Wanna know why your resume doesn't get responses?

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I agree with the "unique" part. Absolutely.

It's easy to sift through resumes and deem many of them not pertinent to the job at hand----if the job opening is one which is exceedingly specialized within a field like engineering.

It is more difficult when the opening, say, is in a business/corporate entity. More generalized skills could be required within these openings.

One of the saddest excuses for a résumé looked like someone had printed out the template and then scribbled their name and other info into the blank spaces on the paper itself.  The person's handwriting was so terrible that I never did find out who they were.  No return address on the envelope, either.

I bet they are still wondering why no one replied.

I've talked to a lot of people who read/assess resumes for their employer (and sometimes being the employer themselves), and there's one overriding issue which stands out above all others:

There. Are. No. Standards.

Every single person who reads a bunch of resumes is looking for something different. There might be a few overlaps, such as "correct spelling" and "not written in crayon", but every single assessor has their own personal idea in their head about what a 'good' resume looks like.

And they don't share this with anyone. At all. Ever. Not applicants, not other assessors, not anyone in their company.

There's no central standards authority. There's no industry group. There's not even a bunch of people who get together down the pub and talk about what they should accept in a resume. And the expected standards are never, ever, EVER communicated to applicants in any form whatsoever - not in the job application, not on the corporate website, not in a document attached to a standard HR applicant enquiry email. There are no templates, no rubrics, not even a hint.

None.

Applicants are, in short, expected to be nothing short of telepathic in determining what the unknown person reading their resume will personally want to see. It's a complete crapshoot as to whether your application will make it past that person. A toss of the coin, a roll of the dice. All anyone can say is "do a spellcheck and don't write it in crayon".

If you've ever wondered why you can take a resume to fifty different "Improve Your Resume For Great Jobs!" places and every one of them will change something from what the last place assured you was the Best Possible Resume, that's why. It's the same reason that every article on the subject will be different, and even the same writers will write different things year to year. Because there are no standards, no One True Format, no secret sauce.

And, of course, as an applicant you will never, ever get useful feedback saying how to reformat your resume to match the personal whims of the reviewer. (Not that this would prove terribly useful anyway, unless you applied for some other job at the exact same place and happened to get the same reviewer the second time around.)

So... good luck. You'll need it. Literally.

Ok. Keep submitting wall-o-text resumes to your heart's desire and getting no responses because it's the reviewers fault.

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I assume it's because I haven't made any attempts to distribute it in awhile.

I used this to get my current job (sections in yellow are to be filled out):



I managed to condense 12 years of working experience into a single page resume (only 6 lines longer than the above template) this way.

What about mentioning AS or ASD?

I never did, and at two job interviews I was laughed at (outcome: not hired).

At jobs I got hired at, it's obvious I have communication difficulties, but then how to breech the subject with your new employer?

It seems so much easier to put it in your resume, to be open up front, but then maybe they never contact you.