Too many years / not enough years? Not getting calls
Everything I’ve read & was told by the resume writer last year was to keep my resume to ten years vs my 18-20 years. I’ve sent, probably 100 resumes with maybe a handful of calls. When I get a recruiter on the phone it’s always “omg, i love your experience / resume”.
My role is in accounting, as an accounts receivable manager. Each job order I apply to I fine tune a resume to that opening; i.e. the role isn’t overseeing cash application , so I remove it from my resume. Then five minutes later the next job order I see on LinkedIn emphasizes, as an example, experience just in collections & billing.. so there I go customizing the next resume.
On the skills a company lists that require, I make sure I add those to my strengths bullet points up top.
At this point all the above efforts have led to nothing. Sometimes I’m afraid the ten years of management experience might be too much of they’re looking for 3-5 years experience; or if I put my ten years experience and someone else comes with 20 years experience on their resume vs me that I didn’t include those extra 10 years.
Any thoughts on the above? 🫤 so much for gine tuning each resume