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Can you stop telling people “it must be your resume” and read the room? 🤦♂️
Are you tired of constantly being told that your resume is the reason you’re not getting hired? You’re not alone. Many job seekers have put in the time and effort to create a standout resume, only to be met with rejection after rejection. The truth is, there may be a bigger issue at play when it comes to the job search process. Let’s dive into why blaming the resume may not always be the answer.
## The Reality of Job Postings
Sure, there are many young people with awful resumes out there, but when you have years of experience and have worked with friends and colleagues to revise your resume, it can be frustrating to hear that your resume is the problem. The reality is that fake job postings have become a major issue in the job market. There are countless job postings that are either misleading or completely fabricated. This can make it incredibly difficult for job seekers to know which opportunities are legitimate and which ones are a waste of time.
### The Problem with Fake Job Postings
– Fake job postings can lead to wasted time and energy for job seekers
– Job seekers may apply to positions that don’t actually exist
– Fake job postings can be used to collect personal information or scam individuals
## Why Blaming the Resume Isn’t Always the Answer
While having a strong resume is important, it’s not always the determining factor in whether or not you get hired. There are many other factors that can come into play during the job search process. Here are a few reasons why blaming the resume may not always be fair:
1. **Lack of Transparency in the Hiring Process**
– Many companies may already have a candidate in mind for a position, but post the job anyway to meet HR requirements
– Some employers may already have an internal candidate in mind, but need to post the job externally for legal reasons
2. **Automated Applicant Tracking Systems**
– Many companies use Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) to filter through resumes before they even reach a human recruiter
– Your resume may not be getting past the ATS, even if you are a qualified candidate
3. **Networking and Internal Referrals**
– Many job openings are filled through internal referrals and networking
– Your resume may not even be seen if you don’t have a connection within the company
## Moving Forward in Your Job Search
So, what can you do to navigate the tricky job market landscape and increase your chances of getting hired? Here are a few tips to help you stand out from the crowd:
– **Focus on Networking**: Build relationships with professionals in your industry and ask for referrals
– **Customize Your Application**: Tailor your resume and cover letter to each job application to showcase why you are the perfect fit
– **Research the Company**: Show that you have a genuine interest in the company by researching their values and culture
– **Seek Feedback**: Don’t be afraid to ask for feedback on your resume and interview skills from trusted sources
By understanding the larger issues at play in the job market and taking proactive steps to improve your job search strategy, you can increase your chances of landing a job that is the right fit for you. Remember, it’s not always your resume that’s the problem – sometimes, it’s the job postings themselves. Stay persistent, stay positive, and keep pushing forward in your job search journey. Good luck! 🍀
Remember, the key to a successful job search is not only having a strong resume but also understanding the larger issues at play in the job market. By taking a proactive approach and focusing on networking, customization, research, and seeking feedback, you can increase your chances of landing the job that is right for you. Don’t get discouraged by the constant blame on your resume – sometimes, the problem lies beyond just a piece of paper. Best of luck in your job search! 🌟
You probably had a bad resume
90% of all job postings? Sounds like another opportunity for you to tailor your resume!
I’m sure your resume is great. That doesn’t mean there aren’t other candidates with better resumes.
Man, I applied to hundreds of jobs with very few responses despite being well qualified and having tailored my resume multiple times. I even started applying to positions I was over qualified for just to see and still barely got any responses. This is opposed to just 2-3 years ago when I was getting callbacks left and right with less experience, fewer certifications, and a worse resume.
I finally broke down and paid to have my resume done professionally and my callbacks tripled with the exact same information presented differently.
Between AI filters and the personal preferences of hiring managers/recruiters and what THEY view as important in a candidate, it’s very hard to create a winning resume yourself unless you’re already in the top 1% of candidates for the role.
The bit about so many postings are false is bullshit, especially at larger companies.
I worked at a couple of Fortune 100 companies, and you had to get pretty high level to post a job, and it had to be real.
The only exception were high-turnover jobs.
I work at a much smaller organization – 300 employees, with 20 jobs on the board. Every one is real, and we need those workers.
Funny story here: One of my roommates in college had to do a portfolio/resume assignment for one of his general communications classes.
His prof gave him a C on the resume – despite him ranting to us after the fact “I literally got a job with this resume, how is it a C?”
Sounds like your resume isn’t cutting it.
Not making it through initial read.
What fake job postings? Stop using indeed / LinkedIn.
Then the government wouldn’t be able to claim the economy is strong.
Who the fuck cares about fake job postings? When I was looking I applied to 300 jobs per day. Never read a single job posting beyond the title. Anyone who wastes time catering to a single job posting is living in 2014.
You’d be surprised to see the actual resumes of people who have years of experience and have worked with friends and colleagues to revise their resumes and make customized versions based on the type of jobs.
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They’re typically terrible, wordy, and difficult to navigate.
Fake job postings suck big time! Employers who lie on job posting suck big time!
I will say for anyone who doesn’t know this resume hack, here it is.
Use the job posting verbiage in your resume and CV, you get past the machine sifting through them and get more interviews more often.
