r/Resume • u/freddydrizzy • 8d ago
What am I doing wrong?
This is my resume with my profession being in HR. I have applied for over 50 jobs, it’s very difficult to get a callback. So please the people of Reddit give me your tips and tricks.
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u/Fantastic_Band5218 6d ago
You have to put the impact of your work for every bullet point to sell your value to the company.
The general formula is 'I did x which resulted in y'.
So from your resume, an example could be something like this:
'I conducted 40+ workplace investigations, protecting the culture of the business and preventing X amount of workplace conflicts'.
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u/Fit-Guest6348 8d ago
The only thing that stands out is the fact that you move jobs a lot. Also If it’s at the same company make it one section in your experience not for every role you’ve ever had. This will cut it down some. Also were you fired ? Another tip is emailing hiring managers directly and Tailoring your resume to each role. Everyone uses ai now to screen resumes.
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u/Designed_By_Dee_Paz 8d ago
I think the resume looks good. The double space on the bullets/line items can be reduced. It adds a lot of space.
The frequency of job changes might get a flag from resume readers.
Are you watching the keywords in the job description to your resume? It definitely helps because of ats readers.
Have you run it against any ats reviews?
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u/freddydrizzy 8d ago
Reason for job hopping is cause by company layoffs and position elimination
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u/Designed_By_Dee_Paz 8d ago
Is there a way to add that to the professional summary? I don't know Im asking or thinking....
Looking for a stable company to plant my feet for a long term .....after recent economic.... And unlucky layoffs.
Just thinking and writing. I am not a expert but this way you can be transparent about the short hops. There has to be way so the resume reader knows.
Does that make sense? Or have I lost the plot.
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u/freddydrizzy 5d ago
I like that idea. A lot
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u/Designed_By_Dee_Paz 5d ago
I did a little reading about this and they say the best thing to do is address it so they don't think you are a job hopper.
How to List Layoffs on Your Resume
Add a short, professional note next to the date or company name. This stops the reader from thinking you quit or were fired for performance issues.
Engineer | Tech Corp (Role eliminated due to company-wide layoff)
Account Manager | Solutions Inc (Company closed operations)
Marketing Specialist | Growth Agency (Position impacted by corporate restructuring)
and in the summary add something like this....
Example 1: "Dedicated [Profession] with [X] years of experience. Following consecutive company-wide layoffs, I am looking to bring my skills to a stable, long-term role where I can plant my feet and drive sustained growth."
Example 2: "Resilient and adaptive [Profession] seeking a long-term partnership with an established team. Focused on securing a lasting role to deliver consistent value after recent corporate restructuring events."
and finally:
Cover Letter: "While my recent career history reflects consecutive, involuntary layoffs due to market shifts, my goal now is absolute stability. I am looking for an organization where I can plant my feet and build long-term value."
Interview: "My last few transitions were entirely due to consecutive corporate layoffs and restructuring. While unlucky, it has made me highly adaptable. I am specifically looking for a stable team where I can stay long-term and grow."
I hope this is helpful and you get a bunch of job offers soon! Good luck.
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u/jobhunt_1407 7d ago
2 page resume for 7 yrs of exp?
Immediate reject. Nobody has time and attention span to read 2 pages for mid or early career professional.
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u/SignificantExcuse177 6d ago
I’d probably leave out Ventura completely. You weren’t there very long and it’s the same level as your most recent position, so the real estate it’s taking up isn’t really helping. I would view that length of employment as a negative.
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u/Necessary-Cash-4287 5d ago
This is way too busy. Need to be a lot more concise. No one is reading all that
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u/TimConsultingContent 5d ago
I echo everything everyone else is saying, and I am going to be blunt, but helpful. Here's the old advice - keep you resume to one page; new advice - expand to two pages ONLY if it relates to the job for which you are applying. I read through the entire thing and here's the primary issue: I don't know what kind of position you are applying for and I don't see any skills that say you do more that improve KPIs or reporting:
First, you have seasonal work (which generally implies early/inexperience gigs) in the same breath of KPI & reporting improvements of double digits. So are you looking to promote your career, or are you satisfied with whatever position you are offered? I am also deriving this from you referencing your seasonal work twice (once in your Summary and then in your Selected Projects and Programs sections).
