I think I posted in the wrong place so I’m gonna try here as well. The résumé group is absolutely dead.
I need help either fixing up my résumé or maybe I’m looking for the wrong job roles or positions. Maybe it’s my cover letters I don’t know I really need help because I have one week left of unemployment compensation. I am willing to take a job for 45 to 50 K I’d like to get a job for 65K or more . I don’t have a degree or certs. I left off older jobs few years in law offices, help please

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Have you tried contracting? That would at least buy you time to keep looking. That’s what I did. You may even be able to find a contract to hire position. Or get lucky and have them convert you even though it wasn’t officially a contract to hire position. I’ve been in both situations.

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pg 1 does look a tad heavy on bullet points - comfortable trimming those down, & maybe condensing sentences?
action verbs: aren't exciting/don't jump off the page to me, ie exhibited, demonstrated...
search for resume action verbs and swap some out to jazz it up.
sentences like detail-oriented... are subjective. omit those on resume.
in skills section: use 1 word descriptors, ie CMDB | ITIL, etc - no need for sentences there. recruiters need to skim, not read - remember you are 1 of thousands of applicants they'll look at that day.

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Is there anything I should add, Update, remove, formatting, spelling, wording, bullet points, re-organization,… Anything at all?

Do you have any suggestions as to the job roles I should be looking for? Very specifically the exact job roles? Or specific companies?

I have had CFO, CEOs, directors, HR and recruiting friends all help me with my resumes, and they are all looking for stuff for me, and so far zero has come to fruition.

I have gone as far as 4~5 interviews through the interview proc

Remove bullet points, replace with dashes. Put skills at the end. Include a summary that says I am a [Role applying to] with x,y,z skills. If you are putting sentences in your skills section, you are compensating for not having those things in your experiences section.

not sure if you’re still hunting but if so, I use this info from Harvard for my resumes.

https://hwpi.harvard.edu/files/ocs/files/hes-resume-cover-letter-guide.pdf

In would definitely suggest taking it down to one page. Skills section does not need to take up so much room and I would suggest using that area for mostly hard skills (highlight the soft skills in your job bullets)

You could also post in the Ask A Recruiter bowl!

I also use AI a lot to pull key words from job descriptions so I can customize my resume to each job I apply for.

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