03/02/2026
Welcome to February!
Acting as a hiring manager of recent, I’ve been reviewing a lot of resumes. One small thing that would help more than you realize: name your resume file properly.
Please use your full name as the file name.
FirstLast.pdf
When I review a batch of 80–100 resumes, a good 20–30 of them are all called “resume.pdf” (or “resume_final.pdf”, “resume_v3.pdf”, etc.). It makes it harder to review, reference, or share your resume internally.
Version numbers and “final” don’t help on our end, those are for you, not us.
Bonus points if you include your role in the file name and on the resume itself, e.g.:
First Last – Engineering Technician.pdf
I saw that once and it instantly stood out (in a good way). Tiny detail, big difference. Good luck to everyone job hunting right now.
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