was take the separation package or risk just being laid off with nothing.
I will continue watching to get more of your great info.
Customization hasn't been worth it for me. Since I'm in a very niche field and only looked for very specific types of jobs, all I do is look at sample job postings and make sure my resume has some key words before I start my search. Then I'm good to go. It has worked out well for me and led to job offers. Customization, of course, is necessary if you're looking for a wider range of jobs in different fields.
This doesnt make any sense to me.... If youre trying to cast a wide net in many different fields, how would customizing a resume for a specific role work for that? But making a generic resume works for looking for a job in a niche field with a specific role? Also.... when you look at job postings and then add key words for that job in your resume, like you said you did above, thats literally the definition of customization.
I do customize my resume but every job I have gotten was with a non-customized resume. I hear ya, but this a YMMV sort of thing.
What's your industry? Also wondering if your generic resume is just simply good. Maybe you're the exception
I am a STEM program manager. It is a standard resume, imo. The only customization I add is the title of the position i am applying to.
You probably have good experience. Not sure if you appreciate this, but I screen resumes for more mid-level (i.e. way younger than me:-) but also old enough that they should have more hard skils) operations jobs and there will be 500 resumes from people who have mid-level excel skills and that's about it. Not that that's bad per se, but everything seems so average and no one sticks out at all. If you have some hard STEM skills you probably stick out in the crowd even if you aren't aware of it@@weirdvideos8074
@@weirdvideos8074STEM is probably not the word you want be using, lol. It's almost a pure buzzword. It means nothing in most cases except "not froufrou art"
@@vincentkingsdale8334 your mileage may vary
Fancy Templates: They may get you noticed, but it may not be a positive type of notice. As a recruiter, I DREAD reading resumes with a template that I have to slow down and search for the information I’m looking for. I will often skip these resumes and come back later. You want to be noticed in a positive light, for having the right skill set/experience, not for a fancy template. Agree 100% on customization.
Just here to say, that I remember when you were in the beginning stages of this channel and it is so great how your channel has grown. Congratulations 🫡
I totally agree with the customization and spending a good deal of time on your resume. But what's really frustrating is when you do all that and you get your resume customized and in line with the job descriptions/expectations, you still get rejected.
Whining.
@@manco828lol speaking facts ain't whining, boot licker
It’s fine getting rejected. But being ghosted is worse.
@@manco828Yeah because everyone else in the world loves to have their time wasted. Get over yourself.
Customizing your resume selectively is key. Being truly selective with who deserves customization!
I also want to ask this: Why, after all of these years (I've been working and doing resumes for over 30 years) do we STILL have to fill out an application?? I literally cut and paste from my "attached" resume. This is such a complete waste of time and effort. Having to customize your resume for every job and then entering the info into an application... By the time you do this once, the job is already gone.
THIS! It's a control thing and they just want us to jump through more hoops to prove that we're interested in the job. Such BS.
@@hahamasalaNo it isn't. It's to save their time entering into digital systems.
@@VndNvwYvvSvvThey could buy software to do it for you.
It's amazing how you noticed such minute details which are often undermined! A great resume is such an underrated tool that sets you apart! your points about the precisions are golden!
I did eventually figure out that customizing the resume and being very very careful (as in read the resume out loud) for grammatical and spelling errors did help a lot in getting interviews. I still didn't get many interviews compared to the number of customized resumes I had sent out but it was a bit better. I estimate it went from 1 interview per 150 applications to maybe 1 interview per 40 applications.
However, at the same time I also stopped sending or accepting recruiters that were 3rd party W2 (ie foreign recruiters not in the US), domestic recruiters that seemed to be simply reposting other jobs, and any recruiter that tried to get me to sign a right to represent document without first having talked to the hiring manager.
