ULTIMATE GUIDE
RESUME WRITING FOR TEchNOLOGy
PROFESSIONALS
A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE ON WRITING EFFECTIVE TECH RESUMES
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ULTIMATE GUIDE
RESUME WRITING FOR TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONALS
AN EFFECTIVE TECH RESUME IS THE FIRST STEP
towards demonstrating yourself as a viable employee.
It shows your background, establishes your persona,
and when done well becomes a spotlight that helps
you stand out from hundreds of other applicants.
Sitting down to write (or revise) your resume, however,
can seem daunting. You have your basic biography,
but in most cases rattling off a catalog of everything
you’ve ever done just isn’t feasible—or desirable.
So what goes in and what stays out? How, amidst
all this chatter about bullet points, stressing
accomplishments, and describing your work history,
do you actually write a resume?
Well, unfortunately there is no magic formula.
Resumes, like candidates, are intensely personal, full
of tics, idiosyncrasies, and individual stories. What
enhances one resume might damage another. While
no unswerving blueprints exist, however, there are
common elements. This resume guide will help you
make informed decisions about:
• Understanding profitable skill sets in the Tech
industry
• Assessing your background
• Locating a target job
• Critically reading a job posting
• Researching a target company
• Pulling it all together
ULTIMATE GUIDE
RESUME WRITING FOR TEchNOLOGy PROFESSIONALS
A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE ON WRITING EFFECTIVE TECH RESUMES
INSIDE
1. Understanding
profitable skill sets in
the indUstry
2. assessing yoUr
backgroUnd
3. locating a target job
4. critically reading
a job posting
5. researching a target
company
6. pUlling it all together
HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE
Even though we’ll be discussing
writing a resume as a series of discrete
steps, it probably won’t work like
that in practice. Writing is a recursive
process—it goes in fits and starts, as
steps overlap and spark new ideas.
Every step you take,