THE TECHNICAL RÉSUMÉ
Technical résumés are written differently than the nontechnical résumés described in most résumé books. Nontechnical jobs generally have some latitude in terms of necessary skills, but technical jobs usually require a specific skill set. Employers aren’t interested in talking to candidates who don’t have the necessary skills for the job. This means that technical résumés generally require more specific information than nontechnical résumés, including detailing which technologies you have experience with.
A Poor Example
The example in this section starts with an extreme case of a poor résumé from a junior developer. Hopefully, no real résumé would ever be this bad, but the steps taken to improve such an extreme case are relevant to almost anyone’s résumé. Figure A-1 shows the sample résumé before improvements.
FIGURE A-1
