Ask HN: What do you consider resume red flags?

Re:Ask HN: What do you consider resume red flags? by handbanana on Thursday May 03, 2018 @03:09PM (#16988878)

Workaround for #4. List all relevant tech at/near the top of your resume under a section called something like "Skills" or likely a better name than that. Try to be as concise as possible and avoid going too granular (listing just SQL vs TSQL, MYSQL, XYZSQL). I do something similar and avoid listing the tech used for jobs. If I was versed in many stacks/frameworks, I might have a bullet point/mention under each position what stack each company used (Rails, .NET, Django). As a side note to all of this, I believe resumes/CVs should be a single page

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Re:Ask HN: What do you consider resume red flags? by cimmanom on Friday May 04, 2018 @05:06AM (#16993201)

Single page resumes made sense when it was typical to stay in the same job for decades. They're not much use for explaining 20 years of experience and growth with 2-4 years at each stop.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you consider resume red flags? by handbanana on Friday May 04, 2018 @12:05PM (#16995656)

I guess this goes back to being concise. I comfortably fit 5 jobs and volunteer work on mine. I have no issue getting interviews or offers. I know others who stick to 1 page that have decades of experience, and similarly don't have issues finding work.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you consider resume red flags? by zimpenfish on Friday May 04, 2018 @09:20AM (#16994361)

> Try to be as concise as possible and avoid going too granular (listing just SQL vs TSQL, MYSQL, XYZSQL).

Tried that. Got endless calls from recruiters who assumed I knew Oracle, Sybase, MSSQL, etc.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you consider resume red flags? by handbanana on Friday May 04, 2018 @12:00PM (#16995599)

What did you do, upload your resume somewhere lots of recruiters have access to?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you consider resume red flags? by zimpenfish on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @01:25AM (#17019004)

Well, yeah, that's kinda how it goes.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you consider resume red flags? by handbanana on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @04:22PM (#17033663)

If you're in tech you shouldn't need to do it that way. Indeed/linkedin/stackoverflow/craigslist etc all have tons of tech jobs which you can selectively (or not) target. Many require not much more than a resume to apply

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