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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
So its funny, since I modernized my resume and made a pretty cover letter last week, I've set up 7 interviews. I'm negotiating on the contract role, which is a little back and forth. I'm hopefully moving to next steps on two of my interviews, and just had another reach out on an application tonight.
So what did I learn
1) It has to be pretty and have colors to it, when I went and got coaching, she said even though my resume was functionally ok, it didn't look good compared to other people.
2) If your older like me, remove anything but your latest 15 years of work history. Even though people deny it, there's a lot of ageism happening, especially in the current environment.
3) Less is more. Put in three real selling points per job. Don't just put in what you did, but make sure you talk about what you achieved or improved or changed.
4) Again on the age side, remove the date of graduation from university if your a little older.
5) Make sure that you put a skill set section in your resume with every skill that you have, this can get you past the applicant tracking system that filters resumes.
Hopefully this helps some of you.
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This is good Captain, and also good to hear you may be having some success (hope I'm not jinxing that).
The part about older people not going back more than 15 years is interesting to me because that would only leave my last two positions on my resume which doesn't seem like a lot.