Tailoring resumes definitely makes sense. The problem I've found is in the time it takes. Using your numbers, it's from a 0.67% success rate to a 2.5% success rate, or about a 4x improvement. So the question becomes, can you take your generic resume and send it to 4 or 5 places in the time it takes you to edit your tailored resume, proof read it, save it, export to a pdf for that company, and send it in?
Online applications, and especially one click applications, are the worst thing to have ever happened to job seekers because quantity tends to out perform quality unless you're after a position at a specific employer. And that then results in just flooding HR departments and forcing more and more aggressive filtering.
@@phonyalias7574 I would say tailoring your resume for each job is valuable in the sense that halfway through the process you realize that's an inappropriate job. I do feel that sending out 250 to 500 resumes, and perhaps many more, is the new standard that we live with. And when you do get an interview, you do need to spend quite some time researching the company, and I personally creep on all the people on the email. If they wrote a paper or article on some subject, then just reading it gives you an advantage over other candidates.
For the last job that I got, I probably spent at least 30 hours doing the take-home coding interview, researching the company, watching all their RUclips videos, looking at each and every interviewer's profile/white papers/work history (there were five interviewers). Add in a refresher in statistics, calculus, and spinning up a server to run FORTRAN and Python (two languages I don't know), and it's closer to 80 hours to get this job. And that's with 15 years experience in coding, DB design, data warehousing, and just a ton of other stuff I know including a master in CIS.
On the other hand, the current job pays great for my situation (145K+), great benefits, remote work, relocation help to Western Europe/Asia if I want, moderate and flexible hours (not like a FAAN company, everything I hear is that they're horrible to work for), enjoyable work that's not just "code for a website", and so on.
If you're not good at networking then you pretty much have no choice but to brute force your way into a job interview. You don't need many job interviews, maybe just one or two, before you get a job offer. I do think foreign recruiters are a complete waste of times, though. Simply cutting them out completely out of my life might have had more to do with my application to interview conversion rate than tailoring resumes.
Yeah.. No ignore the foreign recruiters. They are trying to get you to apply to jobs that are temporary, don't fit, if they are using a skill set that you have, it's one that you used 10-20 years ago. Or they're trying to get you to relocate for a temporary job that only lasts 3- 6 months. And when you do talk to them on the phone, they try and brow beat you into applying to jobs. I let them leave a message, and screen for that, and take it from there. The foreign recruiters, are very, very unscrupulous and a total waste of time. If you're an employer and you're using foreign recruiters, DON"T. That's why you're not getting a response. People ignore them, think the jobs are fake or don't trust them. They seem to have been a thing since the early 2000s
I don’t recommend changing your resume for federal jobs. Build one resume. Your job should be aligned with your skill set. Build a generic cover letter and tailor that. It’s shows your into the job and you may be one level up on competition
All you have to do is cut and paste the potential employers job description into one or some of your former jobs and update the career-work summary section, and you now have a customized resume, more or less.
You know I never thought of doing this. Yes this is ethical. Many of jobs I apply for is because it is exactly like that I'd done before.
What i like to do: upload both your resume and the job description and have chat gpt write you a resume tailored to the job, then edit! I’ve done this for help writing my cover letters.
So youre lying. I can see the "content of your character".
Great advice! especially in regards to customization. The concept that I have learned throughout my career and your concepts is garbage in and garbage out. Customization is a must!
Network with people. That way you’re not a number on a spreadsheet
It's so hard that we have to network to get a job.
I don't see referrals working.
Also if I don't know many people then what? Or if I know people who are not in my field , then what.. it's hard.
@@sonaliv1489 I know what you mean. What kind of position are you looking for? I’m happy to try and help
I found I had the best luck being honest on my resume, only accurately describing each of my positions. Rather than spamming my applications out to 100s of jobs, I really spend the time to identify positions that I am a good fit without heavily modifying my resume. Obviously when I experienced a layoff, I spent more time customizing my resume out of necessity, like you said in this video, customization and job acquisition speed are related.
