Not long ago I was looking for a new position. I am a software engineer. I was not getting many hits at first and I suspected the reason was my resume. I tried the A/B approach to find what configuration of my resume worked best. To my surprise I got much better results with a configuration of my resume that omitted my military experience, my MBA, and my risk management training/certs - leaving only my 12 years of software development experience and Comp Sci education (my 'B' resume). I had overwhelmingly more hits with my B resume, subsequently did some code tests, and landed a position.
Does anyone have any theories as to why that happened? In both cases the resume was concise with a one page configurations or a two page configuration. The formatting didn't seem to matter only the above mentioned omissions.
Does anyone have any theories as to why that happened? In both cases the resume was concise with a one page configurations or a two page configuration. The formatting didn't seem to matter only the above mentioned omissions.