In the course of talking about job hunting with friends, colleagues, and randos on Slack and elsewhere, I end up talking about resumes. A lot. There is, (in my (not so) humble) opinion, a sizeable misunderstanding about what resumes are, what they do, how they should look, the effort one should (or shouldn’t) put into creating them, and more.
Given the current period of churn in the tech industry and the resulting uptick in the frequency with which I’m having these types of conversations, I decided to commit to what’s become a standard part of my “so you’re looking for a new job?” shpiel to paper (or at least electrons).