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Brilliant. I am looking to redo my portfolio site and this will help with wording examples
Search bar doesn't work in latest Firefox/Edge. Or am I doing something wrong? I type a keyword in there, but there is no search button, the list doesn't change after pressing enter.
Cool project. After a cursory look through several of the top lines in different industries, it looks like your system strongly favors highly specified descriptions combined with positive numerical growth. For example: Decreased uninstallation rate by 40% by introducing an interactive tutorial at app launch (Product Management) Analyzed industry trends in the automobile sector and presented long and short equity inve…
FYI, your parent website refer room has an expired SSL cert which causes it to be unavailable in chrome. Looks like it expired 2 days ago.
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To be fair, it's not really $25/month, it's a single month of the service for $25 (with a discount if you want to commit up front for longer). I'm guessing that most people who use this service would pay for a month, gussy-up their resume, then stop using it. That said, I'm with you with not wanting to pay for something like this.
Some A/B testing might be needed, but my gut feeling is that this should be a flat fee service (lifetime). - I think very few people will want to pay for 3 months of the service. I don't get continuing value from building a resume, and I will know in the very first few weeks if it's working. If after using the service I don't get companies trying to talk with me, I will be unhappy with the service. - There's no point…
I entered a search term for a programming language and got a bunch of lines to "copy" that seemed to be for accounting or sales, not tech. So, either that's the secret to getting placed in good development positions -- to show that actually you are something else -- or, this site is Doing it Wrong.
In a seminar on hiring, engineers were surprised when I highlighted that in CVs one should mention numbers whereever possible: https://youtu.be/5hsTnTeZk-k?t=1013 (btw. Europeans are much worse at "selling" themselves / using numbers compared to their North American counterparts)
I never understood what's the point of having quantifiable data in a resume for a software engineer. Most of the time it'll likely end up being made up, as you don't have access to financial data and cannot estimate an impact your work had on a business.
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This is a very standard format: Action, quantifiable result. Action, quantifiable result. I think one of the best edits one can make to their resume is to at least convert to that format. "Responsible for C++ implementation of WhizBang Product's codebase" = ??? "Implemented BarFoo feature resulting in an additional $50M in revenue and 3 industry awards" = ahh, here's something this person can do for me!
And what do you do when you don't have access to that data? Lose the position to those who do or are willing to lie about it?