I've been tracking applications for a month. On days I send eight quick applications, I feel productive but rarely hear back. When I spend most of an evening rewriting a resume for two positions, I can't tell whether the extra effort helps or just slows me down. The roles are operations and project coordination, not wildly different fields. For people who tracked their searches, did tailoring the top few bullets make a measurable difference, or was finding better-matched openings the bigger factor?
Choosing between many quick applications and fewer tailored ones
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I had better luck with fewer applications that matched the posting closely. Sending a bunch of quick ones felt productive, but the callbacks...
I had better luck with fewer applications that matched the posting closely. Sending a bunch of quick ones felt productive, but the callbacks came when the resume actually echoed their language a bit.
I agree with the matching part, but I wouldn’t overwork every application. If the role is close enough, fixing the top bullets and the summary can be enough.
The bigger issue for me was quality of openings, not just tailoring. I kept wasting time on jobs that looked close on paper but were really...