Writing on Resume
Articles on Resume from Tauseef Fayyaz: practical writing on engineering, AI and tech careers, drawn from leading a team and mentoring engineers.
27
Articles90K+
Readers on LinkedInPosts tagged resume
2 posts tagged “resume”
A Job Search Is a Pipeline, Not a Performance
Most people run a job search as a series of hopeful individual events, which fails for a structural reason: the response rate on cold applications is low enough that any single one is close to noise. The people who find work reliably are running a pipeline instead. Thirteen heuristics for the mechanics, which are the part you actually control.
How to Apply for Software Engineering Jobs
A job search is often a hundred applications, and knowing that before you start changes how you run it. How to write a resume where every line says what changed, why referrals outperform everything else, how many applications to keep live, what to track so you know whether the problem is the resume or the interview, and what to do in the ten minutes after an offer arrives.
Browse writing by topic
Every tag has its own page.
Stuck on something specific?
Writing only gets you so far. If you want an answer to your situation rather than the general case, book a session and we will work through it together. Every session is free; a few slots open each week.
- 1:1 Mentorship
- Fresh Graduate Mentorship
- Career Guidance
Brand deals, promos and partnerships: tauseeffayyaz@gmail.com
Follow along
New writing, resources and project ideas land here first.