I recently got a job, but it was a bear going through rejections on repeat. It almost felt like nobody was even looking at my resume. Which made me think 🤔 that might be the case.

It turns out that hiring managers are swamped with stacks of resumes. Surprisingly (to me), they’re not really using AI to auto-reject, they just aren’t reading carefully.

If you’re a hiring manager with a stack of 200 resumes on your desk, how do you process them? I think I’d probably:

1. Scan for the most critical info (e.g. years of experience, industry focus, tech stack, etc.)
2. Read the remaining ones more carefully.

So you have to spoon feed the hiring manager. Sounds easy.

Except it’s not. One single resume won’t work, because it’s basically impossible to satisfy all potential job postings and also have it be succinct enough to properly spoon feed.

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