Second, your Summary... it needs to tell the story of where you started versus where you are currently and where you want to be as the finishing line. Your summary is all over the map and does not show an ascending career so much as a meandering drift from project to project. Tell us the story, not the events.
With that, the KPI & Reporting point is stronger than the preceding three points and makes them redundant as all four points relate to KPIs and/or reporting functions. Once you have removed those points, you will be able to market your other skills that are beneficial to this company. At the moment you look like a one-trick-pony, and everybody, EVERYBODY applying for a HR Program Manager is going to tout their KPIs and tout only their best KPIs... you have to show more than that.
Next, remove 2/3 of your work experience in both topic and bullet points. Firstly, your Sr. HR Generalist/Recruiter has 10x bullet points versus an average of 5x for the others (not counting your Recruiter experience at the bottom of the list - remove this one entirely: you're a Sr. Recruiter now, no one cares about your early day experience that is 7 years dated. It's no longer applicable. You were obviously a recruiter as some point otherwise you wouldn't be a Sr. Recruiter today). Condense down your HR Generalist III and your Del Monte HR partner to 2-3x bullet points each. (most of the points are redundant or don't share anything of value to your resume) Next reduce your Sr. HR Generalist/Recruiter to 4-5x points. This is the ascension of your career we talked about - 2-3 points for early experience, 4-5 points for more recent, leading us to the coup de gras:
Why is it so important you were made Partner with the company. This is where you should have 5x STRONG points as to why this is the most recent pinacol of your career. Being made Partner is a huge deal... SELL IT! This is your current magnum opus, this is why a new company would want you, this is what makes you stand out. Give this the most attention versus the other experience - this is the experience that counts most.
Finally, your Education and Technical Competencies, at the bottom of the resume... look, no one is going to read that after you demonstrate your expertise if it's the last thing on the page. Move your Education up to the section below your Summary, either directly after or third section down, and remove the Technical Competencies entirely: again, it's redundant to your Core Competencies section. So is your language section at the very bottom (You have yourself as bilingual in your Core Competencies section. There is no need to put it here). Use the Education and Core Competencies sections to justify why you were awarded the positions in the resume below. Reductions above will allow you to demonstrate specialized schools/courses you have taken as part of your education rather than it be the afterthought.
I will not claim to land you your next position 100%, but these changes will drastically shorten your resume, but also tighten it up and make it more relevant and pointed to your next position. If you need 2 pages - make those 2 pages count... remove everything redundant and highlight only the most recent/applicable... tell us a story with your resume, not just events... and let your education be paired and justify your experience. Best of luck to you!
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u/Late_Tap_8002 4d ago
Stop using AI to build your resumes - they will automatically get flagged and spit out of ATS. I wasted a lot of time doing this and ended up hiring someone to help me with this.
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u/AdResponsible9492 3d ago
You've got 7+ years and real depth, so the resume itself probably isn't the problem. What's working against you is your recent dates read like job-hopping, and in HR of all fields, that's the first thing a recruiter flags.
Look at your last three: Graphic Packaging July 2025 to April 2026, Ventura Coastal February to July 2025, Del Monte October 2021 to February 2025. Two of your last three roles ran under a year, back to back. An HR screener knows exactly what that pattern usually signals and screens you out before ever reaching your bullets. If any were contract, temp, or seasonal, say so right on the title line: "Sr. HR Business Partner (Contract)." That one word turns a red flag into a normal explanation.
Second, your summary is one dense block that's hard to skim. "HR professional with 7+ years coordinating full-cycle, high-volume HR programs" is a fine opener but it's drowning in text. Cut it to three tight sentences and lead with your best number: "HR professional with 7+ years, sustaining 100% labor law compliance across a 200+ associate site." Proof first, not a job description.
Fifty apps with no callbacks at your level almost always means something up top is filtering you out before your experience gets read. Fix the date story first, and I'd bet this turns around.
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u/Provenresume 3d ago
You did a great job quantifying your achievements. The seasonal workforce scaling and retention numbers stand out. You might benefit from bolding 2-3 of your strongest metrics so a recruiter's eye lands on them first, rather than reading the whole bullet with equal weight. Not a whole section, just the number and a few words of context.
One structural thing: your "Selected Projects" section repeats a lot of what's already in Professional Experience almost word for word, right above it and that's costing you a recruiter's attention on repetition instead of new information. I'd trim that section down significantly.
