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Show HN: Resume Worded – Write impactful resumes

209 pointsby rohanm93over 7 years ago

28 comments

taco_emojiover 7 years ago
There's a real lack of transparency that makes this look shady. How did you get your hands on these resumes? How do I know that these were actually successful resumes? Are the resume writers getting compensation for their work that you're selling?
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gingerlimeover 7 years ago
Having reviewed hundreds of job applications recently (for three completely different roles at my company), I would generally say candidates should focus on the cover letter &#x2F; email. Most applicants won&#x27;t even get their resumes read at all if their cover letter or emails aren&#x27;t good.<p>I was quite shocked how many emails and cover letters from candidates were 100% generic, had spelling mistakes, highlighted irrelevant skills, didn&#x27;t respond to basic questions on the job ad etc.<p>My top tips would be (in this order):<p>* READ the job ad carefully.<p>* Write an email &#x2F; cover letter that 1) shows that you&#x27;ve read it. 2) is specific to both the company and the role you&#x27;re applying for. and 3) answers all requirements on the job ad.<p>* Try to focus on what makes you a good candidate for the role and company. The focus should not be on <i>your</i> skills however, it should be on the required skills that the company needs, and how you could fit.<p>* Read the job ad again :)<p>* If possible, adapt the resume as well to highlight those areas of good-fit. Or at least highlight them on the cover letter&#x2F;email, so the person reviewing your application would even be interested to read your resume...
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m52goover 7 years ago
Looks pretty. However for a service that claims to provide me the best words to put on my resume, the tagline &quot;write impactful resumes&quot; is rather harmful.<p>&quot;Impactful&quot; is clunky. &quot;Effective&quot; is what you want. But neither word offers a specific pay-off, which is what you actually want in both a head-line on a site and a bullet-point on a resume.
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komali2over 7 years ago
&gt;Led the transition to a paperless practice by implementing an electronic booking system and a faster, safer and more accurate business system. Reduced costs of labor by 30% and office overhead by 10%.<p>Just looking at the first example, this nails the head for me as an ex-recruiter about the best way to write a resume tagline. You didn&#x27;t &quot;use simplybookly.me,&quot; you &quot;(<i>action verb</i>)implemented a (<i>description of thing</i>) booking system that (<i>result in hard numbers</i>) reduced costs of labor by 30%.<p>Be ready to answer on how you calculated that number, but when you are inevitably asked and come out with an actual method (please god don&#x27;t lie) it&#x27;ll be all the more impressive. &quot;Holy shit, this person actually had a good way to measure cost of labor and sought to reduce it numerically!&quot;
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godelskiover 7 years ago
Doesn&#x27;t search symbols. The example gives &quot;Python&quot; as a search term so I assumed you could look up languages. C&#x2F;C++&#x2F;C# all return the same thing, which incidentally have nothing to do with the programming language because it is just searching the letter &#x27;c&#x27;.
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headhunterover 7 years ago
These people weren&#x27;t successful because of their resumes - they were successful in their past roles, which is effectively communicated on their resumes. Because of their past success, they were hired into a different better&#x2F;more prestigious&#x2F;more impactful role.<p>Step 1 of having a good resume: be a good employee<p>Step 2 of having a good resume: effectively communicate how&#x2F;why you are a good employee
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leroy_masochistover 7 years ago
There are some good text snippets on the linked site, so if your strengths do not lie in written English then it could very well be a helpful resource for how to word things. However, beware the mentality that the only thing standing in the way of your dreams is the perfect one-page summary of your accomplishments to date. A resume is just a marketing document. Economy of prose and short declarative sentences are your friends. Keep it to one page in Times New Roman or Arial.
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mrleinadover 7 years ago
Great. Now I can scrape all these quotes, build random resumes with them, and do some A&#x2F;B testing with recruiters.
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goodrootover 7 years ago
At an old company after being acquired we built a blind-hiring system. No resumes. The WallStreet Journal wrote about it, it was popular.<p>Many lovely candidates came to us because of the process. One of them laughed at resumes as being a form of <i>ritualized lying</i>.<p>Neat project, but I shrug my shoulders at &#x27;the resume&#x27;.
Mzover 7 years ago
I make a few bucks here and there editing resumes, sometimes for surprisingly statusy people. If you are doing your own resume without help, check for typos and for formatting consistency. All dates should be the same format. Look for stray commas, periods, etc.<p>This is one of the single biggest things I do. I sometimes spend far more time on reformatting such things than on rewording anything.<p>(Pro tip: Try reading it backwards. Humans are really bad about mentally filling in what they meant to say instead of seeing what they actually wrote when reading through their own work.)
megousover 7 years ago
Lots of numbers in there. I know it&#x27;s recommended to include them, but it seems a bit meaningless as some predictor for the future job fitness.<p>If someone doubles user acquisition in previous company, it may mean a lot of things. Self reporting and attribution issues aside, it may simply mean that there was a really low hanging fruit at previous company when it came to marketing, or whatever.
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camillomillerover 7 years ago
Never use this if you’re applying in Germany or other European countries unless it’s an American company. Most companies hate exactly this kind of lines and they will ignore your CV
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dpcxover 7 years ago
How are these resume lines &quot;proven?&quot;
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exception_eover 7 years ago
