Let's face it, doing interviews can be boring when you do a lot of them, and so interesting resumes jump out of the stack pretty quickly. Your story should te

Let's face it, doing interviews can be boring when you do a lot of them, and so interesting resumes jump out of the stack pretty quickly. Your story should tell me why, if I choose to have a discussion with you, our conversation is going to be really engaging and interesting, and how it will convince me that you're the right person to do the job. Some characteristics of engaging interviews: - They're with people with people who are smart. Show your smart on our resume either by listing academic achievements if you're just out of school, or by describing hard problems you've solved. - The candidate has done something interesting in their previous experience. Your resume gives you the opportunity to tell me what the most interesting thing you've done is. If I agree, you'll get to tell me all about it. - The candidate has enough experience to get through my technical questions in style. I think this is less about knowing specific buzzwords (at least for how I interview), and more about having solid fundamentals and good hands-on experience. This suggests it's probably better to talk about hard things you've worked on, rather than playing buzzword bingo.