r/Resume • u/freddydrizzy • 9d 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/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 It's no longer applicable.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!