Had a hiring manager tell me I didn’t have enough laboratory experience. The listing asked for 10 yrs, I have 12 years with an engineering degree. Wtf?
10 minimum. Maybe yours wasn't the type they wanted.
@@VndNvwYvvSvv They were the same industry.
The changes to my resume really helped. Now I have two offers, thanks to these videos.
Great series you have going on.
Topic suggestions for a upcoming vlogs.
You need to really get past two levels - Noticed by the recruiter (getting say in the top 10-15) and then standing out to the manager making decisions (the top 3) about granting an interview. How to make sure both are noticing. Now if the communication between the recruiter and hiring manager is good, they shouldn't be -- but they are usually two very different audiences.
For someone with a 20+ year carer in a technical field a number of different jobs, and a good number of demonstrable accomplishments, or even 10+ years, what are the top 10 things one can do to cut the 5 page resume down to 2 or 1, and still demonstrate the depth and growth over those years. I know "they say" no one cares about what you did 5 years ago let alone 10 years ago, but depending on the role I was hiring for in my team, particularly the senior most technical role, I did.
Also, how does one best navigate a job req that is designed (intentionally or not) to find people who look just like the unicorn that the team just lost, or that looks just like the person doing the interview (not physically but educationally, culturally, etc). I have seen the situation occur, both when I participated in interview teams, and as a manager reviewing that feed back when making the hire decision on a candidate.
04:53 The templates part is so TRUE! I see some of my mates KILLING themselves designing fancy colorful CVs that won't make them any favors
Thank you for the valuable lesson! I am currently working on a career change and revising my resume, so your insights are incredibly helpful. Just started following you and looking forward to learning more!
What if someone sends 80 customised resumes and then a company x calls and we don't even remember what company it is and what resume we sent😂. It happens to me when i send above 10 resumes, i struggle to remember the company name and the position i applied for. Luckily i usually apply for one and the same position in every company only and the requirements are usually similar in most companies. But once i applied for something different and i didn't even remember it when they called me.😅
I have a simple sheet in my Google drive to keep track of applications (just the company name, position I applied to, and date). Recently heard that it’s a good idea to save a copy or screenshot of the job ad as well, in case it’s taken offline before you interview. Only takes a few seconds to fill in the sheet each time.
It’s also a really good visualisation of the job search process and I like to look at my sheet to remind me how far I have come in my jobsearch. Really helped with the frustration 😃
You could make a spreadsheet of all the companies that you applied for, the positions and even the date that you applied. That's what I do
Really difficult to convey prior relevant experience on a resume when changing careers...lord knows I'm trying though, along with networking (I think this will more likely be what leads to success)
Companies want post-doctorate workers and want to pay pennies.
The 1971 Powell memo made Anerika a fucking joke.
What powell memo?
@@herogebrial Past SCOTUS member Lewis Powell wrote the document and published it it 1971. That document controls EVERY aspect of your financial life. Maybe you should read the damn thing.
Hart-Cellar too. Several of these chess pieces have been carefully arranged over a long-term plan to usurp control of western nations.
Great advice and perspective! Although I would’ve liked to hear a suggestion on how to shorten bullets when we feel “they need this context”. Which makes for a massive bullet!
I’ll check out your services!
Hm. Tried 6 months of general resume approach and then 6 months of customization of each application. Exactly the same results - nothing. Completely ZERO. Still at the same position, but not discouraged, just switching gears and trying a different take on it. My conclusion: why even wasting 10 minutes of my super precious time to yield same results?Supposedly, where I’m aiming in terms of income and position people NEVER get hired by external resumes. Only hidden job market and references. You still get the like for all the efforts in supporting job seekers.
Start your own business. No need to submit resume.
Is there a such thing as targeting too hard, and not putting enough generic detail in my resume? I often end up being barely 400 words trying to fit it all on one page, and I try to make sure every bullet connects to the job description. But I almost feel I am trying to hard to do that, because I have had people tell me my resume doesn't explain my background well. If I make it go on for an entire other page, I would be adding a lot of fluff.
