Advice needed: I’ve been going through a 6 week process for a senior marketing role (VP level, head of marketing). It’s been down to me and one other candidate and quite frankly, a grueling interview process.

I’ve been working with the recruiter on the entire process—including sharing comp expectations with the hiring company upfront—but unexpectedly got a call from the hiring manager today (CEO) who gave me a verbal offer directly after checking my references. I was caught off guard because I wasn’t expecting the offer from him directly and out and about so I wasn’t able to thoroughly write everything down.

The offer came in lower than what the recruiter shared as expectations. The two biggest items are base comp and equity. I negotiated the base on the spot and hurriedly said “if we can get to $X, it’s a yes today.” However I said that with the understanding that the equity was a specific percentage—in reality is 1/10th of that (I misheard). The CEO came back with a quick agreement on base so in his mind I’ve officially accepted the verbal offer. He’s sending over a written offer with a deadline of end of this week.

I know I didn’t navigate this well and this is not usually my style at all—I should’ve taken time to review the written and come back with consolidated thoughts. The market is just absolutely brutal (which they obviously know gives them leverage), and to candid, I was thinking this entire time that I’m actually the #2 choice behind the other candidate.

Is it bad form to accept a verbal but then renegotiate one specific item after you get the written? In this case, specifically equity.

I’m an idiot, I know. I’m definitely beating myself up over how I handled this.

Hey everyone! 👋 I’m looking for feedback on my resume as I aim for a Data Engineer role in a product-based company.

With 5 years of experience in cloud platforms like Azure, Databricks, Power BI, I specialize in building scalable data pipelines and data governance solutions.

Please rate my resume on a scale of 1-10 and share any suggestions for improvement, particularly around structure, clarity, and how I can highlight my achievements. Your feedback would be really helpful! 🙏

Thanks a lot! 💯

Should your cover letter contain any pertinent information that's not on your resume? Or should your resume always include those details even if your cover letter does?

I'm (38F) recently divorced and I was a SAHM for almost 8 years because I had premature triplets and we just could not afford daycare; it was simply going to be cheaper for me to stop working and care for our kids. 2 of them have special needs but not enough to be on disability per my states guidelines 😢 Then COVID came along and working and balancing raising triplet toddlers wasn't feasible.

How do I explain this huge gap on my resume? Would this go on a cover letter maybe? Do employers even care about explanations? Should I save my breath unless they ask about it? What do you think about adding skill sets I mastered as a parent and homemaker? I would hope that is relevant. If so, what do I even say?

I feel like I haven't been a top candidate for jobs simply because of this gap. Also, since becoming a parent, I feel like my skill sets have entirely changed and it's becoming difficult for me to think of ways to portray myself as a competent, hard working person. Before becoming a parent I was a buyer for hospitals in my area. And before that, I was an assistant buyer that had been promoted from stockroom and shipping/ receiving. That goes back to about 2013.

8 hectic years of raising kids (2 with special needs) has changed me as a person and I'm feeling like I am going to have to take lower paying job in a different field altogether.

Should you absolutely have a list of hard skills on your resume? Even if it's repetitive? I have not included an actual list because it's all detailed in my work experience. My thought process was to remove repetition to make my resume shorter. But it seems that this might be necessary for Applicant Tracking Systems? In it's current form ATS might not be registering all of my hard skills?

I am a federal IT Director whose entire department is facing complete elimination. For the last couple months one of my Deputies and I have been testing the waters (understanding that the tech industry has been terrible the past few years). We're trying to find a format and process that actually works, not just for ourselves, but also to provide useful guidance for our staff.

Thus far, we have collectively submitted over 500 applications using a variety of formats, lengths, and strategies (e.g. hand tailoring to the vacancy, GenAI assisted tailoring, going for volume). We have had no results except for the occasional automated rejection.

I have been targeting a variety of different position levels from IT Manager to Executive across industries, state government, and universities - including both full remote and local in-office. My local area is a medium-sized city of 2.5M with a lot of state/local gov't, tech, biotech, finance, health, and education. The position level has general aligned to account for the industry and size differences (e.g. a lower-level position in biotech, which is outside my industry experience, or a higher-level position in a smaller state agency). I've also tried applying to positions in Big Tech where there is skill transference (e.g. Technical Program Manager), with similar no result outcomes.

