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Just realized my resume was getting auto-rejected because of one stupid line I copied from a friend
I was at a coffee shop in Austin a few weeks ago and overheard two recruiters talking about how they filter resumes before a human ever sees them. One of them laughed and said if your resume says 'seeking a challenging role' anywhere on it, it gets tossed because it sounds like every other one they get. I went home and checked mine and sure enough that exact phrase was sitting right at the top under my name. I had been applying to jobs for about 4 months with almost no callbacks, maybe 2 out of 60 applications, and I honestly thought the market was just brutal. I rewrote that section to say what I actually did at my old job with real numbers, like cutting ticket times by 15%, and got 4 interviews in 3 weeks. Has anyone else found out a single sentence was quietly killing their applications? What else are recruiters skipping over that we don't know about?
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blair_dixon26d ago
Skip the buzzwords and show the receipts. Recruiters scan for numbers and real results, not filler lines that match a million other resumes. Keep it plain and specific and you'll get way more bites.
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