You should make sure your resume reflects the requirements for the job. Don't focus so much on how long/short, but rather the quality of the content.
I am by far a hiring/resume expert, and even I am shocked people are still doing the white font on the white background trip…. That’s a 20+ year old trick!!!!
Of course the secret sauce of customization is behind his paywall.....eyeroll
I call BS on looking at thousands of resumes per role. They look at however many they have to to find a few diverse candidates, then move on to the next role. Nobody has that kind of time...
Question: Without having searching previous content, I need resume help: During the C-word in 2021, & mortgage inflation, I was hired for a mortgage company for six months, and a bank for three. I quit the mortgage company due to questionable ethics, but I got dismissed from the bank in the 90 days because I didnt work fast enough. Mind you, I was the only loan operations servicer for 21 banks, and trained over the computer by someone who was also working on year-end book keeping tasks. Training was over Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year holidays (leaving a learning gap); I was let go right as I was getting the grasp of how all of the programs work and it sucked. Regardless, I have these two glaring jobs for 9 months total. How do I tackle that? I live in a "at will employment" state, but it seems to me that is meant to benefit the employers, not employees.
Never say you were fired, let go, terminated, dismissed from past jobs. Why, because all the other applicants aren't saying they were either- no joking! Employers will quickly trash your application if you say you were previously fired. Stretch the dates of your mortgage and bank jobs that get listed on applications/resumes, describe them as temporary contract positions. Never apologize for wanting to work, as a citizen you have that right. Keep your head up, try applying for 7 jobs a week, you'll start to get interviews.
where can i find good examples of resumes in the it field to study them?
RUclips- Xamplio 💕
Bull 💩, companies expect loyalty from you but they drop you in a second when your service is no longer needed.
Thanks for all of your awesome content. I have been devouring it. Can you share your thoughts on the résumé length limit? I feel like two pages is fine with modern ATS screening and digital file formats versus the old-school one page limit. What do you think?
Yeah, not customizing my resume to cater to EVERY different job out there. You either accept me or reject me. What’s worse is customizing to standout and they still reject you anyways.
lol people like you deserve to be unemployed. You are so lazy and arrogant that you wont even tweak a few words in there to help yourself? Even after the expert tells you how important it is? Woooowwww so difficult. You are legitimately a sad person with the emotional hardware of a pissy child.
Seriously. Just more hoops recruiters want you to jump through so when you get to the end of the process they can lowball you and you’re more likely to accept
Lol okay. Thats about the laziest thing i've ever heard. Why are you even here then? The expert tells you 'ya gotta do this to get a job' and tweaking a few words/sentences is just toooo muuuuccch work? Seriously?
@@sugarshack5129 I don’t care how “expert” one is. But I’m not about to tamper my already great resume every single time I apply to a job to try and standout to these people who won’t even look at your resume for more than 2 minutes. Imagine having to change your wording for all the hundreds of resumes you have to send out, it’s overwhelming and unnecessary. They either accept you or deny you, simple as that.
@@sugarshack5129 Imagine thinking that not wanting to do work for free is lazy
In interviews, be genuine and explain why you've applied. Yes, my organization wanted to know why I applied with them, as they could not match top dollar and located in a rural town. Why do you want to work with us in the middle of nowhere? My requests were doable and reasonable. I have benefits and my boss very understanding. I am now closer to family, friends, and in a nice town with low crime.
Yeah but in the end, you just want a job. They want you to act excited about a boring job. So fake. Few jobs are truly exciting or different than the next company's job.
Well I have three categories on mine like education, work experience, and awards and certifications all on one page.
I have been trying for 2 months to get a remote job. I have no issues getting a job "on site." How can I set myself apart from others when hundreds of people are applying for the same positions when I am 100% fit??
