Gergely OroszDec 19, 2022

“Why was my resume rejected when I think I’m a great fit for this job?”

So many times I’ve observed the reason being the hiring manager not talking with their recruiter / inbound sourcer / the person doing the resume screening.

The hiring manager would eg say “I want someone senior with Go experience, don’t send me anyone below 5 YOE” and the recruiter rejects anyone without 5 years of Go on their resume, even though it’s not what the hiring manager meant…

Show threadAntonius
@gergelyorosz Serious question in that regard: How should I count the “X years of experience” when I learned most of my favorite languages in side projects during school and studies?
Should I just estimate how many years of full-time job experience my skill set is equivalent to?
Dec 19, 2022 at 9:46amWeb
Show threadBeetroot PaulDec 19, 2022
@gergelyorosz @antonius My related struggle: I used tech X from time to time in my work, I touch tech Y nearly every week, I also worked with tech Z for half a year, but only 10h/week (side gig). How to count it? I gave up on thinking about it and answer such questions counting all of these as full time “years of experience” 🤷‍♂️
Show threadBeetroot PaulDec 19, 2022
@antonius @gergelyorosz (in general I dislike a lot when I meet a recruiter who seems to ignore all the context and just ask me dozen of questions about years of experience in specific technologies. But I assume this is how it has to be and valuable talk will happen on latter stages)