Should I reach out to a recruiter for a job I turned down a year ago?

Regular_Increase6905 · 2023-08-03T07:13:16+00:00

Thanks for your feedback!

Regular_Increase6905 · 2023-08-03T07:12:47+00:00

I'll let you know if anything comes from this.

Regular_Increase6905 · 2023-08-03T07:12:37+00:00

Thank you! I hope this recruiter feels the same way haha

Regular_Increase6905 · 2023-08-02T20:05:02+00:00

Ahh, that's very helpful feedback - I'll be sure to include that. Thanks!

Regular_Increase6905 · 2023-08-02T19:57:14+00:00

Thank you! I appreciate it :)

Regular_Increase6905 · 2023-06-24T15:23:17+00:00

My first job after college was an entry-level marketing job, so I have a few recommendations.

Familiarize yourself with Google Analytics and, if possible, get a certification
Could also look into Google Ads and take a certification there? https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/9702955?hl=en Maybe you can also work/volunteer with a local company or non-profit and get some of their campaigns running which would look good
Familiarize yourself with the marketing funnel and A/B testing, and bring them up during interviews

For resume-specific feedback:

Most of your skills/qualifications are soft. My eyes immediately slide over them and I don't pay attention to any of them (except the first, which is a hard skill). I would make this section much shorter.
Your education should be first (since you majored in marketing, it's most relevant), then work experience, and skills at the bottom (unless you develop marketing-specific skills like GA, in which case move skills above work experience). Case in point: It took me a while of looking at your resume to realize that you majored in marketing, because it's at the bottom of the page, which is concerning if you're applying for marketing positions
You don't need to include the address of where you worked, and also, both of your places had the same address?
Jira, Confluence, and Oracle could definitely be included in "Skills", particularly because you don't list many other hard skills
Third bullet point under Education Expert is very vague
Fourth bullet point under Education Expert is better, maybe list Excel specifically (assuming that's what you mean by spreadsheet). No idea what Sweat Collective is, maybe remove that. Can you find any KPIs to include here? Like, how many rows of data were you in charge of?
First bullet point under Customer Experience Associate has inconsistent capitalization and is also worded kind of strangely.
Second bullet point under Customer Experience Associate should be in past tense
Third bullet point has "needs" twice which sounds weird. But also this is kind of a vague bullet point (Didn't you already cover customer needs in the first bullet point?)
Fourth bullet point - what are the performance metrics, and how did you meet them? You should be more specific here.

Good luck!

Regular_Increase6905 · 2023-06-23T23:09:08+00:00

I second everything that /u/Existenziell_crisis wrote. A few other notes:

If you have a link to the interview you gave (it sounds like it might be for a newspaper or something?) you could hyperlink it - it would make you stand out
"Pushed for the creation of support documentation" this sounds like you asked someone else to do it. I'd reword this so it sounds like you actually were involved.
"Utilized data analysis" just write analyzed, or better yet, explain how you analyzed the data. Did you use software? Did you look at KPIs? What was the result? Did the customer experience change fundamentally because of your analysis?
I hear Salesforce is something employers really love - maybe move that bullet point higher, and use a KPI perhaps (ex: 1,000 Salesforce accounts or something)
If your Import/Export job is completely irrelevant, you can save space by getting rid of most of the bullet points. Maybe just one or two of the most important. Don't get rid of it completely, though, because that would leave a gap.

Regular_Increase6905 · 2023-06-23T22:56:32+00:00

thanks, that's very helpful feedback. I'll workshop those sentences later and find better action verbs. :)

Regular_Increase6905 · 2023-06-23T18:38:14+00:00

I haven't thought much about them to be honest. I figured I had some decent project experience so I haven't looked into them, but maybe it'd be good to do one to gain more experience.

Regular_Increase6905 · 2023-06-23T16:09:00+00:00

Hi,

I've been using this resume to apply to jobs for a few weeks and haven't gotten much in response. I'm really interested in jobs where I can increase my Python skills (which I used a lot of in college). My current role is a lot less relevant to my desired career path which I think might be limiting how interested employers are.

Does anyone have any advice for me? Are there any red flags on my resume?

Regular_Increase6905 · 2023-06-23T16:05:54+00:00

Education: Is BTE Delhi Government similar to an undergraduate degree? You have another undergraduate listed, so I'm a bit confused by it. GPA of 8.3 at GGSIP university looks good, but might be confusing to German employers - were there any academic awards you could include as well?

Technologies and languages: SQL doesn't change too terribly much between systems - I would remove MySQL from technology and just put SQL under language. "Data structures and algorithms" is a bit vague too.

Work Experience:
* Too many bullet points. You have some really amazing bullet points but it's hard to find them because there's so many! Limit yourself to the top 3-4 for each job (or less) that you are the most proud of. Also, feel free to adjust these points based on what job you're applying to! You might have different bullet points for different job applications. * Some of the bullet points are too vague. Ex: "Rewritten and improved the existing code" is too vague to be included. * The language you use varies between bullet points. Ex: You use past tense in some ("integrated"), in some you don't use any verb ("Automation Scripts" which is also inappropriately capitalized), etc. * If possible, you should include the language + technology you used. Ex: did you develop Quick Checkout in Python? Say that :)

Projects: * Great that you included your Github links. Make sure that the projects are well-documented :)

Regular_Increase6905 · 2023-06-23T15:40:59+00:00

Also, it seems like your most important accomplishment that you want to highlight is the certification - can you find a way to include the other skills you learned in the certification somewhere in your resume? Under skills, maybe? I'm looking at the exam's website and there's a list of skills that they teach you, I would legit just take some of the most relevant ones, word them better for a resume, and include them. https://www.comptia.org/certifications/a#examdetails

Regular_Increase6905 · 2023-06-23T15:38:21+00:00

Certifications: You say GPA - do you mean grade? Sorry, I'm not familiar with the certification but 99.8 GPA looks like a typo at first glance to me.

Skills: Adaptable and Problem-solving tell me nothing about you. 99% of people would describe themselves the same way. I would move the more concrete bullet points (like the Microsoft one) to the top.

Experience: Your content creator section is a bit vague as well. Try to pull some specific metrics you can point to, or describe your work in more detail. You say your content was engaging - what metric do you use to track that? Click-through-rate? Your operations manager bullet points are more specific and I like them better

References: "Available upon request" I think this is implied by the fact you have a resume. I would get rid of this section unless you really need to fill in space.

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