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That's a very reasonable assumption but you don't know that. A more realistic scenario is that your new, pared down resume lost major points as far as making it
by blurry 18y ago
That's a very reasonable assumption but you don't know that. A more realistic scenario is that your new, pared down resume lost major points as far as making it through the headhunters' and HR's dumb keyword filtering software, lost minor points as far as impressing generalist managers, and gained minor points as far as impressing technical managers.
I'd say when you tally it all, you get more points than you lose by listing non-core skills. Technical managers are usually the very last in the process and if your resume gets rejected upstream, you don't get to impress or un-impress them at all. Personally, I have never had anyone question my non-core skills. People usually look at several most recent projects to get an idea of your actual strengths.
- arockwell 18y agoIn my particular case, I doubt I really lost any points on HR screening because the skills I took off my resume were not skills that were even being asked for in the job postings I was looking at. But, you are right that I don't really know what is the impact of the change. That's probably what I've found most frustrating about job hunting and interviewing, its very hard to tell what is and isn't working.
- timr 18y agoI customize my resume for each job. If the company is small, I submit a tight, super-honest resume, and omit the buzzword-bingo. If submitting to Inittech Corporation, I submit a keyword-optimized resume guaranteed to please the screening software (then swear never to do that again...)