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One thing I look for in resumes is a subjective sense of whether the candidate is smart/passionate. While these things are very hard to glean from a static and
by leeny 14y ago
One thing I look for in resumes is a subjective sense of whether the candidate is smart/passionate. While these things are very hard to glean from a static and short document, I find, like a few of the other commenters, that a regurgitation of everything you've ever touched is a huge negative.
I'd much rather see less buzzwords and more content. Very few resumes actually contain job descriptions where I can tell what the person actually worked on. I care much less about what language you worked in than what you actually accomplished and whether you have strong CS fundamentals.
I'm also working on a resume analyzer and trying to use it to predict candidate success. One feature that has showed up as consistently being a predictor of a poor candidate is high keyword saturation (# of languages, OSs, frameworks etc divided by total resume length).