Top Notch Profiles
Profile Review Pro Tips
What to expect from a Profile review session?
📹 Camera On
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🔗 Link
Please share the link to your profile in the chat. We will review the profiles in the order they are submitted.
📺 Share Screen
Be prepared to share your screen to show your profile to the rest of the group
📣 Share on Discord
Throw your Discord handle in the zoom chat so we can mention you in the comments on Discord’s profile-and-proposal-help channel
Please Note: You’re expected to share openly
Tailor Your Profile to the Job you want.
“Skills” section:
Pick the top three strongest technical skills and specialties
“Skills”
We suggest 10-15 skills total, in like groupings!
“Super Powers”
Highlight your technical skill set:
Pro Tip: Try to organize your Superpowers in a way that shows breadth and depth of experience
Your “Superpowers”
Super Power 1: Industry
Super Power 2: Specialization
Super Power 3: Tech stack, program, system or platform
Example:
Super Power 1: Web
Super Power 2: Accessibility Ux
Super Power 3: Figma
See if you can make your superpowers slightly different in nature from one and other.
Here we list:
“Experience” section:
Validate your skills with concrete evidence, in terms of chronological work history.
Pro Tips:�1️⃣ Start with a header that gives context, a high overview of the project, then break the details down into bullet points�2️⃣ Use active verbs whenever possible
“Projects” section:
Feature your best work.
For each Project case study, start with a header that gives context, a high overview of the project, then break the details down into bullet points.
Show
(and Tell)
We encourage every talent to find some pictures to visually represent their work in some way
Write a good header
Demonstrate Impact
Clearly state accomplishments and the impact on the end results. Use statistics.
Cite experience that aligns with the requirements of the job you want. Try to pluck their specific language so they see clear alignment easily.
Be Specific
“Project” Outline
Briefly describe the product that you were working on.��This could be the paragraph form in your project description.
Product
Role
Contribution
Use bullet points.
List your tasks and responsibilities.
Use active verbs
What outcomes and results did you produce in this role?
What was the business impact of your work?
Hint: Numbers are great here! Quantify!
Team
What did you learn?
How did you develop as a professional in the context of a larger team?
This is a great place to include soft skills.
“Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words.”
- Attributed to Tess Flanders, Journalist and Editor, Syracuse Post Standard
If you don’t have any data visualizations or imagery, check out...
Tell your story.
Who is the main character and hero?
“My Story” section:
Highlight a couple things in about two- three succinct paragraphs:
One-liner summary of who we are
Section 2:
Career highlight or achievement that aligns with the work we want to do in the future moving forward
Pro Tip:
What is the tone? Are we colloquial, using 1st person? Are we using a more distant, omnipotent voice?
Section 1:
Section 3:
Something a little more personal or human that makes you a unique individual.
Other Pro Tips:
Manage a Personal Brand
Demonstrate Passion and Enthusiasm
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