Story Telling and Software Recruitment – The Screenplay

Author Steve Brennan

Everybody loves a good story, in a Hollywood blockbuster or the more exciting world of software recruitment, people want to be immersed. That’s exactly what you need to do when trying to land that job, tell a compelling story, be the hero.

It starts with the resume. 

Now I’m not saying write your resume in prose, “It was the best of jobs it was the worst of jobs…”, but there’s ways to draw me in. When I’m loading resume after resume on my screen, that’s exactly what you want to do, and sometimes you have a narrow window in which to do it.

I’ll be honest I’m looking for those keywords that line you up with the job spec, so a good summary list hitting all the points is nice, it’s the synopsis on the back of the book that makes me want to read more, and read more I will. Now it’s all about follow through, as I continue reading I’m interested in statements that support the synopsis. If you have Python in the summary and I never see it in the body, I’m going to assume you’re aware of it’s existence and not much more.

Overall make that resume pithy, nobody wants to read a wall of text, it needs to flow in such a way that it keeps me reading until the end. A data dump is just that, a dump. Think more “The Hobbit” less “The Silmarillion”. I mean I love Tolkien and I’m sure it’s good but come on.

“What’s a Python? I don’t have that, but I’m smart just give me a chance to prove it!”. Not to fear I’ve got you covered in the next chapter of Story Telling and Software Recruitment – Character Development. dun dun duuuun. ******************