I've been doing some independent consulting work after being laid off. However I don't want to stay in this line of work. Should I add the consulting work or omit that from a resume? Does it look good or bad for future employers?

I have been applying to anything remotely related to IT and tech jobs around my city like help desk, web development, field service technician, desktop support, just to name a few, and I'm not getting interviews for those jobs..

I currently am running an IT service business from my house that I contact a few local businesses around town to help them with their online presence as a side job but it does not pay the bills enough, I need an actual paying job thats more stable.

I have a CS degree from GVSU and I'm currently getting another degree from SNHU because I wasnt able to get an internship when I was at Grand Valley so I'm hoping to try to get a job in IT while I'm doing SNHU somehow but I dont know anyone who could help me out. The lack of IT job posts in my city Grand Rapids is, depressing, to say the least... I'm aware I may need to move to a bigger city for better opportunities, but I currently do not have the support and money to even be able to do that, I would love to move to a different city but I don't have the support to do that

Can someone please tell me what is wrong? Thank you...

Hi, wondering if anyone has advice on my resume? I go to a small non-target liberal arts school, and all my experiences/awards are also non-big name companies. I'm having a hard tike getting past resume screens and I'm wondering if there's anything majorly wrong with it. Thanks to anyone who has any advice.

Hi all, i've been having trouble with my resume, working at an MSP for almost 10 years has provided a wide range of knowledge and experience. I was using AI to create me resumes but not hearing back i decided to redo it and try to show more detail around the work i performed. looking for a something more focused on security but willing to take a sys admin/engineer role too. I was tailoring each job application with AI to try to stand out, but I'm not sure if that is a good idea either. I haven't looked for a job in a long time so any feedback is much apprieciated. Thank you,

Recruiters spend about 6 seconds on the first pass. Not 6 minutes. 6 seconds.

They spend almost all of it on the top third of the page: name and contact info, your summary, and the first bullet or two of your most recent role.

So stop burying the good stuff. Here is what to fix:

- The generic summary. "Results-driven professional seeking new opportunities" says nothing. Replace it with 2 lines: what you do, and the 3 skills you want to be hired for.

- The skills list with 40 tools. Pick the 10 that match the jobs you actually want.

- Your biggest win hiding on page 2. Move it to the top of your most recent role, with a number attached.

Quick test: cover everything below the first third of your resume and read what is left. Would a stranger know what you do and why you are good at it? If not, that is your project this week.

I built a free scanner that scores your resume and tells you exactly what is wrong with that top third. Please reach out for the address!

Have applied to countless of jobs for local cities, private firms and even state government. However, even though i meet alot of the requirements my resumes and cover letters get. I'm so frustrated of not getting any interviews.

What advice do you give for creating a TOP selling resume/cover letter? For context I am in the environmental science industry. Thank you!

100 Applications in 4 Weeks, all tailored with cover letter. 0 Interviews. 3+ YOE as a Backend Engineer. Is My CV That Bad?

rate my resume

PS: This is a generic resume, not tailored one.
PS: Looking for opportunities, please dm if any :)

(Sorry for another post but I am really trying to iron out my resume!) so I have had like 6 jobs that I’ve worked since I started 5 years ago. (I Blame my dumb teenage self that would quit jobs a lot). I feel the standard “job title and then 3 bullet points of skills from that job under it” doesn’t fit on the one page limit. I feel like my last job and the ones I’ve done while being self employed are the most important to highlight so I don’t know if I should just not put bullet points on the older ones and still list them? I’ve also seen people list them all and then at the bottom have a general “skills and achèvement list”

What do you guys think?

~4 YOE full-stack software engineer looking for mid-level full-stack/product engineering roles. I’ve mainly worked with React, TypeScript, Python, and PostgreSQL across frontend, backend, APIs, and data-heavy applications.

I’ve been job searching for ~7 months and my interview rate has been abysmal, I've been continually adjusting my resume to no success other than recruiters reaching out to me on LinkedIn so I would really appreciate an outside opinion and more sets of eyes.

Specific Q's:

- Does my experience read as solid mid-level SWE experience?

- Are the bullets too detailed/technical, or do they communicate impact well?

- Is there anything here that jumps out at you that might explain a low response rate from recruiters?

- Do you have anything encouraging to say about this? This has been pretty demoralizing haha.

Resume: https://imgur.com/a/1bWlGh2

Please be constructive, but looking for honest feedback. Thanks in advance for taking a look!

So I’m currently in an interview process where I just completed round 3 and am waiting to hear back if I’m going to round 4 (which I also believe is the final round) I noticed an error on my resume that I used to apply for the job. I put my time at college one year off. So it shows I started a year earlier than I actually did. When should I message the recruiter who I’ve been in communication with about this? Should I wait until an offer when background checks happen or just do it now?

