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Resumes, cover letters and the hiring systems employers use to collect them, from reading a posting to tracking what you sent.
Each post says what to change, what to leave alone and how to stay truthful.
Newest first.
iCIMS jobs are openings an employer posts on its own iCIMS career site, so you search the list, read the fields at the top of the job page and use the apply button there. The address is usually careers-name.icims.com. The employer, not iCIMS, controls your application data.
SmartRecruiters jobs are openings an employer posts on its own SmartRecruiters pages, a company board and one page per job. Read the contract and work arrangement at the top, then the four sections of the ad, and apply with the button on the job page. The employer, not SmartRecruiters, controls your application data.
A posting describes a person the employer wishes existed, and only part of it describes the job, so read for the work itself. Look at the verbs, the first-year outcomes and the team around the role, and sort each line into must have, nice to have or decoration. Vague postings hide the work, so the questions you cannot answer from the text are the ones to ask.
Use one page if you have under about ten years of relevant work, and two when the extra page holds recent, relevant evidence rather than older detail. The test is whether each line helps this reader decide. Cut in a fixed order, starting with the oldest and least relevant lines.
Keep one master resume that holds everything, and make a separate version only when you apply to a distinctly different kind of role. For any single application, change the top third of the page, the order of your bullets, and the wording of three to five lines. That takes about 20 minutes.
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