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I do hiring in the US not the UK, but I'm only (I'm guessing) a few years older than you so you probably had the "keep it to one page" rule pounded into your he

I do hiring in the US not the UK, but I'm only (I'm guessing) a few years older than you so you probably had the "keep it to one page" rule pounded into your head. I get a lot of resumes, and that is definitely not the case anymore. Two to three pages is perfectly fine. I would suggest: 1. Add a list of skills and/or technologies you're particularly good in. You can include stuff you've used but aren't current in, but make sure it's annotated as such 2. Add a high-level summary that hits the aggregated highlights of your career. Especially important for making sure that the resume reader quickly understands your specialties and focus, depth and breadth. Your Blender work is badass and should def show up in that summary 3. If you have education, I'd add a small thing about that at the bottom. For smaller orgs it doesn't matter but bigger ones it will make a difference. Ditto if you have any certifications Overall though, I heartily agree that it's a vicious hiring market right now so don't take it personally. You look like a fascinating candidate! If we had open slots and our markets lined up more, I'd be shooting you an email. I'm a little weird in this regard, but I am particularly impressed by open source work that people do. It shows passion, motivation, and a willingness to make the world a better place, which are three things I really appreciate.

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MattPalmer1086 3y ago
This is good advice no matter what country you're in. Best advice I ever got is two things: 1. Make it easy for someone reading your CV to quickly know your core skills and experience (i.e. your points 1 and 2). 2. Don't just say you did the job, that's a given. Talk about specific points for each role you are particularly proud of. These will become talking points in an interview. Saying something like "worked on front end and back end systems" tells me almost nothing about you. What did you do on them? Anything interesting about it, any tricky technical or business problems you solved?
da39a3ee 3y ago
Yes but this is misleading and missing the point: there is nothing really wrong with this person's resume/CV. There is nothing about it which is off-putting and it does the job of communicating that this person is a very experienced software engineer who can communicate clearly, and has enough attention to detail and care to produce a nicely formatted CV and that they're obviously a reasonable candidate for pretty much any programming job that's close to their centre of gravity wrt the technologies required for the job. I also don't really understand why some people with decent CVs are getting literally no bites at all. Has the number of incoming resumes increased a lot in the last year or two? Is it because everyone across the country is applying for the same remote jobs?
- CableNinja 3y ago
  I was laid off in june. Ive been applying since August (except through december to now). Ive had bites and good talks but in the end, donuts. I obviously have no real evidence, but there have been a few times now where the recruiter has said: - "We got literally thousands of resumes for this position" - "We have had so many bad resumes, its been hard to find the good ones" Truth is, right now the tech job market is fucked. Theres been too many layoffs without enough places for others to go. Add to that, that the large companies are laying people off too, and the smaller companies would salivate at having an exgoogler or some other in their ranks
  - pschuegr 3y ago
    salivate - or possibly not. signed, xoogler having just as much trouble as the rest of y'all
    - 0xBDB 3y ago
      FWIW, I asked my last boss (a CISO) about taking advantage of the layoffs to staff up and his response was that he couldn't afford Meta and Google talent. I think this is a common perception among tech's less privileged - the manufacturers and insurance companies and such of the world. I don't know how to convey that you don't need Google-grade RSUs just because you're a xoogler, without looking desperate, but I wish I did because it would be handy for everybody about now.
- freedomben 3y ago
  > Yes but this is misleading and missing the point: there is nothing really wrong with this person's resume/CV. There is nothing about it which is off-putting and it does the job of communicating that this person is a very experienced software engineer who can communicate clearly, and has enough attention to detail and care to produce a nicely formatted CV and that they're obviously a reasonable candidate for pretty much any programming job that's close to their centre of gravity wrt the technologies required for the job. I agree there's nothing wrong, but (respectfully, truly) I think you're actually missing the point, possibly the is/ought fallacy? The point isn't to have "nothing wrong" with your CV/resume (which I agree OP has nothing wrong), the point is to get noticed. Generally speaking for most people, the whole point of a resume is to get you an interview. When you're competing against dozens, hundreds, or thousands of other resumes, standing out is hard, and failure to do so usually means no interview, which means no job, even when you are the most qualified candidate.
coldcoldground 3y ago
Having #1 and #2 on the first page seems to work well for my resume. I added a bullet point list of groups of related technologies, each group paired with a number of years of experience. I had feedback from several headhunters that this list had really helped them promote my resume.

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MattPalmer1086 3y ago

This is good advice no matter what country you're in. Best advice I ever got is two things: 1. Make it easy for someone reading your CV to quickly know your core skills and experience (i.e. your points 1 and 2). 2. Don't just say you did the job, that's a given. Talk about specific points for each role you are particularly proud of. These will become talking points in an interview. Saying something like "worked on front end and back end systems" tells me almost nothing about you. What did you do on them? Anything interesting about it, any tricky technical or business problems you solved?

da39a3ee 3y ago

Yes but this is misleading and missing the point: there is nothing really wrong with this person's resume/CV. There is nothing about it which is off-putting and it does the job of communicating that this person is a very experienced software engineer who can communicate clearly, and has enough attention to detail and care to produce a nicely formatted CV and that they're obviously a reasonable candidate for pretty much any programming job that's close to their centre of gravity wrt the technologies required for the job. I also don't really understand why some people with decent CVs are getting literally no bites at all. Has the number of incoming resumes increased a lot in the last year or two? Is it because everyone across the country is applying for the same remote jobs?

CableNinja 3y ago
I was laid off in june. Ive been applying since August (except through december to now). Ive had bites and good talks but in the end, donuts. I obviously have no real evidence, but there have been a few times now where the recruiter has said: - "We got literally thousands of resumes for this position" - "We have had so many bad resumes, its been hard to find the good ones" Truth is, right now the tech job market is fucked. Theres been too many layoffs without enough places for others to go. Add to that, that the large companies are laying people off too, and the smaller companies would salivate at having an exgoogler or some other in their ranks
- pschuegr 3y ago
  salivate - or possibly not. signed, xoogler having just as much trouble as the rest of y'all
  - 0xBDB 3y ago
    FWIW, I asked my last boss (a CISO) about taking advantage of the layoffs to staff up and his response was that he couldn't afford Meta and Google talent. I think this is a common perception among tech's less privileged - the manufacturers and insurance companies and such of the world. I don't know how to convey that you don't need Google-grade RSUs just because you're a xoogler, without looking desperate, but I wish I did because it would be handy for everybody about now.
freedomben 3y ago
> Yes but this is misleading and missing the point: there is nothing really wrong with this person's resume/CV. There is nothing about it which is off-putting and it does the job of communicating that this person is a very experienced software engineer who can communicate clearly, and has enough attention to detail and care to produce a nicely formatted CV and that they're obviously a reasonable candidate for pretty much any programming job that's close to their centre of gravity wrt the technologies required for the job. I agree there's nothing wrong, but (respectfully, truly) I think you're actually missing the point, possibly the is/ought fallacy? The point isn't to have "nothing wrong" with your CV/resume (which I agree OP has nothing wrong), the point is to get noticed. Generally speaking for most people, the whole point of a resume is to get you an interview. When you're competing against dozens, hundreds, or thousands of other resumes, standing out is hard, and failure to do so usually means no interview, which means no job, even when you are the most qualified candidate.

coldcoldground 3y ago

Having #1 and #2 on the first page seems to work well for my resume. I added a bullet point list of groups of related technologies, each group paired with a number of years of experience. I had feedback from several headhunters that this list had really helped them promote my resume.