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1. Listing responsibilities instead of results ('worked on APIs' vs 'built X that reduced Y by Z%')

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Aadhya Kulkarni

Tech Recruiter @ TalentArc | Hiring backend, data & DevOps folks | Resume and interview tips

28 Sept 2026· Placement Prep & Career Switch

1. Listing responsibilities instead of results ('worked on APIs' vs 'built X that reduced Y by Z%') 2. Skills section with 40 technologies (we don't believe it) 3. 3-page resume with 2 years of experience 4. No links to GitHub/portfolio for freshers 5. Fancy two-column templates that ATS systems can't parse 6. Generic objective statements 7. Typos in the company names you worked at 🙃 One page, results-first, honest skills. That's 80% of it.
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  • KB

    Kiara Bose28 Sept 2026

    Guilty of #2 and #5. Fixing tonight!

  • DJ

    Dhruv Joshi29 Sept 2026

    #1 made a big difference for me. Got 3x more callbacks after rewriting bullets with numbers.

  • RA

    Riya Agarwal29 Sept 2026

    From the hiring-manager side: #2 is a big one. I'll ask about every skill you list.

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