You are giving good advice, but writing the résumé, while it's actually work, isn't really hard: you shouldn't discourage people.

Each entry on your résumé needs to tell two stories: how you made money for the company, and, secondarily, how you made everyone else's life better by working with them. (Companies will often hire assholes who they think will make them money, so don’t stress about that second part.)

Never lie, but that doesn’t mean you can’t portray your contribution in a positive light.

And each entry needs to be as short as possible, and the whole thing needs to look neat.

You don't have to follow their rules otherwise. I have written my résumé in the first person for 40 years now, and every recruiter has tried to get me not to do this, and yet I get the interview almost every time, and almost every time I get positive comments about how clear and impressive the résumé is, simply because I am writing to a skeptical someone like me who knows nothing about me.

If you remember read your résumé over and ask yourself, "Does this look like I made money for the company and I was tolerable to work with?", and you keep it short, you won't go too far wrong.

Also, I spend a few minutes rewriting my résumé for each company I apply to. It helps here that I’m senior so I apply to much fewer jobs: at an earlier stage, you might have to send out hundreds of résumés and editing each one would be pointless. Still, if you’re job hunting, you might want to tweak your résumé every day… if only to keep it feeling fresh to you!

Finally, show it to other people, but don’t take what they say literally, and don’t make changes based on their suggestions until you sleep on it.

If someone points out a problem X, the problem might be X, it might be A, B or C, or there might be no problem. I still assume that each criticism I get is true until I have thought about it and decided otherwise, and I always thank people, but I never get discouraged by their criticism. (I get discouraged in general all the time, it’s part of the game.)

Yes, the rest of job hunting is miserable, and people treat you badly. You express it very well.

Great article in general, accept claps!