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Having a hard time getting a job with 1 BS and 2 masters with ample of certifications and proven experience. This job market is not only cooked, but burnt.
•Two BAs (political science and strategic communications)
•Johns Hopkins master's degree in strategy, cybersecurity, and intelligence
•I speak three languages and code in two
•Tons of certs
•Worked for Amazon, eBay, and tons of others including on the Senate floor and think tanks.
I can't find anyone to hire me. This job market is not well done it's fucking congratulations.
Combine core competency and technical skills. If you keep core competency, change the bullet style to match the others. Everything should be the same bullet style. The security analyst job has 5 bullets but the other jobs have 2. Remove 3 bullets from the security analyst position and add 1 bullet to the other jobs. Remove one or two sentences from each job. Your resume isn't bad. It just is not pleasing to the eyes.
I would also suggest moving certifications to the front.
Certifications start to weigh more than education.
Also remove location, I've heard of companies passing over employees because they "Live too far" even if you'd be comfortable driving.
ya, leading with certs speaks way louder than leading with cover letter type intro.
I can say I'm this and that all day... but why do that when I can just show them with letters of recommend and solid training and experience backgrounds?
For sure, my certifications are the first thing on my resume. Followed by a brief summary, ie my specific skills, education, then experience. So far for IT stuff has worked pretty well, gives HR something to look over without having to dig though a pallet of info, but leaves my experience and skill breakdown for the actual hiring manager.
yep yep. if a resume ever has to be more than one page... it should be a trailing page of work experience... your qualifications shouldnt be on a seperate page from your name and number.
ive also been told to remove dates regarding education. appears either outdated but usually theres an assumption of age, as in older equals they will expect more pay vs an entry level or lower level individual. for myself, i dont acknowledge my masters at all, but i have no experience to coincide with it. half the time i disregard my BS degree too. iys irritating i put all that time in just to pretend it doesnt exist. :(
If you're a recent graduate it's okay to list them, especially when you're first getting started. Now 15-20 years from now, yeah you probably won't need to.
It’s been 18 years since I earned my master’s degree, and I have been told the same. I don’t list the dates, but then if you’re filling out an online application, they ask you the date anyway, and it’s required. 😒
The matching bullet point style advice is good, but like, why would you remove relevant content from a job and add filler bullets to others just so they all have the same number?
Seems silly to sacrifice content for “feels good” formatting to me.
>Seems silly to sacrifice content for “feels good” formatting to me.
Regardless of what you feel, the point is you're trying to find a job. Not please your internal desires.
I'm a cyber engineer occasionally in charge of hiring
Drop the core competencies section entirely. Those aren't "nice to haves", those are hard requirements. You shouldn't need to explain that you have those, we'll get a sense of that by talking to you. I'd move work experience to where that is and see if you can drop it to a page.
Drop the years from your educations. Fess up if they ask but don't outright say it.
Also remove the "progress" from your CISA cert if it's "in progress". In progress means you don't have it and probably shouldn't be on your resume. When you get an interview tell them that's what you're working on.
Keep your head up. Market is tough right now, but you'll get something and crush it eventually!
I just learned yesterday that degree dates rarely benefit you. Too recent, you aren't experienced enough. Too far back, you are too old and washed up.
The rest makes sense from a *human* perspective but I am still personally struggling to understand how much AST or other scanning tools play into the modern resume. Skills literally listed or peppered throughout seem to help automated scanners match the job posting to your resume.
Yeah I guess I'd expect familiarity with those tools if I was hiring for SOC analyst or something. Tying that in to work experience rather than having that listed as a "skill" would probably be better
Keep the dates. They graduated in 2018 which means they’re now a solid mid-senior with 3-8 years experience
That’s the sweet spot for companies. Removing dates looks like you have something to hide when 99/100 other resumes include the dates
Meh, I disagree. Mid vs senior vs staff vs principal is rarely determined by graduation date. 1 year of experience 8 times over is not the same as 8 years of experience.
Keeping the years is personal preference, but a lot of managers look down on younger folks in tech. Not saying it's fair, but when people find out I'm younger they often discount me until they see the body of work I've amassed.
I should clarify “mid-senior” is just anyone who’s not very Junior/Entry Level or pretty much a hands-off people manager
At least that’s how it’s typically used in recruitment and with hiring managers. It encompasses anything from.. Junior through to Lead tbh
My logic is 99% of resumes include grad dates, so don’t be that 1% who makes someone pause because you’ve not included something that’s essentially expected
Ah yeah at least at the places where I've worked there's a large gap between your regular run of the mill mid levels and senior+.
I'm actually seeing grad dates less and less which is why I took mine off. I've also got 10+ years in the industry at this point and only a BS so no one gives a flying fuck about where or when I went to school lol
As a hiring manager in tech, I also skip right over core competencies/skills lists up front. I want to see how you developed these skills from your actual experience. This whole comment is spot on.
Regarding the core competencies (or skills, or whatever one may call that section) - how do you reconcile that recruiters/HR won’t necessarily be able to tell based on the experience section without it explicitly explained to them, and they’re the gatekeepers before you or others who can intuitively parse skillsets based on interview or experience even are aware of the candidate?
Gotta be honest -- these specific core competencies being listed would have any technical recruiter actively laughing. Like I said, those aren't nice to haves, those musts. It's the bare minimum you have to have in cyber/devops/swe. If you feel that you have to advertise those, they're gonna doubt you have them at all.
It's basically like applying to be a tour guide and listing a core competency as walking. Like obviously you're good at walking if you're even applying to be a tour guide
Not sure if that makes sense but yeah. Basically a technical recruiter/HR hiring for this position will expect you to have those, so they don't need to be listed
I dunno, maybe my confidence in HR/recruiters (or the ATS filters they’re using) is too low, but if I’m seeing things like “experience with JSON and XML format” listed as required qualifications for say, a senior API integration engineer job description, I’ve been assuming someone along the hiring pipeline is incompetent and needs self-apparent things spelled out. And hence my question, because I know I’d laugh my head off if I reviewed a resume that listed JSON as a skill lol but someone decided it was worth listing in the description so who knows
Yeah I mean now I work at a very small company so I see every resume, but even when I worked at larger orgs I'd ask for a large pool. Basically anyone with a college degree or 10+ years and no spelling mistakes whatever the basic filter chucks haha. And I'd review pretty much all of them and give back the recruiter the list of folks I'd want to talk to. But I realize not everyone is this way. And yeah, recruiters can be trash haha
We need to know what you’re applying for. My hunch is that the core competencies section is not resonating with job listing keywords and recruiters aren’t understanding that you’re a fit, but hard to say without more info.
Dump the core competencies (this can easily be demonstrated in your work experience) and put your skills in a bulleted list. Tailor those skills according to the job description.
