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Adjusting Your Resume For Every Job Offer Is Dreadful —Here’s A Fix
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Send tens of resumes adjusted precisely to job offers while being perfectly aligned with your experience. Get the job you are qualified to do
Imagine that. I’ve sent a resume to apply for senior frontend developer, but I got rejected because they were looking for senior web developer…
One job offer asks for Javascript, other for JS, while third for EcmaScript.
We can laught at it, but current job market creates a friction to actually apply for jobs, because before you’ll talk with someone with experience, you’ll go throught multiple filters of people not knowing technical details of your profession.
You didn’t write you know EcmaScript? Bye. Next.
On the other from the candidate perspective I’m well aware job search is a number game. You just have to send 100-500 resumes to find a perfect fit.
Things that contribute to these numbers:
- fake job offers to show company is growing
- job offers from platforms automating interviews to test their product (I’m not joking)
- obsolete job offers
- job offers missing essential…
