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Please stop doing this in your resume

Carlos Roso on April 16, 2020

I have something very important to tell you but, before I do it, I'd like to talk to you about myself. I'm a very charismatic, process-oriented per...
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Mike Bybee • Edited

There's nothing more "to the point" you can do than communicate in tangibles.

I've cut out that section, or any sort of "objective" section, from my resume. Immediately after replacing it with a bulleted "career achievements" section in its place at the top (similar to the bullet points of job specific achievements in my employment history section), my recruiter hits shot up exponentially.

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Talha Mansoor

Love it!

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I tried to sign up to your waitlist, but the URLs to your free guide and waitlist both are 404.

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Searge Boremchuk

😂

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Carlos Roso • Edited

Thanks for the heads up! I totally missed it. Fixed it already.

Here it is, in case anyone else is interested: carlosroso.com/cracking-the-toptal...

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Thomas Lombart

Thanks for bringing these tips! However, I think your example suits well for experienced front-end developers but not for junior front-end devs. When you try to find your first job and that you don't have much to show off (apart from small projects, certifications, or a small blog), I believe it's hard to value yourself.

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Carlos Roso

Good point, definitely. I'll work on that and make sure we can all put up good recommendations for junior devs.

I believe everyone should be able to show something, even if junior. Maybe you were teaching assistant at uni, or have a certification, or have participated in competitions. I'll put more examples in another post. Thanks!

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🦄N B🛡 • Edited

My brother usually got his "schoolwork" done in the first few weeks of class, and used the spare time to build stuff like a cryptocurrency arbitrage system and refactor it to support concurrency, all this before he even had his first job. Lots of his projects were like that.

Barely even needed a damn resume.

Suffice to say, he got a job pretty quick after school, a position that was on par with people who had already been working there for years, and is considered a technical leader by his peers.

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Juan Alejandro Morais

Thanks for your post, Carlos! I'll be sure to apply this to my resume and online portfolio.

By the way, the links to your guide don't work on DEV. They both point to https://dev.to/cracking-the-toptal-interview.

All the best!

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Carlos Roso

You're the best, thanks for pointing it out. I just fixed it.

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Austin Baune

Agreed! A resume shouldn't just list your skills, but rather explain how they will help a business succeed.

I like your examples of bad vs better.

Experienced in React and Vue = bleh, who isn't?

Shipped 10 robust React applications for thousands of users = Interesting, this person is already doing what I need them to. Let me read on.

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Carlos Roso

You got it! Yeah, I can't stress enough on that. Tease them into reading more. Tell them how you add value.

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Peyton McGinnis

Love this article! Fantastic tips, and your article follows your own advice: getting straight to the point. Top-quality content.

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Carlos Roso

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

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Josh Leong

Agreed, thank you for the tips!

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Carlos Roso

Glad you liked it!

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Ilham Ferry Pratama Yudha • Edited

Is having more than one-page resume is not good? I mean when you have more portfolio that wants to be written on the resume.

And I've been looking at the internet, there is no example that gives a paragraph in their resume. The items are what they already did with a bullet list, their working history, and their educational background. Here I confused where to place the paragraph as you mention above?

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Jawdat Tayfour

Joshua Fluke talked about it the past week he is on Youtube
But yeah great tips thank ya man <3

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Carlos Roso

Oh send it over, please! I don't know him. You can put the link here in case someone else finds it helpful. Thanks!

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Risyandi

Great, thanks for the tips :)

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Carlos Roso

You got it!

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Louise

Thanks, Carlos. Improved my website, resume and LinkedIn copy using your tips.

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Carlos Roso

I'm glad you found it useful! 😬

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Osinachi Chukwujama

Thanks for the tips Carlos.

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Carlos Roso

I'm always happy to help!

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Douglas Brauner

Very interesting article! I totally agree with this approach!

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Rima Paskeviciute

Thank you, very helpful for me right now :)

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Carlos Roso

I'm glad you found it helpful!