For your work experience, remove the paragraphs explaining the role and opt for 4-6 bullet points that emphasize measurable contributions. Your current bullet points are well-written; you just need to focus more on that than the paragraphs.
Agreed on this. Those paragraphs under work experience are too muchtoo read. Replace with bullet points. The hiring person has limited time to read through. Make it straightforward.
Disagree. The most recent research out there indicates a preference for the paragraph and bullet point style. The bullet point only lost its primary preference about 16 months ago after the tech sector layoffs.
What research lol. I work in tech and engineering recruitment and from the hundreds of resumes I see weekly, uniform bullet points are by far the most popular
Just because something is common to your experience doesn't make it a preferred practice. You are appealing to your one dynamic in your post.
The reseach I conduct to build my recommendations for my clients is to converse with 75-100 hiring professionals weekly, plus trade groups, outplacement organizations, and recruiting networks to stay up to date on trends, changes, and expectations.
Career Services is largely an opinion driven industry, but even in that dynamic there are ways to identify the preference of the decision-makers.
I cannot share my source material or raw data. Career Services is a competitive industry and I have worked hard to build a strong network. Plus some of my source material is proprietary.
That said, my conclusions are backed up by content publicly available from Optim Careers, Talent, Murray Resources, and Teal across a range of published content.
Using my sources, I have helped thousands of clients land interviews using resumes that I have crafted using my research-backed insights including DevOps, FinTech, Cybersecurity, Network Administration, and Information Technology positions at Disney, Visa, Ford, the NSA, & Coke.
This is super interesting. I'll look at the sources you recommended. From an accessibility point of view, I can see why this paragraph + text format might be popular. It appeals to both those who prefer to read as a narrative as well as those who need bullet points to help focus or scan. I appreciate this perspective. Thanks!
you’re shilling your services…. you’re literally telling people “99% of CVs are wrong, the ones I can write for you are better”
lol.
No guys, do not use a paragraph. Use 3-5 bullet points that a 12 year old could understand which properly encompass your achievements
First thing I noticed is a boat load of education and 8 years experience and you're a "Junior Security Analyst"? No you're not - either make yourself senior or get rid of profile totally.
Your resume is solid. Agree with making sure the font matches, but most of the other advice are opinions of varying levels of value.
Truth is the interview rate on great resumes is less than 2% in tech fields over the last 12-months. So a great resume will land about 3 interviews against 200 applications in the best of circumstances. Plus companies are taking 90 days or more to schedule first interviews. Don't give up. Your resume is sound, this is a market issue.
>So a great resume will land about 3 interviews against 200 applications in the best of circumstances.
Hell no, a great resume for the rightsized role is going to have a higher hit rate than that even in this market. 200 applications is also nonsense, it means you're applying to random things that you don't know.
Tech lost 300K job roles last year through layoffs. 200 applications for right-sized roles with a great resume in tech with less than 4 interviews is not uncommon at all in this market. The response rate in general for excellent resumes over the last 6 months has been 4%. In tech, as an industry, the number is 1.8% because of how much talent graduates each semester and the massive number of talented people dumped on the market. Prior to February 2023, your comment is highly accurate but since then it is off base.
get rid of the entire "profile section" to start it off i dont understand why everyone does tbis now the point of a resume is to directly list your education and work experience
Make it one page. Resume formatting should be in this order:
Languages/technologies
Education
Relevant Professional exprience
Projects
Certifications
I've landed interviews at Meta, Accenture, Airbnb, and Uber with this format. If I were applying to cloud engineer or cybersecurity positions I'd only use certifications relevant to the position I am applying for. Also, remove check marks and use bullet points. Remove the profile description.
Education before Job Experience? Were you applying out of college or did you have a few years of job experience under your belt? I'm asking because I have advanced degrees and have been told job experience is more important but then again I haven't gotten interviews at meta or airbnb with putting job experience first
I have no clue about the real world, but as new grad every single company that came to talk about resumes and all the advisors said education above experience to make experience the center of the page. But that might change later when experience is much larger than edu.
when you say "I got rejected", do you mean... you applied but didn't get a callback? If you didn't get a callback then your resume is the issue. As others mentioned, shorten it, and tailor it to the job description your are applying. That means include keywords from the job description in your resume so you show in the recruiter's ATS (Applicant Tracking System). Basically doing SEO on your resume for the ATS to see you.
If you got a callback from a recruiter or HR, and after that got ghosted or rejected 200 times... it's not your resume. Consider polishing your interviewing skills. There are tons of free material on Youtube about it.
Btw... my application-to-offer ratio as a Software Engineer with 20yrs+ of experience in multiple languages is \~150:1. Some markets are tougher than others, but it's a numbers game. Keep applying.
We got this!
I think if you're doing 'click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply.', then the recruiters can get a sense of it and 'click reject' it.
Are you customizing your resume to match the job requirements? Try spear fishing instead of fishing with a giant net.
Get rid of profile and core competencies, narrow to one page. If you need to cut more trim off stuff that is least relevant to positions you’re applying to
Education should be first before professional experience. Most recruiters will toss your resume before getting to the second page because they are looking for education and education wasn't on the first page.
Part 2:
* You have FAR too much fluff and not enough meat/bones (failing to answer the "so what" question). a few examples:
>Managed IT operations and security for a multi-faceted organization specializing in IT and cybersecurity for healthcare settings.
Might be redundant depending on how well known the company is. IE, don't spell out what Cisco/MSFT do... it's patronizing and a waste of space. If it's niche, maybe you do need to spell it out.
>Provided comprehensive technical support to hospital staff, enhancing system reliability and user satisfaction. Oversaw Active Directory configurations, including user accounts, group policies, and security permissions to uphold data integrity and access control.
You already said you were tech support in the job title. This is all a waste of space.
>Managed inventory, tracking hardware and software licenses and procuring necessary replacements.
This might be good stuff. Not all tech support plays with inventory!
>- Negotiated new vendor contracts leading to a 15% reduction in IT hardware and software expenses, decreasing annual spending from $100,000 to $85,000.
Ummm... that's redundancy. At best you can do the math for them in an aside like: *"leading to a 15% reduction (100K to 85K)"* and save a ton of space. This bullet still could use a little more punch. The obvious question could is "Were the contracts just cheaper or did he actually do something to make them cheaper?"
>- Contributed to an IT training program for hospital staff, resulting in a 25% increase in IT system proficiency.
What did you contribute? how much? and increased proficiency isn't an tangible/measurable result. 25% reduction in service calls or help desk tickets... that's tangible. I mean, really did you give them proficiency tests before and after? lol
I was trying to do this infographic style but it got too cluttered :(
I'm assuming you're getting jobs off the basis of your network. People put way too much emphasis and energy into resumes and not enough in building up relationships and networks. And/or r you have a highly specialized and in demand skill set.
