u/perfection369

Original post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Resume/s/NuHKNyoG14

Last week I posted asking why I couldn't land interviews despite having a master's degree, certifications, and startup experience. Got a lot of blunt, useful feedback. Here's what I changed:

Format: Ditched the two-column Canva layout and rebuilt in single-column for ATS.

Profile: Rewrote from scratch. Old version was generic. New version leads with what I actually do and backs it up with a specific number.

Skills: Removed Microsoft Suite and Adobe Creative Suite from the top (fair point, it looked like filler). Reordered with the most relevant hard skills first.

Overlapping dates: Fixed. No more three simultaneous "Present" roles.

Bullet points: Added real numbers. For example, I originally wrote "built a venue database of 4,000+ listings." The actual story is I contacted 6,000+ venues in one month, converted 2,000+ at a ~33% sign-up rate, and generated 268K+ impressions in the first two weeks with $0 ad spend.

Section order: Profile, Experience, Education, Skills, Certifications.

Would appreciate another round of feedback on the new version. Roast away.

Hey all, I've been job searching for over a year now targeting Product Manager and Product Designer roles in the US, and I'm at the point where I need outside eyes on what's going wrong. Resume attached.

Quick background:

• M.S. Business Analytics, M.S. Game Science and Design, B.S. Game Design
• 3-4 years of experience spanning Product Management, UX/Product Design, and Operations
• Most of my experience comes from early-stage / small companies where I owned product end-to-end — roadmap, specs, UX, and in some cases marketing/ops too, because the teams were small and someone had to do it
• One role was at a mid-sized e-commerce operations company (not a startup), where I managed day-to-day warehouse operations
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), CAPM,
• Bilingual

The problem:

Mostly through [Job board (LinkedIn, Indeed)/ company career pages/ referrals)

Sent out more than 400 applications, only landed less than 5 interviews total

I genuinely don't know if it's the resume, the schools, the lack of brand-name companies on it, or something about how I'm positioning myself

What's confusing me:

• I get rejected even from entry-level roles, which doesn't track with my experience level
• I genuinely don't know if it's the resume content, the schools, ATS formatting, my positioning, or something else entirely, that's why I'm asking instead of guessing

Would really appreciate blunt feedback. Happy to answer questions about my background in the comments. I'm a good advice taker, I acknowledge my problems and take action to change them, so don't hold back.

Thanks in advance.