Thisarticlewas originally published on.cultbyAphinya Dechalert.
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Most of the time, seniordevelopersin the team conduct the interview.
In part, this is because HR doesnt really know what theyre supposed to be looking for.
Most of them go into the rejected pile.
The general resume writing advice is that you have 10 seconds to impress the person on the other side.
This advice is certainly not wrong.
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I remember when I first got the task of looking at resumes.
After that realization, I became ruthless out of necessity and time constraints.
After the second day, I started to notice a trend.
If an applicant fell into any one of these categories, they immediately went into the rejected pile.
What made it past the death pile?
There were a few gems that made it past the inbox stage and beyond the reject button.
The main common trait is that they all looked like they were written by humans and not bots.
So how do you look different from all the rest?
How do you capture the time sparse attention of the person looking at your software?
The easiest way is to write how youd speak.
Ignore what youve read about cover letters and how to write resumes.
Itll side-track you and make you think that you have to follow the format youre looking at.
Not only that, itll help you melt into the pile of sameness that you want to avoid.
Heres what to do instead.
Document your role, your participation, the technology you used, and what you actually did.
Dont worry about the length or number of pages.
The goal is to put down your entire professional life into digital ink.
The second step to this is to shortlist the jobs you like.
Look at each job carefully.
The final question can be part of your professional development section.
Many applicants feel compelled to put in a hobbies section simply because the generic templates suggest that you should.
But youve only got a maximum of two pages (sometimes three) so use your real estate wisely.
The more detailed, the better.
Sometimes it feels like it because employers list a host of different tech.
But not everything is required.
We understand if youre skilled in one area but not the other.
We know what its like.
Were humans, not bots.
What were looking for is relevance.
So give relevant information about yourself, not a wall of text thats punching at everything.
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