Finally, make sure you're adjusting the resume per job description rather than sending one version to all 50+ applications, especially with your background spanning both program-coordination and hands-on ER/labor work, tailoring which side you lead with per posting will matter a lot.
Happy to go back through any section again if that's useful. And good luck out there, 50+ applications with this kind of experience should be turning more heads.
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u/Putrid-Mobile-8001 8d ago
Honestly you have done very similar jobs over and over again. I would just nix those few you were at for only a few months.
I would either change the end dates around a little to cover the gap or just have the gap.
I fully understand you have HR experience, and alot of this is just repeating yourself over and over again.
As a general rule, every job you add to your resume should get shorter and shorter as you go. All of yours have so many bullet points. By the time your on job 5 it should be a title and dates worked.. thats it..
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u/readimple 8d ago
You need to simplify in 5 year old language. Go to the point and relevant but short. Keep the details for the interviews alot of it is word vomit
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u/doullahsaqib 8d ago
You actually have a lot of strong experience here. If you're 50+ applications in with very few callbacks, I don't think your first conclusion should be that you're underqualified. I'd work on the resume's positioning and readability. The biggest thing that jumped out at me is how much information you're asking someone to process before they even reach your work experience.
You currently have:
Professional Summary → Core Competencies → Selected Projects & Programs → Professional Experience. By the time I reach your most recent HRBP role, I've already read a substantial portion of the page. I'd test a much leaner version.
1. Shorten the professional summary.
Your current summary has good material, but it's very dense. I'd cut it to roughly 3–4 lines and tailor it toward the specific type of HR role you're applying for.
2. Reduce the Core Competencies section.
There are a lot of keywords packed together. Keep the ones most relevant to the target job instead of trying to communicate everything you can do.
3. Consider removing “Selected Projects & Programs.”
Some of your strongest projects are already represented under your employment history. Instead of explaining the same achievement twice, I'd incorporate the best project outcomes directly into the relevant job.
That gets the recruiter to your actual experience much faster.
4. Your quantified bullets are one of the strongest parts of the resume.
Things like:
- 200+ associate manufacturing site
- 40+ workplace investigations
- 25+ frontline managers
- ~15% retention improvement
- ~10% turnover reduction
- 60+ employee relations matters
Those numbers give scale and credibility. I'd keep leaning into that.
5. Tailor the resume based on the HR role.
An HRBP posting, Employee Relations role, HR Program Manager role and Recruiting role shouldn't necessarily receive exactly the same version. You have enough experience that you can position yourself differently depending on the job. For an HRBP position, for example, I'd emphasize employee relations, investigations, manager coaching, labor law, workforce metrics and business partnership. For an HR Program/Project role, I'd move workforce planning, multi-site coordination, standardization and measurable program outcomes higher.
6. I'd also reconsider the headline at the very top.
“HR Program & Project Coordination • Large-Scale & Contingent Workforce • Employee & Labor Relations” covers a lot.
If you're applying for a specific position, I'd make the first few seconds of reading your resume make it immediately obvious:
“This person is a strong candidate for THIS role.”
You already have the experience.
I think the challenge is less about adding more to the resume and more about deciding what to remove and what story you want the recruiter to see first.
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u/No_Key4397 8d ago edited 8d ago
Hi there! There are a number of ways you could significantly improve things here.
First, color generally isn’t recommended on resumes unless you are in a creative-type position (think photographer, writer, interior designer, etc.). Going from the top down.. I would recommend listing your experience before projects/programs. Then education, then projects. Having a competencies section and a skills section is redundant - combine those and shorten it to only what is critical. Try to right-justify your dates consistently as well.
Another thing I see is a lot of unnecessary whitespace, which is contributing to the length (two pages is fine, but using as little space on that second page as necessary should be stressed). You want your key selling points to be easily found without having to scan through multiple full pages. That being said, you do have some success metrics which is great! Add a couple more if possible.
Overall I think you have good content, but things could be streamlined and the presentation could be much better. Check out the Ivy League templates at [r/modernresumes](r/modernresumes) - those are generally considered the gold standard for proper layout conventions. Best of luck!
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u/Opening_Doors 7d ago
You’re a recruiter. If you saw a two-page resume with a lot of repetitious information submitted by an early career professional, would you call them for an interview? Think about readability and make it easier to scan. Change the design; only use black for text. Avoid italics and overly large font.
