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This article is so frustrating. Get yourself on the market before spewing this shit. I recently been on the lookout for a new job and my first CV was personal. Full of my own words and description of what I did in the last 10+ years as a software engineer. I'm a bit biased but it was a really good CV. That got me 0 fucking offers. ZERO I rewrote my CV based on some google suggestions and with ChatGPT. I got through next stage on every single job I applied ( 10+ ) and even received offers, finally landing a new role. Stop talking shit.

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Yea you 100% need a skills section that lists every technology you’ve ever worked with. I tried taking it off and got no interviews with that CV version.

Someone in HR or a recruiter will match up the technologies on the job post with your CV and only put you through if you list most of the ones they need.

I never know how granular to go with those.

It's very annoying -- I just concluded a job search recently after being made redundant, and what I found frustrating in some places that rejected me was weird stuff like not having enough experience with terraform/git/Github Actions etc.

But I've specifically called out the use of infrastructure as code, version control, and CI/CD at various points in my CV! I genuinely dislike the buzzword bingo CVs that I've vetted when hiring for roles but I try to keep an open mind about the actual experience that the candidate is portraying -- I guess it's too much to ask for the same open-mindedness in other hiring managers?

Yes. I even break mine up into two sections: things I've used in the last year, and things I've used ever.

By "used", I don't mean that I touched it once. I mean that I have used it enough to consider myself competent with it.

Humans love bullshit, and using ChatGPT to reorganize and embellish your CV undoubtedly brought you results.

One need look no further than the Google Docs LLM demo that generated a job advert from a one line description. No employer wants to say that they’d like to pay their employees low salaries or that they’re looking for unmotivated underachievers, and yet every company feels the need to state they’re looking for rockstars who’ll be paid competitively.

If everyone says the same thing, then, from an information theoretic perspective, it conveys no information, what we’d otherwise call “bullshit”.

I have the impression that for each recruiter with the same opinions as the OP, there's 10 that love bullshit and flowery prose and will discard anything that sounds like a simple developer writing about what he's been doing in a more realistic tone.

Did you consider that your experience is but one of many? No need to be rude and bitter to the author.

Care to share the google suggestions? :)

Mod parent up!!

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