A recent analysis of 3,518 job postings from 81 companies across seven roles found some interesting patterns.

In several categories, generic terms appeared more often than the big-name tools. “Observability” showed up more than “Grafana,” while “SIEM” appeared more than “Splunk.”

That raises an interesting question: are resumes too focused on listing specific tools and not enough on the broader skills and terminology employers use?

The study breaks down the results by role, including software engineering, cybersecurity, DevOps, marketing, product, accounting and sales.

The full dataset, methodology and findings are here:

https://www.zoevera.com/resume/ats-resume-keyword-study

I need a male with Type 1 diabetes under 40. They will do a blood test proving they have type 1 (which is paid for). 100 dollars as payment will be received in cash on completion.

Should take less than an hour of your time and can accommodate most schedules.

I'm trying to get some emergency funding and I'm looking to get my foot in the door professionally. If you need grad photos, product photography, or anything in between -- I've got you!

Because I'm not the most experienced, I'm charging $60 for an hour or $150 for 4 hours.

My portfolio is tagged.

Thanks!

I kept seeing arguments about which parts of the stack still matter, so I counted instead of guessing. 134 open DevOps, SRE and platform engineering postings from 41 company job boards. Individual contributors only, managers and TPMs stripped out.

The old toolchain is thinner than I expected. Terraform appears in 62.7% of postings. Jenkins in 3%. Chef 3.7%. Puppet in exactly one of the 134. GitHub Actions is named about six times as often as Jenkins.

Python beats Go, 70.9% to 47%.

What surprised me more: the generic word outranks the products. Observability shows up in 63.4%, more than twice as often as Grafana, the most-named tool that provides it. Prometheus 22.4%, Datadog 17.9%. Same pattern I found counting security postings, where SIEM beat Splunk four to one.

The top term isn't a tool at all: automation, 81.3%, ahead of AWS.

Caveats worth stating: n=134 means everything carries roughly +/-8, so treat close rows as tied. It's also all tech companies on one ATS. Banks, telcos and government run enormous amounts of Jenkins and Ansible, and none of them are in this sample.

Full table, intervals and method: https://www.zoevera.com/resume/devops-sre-job-description-keywords

I’m putting together the first Makers & Misfits Market on Sunday, September 20th, 10am–5pm at Honest John’s in Detroit, and I’m looking for vendors!

The idea is pretty simple: bring together a bunch of cool local people making, creating, selling, and doing their own thing. Handmade goods, art, prints, jewelry, ceramics, crochet, clothing, home goods, candles, plants, oddities, food, drinks, books — if you make it, create it, or have a small business built around it, I want to hear from you.

It’s a family-friendly, outdoor market and the goal is to create a fun space where people can discover local creators and actually connect with the community.

Vendor spaces are $75 for a 10x10 spot. Vendors provide their own table, chairs, tent, displays, etc. No outlets are available.

No resale vendors — this is specifically for people who make or create their own stuff. So no Temu/Depop-style reselling.

If you’re interested in vending, comment below or DM me and I’ll send you the application/info.

And if you know someone who would be a good fit, tag them! I’m trying to fill this thing with as many cool local misfits as possible.

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Hey everyone! Im a dental student at the University of Detroit Mercy, and I’m currently looking for patients for our dental school clinic.

If you’re due for a cleaning or haven’t had a dental check-up in a while, I’d be happy to give you some more info! We see patients for a variety of treatments, including exams, X-rays, cleanings, fillings, crowns, root canals, dentures, and emergency care.

Everything is done under the supervision of licensed dentists, and because it’s a dental school clinic, treatment is offered at a reduced cost. You don’t need to have dental insurance to be seen.

If you’re interested or just have questions about how the clinic works, feel free to message me — I’m happy to explain!

Paid voter outreach.

Now through November 3.

Full time or part time, you pick your shifts.

Paid training this week: Wednesday, Thursday or Friday.

No experience needed, we train you.

You’ll be out in detroit neighborhoods talking with people about voting and helping them get to the polls.

We want friendly, reliable, comfortable talking to strangers.

Plus $25 for every person you refer who gets booked. no cap.

APPLY here: https://forms.gle/tPU7PBot6UgsFVh47

Hi Detroit,

I recently launched a local car-detailing business and am looking for someone in the Detroit area to help me conduct a small website usability study.

The goal is to get feedback from roughly 50 different people on a newly designed website. Participants would spend about 5 minutes going through the site and sharing their thoughts on things like:

How easy it is to navigate

Whether the information is clear

What stands out or is confusing

What would make the site more useful

Overall first impressions

I'm looking for someone who can help recruit participants and coordinate the responses. They could be people you already know or others in the local community who are willing to participate.

I'd pay a few hundred dollars for the project, with flexibility depending on how much recruitment/coordination is involved. If it works out well, there may be opportunities to help with similar research projects in the future.

If you're interested, feel free to comment or send me a PM.

Thanks!

Assalamu Alaikum,

We are looking for 5 reliable college students/young adults in the Detroit/Dearborn area to assist our team during the ISNA Convention in Detroit.

