he keeps tweaking his resume, cutting it from 10 pages to two, then beefing it up to 24.
I’m no expert, but a 24 page resume?! I think I found your problem bud.
That’s fine if all the real content is in the first couple of pages and the keyword soup is clearly marked as such.
Edit: I forgot to mention that’s just my opinion, and I don’t read a lot of resumes these days. I think the real thing to remember is that at some point your resume is going to be read by a human being, and you don’t want to piss them off by making a tedious job even harder.
Seriously, wtf? Even some of the most extensive CVs I’ve ever seen from people with 30+ year careers still only top out at maybe 5 or so pages. I’m guessing this dude is trying to do what every first timer does and put literally every thing they’ve ever learned on their resume, every course with the syllabus description, every hobby, and just attaching the full job description for every job they’ve ever done.
I have a 2 page resume, and can still fit every skill, my last 5 roles, and even any relevant hobbies or other things to “stand out”. There’s literally no reason to have a resume this large, and it’s going straight into the garbage.
Mine is 1 page. I never let it get longer, because most people I know don’t read past the first page. If it’s not important enough to go on page 1, it doesn’t need to exist on the resume.
Everything important is on the front page, but I put the more “fun” stuff on the back, in terms of personal projects/hobbies or other things that might be semi-relevant to the role.
It works pretty well, because it also allows me to gauge their interest in me pretty quickly if they bring up anything on the back page. If they didn’t find my resume interesting enough to even bother flipping it over/scrolling down, it’s probably not a great fit. So far, it’s worked pretty well as every single time an interviewer has brought up something on the back page, I’ve gotten an offer.
I left tech a couple years ago. Left as in I couldn’t find work, so I drifted through a few dead end jobs before my next career landed in my lap. And you know what? I’m happier doing this than I ever was working at a computer all day.
Lol bro come on you can’t just say that and then not tell us what the new career is.
I get random messages on LinkedIn from people that want to interview me weekly, and my team has also seen some voluntary turnover. I’m not sure that I believe the article.
In the last 3 months, I’ve managed to get 2 interviews and the last one ghosted me. It’s still pretty bad for some of us.
I can attest to this. People want workers with way too much experience, paying way too little money, and that’s on top of moving to a location that doesn’t make any sense. Some of the jobs I’ve seen here required me to move to a city where the rent is double what the salary would have been
My husband in tech related job has been out of work for almost a year. He applies to things daily and has an interview once every two weeks or so (not counting many follow up interviews). He’s a decent interviewer. The usual response is, we like you for this, we’ll keep you in mind in the future, we just had so many applicants and the other guy is a better fit (or, we suspect, will do this job for less money). My brother in tech has also been out of work for months. Maybe your area is doing well? Our area had massive tech layoffs and is now way over saturated, and one of the main employers of our state (a tech firm) has been on a hiring freeze for months and months. Believe the article.
Get your resume out and see how long it takes you to just get a response asking to schedule a call. I’ve been job hunting opportunistically for 6 mo the and have applies to maybe 50 jobs and I have gotten 3 rejection emails and that is IT.
There is a lot of Tech in Tech.
Are we talking about Senior Designer-Developers, Web-Designers with 5 years experience or SEO experts with 2 years?!
What about mechanical engineers? Aerodynamic? Microsystems? Electronic? Tech companies always want these types.
I was laid off from a 16 year job at a tech hosting company and have been looking for a new job for about 4 months. It sucks