You don't apply for remote positions...
100,000 resumes? Sorry but I just don't find this believable. You've looked at more than 3 job openings during your career.
I agree strongly on the "don't take advice from those who haven't hired before"
But the who
- HR Recruiter / Head hunter
- Technical guy/gal
- Hiring Manager
Often hiring manager gives resume advice, that it has to be minimalistic and design oriented / with a template that came from a designer when we are on the tech field.
- recruiter / head hunter wants the "keywords" - skills + years of exp
- technical wants in-depth knowledge - "challenging keywords", "hints", and "easter-eggs about potential competence" -- oh he knows XXXX, I guess we gonna find that out.
- hiring manager - is just for formalities and just gets the feedback of #1 and #2
Yeah, keep saying "we gonna".
@@VndNvwYvvSvv grammar nazi
Job hunting is a giant crapshoot.
One tip: check that you put the correct name of your current employer 😳
One can only customize a resume so much. Either a person has the skillets the employer is looking for or not. It may get conversation with an employer but once the skills of the candidate are known, then all of the work to customize the resume is worthless.
Can you describe what you do for customizing?
Hopefully ChatGPT bit a chunk out of the market share for resume writers
Do you have tips for people that are doing interviews? I recently started a position where I do some hiring and a lot of interviews, but I feel like I don’t know what I’m doing or what I should look for.
Don't worry too much. They have literally done studies on this. If you interview for the perfect candidate or just draw random names out of a pool of people, your odds of getting good employees is about the same (random chance often makes it better, but not statistically relevant enough to say it is better for sure). So, there's no need to worry.
How do you handle the drop down menus w/red “mandatory” asterisks for gender, race, have you ever had a disability (yes even asthma is on the list)? The page doesn’t advance to the next screen w/o answers. 😢
Those that can’t do, recruit. Can’t stand those people
Those that can't do (or cant keep up) teach. Those who cant teach supervise.
@@VndNvwYvvSvv exactly
Customize every single resume... To job applications that want everything and the kitchen sink? I don't see how this is possible for most I.T./Software development roles.
The internet loves to tell young people to job hop to get a better salary....then I get 500 resumes when we do hire. All 28-32 year olds who had 5-7 jobs pushing paper and spreadsheets, few accomplishments, no explanation for why they had so many jobs and nothing tying them together....I can't contact any of them. They don't realize how scattered and generic their experience is. TBH I don't even know if all of them actively applied.
I handed in a resume with two lines on an a4 paper. The guy screwed it up and chucked it in the bin and said it was the worst cv he had ever seen. I got the job though.
However it was only a temping agency.
You work for 40yrs to have $1m in your retirement, meanwhile some people are putting just $10k in a meme coin for just few months and now they are multi millionaires. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life.
Those are excemptiond though, the former method is much easier to reproduce. I get that feeling though, I was a broke 20yr old when I realized bitcoin would be big. It was $9.14 at the time. This was back before the big exchanges. Had to send certified mailed and shyte.
And there is a lot of people who lost it all because of being scammed by get rich quick bitcoin schemes.
Shut up.
The best plan is to mostly invest in traditional investments and also put a small percentage in other types of assets like previous metals, fine art, and crypto. Don't fight change and don't dismiss it. Instead, try to fully understand it.
@@robertarnold6672And there are a majority in crypto who haven't been scammed. Just don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Question for you, or anyone who might be able to give some insight.
I understand that quantifying success in numbers on resumes is important. Is it worth it to quantify, (maybe in percentages?) revenue of a very small, 3 year old business? Basically, I’m trying to re-enter the workforce for more financial stability (and to fund this small business) but, I launched a small business in 2021 and gained a lot of experience in various areas. We started making sales by the end of 2022. In a dollar figures, the revenue likely won’t be very impressive, and we still have not made a profit.
