r/Resume

Hi,

I have different concerns about my CV.

What to do with irrelevant experiences?

I have about 8 jobs listed on my CV for the last 10 years. Experiences are all over the place. I have a mix of customer service roles, mailroom roles or more creative roles (website management, graphic design).

My most recent experience from the last 5 years have been mostly customer service related, so my professional path that have been unsuccessful is becoming less and less relevant, as well as my school.

Right now, instead of detailing everything, I have a section "Relevant Experience" where I describe relevant jobs. And after I have another section "other experience" where I just list the position I had without any further details.

Is that ok?

Sometimes I just wish I could remove all my experience and start from scratch because my CV is kind of working against me in some ways. Too many different experience = Hard to find jobs.

Skills

This week someone told me that on the CV, I should focus on acquired skills instead of just listing what I did at the job. It made me wonder two things. Using AI, for my most recent mailroom job, I get:

• Mail reception and sorting: Receive, sort, and check incoming envelopes and parcels while applying security procedures and strong attention to detail.
• Document handling: Scan, open, and route documents to the appropriate teams while maintaining steady pace and consistent accuracy.
• Internal circulation: Move carts and ensure smooth circulation of documents between teams until final archiving.

Is that a good format I should use for all my previous jobs? Normally I just put job description/tasks.

I still have a skill section, but don't want to repeat myself in two places.

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Anyway, the worst in all that is that I hate all jobs that my CV make me stuck in.

How do I make a career-pivot CV?

Thank you

Hii! i don’t know how to even start a resume, and every website I go to I have to pay a fee, I wouldn’t even know where to start on my own! can anyone give me some tips! I just turned 18 and have been trying to find a job for months but I can’t seem to get hired by anyone where I live.

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This is my resume at 3rd year of my btech , any improvements? or what should i learn more

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I would really appreciated it if one of the Resume Gurus out here reviewed my resume for me

So, for this particular position I want to emphasize my publication and grant/fellowship history. However, I don't want to remove my profile or information about my previous work experience, as I feel that that would hurt me. The publication and grant history are kind of little add-ons, but I want to give each one its own space.

Does anyone have any advice for really squeezing a lot of info on one page? Does font size even matter anymore when ATS is reading everything? I'm so confused.

I've been exploring resume writing services and career coaching options lately and have been trying to separate good genuine recommendations from marketing and while researching, I came across several discussions mentioning sedlack peter the career coach, particularly in conversations about executive resumes, linkedIn optimization etc.

That said, I'm not looking for a specific recommendation and would like to hear a variety of experiences before making a decision.

For the people who has worked with a resume writer or career coach recently, please help me out with

Which service did you use?
What was your experience like?
Did it actually help you get more interviews or better job opportunities?
Was it worth the cost?
Are there any services you'd recommend avoiding?

I'm especially interested in hearing from professionals in competitive industries but all experiences are welcome.

People ought here help me loll

I’m really confused

I’m a 2026 passed out student

In my clg days my placement cell told us to maintain only 1 page resume, even if we have 2 page content

Now when i talk to corporate people

They are maintaining 2,3 page resume

What should i do??

I am still pretty new to posting on here so go easy on me.

I want to preface this by saying this might be one of the more sensitive things I have posted so just a small disclaimer everything here comes from a place of genuine respect for anyone going through this.

I work with people in this exact situation every single day. People who gave twenty years to one place. Who showed up, who built something, who were the person everyone relied on. And then one day it ended. Not because they were not good enough. Not because they did not work hard enough. Just because the company decided it was time.

What happens after that is something I hear about constantly and almost never see talked about honestly. So I figured I would write it down.

I used to be a recruiter and now I work in resume writing. Everything I am about to share comes from real conversations with real people going through this right now.

1.The first few days feel like a strange kind of freedom and then at some point that changes and you cannot quite pinpoint the moment it did.

2.You keep reaching for your work phone or opening your laptop out of habit and then remembering. That specific moment catches you off guard every single time.

3.The people you spent more time with than your own family for twenty years go quiet almost immediately. That silence is its own kind of grief that nobody prepares you for.

4.Your entire professional identity was tied to that one place and without it you do not quite know how to answer the question what do you do anymore.loyalty you gave for two decades does not translate into anything tangible on a resume and sitting with that realisation is one of the hardest parts of this.

6.Everyone around you keeps saying something will come up and you smile and nod and inside you are wondering if they actually believe that or if they just do not know what else to say.

7.The hardest part is not the job search. It is grieving a version of your life that you did not realise you were so attached to until it was gone.

If any of this felt familiar you are not alone. More people are living this than you would ever guess and most of them are carrying it in complete silence.

When you feel ready just get some help. A friend, someone who has worked in hiring, a professional, anyone who can give you an honest read on where things stand. And if you ever want that from me I am always around.

It will not always feel this way. Just keep going.

I just started a two month contract role, and it’s my first time in this role and my targeted next role. Can I still place it on my resume as I currently job search even tho I just started the contract ? I want to plan ahead for when contract ends or get a salaried position leveraging stuff I already learned. Thanks!