Comment on Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms?

bluGill@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

There shouldn't be the same data except for intentional or trivial duplication. Your resume is for humans to read. The form is for machines to verify you can do the job and that you really have experience for the job level. These are different purposes and need to be treated differently.

Write your resume for humans to read, so figure out what they are looking for and give them that. sometimes 5 years in a job is just one line "I wasn't letting my experience rot but otherwise you don't care so I won't waste you time", while a single year of interesting to them work can be 15 lines.

Write the machine forms to be honest - they might check that you really worked those dates and had the job title so don't lie. They will flag a gap in dates but the 2 years fast food is just as good as anything else. They know what java is so if that is a checkbox item you better have it, but they don't know the difference between 10 years extensive experience and I saw java for 15 minutes every year for the last 10. (don't lie about your abilities, but if you know the job won't be writing java you just need to convince the machine you have enough java to check the box and move onto the humans who make decisions).

Note that I assume above you have done some research. You can't always figure out if a job that wants 10 years java really is writing java, or if java is a buzzword - but often you can. Don't submit any resume until you have 15 minutes research into the job/company, but time limit your research to no more than a couple hours (set a timer at 1 hour and decide if either the research is interesting anyway; or you know you have a good chance and are learning things that give you a better chance).

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