Resume also serves as the outline for your interview...
So as you're remembering what you've done, what your favorite parts were, what you excel at, make sure those are bullet points on your resume. You can disguise them easily as "job responsibilities", bullet points under your job title(s) over the years.
Don't dwell on what you don't want. If you partially know a language, mention it as a "I'd like to learn more about x", not as "I sort of know x", because then you get drilled on something during the interview you're only mediocre at.
Note specific projects you remember well/owned, so you have something during the interview to talk confidently about for a while. Remember to talk about team configurations that worked well for you on a group project.
I second the advice to write down all of what you did, and then look at that heap from the point of view of: what do I want to do; what summary of my work tells why you'd hire me to do what I want to do.
It can be useful to give each draft to somebody who doesn't know what you did or what you want to do, and ask them to talk out loud about it (while you just listen).
For a lot of the resumes I see, the weakest part is that I can't tell what this person specifically did to contribute to all of these group projects they listed.
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So as you're remembering what you've done, what your favorite parts were, what you excel at, make sure those are bullet points on your resume. You can disguise them easily as "job responsibilities", bullet points under your job title(s) over the years.
Don't dwell on what you don't want. If you partially know a language, mention it as a "I'd like to learn more about x", not as "I sort of know x", because then you get drilled on something during the interview you're only mediocre at.
Note specific projects you remember well/owned, so you have something during the interview to talk confidently about for a while. Remember to talk about team configurations that worked well for you on a group project.
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It can be useful to give each draft to somebody who doesn't know what you did or what you want to do, and ask them to talk out loud about it (while you just listen).
For a lot of the resumes I see, the weakest part is that I can't tell what this person specifically did to contribute to all of these group projects they listed.
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