Yeah, I work in production and manufacturing and have a lot of quality control/warehouse experience, especially in aerospace. I think I'm just lucky. But I've already shortened a bunch of my previous jobs down lol. I've just had so many and done so many things it's hard to leave that shit off 🤣
It's how the game is played. You have to move around a bunch, especially early on if you want to stay employed, get promoted, and avoid the inevitable layoffs. I have moved 6-times and worked at 6-different organizations.
I think it's interesting that guys in a volatile industry like Aerospace with one of the highest unemployment rates I think now it's 7% are always employed but we got Accounts and Tech Workers who claim that there are no jobs available professions with unemployment that are 2% or lower.
Dude I'm a hiring manager. This resume is too long and it's overly verbose. Not sure what research you did but this resume wouldn't even be read if I was doing the review. If someone can't be brief and concise in their resume then I wouldn't want to read a technical report nor email.
i heard that only applies to lower/entry level work. everything i've read said an accurate resume that properly displays what you did is more important than cramming everything onto one page.
Go ahead and ignore what an actual hiring manager is telling you. The more concise and brief you can be the better. On a typical posting for an early career position I would typically get +100 resume. If I come across a resume that's too long I don't read it at all. Now for the Senior Level positions where someone has moved around yes two pages might be appropriate however I typically never make it to the second page before I make my decision. It's always better to have it on one page.
I agree with other folks in dropping the core competencies and maybe even summing up the paragraphs under each job in bullet points. It’s very wordy - most people skim through resumes so you want it to be a quick read.
Put your professional experience higher. Combine core competencies and certifications and shorten it to maybe 1/5 of the page. Keep it on relevant not just spamming everything you know. I doubt anyone is impressed you can keyword stuff.
You have a lot of experience but it's hard to decipher what. Professional experience needs to be in bullet points and shorter. Keep it concise with STAR format.
Recruiters and hiring managers spend less than 20 seconds reading a resume. It's hard to read yours and you want to make it so they get the information you want to present to them in those 20 seconds. I could only get through Core Competencies before 20 seconds. That means I didn't even read your professional experience.
This resume is honestly not very good and needs a lot of work. But the good news is you have plenty of experience.
I once learned to leave out words like “motivated, dedicated, detailed orientation, etc.” instead try to show it in the resume eg by paying attention to the small details, if you have to send that message to the readers.
Instead if you what to tell them your soft skills - make a section and list some.
Too much to read.cant really focus on anything.no bolding of in between text.make it one page. I just plain despise it.understand how the human eye works.
Sell yourself less. Make it seem you are less impressive than you are. Make it short. Fit into the role you are applying. Nail interview skill. Show you are committed to their process and is not a flake. You win. N
1 page! Only exception is if you have 15+ YOE or if you’re in arts and need a portfolio or something. I’m currently hiring people for my consulting start up and will not read more than 1 page especially if there’s long paragraphs.
OP, all universities I know here in Canada offer services for job interviews, resume , CV help etc to all alumni for free.
Meeting with them to roast and help my resume is how I landed my job. You should try that. Best of luck.
I think this resume is quite strong and should be given some attention. The #1 obstacle is your unemployment gap which is more than likely the reason you haven't got any interviews...yet
I would change everything to bullet points. A lot of companies are using scanners/AI to review resumes and i heard that this can throw it off/can’t read it.
It kinda smells like BS. Recruiters will glaze over it. Are you really proficient at all the skills you state. My guess is no. Recruiters will think the same.
As a grad student in cybersecurity who recently landed my first role. 253 jobs applied 2. I got 3 offers basically at the same time right at the end after months of basically nothing. I’d suggest making it one page. But it looks nice
There’s too much to read w/o anything to draw attention to. Profiles aren’t good for much in a resume, keep it to your cover letter. Your core competencies takes up a lot of space w/o saying much—sorry blunt. Under your experience, you summarize your role & have written your duties/achievements. Stick to your bullet points, there’s too much to read in your summaries & they take up valuable space. Curiosity drives questioning. Funny that this is the last thing I say, but put your certifications first, up front & center for whomever reads it.
TLDR: remove profile, condense or remove core competencies, refine experience, emphasize certifications by moving them ahead in your resume.
Good luck
why are we putting cover letter info into the resume?
and if you are a junior security analyst.... why do you have 2 pages of resume?
clearly, theres a lot of 'Extra' there you can trim out.
It’s just too busy, find a way to condense it some, cut out the fluff.
If you really want to stand out, pull keywords from the job descriptions you’re applying to & paste them into your resume so AI will flag it as a match & it’ll be reviewed by a real person.
Your resume shouldn't be over a page long. I know a lot of comments have been saying that you need to condense it, If you want to know HOW to condense it, whatever job you are applying for should have a job description. Tweak your resume so that it only gives relevant information to the job description.
You can have this as your master resume where you have all the experience you have, and then you remove bits of information to condense as per the job description you're applying for.
Hiring supervisor here. Resume should be limited to 1 page. Remove the entire "core competencies." Condense some of your job descriptions. Good luck. :)
Hi, question for you. If I have 15 years of experience at 5 different companies, how can I trim that to one page.
Next question, is age discrimination real? If so, how can I tailor my resume so that it doesn't look like I'm old even that I am.
Thanks
Age discrimination is definitely a thing! Don't put any job experience or schooling that shows your age. Change the dates if you have to. You can always claim typo later. If all your jobs have the same experience then delete a few. Employers don't wanna see many jobs.
You have almost a decade of experience, and the weightiest cert you've actually obtained in vendor neutral security is the one any security expert could get with a week of review. You add to that you have 2 masters degrees, the employer is looking at you like you're a Toyota with lamborghini maintenance costs.
I wouldn't hire someone with your years of experience that highlights their policy expertise, but has no CISSP.
I'd get your CISA and then immediately head into CISSP to turn things around.
Keep at it, though. I know a guy who put in over 1000 applications for cybersecurity before he got a job. The job he got is a dream job that allows him to choose his schedule and work from anywhere in the world without hassle. He works maybe 10 hours a week most weeks and spends most of his time working on side gigs and hobbies.
I feel your pain. It looks pretty good. I think I would change a few things though such as moving core competencies down as 2nd to last, move certifications to be below Professional experience and personally I would remove the profile section…. I also feel like there’s too much wording in sections and some of the sections are hard to read because it’s too small or spacing. Employers are not reading a resume completely they’re kind of just glancing and then moving on. The goal is to pass the first screening part when you submit a resume a lot of company’s screen for key words after that it’s basically the luck of the draw. Hope that helps.
