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Not a recruiter, but this is from the candidate side. Please read the resume before inviting anyone. Far too many times I have shown up to an interview and bee
by MattGaiser 5y ago
Not a recruiter, but this is from the candidate side. Please read the resume before inviting anyone.
Far too many times I have shown up to an interview and been expected to know about tech I have never used, nor do I mention on my resume.
Plenty of other times (albeit most often from external recruiters), I have gone into interviews where they apparently wanted only senior developers and within the first 3 minutes been told "you are a lot more junior than we thought."
One time this has kind of worked out for me, but the rest of the time, it was just a waste of everyone's time.
- bradknowles 5y agoThere’s lots of stuff I don’t put on my résumé. Lots of things I’ve had to deal with over the years that I don’t want to have to deal with anymore. I’m thinking about chopping off the first twenty years or so of my experience and listing that as “more information on request”. Where I have gotten better lately is writing down and rehearsing more of the good stories I’ve built up over the years, and following the STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) format for organizing them. There’s some good write-ups I’ve seen for STAR, so I won’t try to link them here, but it’s a good process. I also try to include links that show more information about the stories, and I tie them back to principals that I’ve been told that the company cares about.