[austin-cheney]

For my current job a corporate recruiter at the employer found me. I had more than the required years of programming experience, the necessary education, a security clearance, and more than the required security certification. This was almost three years ago. Last year my HR reported receiving less than 11,000 submissions for just 19 positions that came open.

Before LLM filtering winning a chance to interview from resume submission online was like winning a lottery. Now I imagine that is still true but with even more keyword matching from your resume.

My best suggestion is get certifications in things like security and cloud infrastructure. The best security certs are not vendor certs, for example: CompTIA certs and CISSP. The cloud certs will be vendor certs from Azure and AWS. Resume filters will absolutely recognize those, but they won’t recognize programming capability beyond language name.

The lower half of software jobs, junior and senior developers, prioritize language experience and tool identification. The upper half, lead and principal, prioritize current capabilities expressed more in terms of accomplishment and business requirements.