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That's fine, every hiring place has arbitrary rules to cut down on resumes. You can't just guess at what those will be and use those guesses to base major Career decisions.

You'll always miss some stupid filters - it's why your job search is a numbers game.

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There's arbitrary rules, and there's common sense. Managers hate hiring. When they're creating job descriptions, looking at resumes, and setting up and conducting interviews, deep down they just want to do it once and have that person do the job for the next 10 years. If you've burned through job after job, you'll only be attractive to very new, green managers who haven't had to go through the hiring process before, or a team that knows its the kind of place that just recycles people. Neither of those situations suggests an ideal work place. I mean we can all do what we like, but our decisions have logical consequences.

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