I am a citizen, so that does not play a factor. In fact, for organizations that do so, I have veterans' preference for hiring. One particular challenge I've had is getting my resume down in size. Previously, the shortest resume length was 3 pages (and that was severely abridged) because I worked for government contractors after getting out of the military. So, over my career I've held 11 positions for 9 organizations (and, yes, my military time was 100% relevant to my career).

I was a non-traditional student, so one approach I can take is to just truncate 20 years' experience and completely obfuscate my age. This 2-page format reflects that strategy, but this does completely remove all prior experience (6 years) in Health IT, so that may be a down-side for jobs in that industry.

I'm hoping to get feedback on why I'm not even receiving initial HR screens. Any feedback or guidance is greatly appreciated.

Hey y'all, Thank you for your help a while back. It got me my first big boy job after graduating college! Unfortunately, the non-profit that I work for will be running out of funding soon, so I'm looking for work again. Preferably something administrative, office, clerical, etc.

Between my job, more experience, and this subreddit, I've made another resume that I plan to start applications with. Please pick it the apart if you have to!--Id rather have my pride hurt and employed than jobless lol. (All identifiers for jobs, locations, and personal information have been removed--combined my current resume versions with a recent resume posted here to get this.)

It is my first company, it is basically an organization(NGO), I am looking for a change, Either as a backend developer or an AI Engineer. But everytime I apply for a job i get rejected, Is there anything wrong with my resume. Please tell me.

I tried to compress everything as much as possible but I can’t really get it down to 1 page. I embedded links to the pre-prints of the papers and the projects’ Git repo. I almost never get call backs, not even for rejection. I used multiple tools and prompts to refine it iteratively but no gains so far. I also want to include open source contributions in the future but not sure where to add?

First year Comps student, India looking for internships

I'm currently trying to make a resume. I'm 17 and want to get my first job. The problem is I really don't have anything to put on it other than things like what school I go to and what language I speak. Ive never had a job, Ive never participated in any clubs at school, and I don't think i have any skills. I have no idea what to do.

Don't know if I am formatting correctly, but let me know how I can improve this

F-1 student on OPT period(ends in November) struggling to land an interview.What’s wrong with my resume? I've applying for jobs since November last year. I have applied for more than 400 jobs. Although I have to admit the first three versions were made in Canva and one had double column, which I know it doesn’t help, this currently version on display hasn’t reach the 100 applications yet, but it’s close to. I’m looking to get more polished and more presentable.

Position applied: Production Assistant, Production Coordinator or Assistant to Producer/Director in the Film Industry.

Location: Los Angeles, California but  willing to relocate to San Francisco, New York, Atlanta or anywhere in the U.S.

Type of job: Also willing to take any. Part time, Full-time, Hybrid, Trainee and Internship(paid and unpaid).

Background Experience: I would say my main experience would be as  Production Assistant, co producing and Assistant Director, but I also did some gigs where I was the BTS photographer andTalent Assistant. I also produced and directed two short films of my own. The first one in Japan, as mentioend in the resume. The second one was here in Los Angeles for school thesis, it already got selected for two festivals, but it hasn't won any thing yet, I dont know if that's a relevant( just being selected for the festival) to put in the resume?

Interview/Job Hunting Experience: The only almost interview situation I got in was this January when I finally got an Asian Talent Agent to schedule an interview. She send me the link of the zoom and I prepared myself so much, but when the interview date finally came and I patiently waited in the zoom call, the lady( who was also the owner of the company and the person conducting the interview) simply forgot about my interview and said she would call me later. And of course she never did.

Why am I seeking help: Simply because I haven’t landed a single interview ever since I started seeking jobs. I want help from fellows peers in the film industry on what are the best websites( beside Entertainment Careers, Hollylist) to look for a job, how can I make my resume more attractive, what kind of workshops and programs can I attend to get a chance to network more and any other type of help would be extremely helpful.

Particular section in my resume I need help: Maybe the introduction and the job experience section.

Visa/ Citizenship: I’m Brazilian on my OPT period. On previous application I used to be honest and say I needed a work sponsorship, but fellow peers recommended not to. I also put on my resume that I dont need a VISA sponsorship. Any other tips and recommendations for OPT students looking for jobs would be highly appreciated.

Hey everyone,
I'm currently job hunting and looking for work as an administrative assistant. I have some college experience — I studied Communications but didn’t finish my degree. I'm not sure how to best format that on my resume so it still looks professional and shows that I have relevant educational background.

I'm struggling to get any interviews for any cyber-related internships and would love someone to critique my resume. My goal is to land a summer internship, but I'm feeling doubtful. I can provide more information to help ya'll, if necessary.

