22 years of SAP experience, and staffing firms kept offering consultant seats
- On their ownAbout 40 applications in 5 months
- First interviewAbout 2.5 weeks after the rewrite
- With Magmira210 applications sent, 18 interviews, 2 final rounds
- OfferPrincipal SAP/SAC Architect, $195K
Phani had 22 years in SAP: ABAP, BW/4HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud, and Power BI. He was an SAP analytics architect at a tech company, after years at a global consulting firm.
Over about five months he sent around 40 applications for architect roles. The callbacks came from staffing firms offering senior consultant seats, not the principal architect jobs he was qualified for.
What we saw on the resume
His resume was 6 pages and listed every project since 2004, every award, and a full skills matrix at the end. His SAP Analytics Cloud work and his BW/4HANA conversion leadership, the two things employers hire architects for now, were on page 3, behind 18 years of older ABAP projects.
What we changed
- Opened with SAC planning architecture and BW/4HANA transformation.
- Cut 6 pages to 2 and folded the skills matrix into his experience.
- Compressed the ABAP years into one line and moved his awards up.
His first interview came about two and a half weeks later.
“I had 22 years of experience and I couldn't get a call back for a director-level role. The resume was 6 pages long. Nobody told me that was the problem.”
Where it ended
Principal SAP/SAC Architect, $195K
18 interviews, 2 final rounds from 210 applications, with enterprise tech and a large healthcare system.
Name shortened and employers generalized for privacy.
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