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7 Resume Mistakes That Cost IT Professionals Interviews
Recruiters skim. These common mistakes make them skim right past you, and they're all easy to fix.
Career
6 min read
Most recruiters spend under a minute on a first read of a resume. In that time they want to see your stack, your level, and proof that you've delivered. Here are the mistakes we fix most often.
The list
- A skills section with forty technologies and no sense of depth.
- Bullet points that describe duties instead of outcomes.
- No numbers: users served, latency cut, pipelines automated.
- Project dates and client names that don't match your LinkedIn.
- A summary written for every job instead of the one you want.
- Dense formatting that applicant tracking systems can't parse.
- Listing tools you can't discuss in depth in an interview.
Fix these and you'll get more callbacks from the same applications.