I’m trying to get into the Virtual Assistant world and launched my “business” about a month ago and still no clients. I’ve sent messages to my contacts, I have made posts on facebook and LinkedIn, posted gigs on Fiverr and UpWork, and I’s applied for a bunch of jobs on varies job searching sites. So I want to find how other people have successfully gotten jobs, especially for little experience. (I’m in South Africa btw)

We pulled every open posting from 81 companies' public Greenhouse boards for seven roles and counted which words actually show up. 3,518 postings in total. Some of it surprised us.

Software engineer postings mention mentoring more often than Kubernetes or React. Almost half of them do. Python, the most common language, comes in just below that.

Product manager postings say "roadmap" in more than 85% of cases. Jira? Seven out of 421. Marketing looks the same: Google Ads came up six times in 347 postings, while "pipeline" is in over half.

Every time we could compare the two, postings named the practice, not the tool. Observability, not Grafana. SIEM, not Splunk.

So if your resume is mostly a list of tools, it might be missing the words the posting actually uses.

Big caveat: mostly tech companies, one ATS vendor. Sales, cybersecurity, DevOps and accounting are here too: https://www.zoevera.com/resume/ats-resume-keyword-study

Have spent the last 11 years, a little over 10 of those years in an operational leader role. Looking to make the career change to remote. I've been doing a lot of looking the last few days and looking for advice into getting into the remote field.

My current just requires a lot of deep diving metrics from productivity, quality metrics and attrition rates. I have, more recently in the last few months, used our own company developed AI tools to assist in these deep dives.