Hi all -- founder of RezScore, free automated scoring tool. Have spent about a decade studying the subject.
1. Brevity: Keep it concise, under 800 words. Every extra word is a bullet they can kill you with if they're on the fence.
2. Impact: Use a readability score (ie Fleisch-Kincaid, any built into Word) to keep the reading score equivalent of ~11th grade. They're smart but not geniuses.
3. Depth: Keep your sentences short, under 20 words per sentence is good rule of thumb. Reward their laziness.
Other useful tips...
* Use a large professional headline (ie LinkedIn), swap out just this part for each job you're applying
* Prune out responsibilities, only talk about achievements
* Lots of numbers
* Pay attention to aesthetics/formatting
Don't obsess about perfection -- devise a system to crank out 10 copies a day and you'll iterate it into a job in no time. At any rate, if you're applying resume first you're doing it wrong, everybody getting the plum jobs networks their way in, resume is a formality.
Always happy to hear about your job search and provide specific resume feedback, email us at hey AT rezscore.com
We track what we are able to practically track. So if you send your link out and I join the site through your link... then I refer a candidate, you would be eligible to receive half of my earnings for the initial referral.
As a practical matter, people are finding it confusing so we are moving to more straightforward criteria
I can provide at least two reasons this repo will benefit people even if they do not wish to use our website.
For one, job seekers will benefit by knowing which companies are hiring, so applicants can try their luck at disintermediating us and taking their chances directly on the company websites. We'd argue that applicants will have more success through the direct relationship we've cultivated, but the option exists in the current incarnation.
Second, this repository will hopefully evolve into a very useful resource as job hunting evolves. If this happens, our codebase could become a great template and readily forked to create additional job resources, even competing ones, since we are releasing this under the MIT license.
That said, of course I'd love it if even more people use https://rezscore.com/ -- our team are building incredible tools to improve the job search process.
@drefno, you sound super-knowledgeable on the subject so I'd love to chat with you to learn from your perspective! Please shoot me a note at [email protected]
One person has already reached out about posting a lot more remote jobs, so make sure to subscribe/follow the repository so you will get updated as new jobs are posted.
We've also been talking about in organizing this into a SQL-like interface, I think there could be a lot of value in job hunting in such a manner... "SELECT * FROM jobs WHERE location = 'seattle' and keyword LIKE '%python%'"
@jedberg nailed this while I was waiting for my HN rate limit to cool off. @jonbarker, yes, this is intentionally a bare-bones alpha, we are hoping to move into this sort of direction based on feedback from the community.
I am the owner of the repository, and it is released under the MIT license so anybody is welcome to clone it if they wish to make their own adjustments.
There are many great UX for finding jobs. For my case, I get things done a lot faster on the command line so I would personally prefer such an interface for browsing jobs, and judging by the reaction to this post it seems others might agree.
Thanks for the tip -- another user commented this as well, so we switched over to .md Markdown format. Shoot us a note and let us know if this looks better.
The early companies who have been trying this out this have the advantage that can could post at a discount and still get added exposure.
A big shout out to the companies who recognized this discount and will be rewarded with great value: Eight Sleep, Polis, Standard Tokenization Protocol, Zimperium, Adnomi, Checkbook, EnergyHub, Apptentive, PagerDuty, BetterHalf, Power Integrations, and EverQuote plus others I may have missed.
We have full details at https://jobs.rezscore.com/redballoon -- we tweak the structure each month based on results from the prior month, but it's based on a formula of clicks, applications, interviews, and hires. The leaderboard updates in real time as does your personal dashboard with a display of your stats.
Of course the payout structure is at our discretion, we can only imagine how people will try to game this. While we encourage some creative thinking, we want to avoid outright spam.
1. Brevity: Keep it concise, under 800 words. Every extra word is a bullet they can kill you with if they're on the fence. 2. Impact: Use a readability score (ie Fleisch-Kincaid, any built into Word) to keep the reading score equivalent of ~11th grade. They're smart but not geniuses. 3. Depth: Keep your sentences short, under 20 words per sentence is good rule of thumb. Reward their laziness.
Other useful tips... * Use a large professional headline (ie LinkedIn), swap out just this part for each job you're applying * Prune out responsibilities, only talk about achievements * Lots of numbers * Pay attention to aesthetics/formatting
Don't obsess about perfection -- devise a system to crank out 10 copies a day and you'll iterate it into a job in no time. At any rate, if you're applying resume first you're doing it wrong, everybody getting the plum jobs networks their way in, resume is a formality.
Always happy to hear about your job search and provide specific resume feedback, email us at hey AT rezscore.com