Sites like LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, etc all state that if you post your resume it increases your exposure. BUT, any courses / trainings on resumes or job findings say that resumes should be tailored to the job you’re applying for. So how are you supposed to tailor a resume when you have it posted that a recruiter / hiring manager has likely already seen?

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The point of resumes on LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor is to be found (recuiters doing keyword searches). This recruiter will ask you for a resume after sharing a job opening. They expect you to customize it. They know it won’t exactly match. So you put all your keywords on the websites rather than complete resumes.

I never had my entire resume posted on any website to avoid being eliminated. 

Concrete example.. My career path is software engineering > project management > product management.

I started my LinkedIn profile by deciding what I wanted to name the jobs. There are some weird job titles that don’t match the common keyword searches. For example “software developer IV” is meaningless. One way to test what words to use in a job title is to use Google Trends to see which words are used more often. I used “senior software engineer”.

For another job… my title was “project manager”. I was doing project/program and product manger work. So my job title on LinkedIn was “Project manager, program manager, product manager”. I would customize this title on my resume.

I have a master resume that has all the job titles for the work that I did… and bullets for all the titles. And every customization would add new bullet statements to this master resume.

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Wow. Again - thank you for the tips. I gotta say, it feels like job hunting is a FT job all in itself. Someone really needs to standardize resumes so it’s done one specific way for everyone.

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I think the resume posting is just a passive strategy to leave yourself open to other opportunities if a recruiter happens across it. I’ve never seen a hiring manager that was already familiar with the posting. I wouldn’t really stress on those. Better to cater to the specific role if you’re being proactive.

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I second this

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Post your resume where? Personally I got a lot of hits just by tailoring my resume to the kind of job I want, and just apply to that kind of job. I don’t post my resume anywhere public.

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Posting your CVs out there is for your inbound marketing. You need to tailor fit it to attract the type of job that you want.

Seeing a job posting and applying to it is your outbound marketing. That’s when you tailor fit your CV to the job posting

What if your submit your CV to a job posting wherein the recruiter has already seen your publicly available CV in LinkedIn? - well, doesnt matter. It’s still the same you. Just presented differently

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I had a one pager, 2 pager resume which was standard. One pager is what I share when I apply for a role, if I get shortlisted, I share my resume and a portfolio of products I created over email when they set up interviews, most people open the resume and portfolio during interviews and ask questions from that. Cover letter is what I tailor for each job.

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You should not be tailoring your resume to each job, it's too time-consuming, and there's only one you applying to all these jobs. Have one resume, which tells your story accurately (can adjust the TL;DR bullet points up top, otherwise no change). Tailor a cover letter if you send one.

Don’t worry about it. Do more coffees and “networking” 70% of jobs are landed through your network.

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