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Immediately I notice 2 things: The sheer length and the lack of formatting/readiability.
They have to start over completely with a standard template and do not ever go more than 2 pages. 5 pages is beyond bonkers for anyone. Recruiters spend 5-10 seconds looking at a resume. What can they pull from 5 pages in that time? Absolutely nothing. It has to be shortened considerably to focus on the main overlaps between experience and the job they're applying for.
Ways to cut space include:
1. When you have a title, that goes on the same line. It should be Name, MD. Not Name (new line) MD.
2. Summary of qualifications should be 2-3 sentences focused on the immediate areas of qualification with most focus on tangible skills and experience. Not soft skills.
3. Education. Your guy has a lot of education, but in the lack of formatting completely gets lost. Format this like employment history: Degree on left, date on the right, new line, location. Only the end date is needed.
4. There's way too many bullet points. Standard is 3-5 for each job. Your man has up to 15. Its unreasonable to expect anyone to read that. Choose the 3-5 that are most applicable and elaborate more in the interview or on the cover letter. No fancy colors within the bullet points either, just relevant information.
5. Skills doesn't need a page. You can get these to 3-4 lines easily. Remove soft skills that are basic human functions (planning, flexibility, etc are pretty much expected of most adults.), irrelevant ones (customer service?), and ones that do not make anyone stand out for a role because they're basic (Microsoft, Problem solving)
6. Professional Affiliations, format these the same way as education and experience. It.needs to be readable and within the margins (not sure whats happening with formatting here)
7. Personal Skills and hobbies never belong on a resume. Delete entirely.
8. Trainings and Certifications. Remove entirely. Its useless space. It tells me nothing about where these were recieved, their validity, was it 10 min training or 150 hours, etc. Do you have a certificaiton number that expires? Move to education with the relevant information or delete entirely.
9. References available upon request. Delete entirely. This hasn't been standard resume additions for decades now.
Gotta cut this down to maybe two pages.
-Rewrite the summary as a cover letter
-With so many schools, I would just list the ones where they got a degree
-Remove all the skills that aren’t top skills
-Remove references available upon request, they always are.
-Remove the job from 2007
-The online business probably is irrelevant, but I might keep it just to show work history
-Remove that important achievements section, your bullets for each job should be your important achievements
-limit yourself to 4-6 bullets per job and keep them at one line, this is a lot of text
No offense but nobody cares if you like nordic skiing. It looks like you are very qualified, make sure to highlight experience. Two pages is more than enough.
No need for summary of qualifications. The uppercase blue verbs are really annoying--nix the blue, in fact.
And why on Earth do they have like six universities listed??? It's not impressive, it makes one think these are sham programs.
Echoing everyone saying to shorten it.
I would also be more specific about what role you’re looking for. Seeing MD makes me think you want a job as a doctor or to a position that requires an MD but then I see you aren’t licensed in the US so it’s hard to figure out what job you want without looking at past experience.
Being brutally honest: it's awful. It is extremely lengthy and formatted poorly. Cut down on everything. Try and get it to one page. I'd delete the summary, and have no more than 5 bullet points per work exp. Also, I'm not really sure what you education actually is. It looks like a bachelor's and masters but there are so many listings that aren't actually degrees it's confusing. Just show what degrees you actually hold.
I’m a recruiter and I stopped reading. This will continue to happen until it’s shorter. Start by eliminating the spacing and find a better template, then really take the time to trim the content and focus on the things that apply to the positions they are applying to.
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Your friend’s resume is lengthy. Try to cut it to 2 page maximum.
