The complete guide to writing a successful CV for the tech industry
Jan 10, 2023
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Many people aspire to become a part of the tech industry, but even after studying a coveted profession and acquiring the required tools for the industry, attempts to find a job that really suits us are a complex and confusing process. One of the most important steps in the job search process is, of course, to write a resume that will reflect the experience you have acquired in a professional, concise, and impressive manner. To do this, it is important to understand exactly what recruiters expect to see in such a document.
Expoint is an innovative platform that includes a database of tech jobs and allows job seekers to easily find suitable jobs for them - from all the most well-known companies in the world in one place. After a simple registration, you can build a professional profile on the site and link it to your LinkedIn profile and other social networks. Using the system, you can also search for jobs in specific companies that you want to join or according to a wide variety of other criteria that are important to you.
You can also easily create resumes using the platform’s CV Builder, and choose from a wide range of templates.
One important thing to understand is that recruiters in tech companies receive lots of resumes all the time. Therefore, when looking for a job in the tech field, it’s important to create a document that will stand out from everyone else’s and make the reader pause and focus on it. The more professional, well-designed, concise, and clear the document is, the better your chances will be.
How to make sure that your resume will pass the automatic screening of the HR department
Writing a resume is a task that requires precision and focus. In order to comply with it, it is definitely worth looking at sample resumes, but it is also recommended to remember that what works for others will not necessarily work for you. In general, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all rule that defines how resumes should look in order to catch the eyes of recruiters. However, we would like to emphasize that in many cases today, HR professionals work with automatic resume management systems, which perform an initial screening of documents even before they reach human eyes.
It is therefore useful to understand what information is scanned in these systems, and how to make sure that your document contains all the data that will ensure that you pass at least the initial automatic screening. Using Expoint, as mentioned, you can easily create a formatted document that contains all the main building blocks of the resume. These are the essential elements that you must not give up when putting together your resume:
- Work experience
You probably know that it is important to detail your work experience in your resume - but it is important to understand that precisely in this document - less is more. In other words, you should avoid detailing all the jobs you've held throughout your life that are not necessarily relevant to the job you're applying for. Try to list only the jobs and projects that are relevant to this field, and make sure to list them in reverse chronological order. That is, begin with your most recent job and end with the first job you wish to present.
We emphasize that work experience does not have to include only paid work. It is certainly possible to include further efforts and projects in which you have participated, paid or unpaid, to demonstrate to the management that you nonetheless have expertise and qualifications that may be of value to them.
- Education
Noting the different study paths and courses you have taken along the way is obviously important, but here too, start with the most recent and try to remove information that is not relevant. Employers will not want to "waste" unnecessary time, even if it is a fraction of a second, to read where you went to high school. What interests them is to understand if you have the necessary training for the position at hand. However, of course, if you completed your computer science studies in high school with honors, for example, or if you participated in specific classes or courses, these are things that should definitely be included in your resume.
- Languages and skills
In the global reality we live in, familiarity with additional languages is certainly beneficial to the job searching task, but it is important to be honest when you list the languages you speak and especially the level of mastery you have in them. In the context of skills, along with those that are relevant to the position, it will help to list other skills that you have developed along the way that could be relevant to the position.
Expoint's system makes it possible to list your languages and skills in a concise way which makes getting all the relevant information, even when skimming, easy. This approach in general is recommended to be used throughout your whole resume as well, to make it easier for the recruiters to go through the document quickly and form an informed opinion. Unlike the details of work experience and education, here it is actually better to present as many skills and abilities as possible, but again, briefly and clearly.
What you can do besides sending a resume and waiting for a reply
Some people believe that job hunting is a somewhat passive process. They go through ads, send their resumes and pray with all their might to get a call back. In practice, the experience of tech employees shows that precisely those who make sure to be more active in the process significantly improve their chances of finding the job they want.
If, for example, you dream of working at Microsoft or Google, you can use Expoint to search for specific jobs in these companies and put all your efforts towards finding your next job there. If you dream of relocation, you can find jobs according to geographic location and positions. And before you get to the interview, you should also go through the salary tables on the website, in order to make sure that the offer you receive really reflects your experience and skills.