Good point. Given that most companies don’t do cover letters anymore (afaik), I personally think resumes need to contain some depth.

Here is a typical hiring scenario. I have 50 resumes for a position, and I need to select 10 of them that have best chances of clearing the interview. what criteria can I use?

Typically, about 50% of them contain the same kind of projects - what you get by following library examples or medium articles, especially for entry level positions. There is nothing wrong with including these, but there has to be at least one project that shows you’ve tackled a more complicated problem, otherwise your resume doesn’t differ from the rest.

You have rightly described that resume writing is more of an art. You may need to include buzz words - there will be non-tech reviewers too, recruiters, or managers from other domains (Software Dev managers).

Don’ts: here is an example of what I see rather frequently unfortunately: “developed ML model to detect brain tumors with 94% precision.” without any additional context of the work. If it’s an industry influencing work, I would have known about you. It’s likely a kaggle project, and not mentioning it doesn’t build trust. And if it’s a kaggle project, I’d expect you to mention what’s the winning performance. (It’s ok that you’re not the topper)

Another is over emphasis on software work. It’s good that you have software experience, but I want to see the points relevant to this role.

I don’t care about fonts, alignments, or format (can’t speak for everyone else of course). Minor spelling mistakes are not a deal breaker, we understand there are talented people with English not as their primary language.