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proud ocean Oct 7, 2025, 6:07 PM

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I put "mid-level" too but i'm mostly getting reached out for Senior level

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and yes I am going for traditional 1in margins instead of less, looks better for a 2-pager (not like margin matters in the long run ik)

slim ruin Oct 7, 2025, 6:12 PM

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2 pager with only a few years of experience means most of your content will be ignored, focus on presenting all the high value info in a single page

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Any bullet that is more than 2 lines = too long, hard stop

proud ocean Oct 7, 2025, 6:12 PM

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almost 5 years now, I am not actively applying it's mostly to be sent to recruiters that reach out

slim ruin Oct 7, 2025, 6:12 PM

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Almost no metrics

proud ocean Oct 7, 2025, 6:13 PM

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like numbers?

slim ruin Oct 7, 2025, 6:13 PM

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april 2022 -> present = 3.5 years, not 5

proud ocean Oct 7, 2025, 6:13 PM

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intern

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i guess that doesn't matter

slim ruin Oct 7, 2025, 6:13 PM

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internships don't count towards yoe

proud ocean Oct 7, 2025, 6:13 PM

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fair

slim ruin Oct 7, 2025, 6:14 PM

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focus on adding impactful metrics with more concise language, your bullets are all way too long and don't come off very impactful

proud ocean Oct 7, 2025, 6:14 PM

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Personally I heard really conflicting stuff about metrics, I lean more to agree that adding numerical metrics don't make sense

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they care more about understanding what you do too

slim ruin Oct 7, 2025, 6:14 PM

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you should be able to find something for basically every bullet

proud ocean Oct 7, 2025, 6:14 PM

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hmm

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I'll review

slim ruin Oct 7, 2025, 6:15 PM

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example, your "produced graphs..." essentially useless, you're not a data analyst, focus on what the impact of those presentations was

proud ocean Oct 7, 2025, 6:15 PM

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That's the latter part but yeah it's way too long

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I'll focus on the impact before saying what i do for that one

slim ruin Oct 7, 2025, 6:16 PM

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No, what I'm saying is, no one cares you produced some graphs for leadership, what will make them care is the outcome of presenting to leadership

proud ocean Oct 7, 2025, 6:16 PM

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makes sense

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I specificially added this due to the job postings that i was targeting were mentioning stuff like this for AI/ML eng

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it's a datasci/data analyist point but it was mentioned within the postings

slim ruin Oct 7, 2025, 6:17 PM

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You can look here to see the difference #1421728200714883142 message

proud ocean Oct 7, 2025, 6:17 PM

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I'll rephrase it and comment it out if not mentioned within a position

slim ruin Oct 7, 2025, 6:17 PM

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I'm saying reframe around the actual leadership presentations

proud ocean Oct 7, 2025, 6:18 PM

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Yeah my bad, rephrase wasn't the right term

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rework*

slim ruin Oct 7, 2025, 6:19 PM

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Another example, your first bullet, what was the impact of that work? What did you drive by using ML and AI on those datasets? Is there a metric you can pull out here?

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"Pioneered internal..." can you provide a metric on volume of data you enabled to be processed?

proud ocean Oct 7, 2025, 6:20 PM

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Good points

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I'll think of metric/impact

slim ruin Oct 7, 2025, 6:21 PM

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seems like you got a lot of good experience buried behind too generic phrasing

proud ocean Oct 7, 2025, 6:21 PM

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Maybe i went too generic

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My previous resume was more impact and metrics but after hearing conflicting takes from recruiters I decided to go for this way

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like I had a lot of metrics that don't matter basically

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I think I'll add where i can find something actually impactful

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mix of both

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Thanks for your feedback still

slim ruin Oct 7, 2025, 6:23 PM

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my rule of thumb is:
If it's implementation work I need to have a good metric, sometimes using a business outcome instead of a technical one
If it's architectural work I prefer to have a metric but often it can stand on it's own

proud ocean Oct 7, 2025, 6:23 PM

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fair

slim ruin Oct 7, 2025, 6:24 PM

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As someone who does team match interviews and reviews resumes that side, I'd rather see 4-5 bullets where I can get a clear idea of their impact than a laundry list of ambiguous tasks

proud ocean Oct 7, 2025, 6:25 PM

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Yeah me too personally

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Issue is idk what a recruiter might want

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Ik what the hiring manager wants to see

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but when it comes to recruiter, idk 💀

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guess I need to keep both in mind, balancing act

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at the same time I saw applicant resumes that were just metrics and 90% of them did not matter and were just filler for metrics sake and i hate those 💀

slim ruin Oct 7, 2025, 6:26 PM

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recruiters like metrics too, even if they don't fully understand them

proud ocean Oct 7, 2025, 6:26 PM

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it's really a balancing act after all

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I didn't use this resume at all btw it's still in preproduction

slim ruin Oct 7, 2025, 6:27 PM

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yeah, bad metrics aren't helpful, might need to lean into business context rather than technical

proud ocean Oct 7, 2025, 6:28 PM

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Good feedback fam, thanks i'll reply when i update

slim ruin Oct 7, 2025, 6:28 PM

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awesome, good luck

manic wren Oct 7, 2025, 7:56 PM

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I agree, too long bullets

proud ocean Oct 8, 2025, 6:10 AM

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appreciate y'all i did some edits

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but idk if i should start a new thread

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for the bullet points.. I can't get them much shorter

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i updated margins back to 0.5inches

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back to 1 page

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omitted "skills" section as I already mentioned all the relevant skills/stack/etc in bullet points

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afaik that section is:
ignored best case
hurts you worst case

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issue with some points where i mention libraries

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had to repost a few times cuz of wrong version soz

proud ocean Oct 8, 2025, 11:53 AM

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proud ocean Oct 9, 2025, 2:14 PM

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