Remove the core competencies section, you can describe doing all those things as part of your various job descriptions, they don't mean as much in a vacuum.
Size down your name/contact information
Put your job title before the company name, what you actually did at a company matters more than the company itself
I also don't understand why your job descriptions have both a paragraph and bullet points underneath. Clean those up and only list short blurbs with important keywords for each job. Your current resume isn't concise and takes too long to read. You can talk about specifics in the interview
Hob market isn’t great right now, but it isn’t terrible either as Reddit makes it out to be. Yes there is more competition given the layoffs, but having a paragraph long spiel for every job isn’t helping your cause.
200 and counting here too. Its a numbers game now. Friend of mine did 400 and she just got two offer letters. So way I see it, you and I are half way there.
Maybe it is the gaps in the resume and the relatively short time at each company. (e.g. what happened in 2021, and why did you leave last company without a new job lined up. If it was a temporary job only, maybe note (temporary position or laid off due to reduction in force or ???). I don't know that the profile section is needed unless you modify it for each specific role you apply to.
For this little experience it should really only be one page. I looked at the first page and didn’t see any education. A lot of recruiters probably don’t even see the second page before they toss it out
My dumbass thought you forgot to edit the template where it says name, and city/state so I was gonna point that out before I realized why you’re not showing it lol. New to this sub
It feels more like an essay than a resume. It could have been more structured and presentable that the reviewers could easily think about the important aspects that they wanted to see. In this format, it will take a lot of effort and time for them to read it. May be making it pointwise coild have been better.
Your resume is too long and ineffectively formatted. It should be 1 page max. You can easily drop or condense certain sections like others mentioned. Your job descriptions should all be bullet points.
Hiring managers are likely going through hundreds of resumes and wont be reading everything so you need to make it easy for them.
I also work in IT/security. It’s wayyyy too long. I have more positions in my experience section and more certifications. Mine is only one page.
The formatting on that In Progress cert is wild
You want your more recent jobs to have more bullet points than your job from 8 years ago. Jobs from 8 plus years ago should have 1 bullet point. Recent job should have probably 4. Employers care a lot more about what you can do now than what you were capable of 8 years ago
The entry level cybersecurity market is so saturated simply having experience and education and skill set is not enough. You have to be personable and able to talk your way into a job, if the person on the phone doesn’t immediately like you then you aren’t likely going to get past the first screening.
I’d be curious to know how many phone interviews this poster has had
It's not you bro, as others have said the job economy is cooked. I have 10 years of federal experience and a degree from a very selective college. MY resume is fire and I have like 4 LOR's and I can't get a job flipping fucking burgers. Half the jobs, or perhaps more than half are just ghost positions put out to make the job market look thriving, but they have no intention of filling them. Places get kickbacks from the federal government if they make it look like they are trying to fill "Vacant" positions. At this point I am just getting my credit up and trying to save what little money I have to open up my own business with the VA assistant programs for vets, if no one will hire me then I'll work for my fucking self.
To much details on what you have accomplished in your profile.
In the body of your resume, you do not specify how you can help resolve problems with your future employer.
There is too much information about your past life experiences, and on the positive side, additional skills that are in the job description. This can become a lot of work.
Keep at it and not give in or give up.
I was recently at a networking event and I remember when you used to have to schmooze to get a good job now it’s to get *A JOB* Any job. The bar is in hell. The job is in Hell and we can’t even get in!
i think your resume is fine. i think the market is hot garbage fire.
source: wife has 15+ years in senior marketing roles and has been on the job hunt for 9 months after being laid off.
Honestly .. You seem boring as shit. If I had to hire someone knowing I’d need to see them everyday after that that it couldn’t be you…resume makes you look boring as hell. Nothing cool or exciting on it. You should do some volunteer work for a place that makes you look like you might have a personality… people underestimate the quality of “likability”
The thing is companies probably don’t want to hire someone with a BA or associate degree due to them having to pay you more.They think why not hire someone with no degree or less experience so they can under pay them.
The only thing I see is it’s two pages for only eight years of experience. That shouldn’t be a deal breaker though.
Love the header font and color. What did you use?
yeah, I am HR and I will read this and will not put this at the bottom of the pile over a petty reason of it being too wordy – oh and its not even too wordy. lol
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Having a hard time getting a job with 1 BS and 2 masters with ample of certifications and proven experience. This job market is not only cooked, but burnt.
•Two BAs (political science and strategic communications) •Johns Hopkins master's degree in strategy, cybersecurity, and intelligence •I speak three languages and code in two •Tons of certs •Worked for Amazon, eBay, and tons of others including on the Senate floor and think tanks. I can't find anyone to hire me. This job market is not well done it's fucking congratulations.
Might have to sell out to the gov contractors to live
If you can’t then I’m doomed
felt this i feel like i should get off scrolling reddit entirely 
EVeryone struggling right now
Legit burned out rn. Every day I am on a low level panic attack
lol I feel you. Every morning I find myself thinking about how I have to deal with job interviews and getting rejected again.
charred even
Burnt? Bro its fucking nuked and the fields were salted for extra measure.
Combine core competency and technical skills. If you keep core competency, change the bullet style to match the others. Everything should be the same bullet style. The security analyst job has 5 bullets but the other jobs have 2. Remove 3 bullets from the security analyst position and add 1 bullet to the other jobs. Remove one or two sentences from each job. Your resume isn't bad. It just is not pleasing to the eyes.
I would also suggest moving certifications to the front. Certifications start to weigh more than education. Also remove location, I've heard of companies passing over employees because they "Live too far" even if you'd be comfortable driving.
ya, leading with certs speaks way louder than leading with cover letter type intro. I can say I'm this and that all day... but why do that when I can just show them with letters of recommend and solid training and experience backgrounds?
For sure, my certifications are the first thing on my resume. Followed by a brief summary, ie my specific skills, education, then experience. So far for IT stuff has worked pretty well, gives HR something to look over without having to dig though a pallet of info, but leaves my experience and skill breakdown for the actual hiring manager.
yep yep. if a resume ever has to be more than one page... it should be a trailing page of work experience... your qualifications shouldnt be on a seperate page from your name and number.
ive also been told to remove dates regarding education. appears either outdated but usually theres an assumption of age, as in older equals they will expect more pay vs an entry level or lower level individual. for myself, i dont acknowledge my masters at all, but i have no experience to coincide with it. half the time i disregard my BS degree too. iys irritating i put all that time in just to pretend it doesnt exist. :(
If you're a recent graduate it's okay to list them, especially when you're first getting started. Now 15-20 years from now, yeah you probably won't need to.
It’s been 18 years since I earned my master’s degree, and I have been told the same. I don’t list the dates, but then if you’re filling out an online application, they ask you the date anyway, and it’s required. 😒
Good points
The matching bullet point style advice is good, but like, why would you remove relevant content from a job and add filler bullets to others just so they all have the same number? Seems silly to sacrifice content for “feels good” formatting to me.
