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Sending resumes: quality or quantity?
I've heard multiple opinions on this but I'm keen to hear a few more 😃
With the current market I see two strategies to try and find a job asap:
- Focus on quantity, which means send as many resumes as possible. This implies not spending too much time in each individual application, rather having a standard resume (or a few versions) and just send it out machine-gun style.
- Focus on quality: spend significant time analysing each individual job post and adapting your resume accordingly, trying to maximise the probability of a match. This is a lot more time consuming which means you'll be sending out a lot fewer resumes.
Thoughts?
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konpekiTechnical Program Manager
Quantity for sure, mainly because I've seen plenty of colleagues and stories about people having 100% perfect matches for the role and still not getting call backs. If you get a direct referral or are applying to a job specifically because a recruiter or hiring manager asked you to, then yeah spend some time on it, but otherwise, don't waste your time perfecting each application because it probably won't pay off.
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