My feed is packed with good engineers looking for work, and it’s overwhelming. From your side as tech recruiters, are you seeing too many similar profiles? What makes one candidate stand out right now when everyone seems equally qualified on paper?

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Short answer: yes, many profiles blur together. Not because people aren’t strong, but because resumes often describe responsibilities instead of outcomes.

What consistently stands out:
• Clear impact (numbers help, but specificity matters more than scale)
• Evidence of ownership (what problems you drove vs supported)
• Signals of judgment (tradeoffs, constraints, decisions)
• Coherent story (why moves happened, not just what changed)

Ironically, uniqueness rarely comes from exotic tech stacks. It usually comes from clarity.

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It's the quantity that's problematic. The candidate who gets picked comes down more to luck than what anyone would like to admit. Yes, there are some things candidates could be doing better, especially being more specific when discussing their impact in previous positions rather than vague, bullet-point lists of responsibilities. Even then, we easily end up with a pile of qualified candidates, and we have to pick someone.

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So it boils down to gut feeling and FIFO? That makes sense in a way. But it is scary given how many people are being laid off in our industry right now.

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