Hi all -- founder of RezScore, free automated scoring tool. Have spent about a decade studying the subject.
1. Brevity: Keep it concise, under 800 words. Every extra word is a bullet they can kill you with if they're on the fence.
2. Impact: Use a readability score (ie Fleisch-Kincaid, any built into Word) to keep the reading score equivalent of ~11th grade. They're smart but not geniuses.
3. Depth: Keep your sentences short, under 20 words per sentence is good rule of thumb. Reward their laziness.
Other useful tips...
* Use a large professional headline (ie LinkedIn), swap out just this part for each job you're applying
* Prune out responsibilities, only talk about achievements
* Lots of numbers
* Pay attention to aesthetics/formatting
Don't obsess about perfection -- devise a system to crank out 10 copies a day and you'll iterate it into a job in no time. At any rate, if you're applying resume first you're doing it wrong, everybody getting the plum jobs networks their way in, resume is a formality.
Always happy to hear about your job search and provide specific resume feedback, email us at hey AT rezscore.com
Wow, that's weird. Fixed. Thanks so much. I woke up in a weird way today and am way off my game; it's normally jobs@, and latacora.com/careers, which I scrambled. But now both work.
We track what we are able to practically track. So if you send your link out and I join the site through your link... then I refer a candidate, you would be eligible to receive half of my earnings for the initial referral.
As a practical matter, people are finding it confusing so we are moving to more straightforward criteria
I can provide at least two reasons this repo will benefit people even if they do not wish to use our website.
For one, job seekers will benefit by knowing which companies are hiring, so applicants can try their luck at disintermediating us and taking their chances directly on the company websites. We'd argue that applicants will have more success through the direct relationship we've cultivated, but the option exists in the current incarnation.
Second, this repository will hopefully evolve into a very useful resource as job hunting evolves. If this happens, our codebase could become a great template and readily forked to create additional job resources, even competing ones, since we are releasing this under the MIT license.
That said, of course I'd love it if even more people use https://rezscore.com/ -- our team are building incredible tools to improve the job search process.
@drefno, you sound super-knowledgeable on the subject so I'd love to chat with you to learn from your perspective! Please shoot me a note at ghjobs@onymail.com
Not sure what more needs to be said.... just look back at this post when you shut down your attempt in the future. You can then assist others who might be steering themselves into the same rocks by warning them as I have done here.
What questions do you have? Others might be interested in the answers.
If your question is “maybe our twist is new/different/better?” Answer is no.
One person has already reached out about posting a lot more remote jobs, so make sure to subscribe/follow the repository so you will get updated as new jobs are posted.
MS have always been zealous about TM names. Since the purchase i suspect many like myself are sitting in the stadium waiting for whack-a-mole to start, popcorn at the ready.
@jedberg nailed this while I was waiting for my HN rate limit to cool off. @jonbarker, yes, this is intentionally a bare-bones alpha, we are hoping to move into this sort of direction based on feedback from the community.
1. Brevity: Keep it concise, under 800 words. Every extra word is a bullet they can kill you with if they're on the fence. 2. Impact: Use a readability score (ie Fleisch-Kincaid, any built into Word) to keep the reading score equivalent of ~11th grade. They're smart but not geniuses. 3. Depth: Keep your sentences short, under 20 words per sentence is good rule of thumb. Reward their laziness.
Other useful tips... * Use a large professional headline (ie LinkedIn), swap out just this part for each job you're applying * Prune out responsibilities, only talk about achievements * Lots of numbers * Pay attention to aesthetics/formatting
Don't obsess about perfection -- devise a system to crank out 10 copies a day and you'll iterate it into a job in no time. At any rate, if you're applying resume first you're doing it wrong, everybody getting the plum jobs networks their way in, resume is a formality.
Always happy to hear about your job search and provide specific resume feedback, email us at hey AT rezscore.com