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How To Hack Your Resume Experience Section with "WOW-Effects" and Get Hired

Alex 👨🏼‍💻FullStack.Cafe on November 18, 2019

🔴 Originally published on FullStack.Cafe - Kill Your Tech & Coding Interview Aloha Devs. This is a second part of my series on "How To Enh...
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Ken Thuku

Should one take all the glory for achievements done as part of a team effort?

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Ben Sinclair

What I notice about most of these is that they include a percentage point. Most people don't have stats of how much their contribution improved a client's project... and most prospective employers know that.

One of the first things I'd as such a candidate is to describe the process that was used to generate that number.

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Thomas P

I understood the idea, but I can't understand how to measure your personal contribution with KPIs, because all the KPIs that come to mind also rely on the work of my teammates (dev but also project managers etc...).
For anyone with experience in this field, what would be the most significant KPIs and how can they be measured?

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Andrew (he/him)

Great tips, Alex. I've bookmarked this for future reference.

What do you think about developers putting their key skills in bold within prose on a resumé? I feel like I've seen this a lot recently (and have used it myself).

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Shadid Haque

I've been using the bold effect myself. It has been working for me.

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Sven Varkel

I'll keep this post handy. Not that I need to send my resume anywhere but in order to compare and check out those devs who blindly copy-pasted from here ... :P