175: Resume Writing
Programming Throwdown
Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci
4.6 • 604 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
175: Resume Writing
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Topic: Resume Writing (Courtesy of Matthew C.)
- Why have a resume?
- Many jobs require it to get into the consideration
- Today many are screened for keywords automatically
- Log for future you
- What is a resume?
- One-page description
- Key accomplishments & experiences
- Comparison to CV
- References
- How to write a good resume?
- Do’s
- Include your github if it has good contributions
- Be specific (dates, locations, skills)
- Isolate your specific contributions
- Be accurate/honest
- Be concise
- Be ready to discuss any point you have on the resume
- List hobbies/activities/extracurriculars
- Don’ts
- Have mistakes (especially dates)
- Use images (most companies use text extraction)
- Use it as a design portfolio
- Put social qualities (e.gs. hard-working, motivated, friendly)
- Use fancy templates/tools
- Resources
- Manager Tools: How to scan resumes https://www.manager-tools.com/2016/05/how-scan-resume-part-1
- Google docs
- Latex/Lyx for CVs
- Do’s
- How to think about your career and how it impacts your future resume writing (career planning)
- Technologies and architectures more than specifics of project details
- How various choices may age over time
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Programming Throwdown, Episode 175, |
| 0:19.0 | resume writing. |
| 0:20.0 | Take it away, Patrick. We, I don't know that we've ever talked about it before |
| 0:25.2 | but probably have we've talked about all the things i every so often it ebbs and flows i have a dsler |
| 0:32.6 | and i had recently uh upgraded to a slightly newer one but smaller than my my old setup. So, you know, this is like |
| 0:40.3 | a physical camera. It's large, has interchangeable lens. Now, what is the SLR? Is the D digital? |
| 0:46.3 | Oh, so D is digital. SLR is single lens reflex. So way back in the day, if you ever see the like old cameras, |
| 0:53.1 | there's like two lenses, one above each other. |
| 0:55.8 | Those were reflex cameras. |
| 0:57.0 | In other words, you could look through and the lenses moved in synchronized fashion. |
| 1:01.6 | But when you take the picture, the bottom lens opens up and exposes the film. |
| 1:05.9 | But the top lens is what you're focusing and composing the picture through. |
| 1:09.7 | And so these are, |
| 1:11.0 | I think they were called them TLR2 lens reflex. |
| 1:14.4 | And then, |
| 1:15.2 | so they move to single lens reflex, |
| 1:16.9 | which has a mirror at a 45 degree angle behind the lens. |
| 1:21.0 | So the light shines through the lens, |
| 1:22.8 | bounces up into a pentagonal prism, |
| 1:26.2 | and in through the little cup at the top that you would look |
| 1:28.3 | through. And then when you go to take the picture, the mirror drops down and exposes the film. |
| 1:34.2 | So then they had digital SLRs where instead of exposing the film, it exposes a silicon sensor, |
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