Sandeep Rao ·
Format rules that still hold
One page for under eight years of experience, two beyond that. No photo unless the market you are applying to expects one. No skill bar charts - nobody knows what 80 percent of Python means. Reverse chronological order. A plain, parseable layout, because the first reader is often software.
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