Resume and social media tips for developers
I titled this blog post for developers, however, I believe it's sound advice for anyone writing a resume.
What jobseekers need to keep in mind is that skilled recruiters are masters of Boolean logic. We use it in search engines, metasearch engines and job boards. I use it to find people's profiles, blogs and resumes on your webpage.
So how is this information helpful??? The data in these mediums is immense – so we often tie several key search terms to make our search more effective. For example, in LinkedIn a typical search for a Sr. UI Developer could look like (c# OR c++) AND (Silverlight OR WPF) AND (UI OR UX).
What does this mean to you as a job seeker?
Be sure to list all the relevant technology skills that currently have on your resume and social media sites. This will allow your resume/bio to populate more frequently when a recruiter does a search. I do caution that you should only put skills that you are comfortable using. One area that developers frequently leave off their resume is web technology knowledge. If you have the skills, tell us about them! The end result will be better for the job seeker and the recruiter.
-Amanda
Amanda Matthews is a Bing R&D Recruiter based in San Antonio, Texas.
4 Comments
Sergey said:
On the other hand, as a recruiter, how can I best optimise my website/blog/social media to attract relevant talent? I know it is a very broad question, but if you have any ideas or can suggest links, I would really appreciate it.
Thank you
Betty said:
From this example, it seems like it's better to use acronyms than spell out terms in our resumes? Like it's better to use UI than user interaction? ML instead of machine learning?
@Sergey: I'm not sure as students whether we ever go searching for recruiters' websites/blogs but we do go searching for tips/information on interviewing process. So perhaps featuring some random tips like this page would get your blog/website to more job seekers. I am puzzled though, since companies like Microsoft and Google have so many resumes in their database already that they need a boolean keyword search to filter, why do their recruiters still search on LinkedIn and other places to find more candidates? And just curious, what places besides LinkedIn do recruiters often search on?
Andreas Grech said:
Although I do think that listing the technologies that you work with is an important thing, I also think that your CV shouldn't simply be an alphabet soup, because the technologies don't really tell anything about you to the recruiter.
Daniel said:
Dear JobsBlog,
Could you write a post with advice for Microsoft job seekers that are in non-technical fields such as Finance?