How to Write Your Best Resume for Software Engineering Jobs // Tips from an ex-FAANG recruiter

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00:00 - Intro
01:23 - The Purpose of a Resume
02:18 - The Hiring Process
03:25 - How Does a Recruiter Think?
06:00 - How to Craft Your Resume
11:09 - Outro

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Mayuko Inoue is a content creator and Software Engineer. After working in Silicon Valley tech companies like Intuit, Patreon, and Netflix for six years as an iOS Engineer, she became a full-time creator in 2020. Her work aims to help people find their way through the tech industry by sharing her own experiences navigating this world through technology, career advice, and lifestyle videos. She is passionate about discussions around mental health, cultural identity, and creating technology with empathy and compassion.

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[DeviousShadows]

Conclusion:
Always put yourself in the shoes of the recruiter so that you know what your resume should be crafted like

Resume:
One-page long consisting of these 5:
Contact info: name, email, city, linkedin, tagline
Skills: languages, technologies, tools (order of most experienced)
Experience: Project, role and description starting with power verb
Education: university, degree, graduation year
Anything else: other awards

Readibility: Structured and ordered, easy to read

[CrashOverride]

The thing I've never liked about the focus on resumes is how employers demand them but don't bother to read them. We put all this time and effort into them because employers make such a big deal about them. But then I get countless interviews where people have demonstrably not read them. So why am I giving one to you? If you can't be bothered to respect me enough to read the thing you asked for, what respect should I be giving to you? Food for thought, employers.

[loveableweirdo]

I wish I could force all tech graduates to watch this! Great job, Mayuko! <3

[hankim]

Can't wait for this video! Started to apply for new companies recently and want to spruce up my resume :)

[dimitardimitrov]

Actually, my experience with the HRs is different than the one here. The most useful is to order your projects and under each one to describe all technologies that you used. Of course, describe only a few projects that will help you to stand out.

[dermuschelschluerfer]

The thing that gets me in most of the times is my projects website and my gtihub profile, I think its the best way to show what you can do and how you do it. In the end, there are many people who write backends but not many people who really know their stuff when it comes to writing such backends future proof.

[Pitchulila]

Re-watching the video after the premiere and letting the adds play 😄👍🏻 Very nice tips there!

[thedevcristian]

When Mayuko sharing ideas and goals, it's very comforting that may help us to do something better in Tech Industry.

[anthonychow]

One thing I would strongly encourage is professional manuscripts, peer reviewed papers, the like. Insights & intangibles from this category are invaluable, IMO.

[WilliamWeekesJr]

Hey Mayuko, I just wanted to say thank you so much for your in-depth look at putting your resume together. I can honestly say I spent a long time just copying and pasting (of course tweaking) other resumes that I thought would get me "a job" and for a while it did until it didn't. Now that my mindset has grown | evolved | and transcended - I am looking at having a position that I want to be in and in order to do that I have to fill in the blanks. I understood looking up your resume with keywords but now I understand what I need to display and how to display it 🙂

[kimstuart]

So after this amazing video, the difficult part I find is that the resume should stick to a page, but over the years, between education and prior work experience, some of the page fillers are unrelated. However, of you remove these unrelated work experiences or education to keep your resume to a page, that creates gaps in your history. So as a result, you cut out pertinent information from your actual projects and relacant work related tasks.

[JeremiahPeoples]

I’m pumped for this video! My resume could use some sprucing

[kamertonaudiophileplayer]

It is very interesting, however our colleagues from Japan think differently, "He said the labor shortage was a chance to move away from a "resume-profile culture." Resumes could be replaced with questions and assessments to see how a job seeker would handle specific tasks required by the role, he said.
The CEO of Glassdoor and Indeed's parent company says hiring via resumes is outdated for many industries — and that the labor shortage is a great chance to replace them.". I think that his approach is valid. What is a resume? Generally it is marketing materials. But what do you think about them? Garbage. Right, and instead of it you can just test a product for qualities you need.

[aminsoley]

So after this, now I see my resume needs more improvement, Thank you mayuko

[ts]

I met a recruiter who wrote there are companies that keep already filled roles up online, just to funnel in extra resumes. So people will still reach out for one position, but put them in another, or just put the resume on standby

[spacewalker]

So I'm not part of the tech world, but I am a more traditional engineer (mechanical) and have been on both side of the conversation when it comes to recruiting. Go out to recruiting events! Face to face gives you a lot better chance.

[capy_can_code]

You’re amazeballs! I don’t really need resume tips rn! But watched this one anyway! Mayuko sounds like a Marvel character!

[MrNsaysHi]

You guys serious about adding vscode in the tools section?
Is it really a competitive advantage?

[zerosandones]

What are the differences of "Technologies" and "Tools"?

[SearchingDMT]

I am loving the scheduled premier! Your channel is heaven sent