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But if a company selects one of your resumes, and you sent many similar ones to each company, then the companies may wonder about remarkably similar resumes and

by z9znz 4y ago

But if a company selects one of your resumes, and you sent many similar ones to each company, then the companies may wonder about remarkably similar resumes and then toss the batch out assuming it's BS. Of course it would also just make things worse, in that companies already tend to get innundated with garbage (or at least really not well aligned) candidates. This would just add more poop to the swimming pool. Eventually nobody wants to go near it, and the owners of the pool just turn their backs and find alternatives. This last point is another reason that networking and personal connections are almost always the best way to get job opportunities (often before they even reach the recruiters).

ryandrake 4y ago
That assumes the company is actually doing that kind of analysis on rejected resumes, or even less likely has a human with judgment reading them all. If you believe (as I do) that tech hiring, at least the initial filter/funnel, is largely an automation-driven random-chance numbers game, then it would be better to give yourself a 1,000/11,000 chance than a 1/10,001 chance. I'm not sure I yet believe in the "networking and personal connections" mysticism. I feel I wasted a lot of time in my life going to networking events and having networking conversations, and after all those theatrics, when it came time to get a job through this network, the response is often "Cool! Here's the hiring web page--get in the funnel and slug it out." You hear myths about people using their powerful network to bypass the normal interview hazing pipeline, but it's hard to find more than anecdotal examples.
- z9znz 4y ago
  Networking and human connections absolutely 100% matter. If you know the right people, you know about the need even before HR knows. You get recommended internally. Maybe you even have a meeting with an exec before the position officially opens. There's no doubt in my mind that a networking and personal connection approach yields 10x or 100x chance results compared to a shotgun resume/recruiter approach.

by z9znz 4y ago

ryandrake 4y ago

That assumes the company is actually doing that kind of analysis on rejected resumes, or even less likely has a human with judgment reading them all. If you believe (as I do) that tech hiring, at least the initial filter/funnel, is largely an automation-driven random-chance numbers game, then it would be better to give yourself a 1,000/11,000 chance than a 1/10,001 chance. I'm not sure I yet believe in the "networking and personal connections" mysticism. I feel I wasted a lot of time in my life going to networking events and having networking conversations, and after all those theatrics, when it came time to get a job through this network, the response is often "Cool! Here's the hiring web page--get in the funnel and slug it out." You hear myths about people using their powerful network to bypass the normal interview hazing pipeline, but it's hard to find more than anecdotal examples.

z9znz 4y ago
Networking and human connections absolutely 100% matter. If you know the right people, you know about the need even before HR knows. You get recommended internally. Maybe you even have a meeting with an exec before the position officially opens. There's no doubt in my mind that a networking and personal connection approach yields 10x or 100x chance results compared to a shotgun resume/recruiter approach.