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Took me 3 years to realize I was applying to jobs wrong the whole time
I was sending the same generic resume for everything. Last week a recruiter in Chicago straight up told me my resume looked like a template from 2015. She said I was using old keywords and my summary section was hurting me. I had no idea hiring managers skip resumes with objective statements now. Has anyone else had to completely redo their resume after years of doing it the same way?
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the_ben11d ago
My buddy in HR at a manufacturing company told me the exact same thing last month. I had the same generic objective statement on my resume since 2018 thinking it showed ambition. Turns out recruiters just skip right past those now. I rewrote everything from scratch focusing on numbers and results instead of responsibilities. It hurt deleting that old template I spent hours perfecting but honestly my callback rate went up like crazy after. Still learning the new rules though it feels like the game changes every year.
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patricia_wright11d ago
Man I felt that "it hurt deleting" line in my BONES.
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