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congrats!
the fucked up thing is that 100 applications is actually a really low amount for an offer. i probably get an interview every 400.
reading this and wanting to immediately give up on being alive
Just got a great job after applying maybe 500 times, and that was the first offer I got.
I had a good resume but hardly any interviews for like 6 months. Then I realized some of the experience autofill things were fucking up, and if they fuck up, then the resume scanning system is probably not able to read that shit properly either.
I changed my resume, it looks just a little worse, but it's got no tables and no weird formatting. It looks decent in NOTEPAD now. This new resume got me like 6 interviews in a month, and I was applying a lot more slowly. I literally have an interview I still need to go turn down. My SO went through the same experience with the old and new resume. Look up ATS testers. Make the stupid robot understand
The place I just got hired at was super, super excited to find me. Guess what? I applied to the same job on the old resume a couple months ago and THEY NEVER SAW IT BECAUSE IT GOT AUTO FILTERED. Literally these fucking things will do a half assed attempt at scanning the resume, try to collect information like employment gaps, fill a field like "Date of Employment" with the words "Attention to detail" and then conclude that you have NaN years of experience, and reject you.
Changing resume format to markdown is a really good idea, I'm going to do this today
Interesting, so what you just type it all flat in word or how exactly do you format it?
Yeah I used Word for one and Google Docs for the other, with a couple horizontal lines, no tables etc. No text aligned right etc. Just new lines, bullets, letters and numbers