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I had the same issue last year. I was at one company for 5 years, pretty much my first real job out of school, and wanted to sell a story of personal growth at
by henryfjordan 5y ago
I had the same issue last year. I was at one company for 5 years, pretty much my first real job out of school, and wanted to sell a story of personal growth at the company
I ended up with this: https://henryfjordan.com/resume-2020.pdf https://henryfjordan.com/resume-2020.pdf
It got me plenty of call backs and a new job within a few months. Looking at it again now, I might remove/shrink the "profile" section and move "skills" down below "experience". The resume is very number heavy, which I think worked well selling me as someone who got stuff done. Under my "Experience" section I put my general responsibilities first and then a list of achievements for my main job that was basically a listing of big projects I worked on. I figured that since I really only had 1 real developer job that I should make sure to communicate what that job was like in addition to my achievements. If I had worked at 3 different places, I think it would have been more of a given that I've run into Agile and Jira and all that, but with 1 job I needed to be more explicit.
I also took a lot of advice from an article that I cannot find now, but it described the 3 audiences to consider when writing your resume: HR/Recruiters, Hiring Managers (your potential boss), and Peers/Interviewers. Each is looking for something different. HR is looking that you match the keyword-bingo and don't have red flags (The profile and skills section are mostly for them). The Hiring Manager cares the most about impact, so sell your achievements to them. Peers are mostly just looking for something to talk about in interviews, so I put a line about a video game I made during a hackathon to serve as a conversation starter in interviews.
I hope this helps!
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