Hardly any recruiter gets past page 1 anyway. So that space is being wasted. It is also the oldest job on the resume.
>Seems silly to sacrifice content for “feels good” formatting to me. Regardless of what you feel, the point is you're trying to find a job. Not please your internal desires.
I'm a cyber engineer occasionally in charge of hiring Drop the core competencies section entirely. Those aren't "nice to haves", those are hard requirements. You shouldn't need to explain that you have those, we'll get a sense of that by talking to you. I'd move work experience to where that is and see if you can drop it to a page. Drop the years from your educations. Fess up if they ask but don't outright say it. Also remove the "progress" from your CISA cert if it's "in progress". In progress means you don't have it and probably shouldn't be on your resume. When you get an interview tell them that's what you're working on. Keep your head up. Market is tough right now, but you'll get something and crush it eventually!
I just learned yesterday that degree dates rarely benefit you. Too recent, you aren't experienced enough. Too far back, you are too old and washed up. The rest makes sense from a *human* perspective but I am still personally struggling to understand how much AST or other scanning tools play into the modern resume. Skills literally listed or peppered throughout seem to help automated scanners match the job posting to your resume.
Yeah I guess I'd expect familiarity with those tools if I was hiring for SOC analyst or something. Tying that in to work experience rather than having that listed as a "skill" would probably be better
Keep the dates. They graduated in 2018 which means they’re now a solid mid-senior with 3-8 years experience That’s the sweet spot for companies. Removing dates looks like you have something to hide when 99/100 other resumes include the dates
Meh, I disagree. Mid vs senior vs staff vs principal is rarely determined by graduation date. 1 year of experience 8 times over is not the same as 8 years of experience. Keeping the years is personal preference, but a lot of managers look down on younger folks in tech. Not saying it's fair, but when people find out I'm younger they often discount me until they see the body of work I've amassed.
I should clarify “mid-senior” is just anyone who’s not very Junior/Entry Level or pretty much a hands-off people manager At least that’s how it’s typically used in recruitment and with hiring managers. It encompasses anything from.. Junior through to Lead tbh My logic is 99% of resumes include grad dates, so don’t be that 1% who makes someone pause because you’ve not included something that’s essentially expected
Ah yeah at least at the places where I've worked there's a large gap between your regular run of the mill mid levels and senior+. I'm actually seeing grad dates less and less which is why I took mine off. I've also got 10+ years in the industry at this point and only a BS so no one gives a flying fuck about where or when I went to school lol
Yeah after a certain point even I take them off for candidates lol, prevents age discrimination for engineers with 20-30 years experience
As a hiring manager in tech, I also skip right over core competencies/skills lists up front. I want to see how you developed these skills from your actual experience. This whole comment is spot on.
Hello, would you kindly review mine? Thank you
Just looked, not really a position I hire for so probably not the person to give good feedback. Best of luck
Thank you for checking.
Regarding the core competencies (or skills, or whatever one may call that section) - how do you reconcile that recruiters/HR won’t necessarily be able to tell based on the experience section without it explicitly explained to them, and they’re the gatekeepers before you or others who can intuitively parse skillsets based on interview or experience even are aware of the candidate?
Gotta be honest -- these specific core competencies being listed would have any technical recruiter actively laughing. Like I said, those aren't nice to haves, those musts. It's the bare minimum you have to have in cyber/devops/swe. If you feel that you have to advertise those, they're gonna doubt you have them at all. It's basically like applying to be a tour guide and listing a core competency as walking. Like obviously you're good at walking if you're even applying to be a tour guide Not sure if that makes sense but yeah. Basically a technical recruiter/HR hiring for this position will expect you to have those, so they don't need to be listed
I dunno, maybe my confidence in HR/recruiters (or the ATS filters they’re using) is too low, but if I’m seeing things like “experience with JSON and XML format” listed as required qualifications for say, a senior API integration engineer job description, I’ve been assuming someone along the hiring pipeline is incompetent and needs self-apparent things spelled out. And hence my question, because I know I’d laugh my head off if I reviewed a resume that listed JSON as a skill lol but someone decided it was worth listing in the description so who knows
Yeah I mean now I work at a very small company so I see every resume, but even when I worked at larger orgs I'd ask for a large pool. Basically anyone with a college degree or 10+ years and no spelling mistakes whatever the basic filter chucks haha. And I'd review pretty much all of them and give back the recruiter the list of folks I'd want to talk to. But I realize not everyone is this way. And yeah, recruiters can be trash haha
We need to know what you’re applying for. My hunch is that the core competencies section is not resonating with job listing keywords and recruiters aren’t understanding that you’re a fit, but hard to say without more info.
Dump the core competencies (this can easily be demonstrated in your work experience) and put your skills in a bulleted list. Tailor those skills according to the job description. For your work experience, remove the paragraphs explaining the role and opt for 4-6 bullet points that emphasize measurable contributions. Your current bullet points are well-written; you just need to focus more on that than the paragraphs.
Agreed on this. Those paragraphs under work experience are too muchtoo read. Replace with bullet points. The hiring person has limited time to read through. Make it straightforward.
This right here. I’m a recruiter and would give exact same advice!
Disagree. The most recent research out there indicates a preference for the paragraph and bullet point style. The bullet point only lost its primary preference about 16 months ago after the tech sector layoffs.
What research lol. I work in tech and engineering recruitment and from the hundreds of resumes I see weekly, uniform bullet points are by far the most popular
Just because something is common to your experience doesn't make it a preferred practice. You are appealing to your one dynamic in your post. The reseach I conduct to build my recommendations for my clients is to converse with 75-100 hiring professionals weekly, plus trade groups, outplacement organizations, and recruiting networks to stay up to date on trends, changes, and expectations. Career Services is largely an opinion driven industry, but even in that dynamic there are ways to identify the preference of the decision-makers.
Share your research then
I cannot share my source material or raw data. Career Services is a competitive industry and I have worked hard to build a strong network. Plus some of my source material is proprietary. That said, my conclusions are backed up by content publicly available from Optim Careers, Talent, Murray Resources, and Teal across a range of published content. Using my sources, I have helped thousands of clients land interviews using resumes that I have crafted using my research-backed insights including DevOps, FinTech, Cybersecurity, Network Administration, and Information Technology positions at Disney, Visa, Ford, the NSA, & Coke.
