Part 4 – Résumé Design When the hiring manager opens up a résumé file, the résumé’s design is what makes the first impression, the content only comes in later. Before scanning or reading the content, the hiring manager’s brain registers the layout and assesses how easy or difficult scanning it is going to be, how […]
Part 3 – Résumé Content Let us take a magnifying glass and zoom in on the various faux pas in a résumé’s content that get it noticed, and not in a good way. If you can avoid these mistakes in your résumé, you make a huge leap up on the leader-board. Capitalization The rules of […]
Part 2 – Résumé Sections Let us take a quick and critical look at some of the common sections that a résumé is supposed to contain, in roughly the same order in which they are expected, starting with… Name Please use your complete name in your résumé header, properly capitalized and spelled the same way […]
You return home after four years of rigorous college education and a CS degree in hand. After catching up on months of lost sleep and millions of missed memes, you decide to finally begin your job search today – before the algorithms, time complexities and other topics that you expect to be asked about during […]
2019 was one of those years in which I managed to read approximately one book per week, after a couple of decades. (This is just an excuse to revive this blog that has been dormant for six years). Sohaib’s bookshelf: 2019 Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by […]