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A recruiter told me to dumb down my resume and they were right, ugh
I spent like 6 months applying for AI ethics roles with this detailed resume listing all my technical projects and policy work. A recruiter at a conference in Austin told me nobody reads past the first 5 seconds and I needed to cut the jargon. I thought they were full of it lol but I was getting zero callbacks. So I rewrote the whole thing to just say things like 'trained bias detection models' instead of explaining the math. First week with the new resume I got 3 interview requests. Feels bad admitting a human was right over my fancy buzzwords but here we are. Has anyone else had to basically lie by oversimplifying just to get a foot in the door?
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walker.max27d ago
Used to think storytelling mattered more, but you convinced me simple and direct wins every time.
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Man, I read somewhere that recruiters spend like 6 seconds on a resume tops. Sounds like your old one was trying to explain the whole car instead of just saying it drives.
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