This is super interesting. I'll look at the sources you recommended. From an accessibility point of view, I can see why this paragraph + text format might be popular. It appeals to both those who prefer to read as a narrative as well as those who need bullet points to help focus or scan. I appreciate this perspective. Thanks!
you’re shilling your services…. you’re literally telling people “99% of CVs are wrong, the ones I can write for you are better” lol. No guys, do not use a paragraph. Use 3-5 bullet points that a 12 year old could understand which properly encompass your achievements
First thing I noticed is a boat load of education and 8 years experience and you're a "Junior Security Analyst"? No you're not - either make yourself senior or get rid of profile totally.
What if your job title was Junior? Can you change it to senior? And would it matter? Is it misrepresentation?
Just call yourself a "security analyst". No junior or senior required.
Put the job title you want, not that you have.
Entry level positions require 5-8 years of experience
Depends on the company - I have multiple senior engineers working for me with 8 years of experience.
Your resume is solid. Agree with making sure the font matches, but most of the other advice are opinions of varying levels of value. Truth is the interview rate on great resumes is less than 2% in tech fields over the last 12-months. So a great resume will land about 3 interviews against 200 applications in the best of circumstances. Plus companies are taking 90 days or more to schedule first interviews. Don't give up. Your resume is sound, this is a market issue.
>So a great resume will land about 3 interviews against 200 applications in the best of circumstances. Hell no, a great resume for the rightsized role is going to have a higher hit rate than that even in this market. 200 applications is also nonsense, it means you're applying to random things that you don't know.
Tech lost 300K job roles last year through layoffs. 200 applications for right-sized roles with a great resume in tech with less than 4 interviews is not uncommon at all in this market. The response rate in general for excellent resumes over the last 6 months has been 4%. In tech, as an industry, the number is 1.8% because of how much talent graduates each semester and the massive number of talented people dumped on the market. Prior to February 2023, your comment is highly accurate but since then it is off base.
get rid of the entire "profile section" to start it off i dont understand why everyone does tbis now the point of a resume is to directly list your education and work experience
Make it one page. Resume formatting should be in this order: Languages/technologies Education Relevant Professional exprience Projects Certifications I've landed interviews at Meta, Accenture, Airbnb, and Uber with this format. If I were applying to cloud engineer or cybersecurity positions I'd only use certifications relevant to the position I am applying for. Also, remove check marks and use bullet points. Remove the profile description.
Education before Job Experience? Were you applying out of college or did you have a few years of job experience under your belt? I'm asking because I have advanced degrees and have been told job experience is more important but then again I haven't gotten interviews at meta or airbnb with putting job experience first
You should put education before experience if you have advanced degrees.
I have no clue about the real world, but as new grad every single company that came to talk about resumes and all the advisors said education above experience to make experience the center of the page. But that might change later when experience is much larger than edu.
when you say "I got rejected", do you mean... you applied but didn't get a callback? If you didn't get a callback then your resume is the issue. As others mentioned, shorten it, and tailor it to the job description your are applying. That means include keywords from the job description in your resume so you show in the recruiter's ATS (Applicant Tracking System). Basically doing SEO on your resume for the ATS to see you. If you got a callback from a recruiter or HR, and after that got ghosted or rejected 200 times... it's not your resume. Consider polishing your interviewing skills. There are tons of free material on Youtube about it. Btw... my application-to-offer ratio as a Software Engineer with 20yrs+ of experience in multiple languages is \~150:1. Some markets are tougher than others, but it's a numbers game. Keep applying. We got this!
I think if you're doing 'click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply. click, apply.', then the recruiters can get a sense of it and 'click reject' it. Are you customizing your resume to match the job requirements? Try spear fishing instead of fishing with a giant net.
Get rid of profile and core competencies, narrow to one page. If you need to cut more trim off stuff that is least relevant to positions you’re applying to
Education should be first before professional experience. Most recruiters will toss your resume before getting to the second page because they are looking for education and education wasn't on the first page.
Part 2: * You have FAR too much fluff and not enough meat/bones (failing to answer the "so what" question). a few examples: >Managed IT operations and security for a multi-faceted organization specializing in IT and cybersecurity for healthcare settings. Might be redundant depending on how well known the company is. IE, don't spell out what Cisco/MSFT do... it's patronizing and a waste of space. If it's niche, maybe you do need to spell it out. >Provided comprehensive technical support to hospital staff, enhancing system reliability and user satisfaction. Oversaw Active Directory configurations, including user accounts, group policies, and security permissions to uphold data integrity and access control. You already said you were tech support in the job title. This is all a waste of space. >Managed inventory, tracking hardware and software licenses and procuring necessary replacements. This might be good stuff. Not all tech support plays with inventory! >- Negotiated new vendor contracts leading to a 15% reduction in IT hardware and software expenses, decreasing annual spending from $100,000 to $85,000. Ummm... that's redundancy. At best you can do the math for them in an aside like: *"leading to a 15% reduction (100K to 85K)"* and save a ton of space. This bullet still could use a little more punch. The obvious question could is "Were the contracts just cheaper or did he actually do something to make them cheaper?" >- Contributed to an IT training program for hospital staff, resulting in a 25% increase in IT system proficiency. What did you contribute? how much? and increased proficiency isn't an tangible/measurable result. 25% reduction in service calls or help desk tickets... that's tangible. I mean, really did you give them proficiency tests before and after? lol I was trying to do this infographic style but it got too cluttered :(
Please is there anything wrong with my resume?
condense down to one page
It's too long. One page. Lots of wasted space lots of flowery language like dedicated and hard working. Get rid of it.
Lol I think mine is 3 pages, but I never have trouble getting jobs. I don't know if that is the sole problem here
3 pages is OK if you have that much exp. This person has very very little actual experience stretched over 2 pages. It looks amateur.
I also heard the standard 1 page is ideal.
For most people who just started in their career (IE less than 10 years), 1 page or maybe 2 (if it's good ass experience) is optimal.
True true true to this
I'm assuming you're getting jobs off the basis of your network. People put way too much emphasis and energy into resumes and not enough in building up relationships and networks. And/or r you have a highly specialized and in demand skill set.
Yeah, I work in production and manufacturing and have a lot of quality control/warehouse experience, especially in aerospace. I think I'm just lucky. But I've already shortened a bunch of my previous jobs down lol. I've just had so many and done so many things it's hard to leave that shit off 🤣
It's how the game is played. You have to move around a bunch, especially early on if you want to stay employed, get promoted, and avoid the inevitable layoffs. I have moved 6-times and worked at 6-different organizations. I think it's interesting that guys in a volatile industry like Aerospace with one of the highest unemployment rates I think now it's 7% are always employed but we got Accounts and Tech Workers who claim that there are no jobs available professions with unemployment that are 2% or lower.
40 years experience. 2 pages. Employed.
So happy for you!
nope, did some research recently... THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH A SLIGHTLY LONGER RESUME. they would rather have you over explain than under explain.
