• reflex@kbin.social
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    Basile says he’s also spent his free time studying AI tools, and he keeps tweaking his resume, cutting it from 10 pages to two, then beefing it up to 24.

    Maybe he should start by dropping that tome of a resume.

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      1 page (niche industries maybe 2). If you can’t get your point across in 1 page then that’s a huge red flag…24 pages? When I was in HR I wouldn’t have even read that resume, I’m amazed he’s gotten a single interview with that let alone 60.

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        I was just thinking that a 10 page resume sounds like you’re going to be a nightmare to work with. If any work gets done it will be needlessly complicated and make everything harder for everyone.

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          Exactly. Either they are clueless about or refuse to follow conventions like using 1-2 page resumes, are incapable of taking outside advice, are unable to communicate succinctly, or have some other major issue.

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        2 pages is fine, most resumes I see is two pages, especially if you have 10+ years of relevant experience to cover

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        I thought this too and then I saw the requirements to apply for federal jobs. They require literally 24 pages of content.

        You’re right tho 2 pages and maybe a portfolio is more than enough.

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          Government (US) job applications, interview process, and selection criteria etc are so far removed from any civilian process that it needs to be a completely separate conversation. If he’s ocassionally changing his resume down to 2 pages or getting 60 interviews a month he’s not applying to US government jobs.

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      It seems that he has not even taken the time to understand the basics of how to find a job with a 10 page resume… let alone 24.

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      Yeah, there’s no way anything over a couple pages is going anywhere but the trash. No one is going to want to spend the time figuring out how he’s inflating his resume.

      My field has quite a bit more educational and licensing requirements than most tech jobs, and I’ve been practicing for nearly two decades… I still don’t think I could make a 24 page long resume.

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        I use a multipage resume where the first page is functional as one and if they want more detail they can flip.

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          The first page of my resume covers my technical skills, a summary of myself, and my most recent jobs.

          When you go past that, it gets to older jobs that are still relevant, then into school, then to side projects, volunteer, etc. basically, if you liked the first page, the rest of it gives them more about who I am.

          I think at this point it’s either 3 or 4 pages and every time I’ve gotten a job it’s been one where they asked me about the hobbies on the bottom of the last page, which meant they liked what they saw and liked my interview well enough.

          When I update it for my next search, I’ll take my first internship off because it’s no longer relevant, but most everything else is.

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            yeah. this sounds a lot like mine. I have what grade school I have at the end but don’t expect anyone to go that far but its part of who I am. I don’t expect anyone to go past page one necessarily but if they drop it in the trash because its four pages then I dodged a bullet as far as I am concerned.