| Let the hiring manager EXPERIENCE your success by telling a story, a little vignette of each career or project stage. What challenge did you see, how did you overcome, and what was the outcome? For example, turn this:
- experience with imbedded i/o in C for mobile equipment into this:
- "Team needed a 1-10ma vehicle sensor input using the NXP Semiconductor AN4731 so I prepared a POC demo board with C code in 7 days allowing continued progress and delivered the finished code 14 days later after peer review and unit testing. No changes were made to the final deliverable" This version shows the challenge, how you approached it with urgency and an understanding of how your work impacted the downstream efforts. Finally, this story reveals your knowledge of quality process development and final delivery. Writing these stories takes more time: the challenge, what you did, how it was superior Tight, cohesive insight into telling your story requires practice and reflection so don't expect success the first time without some editing or proofreading from others Once you begin this process, you maintain this portfolio forever by adding adventure summaries each year I was very impressed with a recent post regarding the storytelling structure from Dan Harmon and it may offer a great starting place for laying each out before condensing it into that golden nugget: I came, I saw, I conquered. Original Article:
https://channel101.fandom.com/wiki/Story_Structure_101:_Supe... HN Discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34576085 |