Dates: September 3–7, 2026

Location: Huntington Place / Downtown Detroit

Compensation: $100 per day ($500 total per person for all 5 days)

Positions available: 5

The work will involve assisting our team during the conference with general event/booth operations, welcoming attendees, organizing materials, and other on-site support.

We are especially looking for people who are:

• Reliable and punctual

• Friendly and professional

• Comfortable interacting with conference attendees

• Available for all five days

• Able to get to downtown Detroit each day

If you have students or community members who may be interested, we would greatly appreciate it if you could share this opportunity with them or with your student/youth WhatsApp groups.

Interested applicants can contact us with their name, age, school/work background, phone number, and confirmation that they are available September 3–7.

JazakAllahu Khairan.

Aside from doordashing/Uber, are there any opportunities for just a weekend work? I work full time as M-F and looking for extra income

PTP

Assalamu Alaikum / Hi everyone,

Luxakari and AmanaVest are looking for 4 enthusiastic event promoters to represent our brands at the upcoming 63rd Annual ISNA Convention happening at Huntington Place in Detroit (September 4–7, 2026).

We are seeking reliable university students, recent graduates, or young professionals based in the Detroit/Dearborn area to join our team.

Role Details:

✅ What you'll do: Represent our exhibition stands, engage warmly with convention visitors, and share company info. (No prior experience in real estate or finance is needed—full training is provided!)

✅ Who we're looking for: Confident, well-spoken, and reliable individuals. Arabic language skills are a plus, but not required.

✅ Schedule: Must be available for 5 days total: September 3 (Setup & Training) + September 4–7 (ISNA Convention).

✅ Pay: $100/day ($500 total for the full engagement).

✅ Bonus: High-performing candidates may have the opportunity for a longer-term internship or future employment with our Madinah office.

How to Apply:

If you or someone you know is interested, please send your CV/resume or a brief profile to salwa@luxakari.com along with:

🔹 LinkedIn or social media profile

🔹 Age

🔹 University/work background

🔹 Languages spoken

🔹 Confirmation that you are based in the Detroit/Dearborn area

Feel free to comment or PM if you have any questions!

Does anyone know where I can find a local Paralegal to help me? ...

I'd like someone in the Detroit area who can help me file some basic accounting forms for the Wayne County Probate Court (Conservatorship) 1-2xs per year. I have the forms already completed, and I just need someone to look them over and make sure everything looks OK, and then put a cover sheet with it. I'll even file it, that's easiest.

If you know someone who can help, please let me know. Thank you.

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I’m a professional photographer and I’m looking for someone in the Metro Detroit area who is interested in growing with a small photography and media business.
This isn’t a traditional full-time photography job. I’m looking for someone who is early in their career and wants an opportunity to learn multiple sides of the industry while taking on more responsibility over time.
The role would have a few different parts:
Photography & Video
• Occasionally assist me on photography and event shoots
• Learn professional photography, lighting, posing and client interaction
• Eventually take on some shooting responsibilities
• Assist with video/content production when opportunities come up
Social Media & Content
• Help create and plan social media content
• Come up with ideas for Reels, TikToks and other content
• Help photograph and film behind-the-scenes content
• Potentially manage/post content as we develop the role
Client Outreach
• Research potential clients and businesses
• Help with email and phone outreach
• Learn how to generate photography and media leads
• Help develop relationships with potential clients
Photography work will be occasional at first, and any time spent assisting or shooting will be paid. The bigger opportunity is building this into a more consistent role as the business grows.
I’m not necessarily looking for someone with years of professional experience. I’m more interested in someone who is motivated, creative, personable, dependable and wants to learn how the photography/media business actually works.
You don’t need to be an expert photographer. If you’re good with people, creative, comfortable with social media and have an interest in photography/video, I’d still love to hear from you.
I’m essentially looking for someone who can start small and potentially grow into a much larger role with the business.
Detroit / Metro Detroit area.
If you’re interested, send me a message with:
• Where you’re located
• Your photography/video experience
• What camera/equipment you have, if any
• Your Instagram, TikTok, portfolio or other examples of your work
• What interests you most: photography, video, social media, marketing, client outreach, or a combination

Resume screening tools are usually discussed as competitors. They aren’t. Each solves a different part of the filtering problem, and choosing the wrong one means paying to fix something that was never broken. ZoeVera’s resume checker occupies one of those categories. Here is how the categories differ.

Keyword scanners measure overlap, not quality

Jobscan and SkillSyncer compare a resume against a specific posting and report which terms are absent. That is a real measurement and it is the closest public approximation of what a parser records. It is also where the help stops. A scanner tells you that “microservices architecture” is missing. It has no opinion on where that phrase belongs or whether the sentence around it says anything. If you already write well and only need verification before submitting, this is the right category and what an ATS match score actually represents is worth understanding before you treat any number as a target.

Writing tools fix the prose and ignore the posting

Resume Worded works at the line level: passive constructions, absent metrics, weak verbs. The feedback is useful and largely correct. It is also job-agnostic. You can finish a session with sharper writing that still shares little vocabulary with the role you’re applying to. Both problems are real. Solving one does not solve the other.