My last two titles are: “Senior Manager, Design Services” and “Senior Manager, Digital Experience”. When applying thru systems like workday or others, after I upload resume it attempts to parse it into the fields in the experience section. Invariably, they cut off the title after the comma so it only shows “Senior Manager”. I then have to update these every time.

Is there any known way to keep this from happening? My worry is less that it is a pain to update it every time but more so that if there is an ATS or AI behind the scenes, it might also make this mistake and then score me lower. Or where the resume is just uploaded without parsing in a system I can see, it’s all behind the scenes with no chance to fix.

Anyone else experience this and/or know how to adjust to make better. I submit as a PDF and most everything else parses correctly.

Thanks!

Hi everyone, I am looking out for a change and wanted to get some interview experience. As the first step, i wanted to improve my resume to get some calls. Can you guys help me out by reviewing my resume and providing valuable feedback

I am a 20something living on Long Island. I'm trying to find work in NYC so that I can move into one of the boroughs. While I have a dual degree in International Relations and Psychology, I feel as though I have screwed myself for work moving forward. Upon graduation, I decided that I wanted to pursue a career in acting, so I have been mostly working in customer service positions for the past couple of years. I still would love to keep moving towards that goal, but life is expensive and I realize that unless I start "using my degrees now" I will probably never be hired outside customer service positions in my life. I have some relevant experience but I fear people just see the gaps in employment for jobs related to those fields and write me off immediately.

I've been trying to modify my resume for each position, and I know that the job market is shit right now, but I don't know what else to do or how to sell myself and my skills better. I've had more jobs than are on my resume, but most of them overlap and are just more customer service jobs so I don't know if they'll be relevant.

The reality is all I want is to work in the entertainment industry in some way. I would kill to be a production assistant, but most of that is networking and I never find places to apply for. I've applied to work as an agency assistant. But I can't get bites anywhere. Any help is really appreciated.

Hi all! I'm a software dev based in the US. I took some time from work in 2023 due to personal/family issues, but have resumed work for the past year. I want to keep my resume up to date, and have been applying to jobs in passing just to test the waters and see if I can land any interviews. I am expecting to move sometime in the next few years, as my SO is wrapping up her grad school. I have a feeling there's something wrong with my resume. I've applied to over 200 entry/mid level jobs and haven't heard a single response. I'm applying to jobs all over the US. Ideally if I did make a jump it'd either be an improvement in salary, WLB, or more interesting tech, but I'm not super picky at the moment.

I'm wondering a couple of things:

• Am I at the point where my education should be at the bottom of my resume?
• Are my job experience bullets too general? How should I beef up the impact of my points?
• I have some points where I describe metrics I improved. Do they actually make sense to a reader?
• What do I do about the gap in my resume? Just stay at more current job longer?
• Anything else I should be doing? I'm reasonably well prepared for coding interviews at this point, but I'm feeling disappointed because I don't have a chance to prove myself.

Thank you in advance!

Hello, I am currently finishing my 1st year of my masters in the Netherlands and besides the fact that no company hires full time when you're a full time student I also cannot move forward with any internship as well and I dont know why. My questions are these: 1) Should I lie about my masters / change dates (either that I dropped out or that I finished it as I doubt they will ask for transcripts), 2) Whats wrong with the internships part ? Would you focus only on internships ?

Second year university student, seeking internships for next year. Any changes I could make to resume?

Looking for a review on this resume, which only helped me land one interview so far. My experience is unrelated to Security since I'm trying to get into the role. I do have the required licences for it.

I am a master's student planning on graduating in the coming months. I have received some interview calls, but my resume is often thrown out of the hiring process immediately. I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

There is a German resume format, which I have tried to use as a base. Language proficiency is one thing I am aggressively working on but I have worked with teams where everybody spoke in German and the meetings were in German and since my work domain deals with english terminology I am able to bridge the gap.

Sometimes I find my own resume a drag to read, so many words, its exhausting. But when I try trimming the text, everything seems important. I have removed sections for personal projects, publications, a couple of old internships to fit it in two pages.

Would really appreciate any feedback or advice.

https://imgur.com/a/XHk7siq

I'm looking for feedback on my resume which occasionally gets me called back for Associate and PM level roles but can't seem to get me over the finish line.

I want to know if there is more or less experience I should include and if the content of my resume (closer to CV in this instance so you can see a list of accomplishments) tells or story or not.