Brilliant. I am looking to redo my portfolio site and this will help with wording examples
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arkitaipover 7 years ago
Since no one else can use these lines, I guess they are only useful as an inspiration?
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mead5432over 7 years ago
Noticed that many of them actually have measurable impacts to them. Though, I will say that &quot;copy&quot; seems a bit strange to me in this context.
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s3nnyyover 7 years ago
In a seminar on hiring, engineers were surprised when I highlighted that in CVs one should mention numbers whereever possible: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;5hsTnTeZk-k?t=1013" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;5hsTnTeZk-k?t=1013</a><p>(btw. Europeans are much worse at &quot;selling&quot; themselves &#x2F; using numbers compared to their North American counterparts)
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janshoover 7 years ago
It&#x27;s a bit disheartening to read those cool resume lines. Back to the garage I go, for that one-in-a-million smash-hit product ;)
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GoToROover 7 years ago
This must be very popular in USA. It seems that there, people really like the idea of a hero, totally ignoring that a bellow average team can do much better than a hero can. If I would receive any CVs with such lines it would have a really good change of ending up in the &quot;Liars&quot; bin.
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Animatsover 7 years ago
Then at the receiving end, the machine learning system that reads the resumes recognizes these lines and does - what?
hellofunkover 7 years ago
I entered a search term for a programming language and got a bunch of lines to &quot;copy&quot; that seemed to be for accounting or sales, not tech.<p>So, either that&#x27;s the secret to getting placed in good development positions -- to show that actually you are something else -- or, this site is Doing it Wrong.
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nndover 7 years ago
I never understood what&#x27;s the point of having quantifiable data in a resume for a software engineer.<p>Most of the time it&#x27;ll likely end up being made up, as you don&#x27;t have access to financial data and cannot estimate an impact your work had on a business.
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dsaccoover 7 years ago
Cool project.<p>After a cursory look through several of the top lines in different industries, it looks like your system strongly favors highly specified descriptions combined with positive numerical growth. For example:<p><i>Decreased uninstallation rate by 40% by introducing an interactive tutorial at app launch</i> (Product Management)<p><i>Analyzed industry trends in the automobile sector and presented long and short equity investment ideas for 12 large-cap stocks that outperformed the Bloomberg sector benchmark by 7% in 2014.</i> (Trading)<p>In other less common cases, it looks like your system selects underspecified lines, like the following:<p><i>Created a DCF valuation model to analyze a potential IPO of a major technology startup in New York</i> (Quantitative Analysis)<p>...which is interesting to me, because that suggests this is happening manually right now. So your database is strongly predisposed to be an aid in candidate searches optimized for specific metrics (like trading, management and data science). On the other hand, your system is probably not all that helpful for things like technical information security, where metrics are much more difficult to judge and specify.<p>I&#x27;m interested in how you&#x27;re doing this, because companies like LinkedIn are obviously very defensive against people crawling their resumes. But to do this more efficiently (and I&#x27;d say accurately too), you&#x27;d probably want to have a crawler manually weighted towards the top <i>n</i> companies in each target industry, with an NLP system recognizing the salient points of employees&#x27; resumes who work at those companies. Is that something you&#x27;re working on or plan to work on, or are you going to do the resume and line curation manually?<p>As another point, I&#x27;d challenge your priors a bit. I don&#x27;t know that you have a strong value proposition with just lines and no other specific context. What might be more helpful is the following:<p>1. Find a way to add the structural context of the resume instead of just salient lines: did this line appear under a job description? Was it under an accomplishments heading?<p>2. What if, instead of the most impressive lines, you develop this out to analyze the entire resume as a product? For example, collect as many resumes as you can, break these out into a universe of features, then produce statistics and visualizations on how close a resume is to optimal for a particular company. &quot;88% of engineers at Google have this length, with these headings, etc&quot;.<p>Optimize the long tail of metrics that can be quickly changed for applicants, not the high impact permanent ones (like how long they&#x27;ve been at each job, which university they attended, etc).<p>3. Are you sure you want to target this product directly to applicants? If you develop this out into an effective data analytics product for how optimal a resume is for a specific company or likely it is to receive an interview, you could produce something targeted for recruiters that is worth a lot more.<p>In my opinion, this is a great first step, but you could be building a novel approach to recruiting here, targeted towards recruiters and companies instead of candidates.
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quickbenover 7 years ago
Search bar doesn&#x27;t work in latest Firefox&#x2F;Edge.<p>Or am I doing something wrong? I type a keyword in there, but there is no search button, the list doesn&#x27;t change after pressing enter.
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umbraeover 7 years ago
FYI, your parent website refer room has an expired SSL cert which causes it to be unavailable in chrome. Looks like it expired 2 days ago.
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bharris62over 7 years ago
kinda cool, no where worth 25 dollars&#x2F;month. myperfectresume has a bunch of lines to, and its free to get inspiration from theres....
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adtacover 7 years ago
How were these resumes sourced?
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aaronaarzelbartover 7 years ago
This feels dodgy.