> Note that since switching to that resume format, I've been offered substantially better jobs. (And I've landed another good one.) Congratulations! The forma

> Note that since switching to that resume format, I've been offered substantially better jobs. (And I've landed another good one.) Congratulations! The format's appeal to business-minded folks with no technical background is clear. Everywhere I have worked and would want to work, hiring decisions have been made by technical people, so this is never something I have had to worry about. I can see how the dynamics would differ elsewhere in the industry. The general lesson is to think about your audience. Another reply to your post suggested you should have a scannable list of technology buzzwords to pass HR screening. That might be good advice most of the time but bad advice if you're submitting your resume by an inside track that goes directly to the hiring manager. If you were submitting your resume to a company whose culture is engineering oriented from top to bottom, you'd want to put a different emphasis on things, and so on. Best of all, of course, is to have your reputation precede you so that the resume is nothing more than a reminder and a set of talking points for the interview. I've been getting used to that with my last few jobs. Unfortunately, right now I'm in the midst of applying for an O-1 visa, so I've had to minutely enumerate my technical accomplishments, explicate their business relevance, and just hoot my own horn endlessly for the benefit of visa examiners who are industry outsiders and understandably cannot read between the lines. The level of documentation and the burden of evidence is immense: 180 pages and counting.