oh my goodness i am to say i am nervous is an understatement
i haven't looked at my first resume in a long time and as someone who doesn't come from
a technical background or you know my whole career was in fashion until i switched into tech
my first resume getting into tech it was hard to to do because i didn't have any experience to show
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next time you are building a different project okay let's get back to my cringeworthy resume
okay i guess i'm feeling sentimental today because we're looking at my first resume
okay let me pull it up here first
okay i'll put it up on screen so you can go through this wonderful and embarrassing
experience together i obviously am going to blur out my personal information but otherwise you
get the point okay let's get into it first things first i do have to give myself a point because it
is only one page long i don't know why it would be longer than one page considering i had very
little experience at that point in time but we sometimes like to drag things on
and uh when we have little or less experience pad things up almost too much and then it
becomes more fluff let's get rid of the fluff okay let's dive in summary
i am a driven professional with a broad technical skill set
sure broad meaning i didn't know what i was doing a focused and detail-oriented web developer
offering exceptional troubleshooting skills and a talent for developing innovative solutions
i'm successfully able to multitask and work in teams meeting all project deadlines
all right you know obviously it could be improved quite a bit looking back
on it but overall it shows that i'm able to work in teams i'm detail oriented i'm driven
yeah summary i would say out of 10 points it would score like a seven
i don't know what do you guys think but i would say like a seven out of ten it was pretty good
then we go into skills before i'm i'm actually going to stop there when i'm looking at this
the formatting something is really off i think it's because there's no space
between the text and underneath the red line it's like very crammed together but anyways
um okay skills i separated them languages servers databases frameworks other skills
okay all right it's not bad i mean html and css are not languages but
there they are under languages that's okay though i think um javascript should have a capital s
the dogs are home hello boys hello hi i'm just filming yes okay okay hi harry hi sweet people
lay down okay almost done okay sorry we had to take a little pause there for the dogs of course
um but one thing i really do like under skills that i have is the other skills section and i
think that's something that's really important and not a lot of developers or people technical people
put in is other skills and i think it's important to show depending on what kind of company your
hot you're applying for but especially for startups to show that you have other skills
because a lot of times in a startup environment you might be doing more than you know a typical
your typical job description you might have to help out with marketing or graphic design or
things like that so even uh today when i'm making a resume for myself i still put other skills on
there uh to really show that you know i'm a more well-rounded person and it's not just technical
technical technical so i do think that it's a good thing to do i'm not sure why i bolded rather than
bolding the titles i folded the text underneath of it once again very unique design choices
we never said tiffany was a designer that is a fact for servers databases and frameworks okay
you know if i'm being totally honest uh when i was putting these things on here
i probably shouldn't have put some of them on because i had very little experience with them
but at the same time it's that fine line because the when you send an application
in it's usually ai who determines if you if your resume is going to get passed on or not
and if it doesn't have specific keywords it's automatically going to just get dismissed so
it is important to put those keywords on but also to have that balance of not over inflating
your resume with things that you actually don't know how to do so it's that fine line
education and training so i put education and training before experience because at
this point in my career i had very very little experience well no experience in tech at all
so rather than putting my experience first i put my education first to show hey i you know i took
a boot camp i went to university this is where i'm at and it's a great way to kind of just highlight
more of the technical aspects before getting into the experience okay then it goes down to education
and training i notice on education and training i put 2017 but i didn't put the graduation date
and the reason i did that at the time was because i got told by someone that uh to kind of prevent
people from judging you based on your age whether really young or older to not put when you graduate
but it is really confusing when i just put 2017 does that mean i graduated does it mean
i didn't graduate like i really don't specify if i completed either of these
pieces of education which by the way i did so even if i didn't want to put the date i should
have put maybe something next to it saying completed or graduated and it's really not
clear so that's something i definitely would have improved let's go down to experience once again we
clearly are really trying to fit everything on one page here because it's really tight
okay under experience we have marketing whole renfrew toronto cool so
how do i feel about all this thank goodness someone hired me for my first tech job because
it was brutal out here um okay so marketing managed and developed content for social media
worked closely on the marketing team worked on multiple social media campaigns so there's
really nothing technical about these roles and as you can read down for all of them there's nothing
technical other than other than some content creation really but otherwise not really anything
one thing i wish i would have highlighted more on the very first one uh startup fashion week it
says at the very bottom created and managed their wordpress blog and developed posts for the company
i really should have expanded more on the wordplex wordpress blog part because it
has more of a technical aspect to it i could have talked about the plugins we used how we set it up
uh and different things like that and i really missed that opportunity to focus in on that at
the end of the day though i didn't have experience in tech so i needed to put my internships or what
i've done up until this point but i wish i would have or looking back if i was to do it again
i would have put more even of the soft skills more around time management building teams
communication because those are skills that can be applied into the tech industry as well rather
than focusing on these bullet points of you know very specific things i did at these roles which
really don't uh carry over into the tech industry and that's what i would have done differently is
rather than done such specific descriptions made them more general with a specific example
so manage teams manage a team of five and communicated effectively through solving
different problems and then giving an example something like that where as it's not exactly
tech oriented you can see how transferable your skills would become to tech so that's something
i definitely would do different next time i also added activities and interests which when i did
this it was to give that personable a personable feel to my resume that hey i'm a real human once
again going back to being well-rounded i don't add activities and interests on my current resume
but once again at the time it was a smaller resume and i had the space so i think it's a good way to
really show that you have other interests outside of work that you are committing
to different things you know i have here i was learning mandarin um i was doing running
so yeah i think you know it wasn't the worst resume i mean it's a little cringe-worthy but
it got me a job so that's good it got me my first job in tech and there's so much
that you can take away from this looking at it and just kind of having a good laugh and
we've all been there starting out you know just not sure what the heck is going on and just
winging it and that's exactly what this was it was just winging it just figuring
it out as i went along and kind of shows but i'm someone who always just kind of
takes it day by day and continues to as long as i'm improving and growing just put yourself
out there one of the biggest things for me i had when applying for my first tech job was to know
when to start applying and i get asked this often too and i don't have a perfect answer when is the
right time to start applying i think at the end of the day it's always better to start applying
earlier than later don't look back like wow why did i wait so long just start applying and
if you keep on hearing no's consistently like i'm talking over a period of time because even
if you are the most qualified person you're gonna hear a lot of notes it's the reality
but if you're really starting to hear no no no week after week after week maybe take a step back
then and reassess what is going on if i'm not even getting the interview to the point where they can
meet me is it something with my resume like what what's going on here but i think you can always
just put yourself out there and see what happens thank you all for watching this video i hope you
not only found it valuable but also i had a good laugh at looking at my first resume when
applying to the tech industry um i'm curious to hear your thoughts on it though would you have
hired me or would you have been like this this is a terrible resume uh actually i don't know if i
want to hear your thoughts which is a terrible resume anyways i have linked for walla down in
the description make sure to go check it out and i will see you all soon thanks everyone you