Accidently nuked my resume file during a bad week

I was trying to clean up my Downloads folder last Tuesday and must have deleted my resume by accident. Spent 3 hours rebuilding it from memory and old saved cover letters. Has anyone else had to scramble like that and use an old LinkedIn draft?

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cole_murphy19d ago

Oh yeah, because nothing says "I have my life together" like rebuilding your entire professional identity from a fever dream and a half-remembered bullet point about "synergy." Real talk though, three hours is actually impressive if you were trying to remember dates down to the month (which, let's be honest, we all fudge a little anyway). I've definitely been there where I accidentally dragged a folder into the void and spent the next hour staring at my screen like I just watched my dog eat my homework. But hey, at least LinkedIn drafts exist, even if they're usually two jobs and a cover letter from 2019 that's more cringe than helpful.

nina_hall4819d ago

Man that's rough! My buddy did something similar last spring. He was cleaning out his Google Drive and accidentally deleted his whole "Job Search" folder with his resume, cover letters, and even a list of references. He didn't realize it until a recruiter called him two days later for an interview and asked him to email his resume over. He had to call me freaking out at 10pm and I had to dig through old emails from like three years ago to find a copy I had saved. Took him a whole evening to update it because he had switched jobs twice since then and didn't remember his exact start dates. The worst part was he had that one really good bullet point about saving the company money that he could never write as good the second time around.

thea60219d ago

The 3 hours thing sounds like a lot honestly. I keep my resume in Dropbox and have had it get corrupted before but it wasn't that big of a deal. I just grabbed the version from last month and updated the date. Is a resume really that hard to recreate from memory? Most people have the same job duties and dates in their head anyway. LinkedIn usually saves your last 2 or 3 jobs too so you can just copy paste from there. Unless you had some super custom format with colors and graphs that would take actual work to rebuild. But for a basic plain text resume you could probably bang it out in 30 minutes.