I have a base resume and then tweak it for each job I apply to. It’s more work but it does yield more results.
It doesn’t weed out the fake ones though, I’m sorry 🙁
I think the reality is more that there are far more applicants than available jobs, and the truth is that, even people who are eminently qualified for certain roles may be losing out to EVEN MORE qualified candidates. Either that, or, as sometimes happens, companies post externally when the job is really earmarked for an internal candidate (this happens a LOT in unionized environments, which I don’t like).
Yeah you gotta also apply to hundreds of jobs to actually get some response. And you have to have some sort of job searching skill so you know what you’re looking for. I’m still figuring it all out.
As someone responsible for hiring (and someone that immediately throws away a resume that has poor spelling or grammar), it might be your resume.
Here is my weekly opportunity to say I’ve been jobless for three years after I stepped down form teaching. I have sent hundreds of resumes out that are custom & have paid hundreds for résumé services. I have 2 degrees and have worked as an Educational Director & program manager as well as mentored future teachers for a promenant college.
In the last three years, I’ve had four interviews total and spent hundreds on extra certifications. I have even been denied as an intern to work for FREE.
It’s not your resume 😘
You’re correct that for many people it’s not the resume, but if you look at some of the resumes people post and ask for feedback on, you can tell many of them are not doing people any favors.
It’s really not about the resume at all.
You need to network to get jobs nowadays. Good positions are coveted, and there’s almost always someone who “knows someone perfect” for it, especially since they will most likely get a referral bonus.
Recruiters love it too because they don’t have to do any work.
Ok so I am old. But once all hiring went online, we hiring managers got inundated with resumes. I can post one position and get 100 resumes. On one hand it is good for hiring managers, but on the other hand I have to wade through so many people who think they are qualified for a corp mgmt position and the only work exp listed is walmart greeter.
I applied to a job and via email expecting to be emailed a link to their website or scheduler and I got an email asking me to sign up for 6 different irrelevant services in order to apply for a job. I reported it to linked in and nothing happened. The “job listing” is still up.
I read somewhere that someone is doing active research on this and it appears about 45% of listings are fake.
If you apply at random, you’d apply to about 1 in 2 bad postings. But if the fake listings are more worthy of applying than the real ones, it is entirely possible to apply to an enormous amount of fake applications compared to real ones.
For instance, maybe the fake postings require less experience and offers more salary. More people are going to apply to that position. If then say 90% of applications are going into fake listings, it makes sense that some people (and not everyone) will end up putting in 1,000 applications and maybe they’re the unlucky folks hitting 970 fake listings.
Then only 30 of their applications are real, and a response rate of 3-6 would follow what used to be the standard rules (3 in a bad market, 6 in a great market).
Edit to add:
And it’s important to note that even if this hypothetical math is exaggerating the values (it very likely is, it’s not based on anything but pure speculation), the real ways to get a job in a bad market is trust.
A hiring manager needs to trust you: 1) can actually do the job, 2) you will do the job well, and 3) you will stay in the job rather than jump ship.
Networking is one way to build trust. A long list of experience is one way, too. But networking works much better, because there are 30 candidates of similar, worse, and better quality resumes than yours.
If 2 people in the stack of 30 has a note from someone at the company saying “this person is good, we would benefit from hiring them”… who gets the interview?
Polishing the CV is an art.
Join clubs, take classes, write papers. There is more to hiring than just doing the job. they want a good person.
I’d avoid monster.com. I learned quickly you use a throw a way phone number on monster as companies will scoop up your data and quickly resell it. Not to mention so many damn fake postings.
I got a job at health point and they created a fake job. They argued with me but they tried to generate a position that was a clutter fuck mess and just decided to do away with it. Yes I reported them on monster. They should of said temp to offer instead of making me loose a job I willingly gave up before accepting theirs. (Which was a good long term job.) Only to end up a clutter fuck mess to deal with.
What is the purpose/benefits of companies posting fake jobs? 90%???? I don’t understand why they would do that. It costs time and money to post jobs….
even if you apply to a real job, there are 2000 other applicants for janitor position in antarctica that you still have to pay for
among those people somebody is bound to have some vitamin B, or unironically bribery going on, then you are almost guaranteed to have better candidates than you and lastly there is a bunch of discrimination and personal preferences
honestly, once you’re out of a job for 2 years, just start gambling
It depends on the position and the company. For ex, my friend said that for their current role, there were hundreds of applicants per available position for similar open positions and half of the applicants had referrals. The applications with referrals were reviewed first but people getting interviews just applying through the company website is not unheard of
Given the volume, it’s not necessarily the resume but you’d probably get more specific advice asking people who are in the roles you’re applying for
Stop counting applications for jobs that advertise remote but are geologically thousands of miles away.
Stop counting applications based on random entries LinkedIn, Minster etc…
Stop counting applications for jobs brought to you by questions recruiters.
So I guess you still got to read the room…
When applying for jobs, I only counted about 5 per week that would eventually get back to me.
somehow i doubt you’re as great as you seem to think
Maybe it’s your resume though…