I have made this for our Mock Interview, but those are real tho.

Hello as the title states I have been applying to hundreds of jobs, and have gotten very few interview offers, I have gotten final stage and I tend to do decently well with job interviews, though I have only had like 4 or 5 different companies. I am wondering if anyone has advise for my resume, I have been modifying it a lot for years, and have 4 variants(one for data analyst, one machine learning, one for QA and one for retail).

This is the data analyst resume, my biggest concern is probably the fact I have a gap of relevant experience, as recently I have only had jobs like as an assistant invigilator at U of T, and cashier. I also am concerned cause VFC and Riipen are project based so I was doing them ongoing together, but I think them running at the same time during university makes them look strange maybe?

Sharing the original free resume review thread on Levels.fyi:

UPDATE in the original post: the author says they partnered with ex-FAANG recruiters to start PineappleResume. I couldn't open that site, so I can't confirm its current availability or pricing.

The author says they've reviewed over 10,000 resumes while working at startups and large companies, and offered free reviews with actionable feedback in the thread. If you request feedback there, redact private information from your resume. If you're not targeting a generic software engineering role, include that info as well.

For the next step after revising your resume, autofill for job applications can cut down repeated form-filling.

Sharing a job seeker's question:

Hey guys, maybe I'm just being dumb but I never managed to figure out exactly how I should tailor my resume for the recruiter to see it. My understanding is that recruiters can search inside an ATS for keywords and other stuff in your resume, but only keyword stuffing isn't the way to go.

Should you create role-specific resumes and tweak them a little, like placing relevant points higher up? For example, let's say you are a full stack engineer: you would drop a frontend resume instead of a full stack one for a frontend developer role and do the same for a backend role. Is this tweak enough or are there other ways of optimization I'm forgetting about? Maybe I should change only the first three points of my most recent job experience along with changing my summary and writing a good cover letter, or are there even better ways to tailor resumes? Or should you use hyrd.dev or similar AIs? Maybe there is a tool that I didn't hear about. This tool has only been hit or miss for me.

Separate from tailoring the resume itself, application autofill can handle repeated application fields so you have less to re-enter for each role.

Sharing a job seeker's question:

Resume question for all of you, also Hi!

For those of us with squiggly career paths and a ton of transferable skills, do you suggest having different versions of our resumes?

I know it’s ideal to write a tailored resume for a particular job description, but when you apply through LinkedIn or Indeed, where you store a standard resume, it’s difficult to do so. How does a job seeker navigate that? If you are applying to generally the same types of roles, a solid base that is tweakable is fine. But if applying to different roles, I don’t suggest one generalized resume. I wonder how hard and time-consuming it is to apply to different roles and tailor resumes accordingly 🙈 shouldn’t be too hard if you are applying to similar roles, but it takes more time for sure.

I already struggle with a general resume as far as nuance, relevance etc. (especially as a disabled neurodivergent person) and often just get stuck in tasking freeze mode. I can often see things cross-applying, but should I spend a paragraph on it? who knows not me

For the repetitive application fields, application autofill can help reduce typing. Disclosure: I work on LandOffer.

I want to know users pain points as i want to solve them and provide access to users without a paywall.

Even Your simple suggestion matters.

Thanks.

I have over 8 years of project management experience. I want to apply for project coordinator roles or associate project manager roles in the 95k-105k salary range. Please critique my resume and let me know if there’s anything I need to add or take out.

Hi, I got laid off this month and I'm looking for a remote frontend job (EU/US or Ukrainian companies).

9 years in frontend. Last 4 years in a web studio: React + TypeScript ERP, Vue 3 CRM, some Laravel projects. I also added unit tests (Vitest) and Playwright E2E tests there.

My questions:

1. Does it look like senior or more like middle+?
2. Is it ok to list several projects under one company?
3. Laravel in resume - good or better remove for frontend jobs?
4. What looks weak or fake?

Thanks!

Looking for a US based reference for someone who was my manager at a company on my resume

I am trying to work in Marketing and I have applied for 500+ jobs since September 2025, I have interviewed for companies such as: The National Basketball Association, IMG, and BBC, unfortunately I have not been able to secure a role after I have graduated.

I am doing everything right I feel, update my LinkedIn constantly (where I have been able to make connections with people in careers I aspire to be in), I update my personal portfolio website regularly (which I am very proud of), and a personal project (NBA x SKIMS which can be found on my website) that is all useful to my future role. What else can I do to progress my job search.

I have a good feeling that everything is going to work out. For some reason as a graduate, I am also able to progress quite easily through undergraduate sandwich year placements for organisations such as Warner Bros, New Balance, and Nestle. Why is that.