Your resume is your brand that tells the reader about your capabilities and relevant experience. It should be tailored to the specific role by cherry-picking only the most relevant and impressive accomplishments from your past in a way that provides context and stands out to the gatekeepers reviewing it, like HR and hiring managers, in order to win an interview opportunity. An effective resume focuses on giving the reader what they need to consider you for the job or promotion in a concise yet compelling way.

1. Art of the Resume
How to win friends and influence people.
(With a piece of paper)

2. 5 key points
To pimp your piece of paper

3. Why do we write a CV?
So someone will read it!
To give you an opportunity to interview.
To be considered for a job/promotion.

4. information
is powerful

5. “William Henry G. Computer Programmer”

6. “Bill Gates. Founder of Microsoft”

7. Context is key

8. Your CV is your BRAND

9. Your CV is not just a running record
of all the stuff you have done
and places you have been,
a boring transcript of a stranger’s life,
or a place to dump all the things you
tried and moved on from

10. It tells the reader what you are capable of now and the
history of what you’ve done in the past that led the
path to you being great in this area today.

11. Cherry
Pick
Only keep the best, forget the rest

12. Mind your gatekeepers
HR/Recruiter - Hiring Manager
Interviewing Developers

13. 1. Your CV is for reading
HR/Recruiter - Hiring Manager
Interviewing Developers
2. context is key
3. Tailor your message
4. Cherry pick
5. mind your gatekeepers

14. Stand out