Apr 29 • General discussion
Most resume advice is from people who haven't job searched in 10 years
Hot take.
Most of the resume advice floating around right now is being recycled from people who last applied to a job before ATS even mattered. They don't know what gets parsed in 2026, they don't know recruiters are running their own AI screens now, and they're still giving advice like nothing has changed.
Here's what actually moved the needle for me during my search.
The recruiters who responded didn't care about formatting. They didn't care about clever design, skills bar graphs, or a carefully crafted opening paragraph. They responded to resumes that made it stupidly easy to answer one question.
Can this person do the job I'm hiring for, yes or no.
That's the whole game.
So I stopped writing my resume for a human reading every word and started writing it for the few seconds of attention I was actually going to get. I had Claude pull the exact language out of the JD and tell me which of my bullets matched and which ones I needed to rewrite. I made the top third of the page do the heaviest lifting.
If your resume needs someone patient and curious to figure out what you do, it's already losing.
What's the worst piece of resume advice you've ever gotten? I'll go first in the comments.
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Most resume advice is from people who haven't job searched in 10 years
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