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Cheaper than student loans! (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are you sure not including duties and what you actually did is recommended?

Like, "Software Engineer" could mean bloody anything if you don't specify what you actually did. You could have been mindlessly doing minor Jira tickets and running import tools, or you could be architecting entire pieces of enterprise software.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Listing your successes, metrics, and accomplishments will drive home your actual work duties and capabilities.

If you're listing the following, you've failed in writing a solid entry to tell me that you're a bugfix and data import wizard:

Utilized Jira to fix bugs.
Used company import tools to move data between systems.

Instead, you could write entries like:

Took ownership and closed x bug tickets over y months which was z% over the organizational goal.
Created and documented a Workflow to speed up the process of importing data by x%, making me the go to person for company data imports.

I'm not saying to lie or embellish either. I'm saying that you need to think about how you market your skills for sale as a service. If I'm looking for somebody with those skills, the latter two bullet points are going to stand out a far lot better than the former.