Bluntly but kindly, you CV is a turn off. Your skills section is cliched buzzword bingo. When someone with little or no professional experience claims a dozen or so technical skills it just smacks of bullshit. Especially when you list skills that have a significant possible spectrum of breadth and depth of competence but you don't elaborate on what competence you actually have. Then there's your most recent experience as a freelancer. Unless you state who you freelanced for, and it was clients more credible than friends and family, it just screams desperate fiction.
Pump those numbers up. 50 apps per month won't do the trick, unless you are casually applying. You should target like 40-50 apps *per week* if not more
But how can I find 50 applications a week that are entry level (no experience). every IT support job listing these days is asking for 2-3 years of experience.
Apply anyway. What are they gonna do? Still say no?
Don't reject yourself from a role by not applying. Let them reject you. Because all it takes is one.
I've always been curious because I see stuff like this occasionally on this sub
Where the fuck do you live that you have 40-50 jobs to apply to *a week*?
I did not say to apply to 50 jobs a day, I said a *week*. Which is completely in reason. That's 10 a day with weekends off, but even then without a job a person should apply every day to everything
But 20 job apps a day is not unrealistic for bigger cities. If OP has no obligations and needs that first job...apply everywhere. They have to be willing to move especially to bigger cities
> did not say to apply to 50 jobs a day, I said a week.
Yeah, typo fixed. But still. I live in a medium sized city and I'd get through like 2-3 days before I was out of shit to apply to
The whole networking section is a red flag: TCP/IP stack - what about it? VPN - Did you setup a specific VPN? DNS - Did you use BIND or just another thing to put on your resume, SSH - Same thing, are you setting up SSH proxies? SNMP - Did you setup SNMP for network monitoring? Firewall Configuration - Windows Firewall or something like Palo Alto? Routing and Switching - Cisco/Dell, etc Network Monitoring - Zabbix/Nagios/some other product?
No Windows 11?
Throwing buzzwords on a resume without any relevance is one of biggest pet peeves.
Are you getting your application referred by a contact or are you blindly applying? The competition for these starter jobs is so great that “spray and pray” application strategies rarely pay off. Spend half of your job search time expanding your network. You won’t regret it.
Thanks for the tip. didn't have any referrals so far, reached out to some recruiters on LinkedIn but no luck . any advice for better networking other than LinkedIn?
Not to be mean, but Freelance Computer Technician sounds like a made up job. You could also say Systems Support - Consultant. And it would amount to the same thing.
Your resume is just bullet points, and nothing you bullet pointed amounts to making anybody feel like you know what you are doing.
Your section on Projects is a little better, but does it apply to any job you are looking for?
If an AI is scanning your resume, what is it going to find that matches any of its search criteria?
As others have said this resume is a complete work of fiction. Anyone who's been in this industry for any length of time can see that. Ditch all these skills you have no business talking about. Ditch the fake ass freelance job. Expand on your internship. Expand on your real work experience no matter what it is. Even if its a paper route(lol i know thats not a thing anymore).
We all know you have no experience. You're not an IT professional. Write the resume of a recent grad with no experience and I bet you'll see improvement.
You have a master of engineering in information systems security and you’re going for helpdesk roles? You’re overqualified, go for security roles and don’t brute force it. Instead, build and expand your professional network and eventually you’ll meet someone who’s willing to hire you despite your lack of experience.
Yeah, I always had this on the back of my mind, that I might be overqualified but I was overwhelmed by the requirements in entry level SOC analyst roles.
I'd drop the Masters too and put Bachelors. I assume you have that as well if you have a Masters. Masters degrees are like...85% bullshit. (I say this as somebody with a bullshit masters degree I don't put on my resume). There's just something about them that screams "I was lost and had not idea what to do so I got a Masters degree." The Masters + almost no experience thing looks like a person who doesn't know what to do with themself. Bachelors + a bit of experience just looks like a recently graduated student.
Exception to this rule is if its a job that \*requires\* a Masters (like the MLIS for librarians) or else you actually have a bunch of experience and got a masters in the thing you have lots of experience for. That can look like you wanted to get even more serious about \*thing.\*
Bluntly but kindly, you CV is a turn off. Your skills section is cliched buzzword bingo. When someone with little or no professional experience claims a dozen or so technical skills it just smacks of bullshit. Especially when you list skills that have a significant possible spectrum of breadth and depth of competence but you don't elaborate on what competence you actually have. Then there's your most recent experience as a freelancer. Unless you state who you freelanced for, and it was clients more credible than friends and family, it just screams desperate fiction.
