Résumé examples, with what the work pays
Not pictures of other people’s résumés. For each role: what a screening system filters on, the mistake that costs people that particular job, and what the work is worth across the United States.
- Quality assurance$104,300The filters on a QA search are unusually literal: tool names, test types and whether you have written automation. All three have to appear as words.
- Software developer$135,980The most keyword-filtered role there is. What matters is that the languages and systems appear as plain words in the body, not in a graphic or a rating bar.
- Nurse$97,550Licences and certifications are hard filters in healthcare, and they are filtered on exactly as written. Everything else is secondary to getting those lines right.
- Teacher$63,970Certification is the filter, and it is state-specific. A résumé that does not say which state you are certified in is answering the wrong question.
- Sales supervisor$48,520A supervisory sales résumé is judged on two numbers: how many people you were responsible for, and what the revenue did while you were. Both have to be on the page.
- InternshipThe hard part is not writing it, it is the order. With little employment history, the ordinary layout puts your strongest material last and a screening system reads a nearly empty file.
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