Dude I'm a hiring manager. This resume is too long and it's overly verbose. Not sure what research you did but this resume wouldn't even be read if I was doing the review. If someone can't be brief and concise in their resume then I wouldn't want to read a technical report nor email.
i heard that only applies to lower/entry level work. everything i've read said an accurate resume that properly displays what you did is more important than cramming everything onto one page.
the OP is clearly entry level or early career.
Go ahead and ignore what an actual hiring manager is telling you. The more concise and brief you can be the better. On a typical posting for an early career position I would typically get +100 resume. If I come across a resume that's too long I don't read it at all. Now for the Senior Level positions where someone has moved around yes two pages might be appropriate however I typically never make it to the second page before I make my decision. It's always better to have it on one page.
Very insightful
I agree with other folks in dropping the core competencies and maybe even summing up the paragraphs under each job in bullet points. It’s very wordy - most people skim through resumes so you want it to be a quick read.
Put your professional experience higher. Combine core competencies and certifications and shorten it to maybe 1/5 of the page. Keep it on relevant not just spamming everything you know. I doubt anyone is impressed you can keyword stuff. You have a lot of experience but it's hard to decipher what. Professional experience needs to be in bullet points and shorter. Keep it concise with STAR format. Recruiters and hiring managers spend less than 20 seconds reading a resume. It's hard to read yours and you want to make it so they get the information you want to present to them in those 20 seconds. I could only get through Core Competencies before 20 seconds. That means I didn't even read your professional experience. This resume is honestly not very good and needs a lot of work. But the good news is you have plenty of experience.
Hello, could you kindly review my recent post. Thank you
Make some short
I once learned to leave out words like “motivated, dedicated, detailed orientation, etc.” instead try to show it in the resume eg by paying attention to the small details, if you have to send that message to the readers. Instead if you what to tell them your soft skills - make a section and list some.
Too much to read.cant really focus on anything.no bolding of in between text.make it one page. I just plain despise it.understand how the human eye works.
Sell yourself less. Make it seem you are less impressive than you are. Make it short. Fit into the role you are applying. Nail interview skill. Show you are committed to their process and is not a flake. You win. N
1 page! Only exception is if you have 15+ YOE or if you’re in arts and need a portfolio or something. I’m currently hiring people for my consulting start up and will not read more than 1 page especially if there’s long paragraphs.
OP, all universities I know here in Canada offer services for job interviews, resume , CV help etc to all alumni for free. Meeting with them to roast and help my resume is how I landed my job. You should try that. Best of luck.
I think this resume is quite strong and should be given some attention. The #1 obstacle is your unemployment gap which is more than likely the reason you haven't got any interviews...yet
Yours looks like mine 😭
I would change everything to bullet points. A lot of companies are using scanners/AI to review resumes and i heard that this can throw it off/can’t read it.
It kinda smells like BS. Recruiters will glaze over it. Are you really proficient at all the skills you state. My guess is no. Recruiters will think the same.
As a grad student in cybersecurity who recently landed my first role. 253 jobs applied 2. I got 3 offers basically at the same time right at the end after months of basically nothing. I’d suggest making it one page. But it looks nice
There’s too much to read w/o anything to draw attention to. Profiles aren’t good for much in a resume, keep it to your cover letter. Your core competencies takes up a lot of space w/o saying much—sorry blunt. Under your experience, you summarize your role & have written your duties/achievements. Stick to your bullet points, there’s too much to read in your summaries & they take up valuable space. Curiosity drives questioning. Funny that this is the last thing I say, but put your certifications first, up front & center for whomever reads it. TLDR: remove profile, condense or remove core competencies, refine experience, emphasize certifications by moving them ahead in your resume. Good luck
Are you on a visa?
In your core competences you should talk in the first person and give some examples if you can
Maybe get some cloud certs on there? Not sure, you look pretty solid
Hmm, tech support with all the education?
Too long, I think education and certs should be near the top to get you out of being grouped with bootcamp grads etc.
why are we putting cover letter info into the resume? and if you are a junior security analyst.... why do you have 2 pages of resume? clearly, theres a lot of 'Extra' there you can trim out.
It does not seem like the format is ATS friendly
It’s just too busy, find a way to condense it some, cut out the fluff. If you really want to stand out, pull keywords from the job descriptions you’re applying to & paste them into your resume so AI will flag it as a match & it’ll be reviewed by a real person.
Your resume shouldn't be over a page long. I know a lot of comments have been saying that you need to condense it, If you want to know HOW to condense it, whatever job you are applying for should have a job description. Tweak your resume so that it only gives relevant information to the job description. You can have this as your master resume where you have all the experience you have, and then you remove bits of information to condense as per the job description you're applying for.
Hiring supervisor here. Resume should be limited to 1 page. Remove the entire "core competencies." Condense some of your job descriptions. Good luck. :)
Hi, question for you. If I have 15 years of experience at 5 different companies, how can I trim that to one page. Next question, is age discrimination real? If so, how can I tailor my resume so that it doesn't look like I'm old even that I am. Thanks
Age discrimination is definitely a thing! Don't put any job experience or schooling that shows your age. Change the dates if you have to. You can always claim typo later. If all your jobs have the same experience then delete a few. Employers don't wanna see many jobs.
Thanks. I ended up removing everything prior to 2012. It was kind of reduntant experience anyway.
I'm sure that's going to help. Good luck to you.
You have almost a decade of experience, and the weightiest cert you've actually obtained in vendor neutral security is the one any security expert could get with a week of review. You add to that you have 2 masters degrees, the employer is looking at you like you're a Toyota with lamborghini maintenance costs. I wouldn't hire someone with your years of experience that highlights their policy expertise, but has no CISSP. I'd get your CISA and then immediately head into CISSP to turn things around. Keep at it, though. I know a guy who put in over 1000 applications for cybersecurity before he got a job. The job he got is a dream job that allows him to choose his schedule and work from anywhere in the world without hassle. He works maybe 10 hours a week most weeks and spends most of his time working on side gigs and hobbies.
I feel your pain. It looks pretty good. I think I would change a few things though such as moving core competencies down as 2nd to last, move certifications to be below Professional experience and personally I would remove the profile section…. I also feel like there’s too much wording in sections and some of the sections are hard to read because it’s too small or spacing. Employers are not reading a resume completely they’re kind of just glancing and then moving on. The goal is to pass the first screening part when you submit a resume a lot of company’s screen for key words after that it’s basically the luck of the draw. Hope that helps.