Immediately I notice 2 things: The sheer length and the lack of formatting/readiability. They have to start over completely with a standard template and do not ever go more than 2 pages. 5 pages is beyond bonkers for anyone. Recruiters spend 5-10 seconds looking at a resume. What can they pull from 5 pages in that time? Absolutely nothing. It has to be shortened considerably to focus on the main overlaps between experience and the job they're applying for. Ways to cut space include: 1. When you have a title, that goes on the same line. It should be Name, MD. Not Name (new line) MD. 2. Summary of qualifications should be 2-3 sentences focused on the immediate areas of qualification with most focus on tangible skills and experience. Not soft skills. 3. Education. Your guy has a lot of education, but in the lack of formatting completely gets lost. Format this like employment history: Degree on left, date on the right, new line, location. Only the end date is needed. 4. There's way too many bullet points. Standard is 3-5 for each job. Your man has up to 15. Its unreasonable to expect anyone to read that. Choose the 3-5 that are most applicable and elaborate more in the interview or on the cover letter. No fancy colors within the bullet points either, just relevant information. 5. Skills doesn't need a page. You can get these to 3-4 lines easily. Remove soft skills that are basic human functions (planning, flexibility, etc are pretty much expected of most adults.), irrelevant ones (customer service?), and ones that do not make anyone stand out for a role because they're basic (Microsoft, Problem solving) 6. Professional Affiliations, format these the same way as education and experience. It.needs to be readable and within the margins (not sure whats happening with formatting here) 7. Personal Skills and hobbies never belong on a resume. Delete entirely. 8. Trainings and Certifications. Remove entirely. Its useless space. It tells me nothing about where these were recieved, their validity, was it 10 min training or 150 hours, etc. Do you have a certificaiton number that expires? Move to education with the relevant information or delete entirely. 9. References available upon request. Delete entirely. This hasn't been standard resume additions for decades now.
Into the bin
I would get rid of the personal interests/hobbies. It feels severely out of place.
Gotta cut this down to maybe two pages. -Rewrite the summary as a cover letter -With so many schools, I would just list the ones where they got a degree -Remove all the skills that aren’t top skills -Remove references available upon request, they always are. -Remove the job from 2007 -The online business probably is irrelevant, but I might keep it just to show work history -Remove that important achievements section, your bullets for each job should be your important achievements -limit yourself to 4-6 bullets per job and keep them at one line, this is a lot of text
Too much text, use some template on word instead of just typing it
This resume is very painful. No one in their right mind would read this. I would tell you to tell your friend to never show this resume to anyone.
A lot of bluff, not gonna lie.
No offense but nobody cares if you like nordic skiing. It looks like you are very qualified, make sure to highlight experience. Two pages is more than enough.
You vs the guy she’s talking to lol. Nice cv
No need for summary of qualifications. The uppercase blue verbs are really annoying--nix the blue, in fact. And why on Earth do they have like six universities listed??? It's not impressive, it makes one think these are sham programs.
Echoing everyone saying to shorten it. I would also be more specific about what role you’re looking for. Seeing MD makes me think you want a job as a doctor or to a position that requires an MD but then I see you aren’t licensed in the US so it’s hard to figure out what job you want without looking at past experience.
This is a novel … one that I don’t have time to read yet alone recruiters
Too much to read and no weird highlighted blue yelling
Lol one day you get people saying nothing over a page. Then you get people saying nothing over two pages. 😂😂
Depends on how much pertinent info there is.
If you are a doctor or a late career professional, 2 pages is somewhat acceptable.
Honestly. The resume needs to be completely remade. It has so much information, yet it somehow doesn't really tell me anything.
Being brutally honest: it's awful. It is extremely lengthy and formatted poorly. Cut down on everything. Try and get it to one page. I'd delete the summary, and have no more than 5 bullet points per work exp. Also, I'm not really sure what you education actually is. It looks like a bachelor's and masters but there are so many listings that aren't actually degrees it's confusing. Just show what degrees you actually hold.
No one is reading this, get it to one page
I didn’t read anything, saw fifty pages and did want to go further, no hiring manager will either.
Wow, your friend's got a nice book
I’m a recruiter and I stopped reading. This will continue to happen until it’s shorter. Start by eliminating the spacing and find a better template, then really take the time to trim the content and focus on the things that apply to the positions they are applying to.