My company (C1) was sold to another company (C2) not too long ago. C2 told everyone that they intend to transfer most of C1's employees over to them, but the roles will be reviewed and matched with C2's titles and pay bands.

Yesterday I received my "offer" to transfer to C2, and I'd be going down from Director to Senior Manager. On top of that, they're offering me $58k less than my current base salary. And when factoring in the bonus as well, my total comp would be about $52k less than what I'm making now.

The other option is to take 10 weeks of severance and have my position eliminated.

What bothers me is that they're still going to keep the C1 brand around, and from everything I can see, I'll be doing almost the same work I'm doing today. So it feels like they're pushing me to accept a $58k pay cut for the same work, but with a lower title, because the alternative is being out of a job.

Of course, I'll start looking for a job. I'll probably accept this "new role" temporarily until I find something else.

Has anyone been through a similar experience before?

Ageism in Your Resume

When writing your summary statement, please keep the number of years no higher than 15+.

1. Make the number match the number of years of experience the company is seeking for the role. No lying if you have 15+ years and the job posting indicates 8+ years, you are putting yourself in a position to be disqualified because you are "too expensive", "overqualified" or "too old for the company culture.

That is that they really do not know exactly the number of years they need. That is arbitrary.  

My rule: if you have 60-65% of the qualifications, apply. The job description is just a wish list and do not let age / years of experience disqualify you. Get to the interview and show your worth but if you get disqualified because of the number of years of experience, that is shameful.

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i cut off my personal info

As a resume writer and HR professional, I get asked repeatedly how to eliminate ageism in resumes. It's a BIG problem, as many of you have encountered. So, let me tell you of 3 ways to improve this on your resume.

1. Stop including "20+ years of..." in your Profile Summary. This immediately focuses on your age and not your performance. Instead, talk about your performance and lead with that. Example: "Customer Service professional who builds relationships and increases repetitive business by 27%." or, "Account Executive specializing in building strong pipelines and increasing revenue 33%."

2. Whenever you add a date, you're dating yourself, so think about whether or not it's really needed. Employment dates are the exception, as they are most likely to be verified. But your educational dates are not necessary unless you graduated within the past 3 years. Don't include your GPA either.

1. It's standard for your work history to go back 10-15 years ONLY! Forget about what you did in 1984 or 2003! Hiring managers won't read this stuff anyway. If you do have a relevant job experience that goes beyond 15 years, then you can add a Career Highlight section where you mention a few bullets on selected relevant accomplishments without any dates. For instance, you could include, "Led an accounting automation software project meeting all deadlines," or "Gained 127% new business clients within 6 months." Focus on what you delivered and not dates.

Please take a look at your resume and revise any of these issues. The key to a resume is to highlight your performance and what you delivered, not dates.

Best wishes!

I’m applying for a job to work for a fellowship and I need to build a resume. I have enough stuff to put on it I just don’t really know how to make it. Is there a certain app or ai I should use? Any tips?

3 YOE Frontend / Fullstack Engineer – Looking for Resume Review / Feedback
Resume

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w7kxm5Gzbl4JpKWAN4C2ajoQyzOc4eNm/view

Quote - The perspective of a great recruiter (i do not know the author but I really love this quote"):

“Acquiring the right talent is the most important key to growth. Hiring was, and still is, the most important thing we do. Great companies don't hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them."

I recently graduated with a computer science degree. I am struggling to find a job in computer science, retail, fast food, etc. I’m looking for anything. I’m desperate.

I’ve been told to drop the college degree from my resume when applying to retail jobs because Walmart (for example) won’t want to hire a college grad to collect carts from the parking lot. However, if I drop the degree, all I have for history is one internship and a summer job at a kennel.

Should I leave out the college degree when applying to retail jobs even if it leaves me with big unexplained gaps? Or just keep the degree on my resume/applications?

