I'm in the process of going through technical interviews with a bunch of companies (some I approached, some approached me.) The coolest thing has been some peop

I'm in the process of going through technical interviews with a bunch of companies (some I approached, some approached me.) The coolest thing has been some peoples' reaction to the little details on my CV (Resume.) Compared to the other very unsuccessful interview, where the MD just listened to me talk for a few minutes and said "you're not what we're looking for" (no programmer in the interview), getting engineers to ask me end-of-interview questions with a smile on their face was really fun (whether or not I get the jobs in the end.) The OP says that engineers were quite good if the CV contained enough detail about what the candidate had been doing, the substance of the projects. In both cases, the little question was where I had included a bullet thinking "noone in HR will know what this means, but I think it's cool" were the ones that got the smile question. For the record, all my CVs are skills-based (that is, a set of bullets around "programming", "teamwork", "communication" etc) followed by a brief chronology of work and education, rather than having to list every position (student volunteering included) in order to say what I did there that was relevant. Customising which bullets (and even sections) you include on a per-application basis is extremely important, of course, so that the HR person can see "skill that we asked for: 5 bullets" right there on the first page.