Or get this, HR employees can read the resume and then make a decision. I’ve received so many rejection emails in the past year. I honestly don’t know what’s wrong with my resume. I will post it if anyone can help me fix it.
I hate to say it, but maybe you should have an AI do the proofreading. It is very likely that your resume is being fed to an AI at the company you send it to, so you can probably get representative feedback that way.
When i was heavy heavy jobseeking, just applying for everything and anything, I was sending about 200 applications a week and getting about 3 rejection letters/emails a week.
Then one day I received a hand-written letter. With a paid stamp. Lovely cursive writing. Hand drawn picture of a flower in the corner. Hand-written motherfucking rejection letter from a florist 2 towns over. Full A4 page. Im still baffled. Why put in that much effort?
I ran into a problem where I’m returning to an old career, so I formatted a .doc resume organizing and foregrounding my experience in that career. I’d been applying to jobs with it, and doing terribly, but then I realized that Indeed was just analyzing the resume and making a complete hash of it to present to employers. Now I’m forced to use a chronological-order resume that buries the bulk of my experience under a bunch of retail jobs.
And plenty of places don’t even give you the option to write a cover letter, either.
Or they’re doing what my company does, and holding offerings open to harvest resumes, either to sell the data or to have people they can throw on a list for their recruitment staff. Also just pumping numbers for board meetings - “we had 9k applicants for these 3 positions” sounds impressive and not dystopian to a certain type of investor.
For reference, we posted a job for 48 hours and got nearly 20k applications. Most were AI garbage, but there is no way a person could have gone through those in any reasonable time.
when I was involved with hiring (as a dpmt manager), I only had to look at resumes that made it past HR. and that was still an overwhelming amount, and full of people completely unqualified for the position or just with absolutely fucking terrible resumes
I read every resume myself, but goddamn was the hiring process ever a time suck. some people were not only wasting our time but theirs as well what with how much they clearly didn’t give a shit about the interview. thankfully there weren’t many of those
most phone interviews were 20min, if it went well it’d go up to 40 maybe, and we’d have them come on site for a walk through of the shop and chat about things. again, the better it went the longer it went, but it was usually about 30min because if we had people coming in, we were already pretty sure we were hiring them and it was more of a just hanging out chatting thing while looking at neat stuff
And the exact information that’s on my resume. Just let AI scan for the keywords or something!
Or get this, HR employees can read the resume and then make a decision. I’ve received so many rejection emails in the past year. I honestly don’t know what’s wrong with my resume. I will post it if anyone can help me fix it.
I hate to say it, but maybe you should have an AI do the proofreading. It is very likely that your resume is being fed to an AI at the company you send it to, so you can probably get representative feedback that way.
You receive rejection emails? I just get ghosted
When i was heavy heavy jobseeking, just applying for everything and anything, I was sending about 200 applications a week and getting about 3 rejection letters/emails a week.
Then one day I received a hand-written letter. With a paid stamp. Lovely cursive writing. Hand drawn picture of a flower in the corner. Hand-written motherfucking rejection letter from a florist 2 towns over. Full A4 page. Im still baffled. Why put in that much effort?
In case you thought I was ghosting yinz. Hi, thanks for joining the club
A lot of HR people are incompetent. Recruiters, too. And when you give incompetent people AI tools it’s a big multiplier of their incompetence.
I don’t understand why so many places still have non-technical people reading technical resumes.
I ran into a problem where I’m returning to an old career, so I formatted a .doc resume organizing and foregrounding my experience in that career. I’d been applying to jobs with it, and doing terribly, but then I realized that Indeed was just analyzing the resume and making a complete hash of it to present to employers. Now I’m forced to use a chronological-order resume that buries the bulk of my experience under a bunch of retail jobs.
And plenty of places don’t even give you the option to write a cover letter, either.
Possibly they were only posting the job at all due to HR regulations but in reality it was already spoken for.
The current job market is… not ideal, many people say.
Or they’re doing what my company does, and holding offerings open to harvest resumes, either to sell the data or to have people they can throw on a list for their recruitment staff. Also just pumping numbers for board meetings - “we had 9k applicants for these 3 positions” sounds impressive and not dystopian to a certain type of investor.
Hate to be on HRs side for this but my guess is it would be impossible to read every resume since every job posting is probably flooded with responses
For reference, we posted a job for 48 hours and got nearly 20k applications. Most were AI garbage, but there is no way a person could have gone through those in any reasonable time.
when I was involved with hiring (as a dpmt manager), I only had to look at resumes that made it past HR. and that was still an overwhelming amount, and full of people completely unqualified for the position or just with absolutely fucking terrible resumes
I read every resume myself, but goddamn was the hiring process ever a time suck. some people were not only wasting our time but theirs as well what with how much they clearly didn’t give a shit about the interview. thankfully there weren’t many of those
most phone interviews were 20min, if it went well it’d go up to 40 maybe, and we’d have them come on site for a walk through of the shop and chat about things. again, the better it went the longer it went, but it was usually about 30min because if we had people coming in, we were already pretty sure we were hiring them and it was more of a just hanging out chatting thing while looking at neat stuff
Yours must be better than mine I don’t even get rejection emails just silence
They sure will! … But they still want you to fill the mouse annoying form.
It annoys humans, too.
…damn autocorrect…