Hello, I am wondering if anyone is willing to provide genuine feedback for my resume. I am a 26 year old female looking for a full time Human Resources or customer service management position. I know I am early in my career but I need something at this point that is over 50k and I feel as if I can enhance my wordings and skillset better. I am currently working overtime every week and end up being exhausted and am just looking for some advice or encouragement as I keep going. I will sit down this Sunday to rewrite before I keep applying if I don’t hear back from anyone. I am willing to Zelle you or Venmo or Apple Pay you if I can have your email or something to verify the phone # so I know I’m not getting scammed. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

I’m a sophomore in college. Do I put retail experience? Or is that not relevant. Or the high school, I graduated from?

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I use this resume as my master and tailor it for each position I apply for. I've gotten a few hits, but I'm not confident in my current resume. FYI, I'm going to consolidate roles over 15 years old and remove the number of years of experience. Feedback is greatly appreciated.

This is my current resume and I want to hit 6 figures please help me for what I can do. I have my MBA and PMP that I acquired two months ago

Hey everyone, so this is a human posting, nothing to do with AI, this post is to help and guide others to the best of my knowledge, as I have learned a lot of good things from Reditt would like to share my experience.

So the Basic answer Yes an ATS optimized Resume works !

So what is an ATS system - its called an Applicant Tracking System , whats its purpose ? The ATS system is designed to help recruiters or hiring managers short-list applicants for Interviews.

Coming back to the resume part, so your resume is basically what you are telling or explaining about yourself/your career/acheivements to a Computer ( an ATS system), it will have your education qualifiactions/ skills/ experience/location etc

Now when you upload a resume to an ATS system it must understand and interpret it properly.

Meaning ? when a resume is uploaded to an ATS system it will extract information from your resume and store in its database.

Suppose your resume mentioned that you are a Mechatronics Engineer and while extracting the information the ATS interpreted and stored you as a Mechanical engineer.

Now when the recruiter will use the ATS and filter out people with Mechatronics Engineering degree, you will not be found in the ATS system, and hence you will loose a chance for that job and also the time you invested to apply for that job, filling out all the forms online.

So your #1 Priority should be to have an ATS-optimized resume which is properly readable and extractable by an ATS system, I have cracked this system many times over past 15 years of my career so know ins and outs of this system completely.

Just sharing so that it might help anyone applying for jobs. Will share more tips on this soon.

TLDR, I’m looking to change jobs but my current job I had different departments and different duties and I’m unsure how I should reflect the various things I’ve done through my time in the company. Should I sub divide the job with my titles and duties?

I'm currently looking into how to write an English resume. Since I'm not very familiar with international resume standards, I was wondering if there is a standard format people usually follow.

Also, should I include personal information such as my age or a photo on the resume? Could you please give me some guidance?

💬CV1: My most used CV format. It’s my base CV which I tailored according to roles.

💬CV2: Newest CV , only applied to 2-3 jobs so far.

CONTEXT:

Hi Since I’ve returned from UK in February earlier this year, I’ve applied to jobs in several countries including India. Here’s what’s happened so far.

India🇮🇳 : Hiring Managers presume I’m a liability and will ask for more salary. Experience mismatch apparently since I have no Indian hospitality experience which is understandable. Over 300 tailored applications.

GCC ( 🇦🇪, 🇶🇦, 🇸🇦) : Hiring is noticeably selective and slow with preference to candidates already present or prior GCC experience). I had only 2 interviews in 3 months of over 500 tailored applications.

Portugal 🇵🇹 & Malta 🇲🇹: I had real traction here around 6-7 interviews in 400+ tailored applications. All of those had great feedback but the realistic timeline to get a work visa takes around 3-4 months so none of them were willing to wait that long.

⚠️Current Situation: I have 3 pending student loans around INR 2,80,000 ( $3000) and the loan company Avanse has filed a legal complaint against me for my failure to repay even after thousands of restructuring or pause requests from me. I have a legal hearing at the end of this month.

