Applied for months without receiving recruiter calls? Your resume may not be the first problem. Learn how recruiters evaluate experience
You have experience. You have applied to dozens or perhaps hundreds of roles. But the recruiter calls are still not coming.
What needs to change?
Contrary to popular belief, rewriting your resume is not the first step.
It is the second!
The first step is understanding how employers read your profile and the context in which they evaluate it.
What problem is the company trying to solve? What does a recruiter notice first? What evidence does a hiring manager need? Does your experience match your current career stage? Do your projects demonstrate meaningful capability? And why are qualified candidates often overlooked?
Join award-winning Talent Acquisition leaders Gurleen Dhallu and Mariam Khan for a practical, in-person CareerBytes workshop designed to help you answer these questions.
Together, Gurleen and Mariam bring nearly 30 years of combined experience across Big Four organizations, technology companies and consulting firms. They have reviewed thousands of applications, advised leaders on critical hiring decisions and worked with AI-enabled hiring technology.
This workshop takes you beyond generic resume advice. You will learn how your resume, projects, LinkedIn profile and recruiter outreach must work together to tell one clear and credible career story.
WHY THIS MATTERS NOW
AI is not only relevant to “AI candidates.”
It is changing how organizations operate, how roles are designed, what employers expect and how candidates are evaluated across almost every profession.
According to the Vector Institute’s 2026 Ontario AI report:
• Ontario attracted $3.9 billion in AI venture capital, an increase of 50%• 121 new AI companies established themselves in Ontario• 38 additional AI companies relocated here• 75% of Ontario companies are now executing on their AI vision
As companies change, roles and hiring expectations change with them. Your professional profile must make it clear where you fit, what problems you can solve and what evidence supports your claims.
WHAT WE WILL COVER
During this workshop, you will learn:
• What recruiters actually examine when they open a candidate’s resume and LinkedIn profile
• Why qualified candidates can spend nine or ten months applying without receiving calls
• How to position yourself according to where you currently stand in your career
• How to communicate scope, ownership, outcomes and business impact
• How to identify the right projects to build for your target roles• How to turn a basic project into an agentic, market-relevant project
• How to show that a project could scale beyond a classroom exercise or prototype
• How to present projects effectively on your resume and LinkedIn• How to approach recruiters professionally without sending generic messages
• How to make it easier for recruiters to find, understand and contact you
• What Applicant Tracking Systems actually do—and what matters beyond keywords
• How to communicate AI-enabled value without pretending to be an AI expert
PROJECTS THAT CREATE CAREER EVIDENCE
A project should do more than prove that you completed a tutorial.
We will show you how to frame a project around:
• A real user or business problem
• Your individual decisions and contributions
• The tools and methods you selected
• The result or value created
• The project’s limitations and trade-offs
• How the solution could scale
• Where automation or an AI agent could add value
• How you tested and validated the outcome
You will learn how to translate this evidence into resume bullets, LinkedIn content and recruiter conversations.
WHAT YOU WILL LEAVE WITH
Every attendee will leave with:
• A framework for diagnosing why their profile may not be generating recruiter interest
• A clearer way to position themselves for their career stage and target role
• Practical guidance for improving their resume
• Stronger language for communicating scope, outcomes and impact
• A framework for choosing and presenting market-relevant projects
• Guidance on showing agentic and AI-enabled work credibly
• A clearer understanding of how recruiters source and assess candidates
• A practical approach to LinkedIn visibility and recruiter outreach
• Specific next steps for improving their professional profile after the workshop
This is not a passive webinar or a generic list of resume tips.
Bring your current resume, your LinkedIn profile and one role you would realistically apply for. If you have a portfolio or project, bring that too.
We will help you examine your experience from the employer’s perspective before you decide what needs to change.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This workshop is designed for:
• Students and recent graduates entering a competitive market
• Early-career professionals who are struggling to secure interviews
• Professionals who have been applying for months without receiving recruiter calls
• Career changers who need to translate their previous experience
• Mid-career professionals repositioning themselves for a new role
• Technology, data, product, consulting and business professionals who want to present AI-enabled work more credibly
EVENT DETAILS
Saturday, August 29, 2026 10:30–1:00 p.m.
Virtual - Link will be shared closer to the event.
ABOUT YOUR FACILITATORS
Gurleen Dhallu is the founder of CareerBytes and an award-winning talent, technology and workforce transformation leader with nearly two decades of Canadian hiring experience across KPMG, Deloitte, EY, BlackBerry, HCL Technologies and Infosys.
Mariam Khan is an award-winning Talent Acquisition leader with more than a decade of recruitment leadership experience across Canada, the United States and Mexico, with organizations including Deloitte, GFL Environmental and Savaria.
Before you rewrite your resume, learn how employers read it and how your experience, projects and professional presence can give them a reason to call.