Self Promotion

I hate interview processes and CV/Resume building. Partly because people who are good at interviews aren’t necessarily good at the job. Partly because hiring and firing is often just an opportunity to project prejudices and politics by dividing people into categories of good enough and not good enough. The interviewers and firers seldom hold themselves to the same standards as the person they are judging. The final decision seldom relies on anything other than gut feeling and hindsight justification. But such is life. Sometimes we just have to do things because that is how they are done. Writing a CV always felt nauseatingly self-promotional to me. A way I got around this was asking a few people I had worked closely, and well, with to write 100ish words (roughly the length of this post). Two or three authentic testimonials from people you have genuinely worked well with that demonstrate the skills and knowledge that are being looked for. My impression is that relationships and chance connections are the real catalyst for opportunity. Be part of the conversation and genuinely interested in other people. Do good work. Then change the way things are done.

Life is a Galton Board