Hiring is still broken. How to live with it? Part 2

6. The perfect resume is 3 pages long.

In my life, I've seen resumes that are one page long and thirty pages (well, that's crazy), where everything is detailed down to winning the "Russian Bear Cub" contest in elementary school.

When your resume passes the ATS, a real person comes into play. Out of 4,000 responses, maybe 1,000 or at least 100 resumes reached the recruiter. Reading through them is easier, but not by much. No one will read every paragraph—they'll just skim it diagonally.

So put the most important things at the beginning, and the least important (like education and courses) at the end. Don't mention the "Russian Bear Cub" at all. Describe your most recent job in detail, the previous one in less detail, the one before that even shorter, and so on, to fit within three pages.

You can have fewer pages. More is not necessary. This rule applies even if you have 50 years of work experience.

7. Your resume is not your employment record book

Shock content: many people write their resume exactly as it appears in their employment record book, even though the book often doesn't reflect the actual work. The employment record and its information are needed by the tax authorities and the social insurance fund, not the labor market.

For example, one of my friends had "specialist" written in her employment record, but in reality, she was a Frontend Developer working on frontend development of applications in JavaScript. So in your resume, write what you actually did, not how you were officially recorded. Especially since, as practice shows, your employment record can be filled out haphazardly.

The same goes for your place of work. Did you know the company LLC "Cloud Technologies"? I didn't before. But it's actually cloud.ru, a subsidiary of Sberbank.

Your employment record may say anything. If you actually worked within a group of companies, it makes more sense to mention the group in your resume. You can put the specific subsidiary in parentheses to avoid confusion. This adds weight to your resume without distorting the facts.

8. Search beyond job sites

I already wrote above that about half of all vacancies are never posted on job sites. So if you only search there, you automatically lose up to 50% of opportunities.

You can and should also look for work through professional communities—there are interest groups in every field—through company websites, for example Sberbank), through networking, and other methods.

9. Use AI in your job search

Beat the employer at their own game!

It's important to maintain a high rate of applications. But applications without a cover letter are often doomed to fail. However, writing each letter manually, reading through each job posting and trying to understand exactly what the employer wants, will slow you down.

So feed your resume and the job description into a neural network, ask it to prepare a cover letter based on them, and then edit it manually using common sense. This way you can maintain your pace without sacrificing quality.

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But all these tips are for seasoned workers who have been beaten by corporate life many times. For those who already have experience, victories and defeats, scars and pain in the rear. But what about students, newcomers, and recent graduates with nothing but enthusiasm? More on that in future posts.

Which tips will you use, and which are complete nonsense?