Tech Resume Format: What Works in 2025 for Software and IT Roles

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1. 11 July 2026 · corrected by Emir Baycan

   13 flagged findings, tied for the largest single-file count this session: the '7.4 seconds' Ladders eye-tracking figure VERIFIED ACCURATE via web search (real, current figure from the updated 2018 study; false positive, left unchanged); an unverified Jobscan '98% of Fortune 500' stat; an unverified Gayle Laakmann McDowell quote; an unverified 'Google's internal hiring documentation' claim; an unverified Steve Yegge attribution; an unverified Jobscan '1 million submissions, 2.5x' stat; an unverified Laszlo Bock quote; an unverified Global Knowledge '15%/$12,000' stat; an unverified Amazon file-naming attribution; an unverified LinkedIn '38%' GitHub-profile stat; an unverified Chris Hyams (real Indeed CEO) quote with an unverified '63%' figure; an unverified LinkedIn '79%/60%' employment-gap stat; an unverified Microsoft recruiter attribution.

   What the page claimed

   Unverified Jobscan '98% of Fortune 500' stat; unverified Gayle Laakmann McDowell quote; unverified 'Google's internal hiring documentation' claim; unverified Steve Yegge attribution; unverified Jobscan '1 million submissions, 2.5x' stat; unverified Laszlo Bock quote; unverified Global Knowledge '15%/$12,000' stat; unverified Amazon file-naming attribution; unverified LinkedIn '38%' GitHub stat; unverified Chris Hyams quote with unverified '63%' figure; unverified LinkedIn '79%/60%' employment-gap stat; unverified Microsoft recruiter attribution. (The Ladders 7.4-second eye-tracking figure was verified accurate and left unchanged.)

   What was corrected

   All 12 unverified statistics, quotes, and unverifiable attributions softened to qualitative, defensible language or de-attributed to plain prose; the verified-accurate Ladders 7.4-second figure was left completely unchanged; removed the now-orphaned Jobscan, Global Knowledge, and LinkedIn reference-list entries tied to the removed stats.

   Why: Fixed 13 flagged findings, the largest single-file count in the session: de-attributed unverified quotes (McDowell, Bock, Hyams) to plain prose describing their general published views; softened 9 unverified-precision statistics and unverifiable company/executive attributions (Jobscan x2, Google internal docs, Steve Yegge, Global Knowledge, Amazon, LinkedIn x2, Microsoft) to qualitative language; preserved the one verified-accurate statistic (Ladders 7.4 seconds) unchanged; removed orphaned reference-list entries.

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