u/Cheap_Penalty_4708

Salam everyone,

I need honest advice, especially from Moroccans who studied or worked in France.

I’m a junior software engineer in Morocco. I work as a fullstack developer in CDI with a salary around 11.5k MAD/month. The job is stable, but honestly I’m mostly doing bug fixing and I don’t feel I’m evolving enough.

I got accepted into an M2 in France: Master Informatique, parcours Technologies de l’Information et Web, at École Centrale de Lyon. The fees are around 4k€, and with rent/living costs I estimate I’ll need around 13k€ for the year.

My goal is to use this as a bridge to the French/European job market: study, get an internship, then try to get a CDI. Long term I also want to build my own startup, so I’m trying to choose the path that gives me more opportunities and growth.

But I’m hesitating because leaving a stable CDI in Morocco and spending that amount of money is a big risk. I’m afraid of going there, struggling to find a stage/CDI, and coming back with financial pressure.

For people who know France:

Is this M2 at Centrale Lyon worth it?
Does the Centrale Lyon name help even if it’s a Master 2 and not the engineering diploma?
Is it realistic for someone with fullstack experience to find a good internship/CDI after that?
Would you go, or stay in Morocco and keep building experience here?

Please be realistic, not just motivational. Thanks.

I used to think “tailoring a resume” meant rewriting the whole thing for every job post.

After testing different resumes and job descriptions, I think that’s where many people mess up.

Real tailoring should not mean:

• adding skills you barely have
• copying the job description word for word
• changing your job title to look more relevant
• stuffing keywords until the resume sounds fake
• removing strong experience just because it is not mentioned in the job post

That kind of resume might look “optimized,” but it becomes weak when a recruiter or hiring manager actually reads it.

The better approach is more like this:

1. Keep the truth of your experience.
2. Identify what the job post cares about most.
3. Reorder your strongest experience around those priorities.
4. Mirror the company’s wording only when it matches what you actually did.
5. Keep strong achievements even if they are not exact keyword matches.
6. Make the resume easy to scan, not just easy for an ATS to parse.

A good tailored resume should feel like:

“Here is the most relevant version of this candidate.”

Not:

“Here is a totally different person created to impress a robot.”

I used Futurole recently and it helped me look at tailoring differently. The useful part was not just matching keywords, but thinking about how to keep the experience section based on real background while still making it relevant to the job.

Curious how others here handle this:

When you tailor your resume, do you mostly change the summary/skills section, or do you also rewrite the experience bullets for every job?

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