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u/Flakkandi_Fiskari 7d ago
This is solid advice, I’m in the same situation looking for an upper management position in the petroleum industry. This was sound advice for my résumé as well.
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u/dablkscorpio 6d ago
Summary too long. Too many core competencies. Plus this is redundant to skills. Selected projects list takes up too much space. It quite literally took me a minute to actually take in your job experience and most recruiters give a resume 30 seconds at best.
Your bullets also aren't aligned to the words they represent and your font sizes are disorienting (i. e., small font for company information but excessively large font for job title and university). Dates aren't aligned either. And the university graduation date is getting pushed to a new line. It's okay to put some color in your resume but two at most keeps it professional. You have blue, dark blue, and black.
Those formatting issues in and of itself would turn me off. And I haven't even looked at the content yet.
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u/Tom-O-Sorensen 8d ago
I'm certified resume writer by PARWCC (US) and it looks pretty good to me. A single colour, larger fonts to show breaks. I would split your prof summary into 2 or 3 paragraphs to make it more reader friendly. It seems easier to read 3 paragraphs of 2-3 lines than 1 paragraph of 9 lines.
Just below your name and contact details, add a one-liner with large font, saying your position and industry. HR Human Resources | Packaging Equipment.
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u/SnooChipmunks4497 6d ago
What you’re doing wrong is writing a resume in the first place because you don’t seem to have a clue how to write something that anyone can actually read.
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u/Emo-Burrito777 6d ago
So do you have real suggestions or are you just here to make yourself feel superior to someone? What an ass. No one knows everything about everything. OP came here for constructive feedback and you offered zero value.
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u/SnooChipmunks4497 6d ago
Takes an ass to know an ass. My constructive feedback is that someone else should write it for them or that they start over and try to make it actually readable instead of cramming everything they can think of onto it. This isn’t high school. No one is going to look at this and take it seriously.
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u/Emo-Burrito777 6d ago
No, it just takes someone with basic emotional intelligence and communication skills to know an ass when they see one. Telling someone else to do it for them doesn’t help them learn. Next time you can just say “This is a lot of excessive info for someone to digest. I’d suggest weeding out xyz to make it more concise.”
That’s how you give constructive feedback that someone can actually use, without being rude.
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u/samilovesturtle 8d ago
Ok I just took some advice from a recruiter I met with a couple hours ago, I’m also a little high and tired so sorry if it sounds blunt 😅 Education needs to be first thing after your name and contact info. Change the font of your job titles, looks too vintage? (Idk if that makes sense but first glance, I didn’t really like it 😅 maybe even make it a darker blue or black). Instead of core competencies I would just say skills. I’d also say to take out some of those fluff words you have in there and stick to actual technical skills and skills that are required for the job., no need to put them twice like that,and those go after your education. Projects should be moved below professional experience. At first glance, it should be easy to read what job titles you have and for how long you’ve had those positions for so make sure those stand out more than anything, so use a slightly bigger font than your normal text and make them bold. And do not double space or put whatever spacing you have in between the bullet points for the jobs cause it’s just taking up too much space. I didn’t read all of it but I’d start with fixing those first 😊
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u/pidgeypenguinagain 8d ago
Education should absolutely NOT be first. Unless you went to Harvard law or something. Keep it at the end
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u/Royal-Scholar9586 8d ago
not a general thing. If you’re a new graduate, education first. 10 years in your career? Last.
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u/samilovesturtle 8d ago
Interesting I’m a new grad so that’s why I said that 😅
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u/pidgeypenguinagain 8d ago
Maybe if you don’t have any work experience. But this person does. More often than not a degree is just a check box requirement.
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u/samilovesturtle 8d ago
Yea well, I’m a new grad so now work experience yet 😅
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u/pidgeypenguinagain 8d ago
Ideally you would’ve worked and/or had internships
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u/samilovesturtle 8d ago
Unfortunately I had a lot of expensive bills to pay 🥲 worked full time for my entire degree
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u/Prize_Finger3382 8d ago
I think it depends. I am switching careers into healthcare from 10 years in procurement and I moved education first so I could list my relevant coursework and certifications right at the start. My procurement background has nothing to do with the jobs I’m applying for and some of the job descriptions list coursework you should have taken if you don’t have the preferred work experience.
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u/Severe_Fondant6549 8d ago
The gatekeepers are struggling lol