None of these are in high-demand right now in my experience. Despite being an expert in most of these listed, I haven't even had an interview in a couple of months.
Wish it were as easy as getting some certifications, but I don't think anyone has ever asked for one specifically in my entire career.
It's difficult to quantify the value of "I know the shit out of linux" to a prospective employer when they're looking for cog developer #471.
In my experience it's the network of people you've worked with that know how beneficial you are and want to work with you again (this is key) that will keep you in demand regardless of the market conditions.
Victim-blaming is not necessary in this hiring environment. In the last decade only small companies have been available to me which means there’s under five folks I can turn to directly for jobs, and all are not hiring now.
Yes, that's what I'm saying. The rise of ATS seems to be a big part of the problem. Don't think I'm even being seen. There's also been an explosion of stacks, and if you didn't work with the ZYZYXX stack for the last five years, no chance, because someone else has.
I got hired on as a 1099 to help implement some "Facebook clone but for your company's internal intranet" because they specifically needed a US citizen to do it for "compliance reasons" (energy company)
After coming to terms with their... questionable software stack (Apache on Ubuntu in which they rented AWS bare metal to then run ESXi???) they asked me if I knew anything about Azure, so they could broaden their cloud support
I had their entire stack transliterated and ready to run within hours the same day (their app really could just be on a VPS somewhere)
Despite this, I was told I'd have to apply for their Sysadmin job the same as anyone else. Okay. Fine
It later came back that I was pruned from even being shortlisted because "you don't have any Azure experience"
I ported your entire stack to it in mere hours but I guess not!
I know right? One recruiter told me that they wouldn't interview me because I didn't have experience with Shopify. What kind of bullshit is that? What worked for me is putting as many keywords as possible and using ChatGPT to write what you did at your previous job. It's best when sprinkled with some hallucinations.
I think it is changed. AI is today’s version of the computer, putting many out of long-held jobs while opening up new career paths for different skills.
~25 years of linux experience, 8-9ish professionally here, my beard is a bit gray. 2 interviews in the last 11 months of looking for me. I am not being picky. (I'm at a little more of a disadvantage- I've been exploring another, non-tech career path since covid, which now shows as a five year gap on my cv).
Frankly that is a pretty thoughtless response. Even if your anecdote were broadly applicable, it still doesn't logically follow that an employer giving lots of interviews somehow translates on the applicant side into "a better resume would get you interviews". In fact, the hiring process has become incredibly dysfunctional. The best conceivable resume is still unlikely even to be read by a human hiring manager when it's just one of literally thousands of others for the same role.
I did a couple months ago. i did like 4 of them. you want me to screenshot my interview schedules or something? I'm not one of these "use your network people", im to introverted for that. I cold apply through companies sites.
I never had anyone reach out on these who's hiring things though. Also HN whos hiring has been a dead end for me on my job searches.
Is that resume the one your uploading onto websites and job portals? Unsolicited feedback OK or am i going to get hammered with downvotes? lol
Get rid of the cute formatting. Pictures, icons, "fun" section. Recruiters get 1000s of applications per job. It needs to be easily parseable by software and easy at a glance to see who you are. The top third is a sky diver. keep it to only 1 page. Your also not using a professional tone on your resume.
The skydiver is me, and parses fine. I could remove all personality, but would that really help? I was successful with this resume five years ago, not now.
Actually one person was quite excited about it recently, but he worked for a company that had zero money for developers. :-/
So, please put your money where your mouth is and get in touch for one of those SRE jobs, which I could certainly do with one hand behind my back. Am highly motivated.
Your trying to get a job as a linux admin or coder? Not a skydiver?
> and parses fine.
I tried to go to your github and copy and paste kept picking up weird characters until i gave up. You have images all over where there should be text. Three of your companies are images. You have links embedded.
> I could remove all personality, but would that really help?
IMO yes, because i think its hurting you. Your not even getting call backs. Resumes need to be efficient to look at and judge for a 25 year old recruiter that doesn't know CS.
Your competing with people who can put "Meta 2021-2025" in big bold letters up front. You have a giant image, then another 1/3 page of icons.
This isn't 5 years ago where hiring pipelines didn't have people in them and hiring managers were actively recruiting and trying to find people. I had one recruiter tell me they had to pull the job listing down after a day or 2 because there were to many applicants. No one has time for your personality and quirks.
Go to google docs, pick a resume template, write your accomplishments in detail, have some llm shorten it for you using business language. Put your personality on your blog
> Your trying to get a job as a linux admin or coder? Not a skydiver?
Someone who parachutes in to save the day, no matter the problem. One thing I've done multiple times is rescue broken systems built by B-players or worse.
> tried to go to your github and copy and paste
Huh? It's a link, you click it.
> Three of your companies are images. You have links embedded.
Those are the very oldest, just to show a wide range of experience. Before you said you wanted it shorter, now you want it longer with more detail. Please pick one.
> This isn't 5 years ago where hiring pipelines didn't have people in them
I'm not sure what this means. Feels a lot more automated today with everyone using an ATS.
> remove personality...
I'm not sure about this, but worth thinking about. The conventional wisdom for a long time is to show some personality to stand out, (and apologies) given by folks who know the difference between "your" and "you're" and understand links. I'm on the fence with this one.
My resume is meant to appeal to hiring managers, not recruiters it's true. Could see that being an issue, but recruiters have not been visible in the places I've been applying.
> Before you said you wanted it shorter, now you want it longer with more detail. Please pick one.
Shorter by taking the extra info and pictures out. Clearer by taking away pictures. These can be one line with a single bullet point.
> > This isn't 5 years ago where hiring pipelines didn't have people in them
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> I'm not sure what this means. Feels a lot more automated today with everyone using an ATS.
I mean like people to actually even interview. We would sometimes have an opening and no people to even interview.
You can take the feedback or not. I have gotten interviews in the last few months, give a lot interviews and look at a lot of resumes. My point was, the job market is bad, but its not no interviews bad. It is competitive, there are fewer listing, pay is stagnating or even going down. The interview process it self is fucked up. But there are jobs out there.
Wish it were as easy as getting some certifications, but I don't think anyone has ever asked for one specifically in my entire career.