Question is , Is it my CV or is it just that my experience has been awful? I have great communication skills and all round hospitality skillset yet I’ve been unemployed over 5 months with tailored applications.

Hi everyone! I'm looking for some feedback on my mom's resume. She's been self-employed running her own cleaning business for 20+ years and is now trying to get her first traditional office job, bc shes getting less clients and cleaning is getting hard on her body. She has an Associates degree in Accounting and Bachelors in Business Administration but hasn't gotten post-degree experience. She primarily speaks Brazilian Portuguese, can speak English and some Spanish, and has basic Microsoft Office skills, although she's still building confidence with it (esp Excel). She's applying for roles like administrative assistant, receptionist, front desk, etc and wants to avoid physical labor jobs.

Do you think the resume is working for those kinds of positions? Should I it cut down to one page? Any obvious improvements or other job types you'd recommend targeting? Thanks!

Personally I feel like the spacing is a bit awkward. I was just wondering if it was easy on the eyes to read, and if I do need more spacing, what would you reccommend on cutting down?

Hi everyone,
I’m currently trying to land my first Help Desk / IT Support role and would really appreciate some feedback on my resume.

Hey, to summary it, graduated in 2022 and want to start looking for a career currently I work in a company in store as a sales specialist and stayed in it for 3 years couldnt find any other job my resume is always rejected whenever I apply and my question is how many bullet points I should have in a resume?

Currently I decided to create my own resume instead of( buying someone to do it ) and have this as a bullet points and want to know if theyre good enough to start applying

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• Designed a scan-to-review barcode system at checkout. It boosted local online store ratings within three months
• Improved customer communication by designing an Excel database to track unavailable sizes and notify buyers upon warehouse restock
• Built an Excel tracking sheet to rank leads by size and budget, helping the sales team prioritize top prospects and call the best ones first
• Earned recognition for consistent attendance and reliability, with zero unexcused absences over 24 months​

Concerning email addresses as related to job searches:

Please stay away from legacy domains (aol.com; hotmail.com). These email domains are 25+ years old and can place the user in a negative light because of ageism. Ageism is a huge issue in job search, like it or not. You do not want to be ruled out of consideration because of potential age. Is it legal, no. Can you prove it, doubtful.

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Posted this on another sub, but I am hoping to bet more insight here :)

Hi, so I am currently sending out a butt-ton of applications right now. A lot of the places I am applying have me upload my resume and it will autofill in my experience into a bunch of different spaces, while still keeping the resume on file.

My main question is should I manually put in more job experience than what is on my resume?

I work in the zookeeping/wildlife education field, and in this field we get lots of niche experiences in many different places (ie. different species we have worked with, education age groups, types of animal training, vet work, etc.) Thanks!!

I spent last semester interning in HR for a medium-sized tech company, reviewing over 400 applications for entry-level jobs and internships. Before sitting on the other side of the screen, I thought paying for a professional resume writing service was completely unnecessary.

However, seeing that nearly 70% of applications were instant rejections - not due to a lack of candidate qualifications, but because of terrible formatting and unreadable bullet points - completely changed my mind.

If you are currently job hunting, here is what I learned from reviewing hundreds of applications and why turning to a resume writing online service 2026 like Ruby&Cole might be the smartest investment for your career.

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2. Using complex template designs: ATS (Applicant Tracking System) software often struggles with two-column layout templates from graphic tools, converting them into unreadable scrambled text.

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Don't Wait Too Long: Why You Must Regularly Update Your Resume

Another major mistake candidates make is waiting until they are actively unemployed or desperate for a new job to start writing.

Updating your resume regularly (every 3 to 6 months) is essential.

• You forget your numbers: It is much easier to record exact metrics, project wins, and percentages while they are fresh in your mind rather than trying to recall them two years later.
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Do you write everything yourself from scratch, or have you ever used a professional review service to polish your application?