Reasons You're Not Getting Interviews; Plus Some Crazy Real Resume Mistakes

Yvonne Lee, Community Manager at Dice.com writes, "Not using standard job titles, not tying your work to real business results and not using the right keywords can mean never getting called for an interview, even if you have the right skills to do the job. I once heard advice to use the exact wording found in the ad when placing your keywords. I think you're even more unlikely to get a job if you do some of the things on this list."

Comments

HWGA

[drcheap]

Yup...here we go again.

F U dice.com, F U.

Re:HWGA

[dubbreak]

That actually made me laugh out loud. The sad thing is that most likely reflects reality.

You have got to be pretty out of touch to think doing that is a good idea. It's not one of those things that "looks good on paper" then takes a nose dive. It was a bad call from the get go.

Of course it could be worse. Every front page story could be a shoddy summary and link to a Dice.com "article". Personally I'm still reeling over the How to use a Linux Virtual Private Server "article". What's worse is they moved the "article" from Dice.com to slashdot itself to, I dunno, give it more credibility?

"Hey, this old fluff piece we wrote has something about Linux! We should post a story about it!"

"Shoot, they didn't like that it's a Dice.com article"

"I KNOW.. we'll move it to the slashdot domain.. that way it'll be credible!!!"
"Awesome idea!!!"
*back pats all around*

Re:Why the Dice.com hate?

[CanHasDIY]

Not that I'm in the job market or even looking, but it didn't take long to figure out people hate these guys. Just wondering why.

Because we come here to read the news, not to have some parent-company advertisement misrepresented to us as if it were news.

CmdrTaco knew his audience; /.'s new masters at Dice.com don't seem to have figured it out quite yet.

This is anti-productive.

[digitalvengeance]

Prior to the recent rash of Dice.com slashvertisements, I held a very positive opinion of both Dice.com and Slashdot. With each new thinly veiled attempt to drive traffic to Dice, I lose a little bit of respect for each.

If Dice wants to put ads on slashdot, just put ads on slashdot. Stop running fake stories that just diminish a site that has spent a long time earning a loyal following.

Re:LMFTFY

[Anonymous Coward]

What she really thinks she's doing: "Using job and industry news to increase user stickiness, SEO performance and conversion into jobs database". I wonder how that's working out?

Not going to touch "increase user stickiness" with a ten foot pole.

What's depressing is that she's been at this shit for 10 years, and her top accomplishments are things like, "simultaneously managed two magazine sections and a web publication."

The problem with all these stories on how to write your resume is that they're written by people who are fundamentally useless and are stuck writing puff pieces and managing someone's twitter account.

Re:LMFTFY

[mindwhip]

Not for very much longer if this spam continues. I've been reading /. for much longer than my userid would indicate (just never got around to registering) but I'm seriously considering removing it from my home tabs and looking elsewhere for news for nerds that is actually news and stuff that actually matters and not this crap.

Re:LMFTFY

[Anonymous Coward]

You'll continue to open a new tab and type in "slashdot.org" when you're bored, completely out of muscle memory. I swore this site off back when Geeknet was screwing it up and it didn't work; now that Dice is screwing it up and I'm still here, I'm not going to bother with "I'll never come here again if you don't stop being terrible" threats that, realistically, I'm just not going to follow through on.