I’ve been a software quality assurance engineer for more than thirty years and have done my share of job hunting. Also, I’ve been a hiring manager a number of times throughout my career, so I’ve screened a lot of technical resumes as well. I’ve developed some opinions about how resumes should be formatted to facilitate the way I do resume screening as well as some other opinions about resumes. Recently, quite a few of my friends and former coworkers have been job hunting, and I’ve helped a number of them wi
I know that there is a ton of advice out there about resumes, much of it conflicting. My expectation in writing all this up is just to offer my perspective. I’ve gotten good feedback from people who I’ve helped with their resumes, but I do not claim that my advice is best practices. I As you read this, take the things that make sense to you, discard anything else.
When I’ve been a hiring manager, here’s how the resume screening stage of hiring has always worked (in cases where I didn’t work with an HR partner and had to do all the resume screening myself, the process starts with my scanning for keywords, at step #3 basically):