An under rated skill to make a huge difference in your interviews 🤯

Talking about your self and your contributions is an underrated skill that you should work on and master.

It can be a make or break moment for anyone during in an interview.

Mastering technical skills won’t be enough, you need to be eloquent and concise with what you say.

Here is how you can do it 👇🏻

1- Take out some time to list all the work in detail ✍🏻

This is not something you can just whip up using AI, you would need some focused chunk of time to come up with what you did.

The best way to do it is to keep your resume updated, it will help you coming up with some content. Select the best work you did, see if you could be recall any positive feedback or shoutouts you got.

2- What choices you made and why 🤔

You can't just tell them what you did, you also have to be specific why exactly you did it. Did you had multiple options to weigh? what were the constraints? What other factors influenced you decision.

3- What were the impact of your contributions 📈

Knowing what impact your contributions had is a major boost. Present proper numbers to back it up.
Instead of saying "increased page load speed", you can say, "improved load time of webpage from 5 seconds to under 500ms" OR
"Improved system efficiency" to "reduced latency from x to y by doing z"

4- Simplify everything 🙃

Once you have all of the content, go ahead and structure it. Make it simple to understand and concise. Nobody wants to hear about a single thing for a long time just to misunderstand you.

5- Talk to some people 🙏🏻

Talking with some people like recruiters, colleagues or friends won't hurt and see if they were able to understand and ask them about it. Were you concise and easy to understand.

I certainly had my moments of poor communication at one point and still make a mess of things but by acknowledging your short comings and aiming to improve is the only way to go ahead.

Hey, i am Zain, an indiehacker helping developers land jobs without getting ghosted and search anxiety with my startup devtree.

I share my technical and indiehacking learnings on linkedin and twitter.