#How are you expected to write a 1-page resume when job ads are longer than that?

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vocal oriole
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The point of a resume is to elaborate on the skills mentioned and required in a job advertisement. If you are trying to ensure you provide explanations for how you fit each skill/point of a job ad, then how can you possibly have a resume of one-page length?

For example, a single point of a job ad may say "Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products." Trying to elaborate on that might take 2-3 lines, and for a job ad having 10+ points, I don't see how you could make your resume concise.

tender current
pine kayak
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looking at some example resumes will show how people are doing exactly that

vocal oriole
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@pine kayak Not really. It is not as if the resumes posted come attached with the job ads they are applying to (although tht would be very useful)

pine kayak
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tailoring resumes is a very tedious process if you’re looking to mass apply, which 95% are doing

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additionally, some experiences you have may hit multiple points, so its not THAT hard to keep it to 1 page unless youre flooded with internships/job experience

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so having resume with attached job post is not really the point

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the point is to show case ur skills

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while im sure a job posting WOULD like someone to tick ALLLLL of their boxes, that is almost never the case so even ticking half the boxes youre in good standing

vocal oriole
pine kayak
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urm not sure who told you that

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maybe depending on the field

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ie general SWE vs Data Science job or AI job

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but tailoring ur resume while its not like bad advice, again if youre going to be applying to hundreds of jobs, editing the resume each time, ur gonna be applying to 1-2 jobs a day before u get tired and its just usually not worth the ROI imo

vocal oriole
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I guess it wouldnt hurt to try this mass apply method. If it doesnt work out I could reapply to the companis with something tailored in 6 months. Does anyone here second KJ's advice on ROI here?

jagged wyvern
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I have never either tailored my resume for a specific company nor applied to hundreds of postings, as an anecdote. However, the ones that cause people to send out hundreds of applications are internships and new grad positions and I didn't do either.

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I definitely wouldn't say that you have no chance with a generic resume. In terms of where your best ROI is, I tend to think it's in finding companies to apply for that don't have as much competition - if you've got a local small business that hires software engineers, there's a good chance no one has applied

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Sending a flood of applications out is the most widely-accepted strategy though.

junior python
# vocal oriole The point of a resume is to elaborate on the skills mentioned and required in a ...

The point of a resume is to elaborate on the skills mentioned and required in a job advertisement.

The bullet points on a job advertisement are largely exaggerated random fluff written by HR. Practically speaking the actual requirements are very different and more based on a general understanding of the position and company.

how you fit each skill/point of a job ad

That's not a very viable strategy at all for 99% of developer jobs. It can make sense to have different resume versions for categories of jobs (i.e. SWE vs. data scientist, or backend vs. frontend), but nobody tailors their resume to literally try to map onto the bullet points of a job ad (unless if there are particular bullet points that are highly substantial, like say you are applying for a position to help make X video game and you made a super famous mod for same video game).

More likely than not the recruiter or hiring manager reading your resume doesn't even remember what the job ad exactly said, except maybe for very broadly the level and domain of the position.

The other exception is that you arguably may get something out of generally including keywords in your resume, perhaps in your skills section, that you find emphasized in the job posting. That isn't really mapping line by line and isn't an impediment to a 1 page resume at all. Whether to do this depends on time tradeoffs.

I guess it wouldnt hurt to try this mass apply method.

It's not an either-or between mass-applying and tailoring to job ad bullets like what you mentioned, though I'd say that the tailoring of your resume is only in select cases to general job categories and most of the non-mass-applying strategy for jobs involves things like getting referrals and contacting recruiters on linkedin.

I want to be a bit blunt though and emphasize that what you said about trying to line up bullet-by-bullet to each job ad is utterly ridiculous and something you'll quickly realize as absurd once you get more experience applying to jobs. I'm not saying this to be rude - I just want to break any dunning-krueger that might be holding you back from being successful in the job search. The "map it to bullet points of a job ad" tactic is analogous to someone thinking you need to ask to use the bathroom in a college class, it's just a dead giveaway.

I'd strongly suggest going through the pinned posts on#339595755851612161 and then posting your resume on #973598253620789308

lusty bramble
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The point of a resume is to elaborate on the skills mentioned and required in a job advertisement

I'd recheck this assumption. The point of the resume is

  1. to get an interview
  2. to guide that interview with stuff to talk about

Tailoring the resume to the job description can help with 1, but writing out why you qualify for each skill line by line definitely isn't a requirement.

vocal oriole