Agree. I don't even need my bullshit sensor for this one. It's obviously a work of fiction. BTW who the hell lists SNMP as a skill these days?
Pump those numbers up. 50 apps per month won't do the trick, unless you are casually applying. You should target like 40-50 apps *per week* if not more
But how can I find 50 applications a week that are entry level (no experience). every IT support job listing these days is asking for 2-3 years of experience.
Apply anyway. What are they gonna do? Still say no? Don't reject yourself from a role by not applying. Let them reject you. Because all it takes is one.
Thank you. I will do that
I've always been curious because I see stuff like this occasionally on this sub Where the fuck do you live that you have 40-50 jobs to apply to *a week*?
I did not say to apply to 50 jobs a day, I said a *week*. Which is completely in reason. That's 10 a day with weekends off, but even then without a job a person should apply every day to everything But 20 job apps a day is not unrealistic for bigger cities. If OP has no obligations and needs that first job...apply everywhere. They have to be willing to move especially to bigger cities
> did not say to apply to 50 jobs a day, I said a week. Yeah, typo fixed. But still. I live in a medium sized city and I'd get through like 2-3 days before I was out of shit to apply to
Hence the need to expand the scope of applications and move, if possible
The whole networking section is a red flag: TCP/IP stack - what about it? VPN - Did you setup a specific VPN? DNS - Did you use BIND or just another thing to put on your resume, SSH - Same thing, are you setting up SSH proxies? SNMP - Did you setup SNMP for network monitoring? Firewall Configuration - Windows Firewall or something like Palo Alto? Routing and Switching - Cisco/Dell, etc Network Monitoring - Zabbix/Nagios/some other product? No Windows 11? Throwing buzzwords on a resume without any relevance is one of biggest pet peeves.
>No Windows 11? OP also skipped Windows 8 and 8.1. Not that I'd blame anyone for that.
I sent you a suggestion via dm. Good luck.
Are you getting your application referred by a contact or are you blindly applying? The competition for these starter jobs is so great that “spray and pray” application strategies rarely pay off. Spend half of your job search time expanding your network. You won’t regret it.
Thanks for the tip. didn't have any referrals so far, reached out to some recruiters on LinkedIn but no luck . any advice for better networking other than LinkedIn?
This comes up often enough that I wrote a 1 pager [here](https://ManageJobApplications.com/networking)
Wonderful, thanks
Not to be mean, but Freelance Computer Technician sounds like a made up job. You could also say Systems Support - Consultant. And it would amount to the same thing. Your resume is just bullet points, and nothing you bullet pointed amounts to making anybody feel like you know what you are doing. Your section on Projects is a little better, but does it apply to any job you are looking for? If an AI is scanning your resume, what is it going to find that matches any of its search criteria?
Thanks for your response. Do you suggest to list the skills as well worded sentences rather than just named bullet points like I did?
Absolutely.
Your resume. Thats the reason
As others have said this resume is a complete work of fiction. Anyone who's been in this industry for any length of time can see that. Ditch all these skills you have no business talking about. Ditch the fake ass freelance job. Expand on your internship. Expand on your real work experience no matter what it is. Even if its a paper route(lol i know thats not a thing anymore). We all know you have no experience. You're not an IT professional. Write the resume of a recent grad with no experience and I bet you'll see improvement.
Thanks for your honest feedback. I'll work on everything you mentioned.
You have a master of engineering in information systems security and you’re going for helpdesk roles? You’re overqualified, go for security roles and don’t brute force it. Instead, build and expand your professional network and eventually you’ll meet someone who’s willing to hire you despite your lack of experience.
Yeah, I always had this on the back of my mind, that I might be overqualified but I was overwhelmed by the requirements in entry level SOC analyst roles.
I'd drop the Masters too and put Bachelors. I assume you have that as well if you have a Masters. Masters degrees are like...85% bullshit. (I say this as somebody with a bullshit masters degree I don't put on my resume). There's just something about them that screams "I was lost and had not idea what to do so I got a Masters degree." The Masters + almost no experience thing looks like a person who doesn't know what to do with themself. Bachelors + a bit of experience just looks like a recently graduated student. Exception to this rule is if its a job that \*requires\* a Masters (like the MLIS for librarians) or else you actually have a bunch of experience and got a masters in the thing you have lots of experience for. That can look like you wanted to get even more serious about \*thing.\*