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A recruiter told me my resume was fine, then forwarded me the rejection email by mistake
I sent out 40 applications in March and got almost nothing back, so I asked a recruiter I met at a job fair in Austin to look at my resume. He skimmed it and told me it was fine, nothing to fix. Two days later he emailed me a rejection notice for a job I never applied to, and it clearly said I was out because I had no 'measurable results' on my resume. I called him and he admitted he never really read past the first few lines. So if a recruiter tells you your resume is fine after looking at it for 20 seconds, get a second opinion from someone who actually hires for the role. What's the fastest way you've found to get real feedback on a resume?
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mia4426d ago
Did the same person also tell you "your resume looks great" after staring at it for like ten seconds? I had a recruiter do that to me last year, then a friend who actually manages a team read it and found three typos in the first job alone. The fastest real feedback I got was posting it in a free resume review subreddit and asking people who work in my field to tear it apart, took one day and I got way more useful notes than any recruiter gave me.
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