Tips to improve your CV/Resume as a Product person
Help recruiters know who you are and what you do and stand out from other candidates.
When we are looking for a job, we usually want to tell everything we have done in our previous positions. Even, highlighting those projects or tasks that may not make much sense anymore with the current role we want.
While this may not seem very critical, let's put ourselves in the recruiters' shoes. They post a new job opening on LinkedIn and in just the first day they have already received 10 to 25 applications. The company is urgent to fill the position and they have a time limit to find the ideal candidate, therefore, they discard all those applications that did not capture their attention in the first 20 seconds.
Let's remember that the human attention span varies between 10 to 20 seconds. This figure decreases over the years (The Human Attention Span)
In this issue we will cover some tips that can help us when looking for a job:
An introspection about who we are helps us to understand what our achievements have been throughout our career. Answer the question who am I?
Now that we kno…
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