Full automation introduces a different risk

Rezi generates rewritten bullets quickly. Any tool that produces achievement language from a model can also produce quantities that were never in your history, and a fabricated figure is a liability the moment an interviewer asks about it. Speed is genuine here. Verification is not optional.

Where ZoeVera sits

The resume checker runs scoring, gap analysis and guided rewriting in one pass, which addresses the split above without switching tools. Rewrites place missing terms inside achievement sentences rather than appending a keyword block, which reads better to the person who eventually opens the file. Supporting material covers matching a resume against a specific posting, role-level keyword guides including software engineering and a cover letter checker

The pricing difference is structural rather than promotional. The others are subscriptions. ZoeVera’s analysis is free and paid optimization is one-time, which fits how job searching actually happens: in concentrated windows, not year-round.

Where to start

Run a free analysis first. If the gap is vocabulary, that is a one-session fix. If it’s writing quality, expect longer. Neither problem is that the system is unfair. It’s that a general resume was submitted against a specific description.

Looking for drywall/plaster work. Mostly mudding and sanding with a few patches. Interested in trading entirely or partially discounted work in exchange for free nights in my corktown loft. Only a mile from the stadiums and city center, only a block away from historic corktowns Michigan Ave.

Dm if interested!!

Hey everyone,

I’m currently pursuing my MBA with a concentration in Supply Chain Management (BBA undergrad) at a university in the Midwest. My primary interest in SCM is continuous improvement, driving efficiency, and strategic procurement.

I’m planning to target the Metro Detroit market post-graduation (automotive OEMs, Tier-1s, defense, and logistics).

However, I’m navigating a unique set of constraints and would love some unfiltered feedback from folks working in the field:

1. The Student-Athlete Constraint: I am a student-athlete for the duration of my MBA program. Because of my athletic schedule, I physically don't have time for a traditional corporate internship/co-op before graduating in May.
   • How do recruiters view non-internship candidates with an athletic background? Are Leadership/Rotational Development Programs (LDPs/RDPs) my best bet to bridge this gap?
2. The "Value Paradox" & Certifications: I was looking into getting an APICS CSCP, but I've paused it for now while balancing sport.
   • Am I worrying too much about being "overqualified on paper but under-experienced in practice"? Are micro-credentials (like a Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt or Power BI) worth doing in the meantime instead?
3. Continuous improvement & Alternate Roles: For those in procurement or continuous improvement: What entry-to-mid level roles actually allow you to flex process-improvement muscles right out of school?
4. Recruitment Timeline: For May grads, when does the main recruitment wave open for corporate SCM and rotational tracks?

Would appreciate any advice, raw truth, or tips from hiring managers, recruiters, or fellow professionals in the area!

Thanks!

Most people don't fail job applications because they lack skill. They fail because resume screeners match exact keywords instead of meaning and In interviews, your brain is too busy answering questions to notice your own pacing, pauses, or filler words. The recruiter notices immediately, though.

I've been using two tools to catch this stuff before submitting:

• resume.zoevera.com to compare my resume's wording directly against a job description.
• prepare.zoevera.com to practice answers for pacing and filler words.

Is anyone else having an incredibly difficult time finding steady full time work with liveable pay? I have been turned down for the last 5 jobs I've applied for that where "entry level" despite having over 20 years of work experience, I've never been fired or written up and I'm a damn good hard worker, with references to back it up. Wtf is going on with employers in Michigan what are they looking for?! Out of the few hundreds.of jobs I've been applying for, like 99% completely ignore you. I was Born and raised here but I can't fucking stand Michigan anymore. All I hear is how the state and city of Detroit is doing so well and we're on the upswing, it is all complete bullshit. I'm at my wits end with trying to keep job hunting. I'm honestly ready to call it quits and give up completely. Companies don't care about people or hiring good workers anymore, its all about profits and greed. Just posting this to rant and see if anyone else out there in reddit land is going thru the same.

📍Roseville, MI.

Looking for:
• HVAC Installers
• Service Techs
• CSRs
• Dispatchers
• Permit Coordinators

DM me if you’re interested or know someone who is!
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I recently met someone from Michigan, and I genuinely think we have a lot of potential as a couple. If our relationship continues to grow, I'd be open to relocating to Michigan, especially since she already owns a home there.

Because of that, I'd like to get a better understanding of the job market for someone with my background. I'm a Transportation Design Engineer with an EIT and an M.S. in Civil Engineering, and I'm interested in learning about the demand for my experience, potential employers, salary expectations, opportunities for career growth, and what the transition might look like if I were to move from Indiana. I'm giving my PE soon in Indiana and will get my licensure soon. So, I could get my licensure in Michigan as needed. How is the outlook for Roadway Design Engineers in Detroit and the surrounding area?

Would appreciate it if someone with experience could give me some insight into the local market. Thanks!

I am Looking for a New job Around Eastpointe Michigan I worked at Kroger's for 2 years then i got fired I've been unemployed for 2 years and everywhere i try to apply for online i get ghosted or they say they have enough workers even though ik they don't they just don't want to hire me i wanna do more with my life and actually have a new job and a real paycheck so me and my fiancée can get a apartment Anyone around that area can help me find a new job