Got told my resume was toast after a decade in the same role

Last week at a networking meetup in Denver, a hiring manager looked at my resume and said I looked like I hadn't grown since 2018. It stung because I thought staying loyal to one company showed commitment. She pointed out my job descriptions were just tasks, not results, and I had zero numbers. Has anyone else had to completely rewrite their resume after thinking it was fine?

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rose_young1mo ago

Totally feel you on this one. It's rough when you've been putting in years of solid work and someone basically says it's all invisible. I had to redo my whole resume last year after a mentor pointed out I was writing about "responsible for" stuff instead of showing actual impact. Took me a few days to dig up old numbers from projects I'd forgotten about.

grace_fox31mo ago

Actually I used to think quantifying things was just corporate nonsense. I was wrong. After I finally sat down and tracked the actual numbers on a project I'd been running for two years - saved the company 40 hours a week in manual data entry alone - my boss actually noticed. That one line on my resume got me three interviews last month. Makes me wonder what else I've been glossing over.