Let's think about a problem first, if we take some characteristics of the resume as characteristics and take the score of the resume in the interviewer as the result. So what features are the most important?
correlation
This logic should be simple. If you are a rare genius in the field of law, you have achieved fruitful results during your undergraduate course, but you want to change careers as a programmer before graduation. Then, can you write your past experience more brilliantly and beautifully, and leave a deep impression on the interviewer?
The most important feature of a resume is relevance, which is related to the job requirements. This logic is also easy to understand. The enterprise recruits you to work for the enterprise and bring value to the enterprise. Therefore, what enterprises value most is your ability to work, which is determined by the position. Therefore, the degree of matching and correlation with the position is very important in the resume.
Although this problem seems obvious, it can solve many problems. For example, I won many honors in other fields at school. Should I write it down?
There is a classic example about this. There was once a college student who won 65 honorary certificates during his four years in college, but failed to find a job in the end. Students one year older than him not only succeeded in submitting resumes almost every time, but also entered the world's top 500 enterprises because they were admitted to the 985 master's degree. He thinks it's unfair. Did his four years' efforts go in vain?
If you have read the 65 honorary certificates he listed, and then compare the relevance just mentioned, the answer is self-evident. A large number of certificates are honorary certificates unrelated to majors, and some are award-winning experiences such as entrepreneurial competitions and photo competitions. I don't think it's necessary to say which is more important, these certificates or the 985 diploma.
We can simply list a formula, the bonus brought by an experience in the resume = the correlation between the gold content of the field X and employment. In other words, you can't write anything with low gold content or low job relevance. Note that when I say you can't write, I don't mean you'd better not write, or try not to write. If you interview for a technical post, you need to give up the honors of monitor, secretary of the League branch, advanced individual of xxx club, and second-class spoken Mandarin.
Not only can you not impress the interviewer, but you will often leave him with the impression that you can't write a resume.
Gold content of currency
As mentioned above, relevance to the position is very important in a resume. But if we only look at relevance, many problems can't be explained.
For example, a large proportion of acm-icpc Asia's gold medal players went to top companies such as BAT and Google (my younger brother went to Google). In the eyes of many people, these people have no special skills except doing arithmetic problems. I haven't done any engineering, and these companies certainly didn't hire them to do the problem. Why is this happening?
The logic behind this is simple. Acm-icpc has five competitions in Asia every year, and about 15 teams can win gold medals in one competition. For a team of three people, a little calculation will show that only about 200 people in China can win the gold medal in one year. Counting the accumulation of three years in college, when you graduate, there will be at most 800 competitors at the same level in the country, with the same honor. The size of a company in BAT is far more than 800. Obviously, such an honor is very valuable and convincing.
Correlation is very important, but not too much gold. As long as the field is relevant, strength can make up for the relevance. This is not only the case with school recruitment, but also with social recruitment. For example, some people change directions, some people change industries, and some people change application scenarios. They are also back-end engineers. They used to do search, but now they go online, which is very common. Interviewers themselves may have experienced a change of direction, so generally speaking, they don't ask too much about their ability to match technology stack.
Among them, there are very few students in the same field and direction, which can be ignored. It would be nice to be able to do the same field. For example, you want to apply for a back-end engineer and have experience in Android development. For example, if you want to be a algorithm engineer, you have experience in competitions and projects such as mathematical modeling, acm, kaggle and Tianchi Big Data. , are very consistent experiences.
The interview does not require a high degree of counterpart, which is both a good thing and a bad thing for candidates. Because since we don't insist on matching, it is bound to put forward higher requirements for the candidate's ability. Otherwise, how can the discrimination in the interview be reflected? Since everyone is not completely right, why can you get an offer and others can only be eliminated?
There is no other way to do this. You can only prove your ability and show that you are better than others. The best way to show your ability is to have a certificate with gold content. On the other hand, if the credentials are too lacking in gold content, they can be discarded, such as internships organized by schools and projects required by courses. If you must write, mention them. Never make a fuss.
From writing resume to preparing resume.
What if I am a project with no gold content and I am not quite right myself?
If you ask this question, unfortunately, it has no solution. In fact, it does not belong to the category of resume writing, because writing and expression skills can only improve quality, but can not create quality (otherwise it will become fraud). So the best way is not to let yourself fall to the point where there is nothing to write in your resume. Personally, I agree that writing a resume to prepare for recruitment is not something you do right after graduation. Your whole student career is essentially preparing and accumulating for this day.
From this point of view, the sooner you define your goals, the better, because the sooner you define your goals, the more time you have to prepare and you can concentrate more. So the highest level of writing a resume is preparation. From the day you start to realize this, you should prepare what you want to write in your resume in the future. You have defined two key points in your resume, one is gold content and the other is relevance. After you have a clear goal, many things will become easier.
For example, if you want to be a back-end engineer, you can do various back-end related projects since your sophomore year. According to the speed of doing one project in three months, at least seven projects can be completed by the end of junior year. In addition to the first few introductory and basic projects, at least two or three can be written into your resume. A person with two or three back-end related project experiences in his resume is very likely to enter a first-line Internet enterprise after preparation before the interview. Because 90% of your competitors are people who start writing resumes before the interview.
More importantly, you can also use your own projects to participate in various competitions in exchange for honor. It is much easier to win honor with strength than to exchange it with strength.
abstract
For a resume, the most important thing is gold content and relevance. On the basis of these two points, filter out the experiences that have nothing to do with these two points, and then highlight the experiences of these two points, and the resume written can beat most people.
Of course, it is often not easy to copy mechanically. We are all ordinary people, and we may not have so many experiences to choose from. People who write irrelevant experiences are often forced, so the wisest thing to do is to choose experiences according to the requirements of resumes, rather than making choices after writing them. I have always advocated that you should have a clear vision and think ahead in college. What do you want in your resume in the future? That's the direction of your efforts. Doing this is enough for you to beat most ordinary people.