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A top recruiter on what anyone can see after 30 seconds with your resume

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14 pointswyclif6 comments

Perhaps I'm being a little cynical, but the author of this post comes across slightly offensive. Like a millennial trying to tell an older generation they're doing it wrong. was a discussion before on this board about hiring practices, and considerable support for the practice of double-blind hiring. I think the key to fixing the recruiting and hiring practices of today, is to remove the emotion from it, and make it less about hiring someone you'd want to have a beer with, and More about the best person for the position.

Hrm. I'm not looking, but I like reading these things. Regarding "Objective, seriously? It's not 1992 anymore", I've always put an objective on my resume. Typically something short and sweet, like "seeking a senior software engineering position solving challenging systems problems" or whatever. Is that not useful? I wouldn't want someone to read beyond the first couple lines of my resume if they're looking for a web developer or a finance manager.

Think of it this way:

1) Your resume is sitting somewhere that it will be mixed with web devs and finance managers. Or...

2) Your resume is given to people who are hiring senior system software engineers.

Try to make sure #2 happens, which you should be doing anyways. And once that happens, the objective doesn't really matter much anyways.

Fair enough, but here's another example. Say someone is trying to move from IC to management. They might have no mgmt experience so they put "seeking engineering management position" as their objective. Is there a better way? The other traditional thing to do would be to explain this in your cover letter.

Edit: I get that you should be shopping it around and applying to various positions but it seems inevitable that a copy of your resume will get filed into countless HR databases. It seems rational to me to indicate what you're looking for on the resume.

> Things I wish people would stop doing:

> 2. Writing resumes in first person

> 4. Mixing up first person and third person

Is that a deliberate joke, or does she actually think that third person is preferable?

I liked it. Honest and quick read on how to present yourself.

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