I got downsized last year. Fortunately for me I found something amazingly quick. (applied 3 hours after getting let go, and had first day 15 days after let go) But we were given access to career services folks as part of our severance, and something the lady told me about resumes I thought was interesting and hadn't personally integrated:
Don't talk about what your responsibilities were, but what your accomplishments were. I always treated the resume job descriptions as a shortened version of the positions job description. So it was pretty bland in that it just talked about duties and responsibilities and not how I helped the companies I was with.
One of them also told me not to have my linkedin status be "experienced professional looking for work" or something as that often turns people off I guess.
Just a couple of things that I thought of while reading.
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