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Resume Roast for Project Managers

Project Manager resumes bury their own lede constantly: the budget and the delivery record sit in paragraph three under a pile of methodology vocabulary. The reviewer wants project size, on-time and on-budget rates, and team scale, then your PMP and your Agile fluency. Managed cross-functional projects means nothing by itself. Twelve projects, 4 million total, 90 percent on time: that means everything.

What Gabe checks first on a Project Manager resume

Quantify the portfolio: project count, budget range, team sizes, like 14 projects from 100 thousand to 1.2 million with teams of 5 to 20.
Claim your delivery record, like 11 of 12 delivered on schedule, average budget variance under 4 percent. That is the whole profession in one line.
Include one rescue with the move that worked, like recovered a stalled rollout by rescoping phase two and resetting the vendor contract. Recovery is the skill.

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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