How to write a resume that converts

Re:How to write a resume that converts by david-gpu on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @04:14AM (#27115529)

Glad to learn that graduating from an unknown university makes me a bottom tier candidate.

Thankfully my co-workers who graduated from MIT and Stanford didn't know that, or otherwise they would have thrown away my resume.

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Re:How to write a resume that converts by Redoubts on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @07:20AM (#27116658)

Willfully missing the point is typically a negative quality.

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Re:How to write a resume that converts by worker767424 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @03:30AM (#27127684)

I was commenting that it's weird for someone screening resumes to not recognize many schools. Hypothetically, I could see you going to Harvey Mudd (great school) and a hiring manager not knowing about it. All the resumes aren't from those schools, though. You'd think a Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, CMU, Illinois resume would have passed by at some point.

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Re:How to write a resume that converts by david-gpu on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @05:12AM (#27128291)

When I was a hiring manager, most of the candidates I ran into came from international universities I had not heard about. Instead, I interviewed people based on the projects they had worked on.

In the other extreme I've even heard people here in HN argue that MIT and Stanford graduates are often mediocre, which is very different from my experience.

Hiring is hard and we all do it differently. YMMV.

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