Guidelines and tips for optimizing the resume, LinkedIn profile, and portfolio to increase your chances of landing job opportunities, particularly in the tech industry.
- include them into objective and into technical knowledge
- you can put the company name or something specific to that company like: maybe the comp looking for engineers who can improve their infrastructure, so should defiantly have those words or phrase to your objectives
- this goes hand in hand with the job description or the comp name, but very first point in the technical knowledge or work experience should be exactly what thy are looking for, cause if you include words and write some random that is not very related to the job posting, the sent cv might not pass the ATS system.
- the work experian which it the main part of the resume must show that you provide value
- include the online git and portfolio at the very top.
- Any sentence that starts with "I" like
["I wish", "I have", "I'm familiar", "I was hired"]
, as all those sentence does not really tell the recruiter anything and he/she wouldn't care, so you're like adding extra weight to the resume but you only have a few seconds to impress the recruiter, therefore as a recruiter will only be interested and wanna know "WHAT YOU CAN OFFER US" and "WHAT TYPE OF ASSET YOU WOULD BE", so instead like writing:["I wish to obtain a web design position" => "Professional web designer with five years of experience"]
thus get to the point right a way.
- well buzzwords means don't put words and phrases that does not mean anything so words or phrases such as
['thought', 'leader', 'passionate', 'entrepreneur']
, because sometimes recruiters think negatively on these type of terms, so instead focus on using something called action words see as follows.
- instead of using fig words that don't mean anything, use action words which describe two things: What did you do, What were the results? and you can be very creative with it.
- Action words could be like: "Testing the content management system and seeing that migration to the new servers is running smoothly."
- Mention an impact of the the responsibilities rather than describing such as mention How much did the traffic improved because of the this migration to new servers, as a recruiter can see an impact that you had on the business, because don't forget that companies hire people that are asset to improve the company and create more revenue for them, so you should demonstrate an impact.
Technical Knowledge/Skills should include what they are looking for. Only show years if it is impressive
- Don't mentions the coding years unless it is impressive like "I have experience of coding with Java for 1 year", this is not good looking skill so don't show the number.
- Only include sections that a recruiter really cares about
- Only include experience that is relevant to the domain you are applying for.
- double check for the grammar or words mistakes and whatnot.
- I personally think that linkedin is 100% better than resumes especially in the tech industry.
- So Investing in linkedin and craft things well enough, you definitely get contacted by recruiters constantly.
- There is a strategically move you can do with your previous positions/experience is to list all favorite tools that you experience with or relevant skills because these tools will become keywords that if a recruiter or company is looking for somebody wish such as
vue.js
experience, so find otu the the keyword that make you approachable and list it. - Try to always update you're profile to appear in first results.
- find companies you want work for and connect and message people are working their to get referrals from, If you applying directly via a company's website or through a job board, this is not the best way. There a study was published by a company called Impact group, and they looked at some of the job applications and did some statistics around those numbers, they found close to 30% hires made by origanizations actually came from referrals, so it is number one way for a company to hire people, and part of the study discoved also that 46% percent of men and 39% percent woman actually find jobs through networking.
- Using a tool like linkedin allows you to be discovered while you're sleeping, just optimizes your chance of getting more interviews without making spend a ton of time trying to get those interviews.
- This is a way to showcase your big projects, the items that you want to demonstrate your value with.
- Don't spend too much time on how to it looks unless you are a designer, so don't stress too much about it.
- Focus on the quality over the quantity, so one or two big projects are enough.