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The resume's purpose is to get you the interview. (Re)write as appropriate. (Yes, more writing. On the other hand, no need to create one "perfect compromise"
by pasbesoin 14y ago
The resume's purpose is to get you the interview. (Re)write as appropriate. (Yes, more writing. On the other hand, no need to create one "perfect compromise" of a resume.)
Also, in the U.S. at least, the resume exists in conjunction with the cover letter. (Although online applications may be impacting this.) The resume is what. The cover letter is "I'm very/genuinely interested, and here is -- briefly -- how you might/should interpret my application including the experience the resume conveys."
You should hope to catch the reader's attention in 15 seconds or less, and expect them to initially spend no more than a minute -- two at the most -- on the combination. Hopefully, you make it to round two, where they spend more time on the content. More hopefully, you have a contact and/or reference of some sort, so that this consideration happens initially.
P.S. I guess I'm not considering the crazy, automated keyword matching and "AI" (cough) that goes on, these days. I think the best way past that is, again, to have a contact in or close to the hiring department, so that an inquiry about you is generated internally to HR (where, inevitably, your formal application has to go -- for "established" companies, at least).