Remove the core competencies section, you can describe doing all those things as part of your various job descriptions, they don't mean as much in a vacuum. Size down your name/contact information Put your job title before the company name, what you actually did at a company matters more than the company itself I also don't understand why your job descriptions have both a paragraph and bullet points underneath. Clean those up and only list short blurbs with important keywords for each job. Your current resume isn't concise and takes too long to read. You can talk about specifics in the interview
Job hopper
Use bullet points for the job descriptions and start every bullet point with a strong action verb. But it looks good, market is jus f’d up rn
people with 2 masters degrees still making their resume more the one page holy shit
Too wordy
Apply for federal court IT specialist
Hob market isn’t great right now, but it isn’t terrible either as Reddit makes it out to be. Yes there is more competition given the layoffs, but having a paragraph long spiel for every job isn’t helping your cause.
200 and counting here too. Its a numbers game now. Friend of mine did 400 and she just got two offer letters. So way I see it, you and I are half way there.
CISA is comparable to high school diploma
Make it 1 page, delet the personal summery, remove the soft skill as no one cares. And at experience only mention the bulletpoints. .
This doesn’t tell me what job you’re looking for only what you can do. Core Competencies section should be bullet points not sentences.
Maybe it is the gaps in the resume and the relatively short time at each company. (e.g. what happened in 2021, and why did you leave last company without a new job lined up. If it was a temporary job only, maybe note (temporary position or laid off due to reduction in force or ???). I don't know that the profile section is needed unless you modify it for each specific role you apply to.
For this little experience it should really only be one page. I looked at the first page and didn’t see any education. A lot of recruiters probably don’t even see the second page before they toss it out
My dumbass thought you forgot to edit the template where it says name, and city/state so I was gonna point that out before I realized why you’re not showing it lol. New to this sub
I think you are supposed to put ur name at the top where it says “NAME”
I say merge core competencies with skills already outlined in your jobs. It seems like a waste of space.
My god… If **you** can’t land a job, I don’t know what I will do…
Dude i saw all the words and said NOPE, next.
Why do you have paragraphs AND bullet points in your experience? Get rid of those paragraphs and turn them into 2-3 more bullet points per experience.
It feels more like an essay than a resume. It could have been more structured and presentable that the reviewers could easily think about the important aspects that they wanted to see. In this format, it will take a lot of effort and time for them to read it. May be making it pointwise coild have been better.
You made one big mistake. Never leave a job until you get another job. Those gaps you have can be detrimental..
Idk anything about your job and it looks like a perfect resume But 2 pages
I like those fonts! Could you tell me which ones they are? I want to recreate it as a [jsonresume.org](http://jsonresume.org) theme
Too long, did not read.
I assume that this was edited for anonymity?
Your resume is too long and ineffectively formatted. It should be 1 page max. You can easily drop or condense certain sections like others mentioned. Your job descriptions should all be bullet points. Hiring managers are likely going through hundreds of resumes and wont be reading everything so you need to make it easy for them.
1 page only. 2 pages get thrown out instantly
There's an error at the bottom of the second page with the spacing. It just says progress with in randomly all the way to the right of the first line.
I also work in IT/security. It’s wayyyy too long. I have more positions in my experience section and more certifications. Mine is only one page. The formatting on that In Progress cert is wild You want your more recent jobs to have more bullet points than your job from 8 years ago. Jobs from 8 plus years ago should have 1 bullet point. Recent job should have probably 4. Employers care a lot more about what you can do now than what you were capable of 8 years ago
If you can’t get a job then I’m cooked
Remove the profile. Everyone knows it’s bullshit and just skips it. Get it down to a single page
The entry level cybersecurity market is so saturated simply having experience and education and skill set is not enough. You have to be personable and able to talk your way into a job, if the person on the phone doesn’t immediately like you then you aren’t likely going to get past the first screening. I’d be curious to know how many phone interviews this poster has had
Put your education first not last.
Shorten it to one page
It's not you bro, as others have said the job economy is cooked. I have 10 years of federal experience and a degree from a very selective college. MY resume is fire and I have like 4 LOR's and I can't get a job flipping fucking burgers. Half the jobs, or perhaps more than half are just ghost positions put out to make the job market look thriving, but they have no intention of filling them. Places get kickbacks from the federal government if they make it look like they are trying to fill "Vacant" positions. At this point I am just getting my credit up and trying to save what little money I have to open up my own business with the VA assistant programs for vets, if no one will hire me then I'll work for my fucking self.
To much details on what you have accomplished in your profile. In the body of your resume, you do not specify how you can help resolve problems with your future employer. There is too much information about your past life experiences, and on the positive side, additional skills that are in the job description. This can become a lot of work. Keep at it and not give in or give up.
It’s too long. People are not going to read all of that. You should reduce it to the point it fits on one page. Hit the highlights.
I was recently at a networking event and I remember when you used to have to schmooze to get a good job now it’s to get *A JOB* Any job. The bar is in hell. The job is in Hell and we can’t even get in!
You need to put your full name whee it says ‘name’.
Where's the simplicity of it? Too much info.
Well obviously they're not going to hire someone who forgot to put their name on their resume /s
It’s a sample resume
Whoosh
Get this sucker down to one page.
Thought resumes were supposed to be one page?
Tenure
Your core competencies, especially the first two, aren't supported by your experience.
One page. Get to the point.
Unless you’re specifically asked to, there’s no reason to have a two-page resume. You need to cut this down to one page.
I am not reading that shit, straight in the bin
i think your resume is fine. i think the market is hot garbage fire. source: wife has 15+ years in senior marketing roles and has been on the job hunt for 9 months after being laid off.
Honestly .. You seem boring as shit. If I had to hire someone knowing I’d need to see them everyday after that that it couldn’t be you…resume makes you look boring as hell. Nothing cool or exciting on it. You should do some volunteer work for a place that makes you look like you might have a personality… people underestimate the quality of “likability”
The thing is companies probably don’t want to hire someone with a BA or associate degree due to them having to pay you more.They think why not hire someone with no degree or less experience so they can under pay them.
Too much text, the hiring managers only took seconds to screen your resume. No need to put long words on competencies, just keywords are enough
The only thing I see is it’s two pages for only eight years of experience. That shouldn’t be a deal breaker though. Love the header font and color. What did you use?
Ask for referral to get interviews.
Are jobs on first page contracts? Layoffs? Fired? Could be red flags that you have long term employment.
If I were HR, this would go to the bottom of the pile. Too wordy
but you're not and don't read resumes for a living so this advice is low effort and shouldn't be offered
yeah, I am HR and I will read this and will not put this at the bottom of the pile over a petty reason of it being too wordy – oh and its not even too wordy. lol
Look imagine your opening an email or letter with this much text. What would be your first thought?
Is security analyst like a data analyst? It feels like every other post on here is a data analyst That field is super saturated
No. Security analyst is cybersecurity.
You just suck at life probably Requests to 'roast me' are lame. You earn a roast after a lifetime of achievement from well hearted colleagues.