I personally thought that including revenue numbers at least in percentages might be the right way to go. I don’t know if it’s because I have always fought imposter syndrome about everything in my life, or if I’m now second guessing that I should include it, since I also received advice from someone *not* to include it on my résumé, since the numbers dollar-wise aren’t impressive at all. But I also do see all the other advice that says it’s always good to quantify. Thanks for any insight you can give!
And what happens when you are a near perfect fit for the role and, the Talent Acquisition person says, "you are overqualified" and the rest of the interview panel (online video session) are too wimpy to contest her/him despite knowing that that they are NOT going to get another candidate at their offered pay rate WITH the credentials that the current one has.
I write separate, individual, customized resumes for every single role that I have applied for. But...I have to say this here...five interview panels seemed to have been so intimidated by my experience/credentials that the only face-saving device for them was to declare me as over qualified for the role. So....getting huge experiential knowledge to the interview is a massive negative, especially when you have the correct answers to every single question that is pitched at you.
Your videos are educative. Yes. If you can do some to address this dimwitted "over qualified" rubbish dished out, for people like me with 26 years of active military service AND 03 years of an over-arching role, post military service, handling all verticals of a business, it will be of great help to develop a strategy to dumb yourself down to the level of the panel.
Thanks!
I only customize my resume for jobs I really want to land
Yeah, that. . .or we could realize this is just more of the hr & business dog squeeze being just more of the bob iger example : blaming the rest of us for their hot garbage. Telling us it's really our fault for being lazy and stubborn. That we're just not writing and speaking in meaningless buzzword bingo babble well enough, just aren't good enough at answering mickey mouse interview questions that have nothing to do with anything, that we just dont fit the 'culture.'
And our response should be exactly what Musk said.
I don't think a 3-5 page resume is too long, if you've had many jobs within the past 10 years, specially as a contractor! 😊
There was a time when I had a big pile of resumes to go through, so I divided them into two piles: one pile from applicants whose names I could pronounce and another pile I could not. It's embarassing to call someone whose name I couldn't pronounce properly, right? I planned to go through the second pile only if I could not find any suitable candidates from the first pile, but the first pile gave me more candidates than I could handle already. It was tough screening through resumes when there were so many applicants.
Absolutely. It can also be a good general indicator (general, not individual, for the people who are about to try to be offended) of how well someone will work in groups. It correlates with ability to fit into a company or national culture. There are too many facotors to explain here, but even their parents willingness to assimilate to a culture by choice of their children's names can show. It can indicate how well they were integrated into a society, and thus their ability to communicate effectively and work in a team. They can have a different culture, sure, but the company has its own that they're trying to fit into. Fit and be more effective, or don't.
@@VndNvwYvvSvv racist prick
So in other words, you are lazy. Computers and ATS already do so much of your work, yet it's too much to look at different names.
I had someone in the government write mine. Would you mind taking a look? 😂
Does the Ultimate Job Seeker Bootcamp have the same info about writing resumes as Resume Rocket Fuel (since writing a resume is part of getting a job)?
The UJSB focuses on job search strategy, interviewing and offer negotiation. If you are looking to write a resume, RR and RR Essentials are a better option.
How many pages would you recommend?
2 pages its ideal
Definitely no more than 2. No hiring manager wants to go through all of that. References can be their own "3rd page".
I'd stick to 2 pages or under. Otherwise it's probably too long and wordy.
Your videos, while helpful, always have the most negative titles imaginable (not this video). They have such negative titles that I had to unsubscribe, and then take further actions so that your videos don't pop up in my stream and are the first things I see in the morning. Yeah, they are THAT negative. I have to comb through this negative crap just to get to the one or two crumbs of what could be considered reasonable points? Come on, man. Can't you do better? Or do you need the clicks that badly?
