I see job seekers stress over the wrong things on their resume.

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1. AnonymousFebruary 27,2026 at 6:37PM UTC

   Malcolm Gladwell believes resumes are useless and don’t predict how well people will do at a job. I think if people are putting effort in making resume glamorous or whatever it doesn’t necessarily mean they are a bad fit, they just don’t understand the purpose of the resume to the potential employer.

   —- People should just use AI to tailor resumes for positions. ATS is AI weeding resumes out. Just do that and keep it moving… it’ll take all the guesswork out of it.

2. AnonymousMarch 2,2026 at 1:43PM UTC

   I not long ago I read a few articles stating that fancy formatting confuses ATS and will drop your application into the trash bin immediately. Once I removed all the color and most of the visual “appeal”, I started seeing some traction.

3. AnonymousMarch 3,2026 at 2:22PM UTC

   Personally, I think the federal government needs to regulate the use of ATS to prevent ageism. Many of the ATS systems *force* an applicant to include dates re: education and experience . As long as employers use ATS, most will engage in ageism as long as they can get away with it.

4. AnonymousMarch 2,2026 at 2:19PM UTC

   I want to see what have you done.

   I am using McDonalds as my example since I think we can all relate to the some of the activities the employees do.

   I don't care if you worked the counter at McDonalds. What did you do. You facilitated customer experience, excellent cash control, provided resolutions through active listening skills, trained new hires , etc. If you improved customer wait times through a modification to the process. Tell me how much the wait times improved based on the change you made ( make sure to describe the change) .

   Most people say the worked at McDonalds as a cashier. Cleaned the lobby(clean lobby is important - but tell me how your unit was able to achieve an A rating from DEHEC based on your direct actions.)

5. GirlBossanova934974March 2,2026 at 4:03PM UTC

   One of the bigger resume problems these days is keeping the resume short and to the point. Many employers are coming with a long laundry list of skillsets. Making sure you cover the bases while at the same time making the resume readable is a big challenge at times.

6. Bernard ClarkMarch 5,2026 at 12:18AM UTC

   A lot, and I do mean a lot, of companies are using something like AI to eliminate who gets to an interview.

7. GirlBossanova934974March 5,2026 at 6:06PM UTC

   I work with AI tools all day long. Each morning is spent fixing whatever some misguided robot said and did. Perhaps it is time to do a big reset on these AI tools. First things first is stop having AI write job specs or use and test better prompts.