I am not in HR, but manage many technical people and hire pretty much constantly. I probably look over thousands of resumes per year, and honestly a lot of them are terrible. A lot of the things I see include:
>Absolutely no detail on what work was performed at school or other jobs. I have interviewed multiple new grads who all worked on the same senior capstone and by the end I'm pretty sure I knew more about their project than they did. If you can't describe your role on a team effort, you probably didn't do shit.
>No outside projects, interests, or key discriminators. This is a big one. If you went to school, checked all the boxes, and got a 3.0 GPA, good for you. The problem is that thousands of others that just graduated with you did the exact same thing. Picking who to interview becomes a crap shoot, and this is exactly where the HR nut jobs love to break the tie by picking Suzie and Dequandrius for interviews. Women are far far more likely to have relevant extracurriculars or outside projects which I think is *part* of the reason why they interview and get hired at a higher rate.
>Having a gap in your work history isn't a killer, but be ready with a reason what the hell you were doing with your life in the meantime and why your skills didn't atrophy. One interviewee once told me that he couldn't work for 2 years because he was so distraught over the Jan6 riots. Bullet fucking dodged.
>Jumping between jobs every 1-2 years is a serious red flag. I sure as fuck am not going to invest months of time and effort getting you up to speed if you're just going to hop onto the next thing right after being convinced by the first recruiter that shows up in your LinkedIn.

This is just one retard's observation. I'm sure there are plenty of woke HR stereotypes shitting it up out there, but if have marketable skills and aren't finding a job in this economy, then the problem is definitely you and not the system.