CV Clinic: TOP TIPS

How to make your CV stand out, written for Product people can be tailored for any discipline

Here are some of the *TOP TIPS* many participants in our recent CV Clinic received and benefited from:

1. Product hiring managers do NOT want to read a set of activities participated in or job descriptions they DO WANT to understand the impact you had in your role

2. When making statements of an improvements/metrics changed fiscal or otherwise, hiring managers want to know you understood what you had to do to make your product better not just "I did X to increase X by n%"

3. Profile sections were more often than not very generic with rote phrases used time and time again.... make this section about YOU, what is your USP as a product person, your background and career journey can often define what you bring to the role that others do not

4. Make your CV tell YOUR career story, what drives you, why you've moved from role to role, what you've learned and how you've applied those learning along the way

5. Don't write in LONG prose, but utilise bullet form to make the impact statements stand out - don't make the hiring manger work hard to find the nuggets of positivity that make YOU ... you

What tips would you add?