u/Timely_Job7488

Your resume only job is to land you interviews.

First - with a recruiter (screening call)

Second - with the hiring team

Meaning, writing your resume you’ve got to speak to two avatars: a screener who might or might not know much about your area of expertise and someone who knows everything about it.

That’s it.

Short story:

→ I offered them a university role. They fit.

→ Their resume was far from good. Like million years far

→ I told them what to fix

→ Gave them access to Axe Builder — our internal resume tool that pulls publications from ORCID with citations, h-index, journal rankings from scientific databases. Automatically

→ I told them: HR will reject this at the 'Let me take a look' stage. Because it's poorly written.

They still refused to invest time.

Here's the thing:

Even AFTER you get the offer — it's hours of paperwork. Immigration. Teaching permits. Endless etc.

If a researcher won't update their resume when a real opportunity is on the table — there is NO WAY they have it in them to get to the START a new job point.

9 out of 10 academic resumes I see have the same problems.

Yours probably does too.

You either waste years applying to university roles guessing what they want, or you build a professional resume and land a good job