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Resume Roast for People Operations Managers

People Operations Manager resumes get scanned for systems built and friction removed: onboarding time, policy clarity, tooling, and the headcount growth you kept ahead of. The title signals a builder, so a resume full of maintained and supported undercuts it. Scaled people ops from 60 to 180 employees, automated onboarding down to two days, kept engagement above 80 percent through the growth: that is the builder's resume.

What Gabe checks first on a People Operations Manager resume

Frame your work against growth, like built people ops through a scale from 80 to 250 employees in 18 months. Growth context is the whole plot.
Show one process you automated with time saved, like onboarding workflow in Rippling that cut first-day setup from 6 hours to 90 minutes.
Include the measurement habit, like quarterly engagement surveys at 85 percent participation with visible follow-through on the top two issues each cycle.

Worth knowing

The claim that ATS systems auto-reject 75 percent of resumes traces to a 2012 marketing claim, not research. (traced to a 2012 vendor marketing claim)

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