My resume is not the main problem. The real problem is that I have Autism and it is holding me back extremely much. I have a bachelor of science in Mechanical Engineering and an Associate degree in computer-aided drafting and Design and almost everyone is ignoring that because I have Autism. I can change my resume as many times as I want, make it better, and have it written better, and still will be rejected because of my Autism. My Autism is holding me back and there is nothing that I can do about it because society does not want a cure developed for those of us that want to be cured of it. I do not want to hear that my resume is holding me back because that is complete bullshit. The real reason why I am being held back is because I have Autism, that is it.
Don't tell them that you're autistic
I'm not sure what you're asking for here. Just venting or asking for advice?
The cure was for your parents to avoid toxic substances and damaging DNA and the fetus during the development process, and early childhood including vaccinations. (Yeah, yeah, "they" say otherwise, but they're the ones profiting, but I've been through the data. That's a whole other huge discussion we can have). Medical industry doesn't care, and the people owning that industry are mostly of the survival of the fittest type, so they figure if they're not figuring out what to avoid, it's basically deserved.
Anyway, you can help by getting off the internet and practicing, just having more conversations. It can be extremely uncomfortable, but it has to be in order to rewire portions of your brain. Don't expect miracles.
@VeritasEtAequitas What nonsense are you talking about? What toxic substances are you talking about? Scientist has debunked that myth for decades.
Unfortunately word of mouth often supersedes any sterling resume or candidate in our neck of the woods😳
Yep all depends who you sleep with for sure
Networking is the preferred method!
@@ALifeAfterLayoff nepotism alive and well
@@ALifeAfterLayoff hi Bryan! You'll see I have just amped my LinkedIn account. Aside from the offer to connect from 🇳🇬 Nigeria 😁I am seeing instant results ( nothing mind boggling, but I also have studied your resume writing, cover letter and interviewing tips👍🏻💯). Thanks for the tips 💁🏼♀️!
How does a person adjust a LinkedIn profile appropriately to avoid being too generic?
Eh. A LinkedIn profile is not a legitimate method to showcase a resume.
Simply repeat Communist propaganda and you'll get the job
Damned if you do, damned if you don't! All of this jumping through hoops, I'm just gonna apply for the circus.
"Come see this unemployed software engineer jump through a ring of fire suspensed 50 ft into the air above a tank full of hungry sharks!"
Software engineer? What are your qualifications?
An executive assistant role I recently applied to dinged me for not having "industrial polishing" as a skill. There's no point wasting the emotional energy on customizing each application when finding a job is already such a soul-crushing nightmare.
(This high-end, boutique firm let you test your resume against their filter for each listing.)
personally I only ever bother customizing my application and resume when it's a job I really want
if it's just something that looks a little better than my current job but not something I really want for my career I go minimum effort until they prove the offer is actually worth my time, more money and benefits is good and all but it's not enough in the long term, especially with the risk of getting stuck in a career path that's unfulfilling(again)
I'm a generalist. I can't be a "great fit" FOR ANY job.
There is no way for me to do this.
Like at all.
Please just do not make it a freaking flaming hoop to jump through.
I'm a broken beaten down, dirt poor, disabled man, not like some ninja guru gymnast...
absolutely agree there is no need to hire a professional CV writer..having spent $500 and realized peers have done a better job critiquing
So a customized resume should be considered a "Do it yourself" project.
You’re just encouraging me to lie on my resume at this point. If I’m a great applicant but I’m missing a minor skill that would get me off the consideration list, I’ll just add that skill. Sorry, I meant I would “tailor” my resume.
Tailoring your resume is key, strategy is key!
Totally frustrating process. I write my own resume and I’m on revision at least 15 if not closer to 20. I’ve trimmed it from 3 pages to just over a page. In the past 3 months I’ve applied to 29 jobs and heard back from 3 people. I keep hearing the same thing, customize your resume, add a cover letter get references - none of it has helped. At least not that I’ve seen so far. Guess I’ll keep banging my head against the wall and maybe some day I’ll break through.
thank you for exposing the other end of the conference table