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There is a lot of shitty advice here. I have found work for a lot of hackers (including a few HNer's) so allow me to nitpick: If the job posting says "Scrum" a
by Peroni 15y ago
There is a lot of shitty advice here. I have found work for a lot of hackers (including a few HNer's) so allow me to nitpick:
If the job posting says "Scrum" and your resume says "Agile" then you edit your resume and change that word to say "Scrum".
If the hiring manager can't see the relevance then I'd rather not waste my time with them. This applies to your Django & Rails reference also.
Skip the cover letter. This is not an essay contest. Nobody reads this.
Most people don't read it, some insist on it.
ACTUAL RESUME HACKS:
I agree with your first 2 points. The third and fourth a contradictory however.
Send your resume as a PDF attachment. Everyone can open a PDF.
Untrue. You will find most places prefer Word over PDF.
- snorkel 15y ago> If the hiring manager can't see the relevance then I'd rather not waste my time with them. You have to understand that hiring organizations have layers of people, your resume passes through a few human filters before it gets to the desk of the manager who posted the job, and not everyone in that filter process knows Agile ~= Scrum so you have to factor according to the lowest common denominator.
- Peroni 15y agoTrue but if it's in the hands of HR then it's the responsibility of the hiring manager to communicate that Agile & Scrum are analogous.
- snorkel 15y ago... and some hiring managers would communicate that to HR, but honestly, to HR people it all sounds like R2D2 talking to the trash compactor. You got to imagine some key deciders reading your resume has no clue what any of it means, they don't want to know what it means, but they know when strange words have the same spelling.
- Peroni 15y agoUltimately I agree with your original post to an extent. It certainly doesn't hurt to include the appropriate keywords but I wouldn't lose sleep over it.