{"id":658,"date":"2014-05-21T07:32:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T14:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=658"},"modified":"2014-05-20T22:26:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T05:26:36","slug":"the-10-second-resume-tips-from-googler-evan-rapoport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/21\/the-10-second-resume-tips-from-googler-evan-rapoport\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The 10-Second R\u00e9sum\u00e9&#8221;: Tips from Googler Evan Rapoport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is not a how-to guide to get a job at Google,\u201d cautions Evan (Google Maps\u00a0PM for\u00a0for Views, Photo Sphere, &amp; Panoramio). Having said that, you might appreciate his perspective on how he scans for candidates.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Hand Jim a printout of your r\u00e9sum\u00e9 and tell him he has 30 seconds to read it. But, after just 10 seconds, grab the paper back. Ask Jim what he knows about you from this.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m reminded of Steve Martin finally erupting in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: \u201cHave a <em>POINT!<\/em> It makes it <em>SO<\/em> much more interesting for the <em>listener!!<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>I also enjoyed this succinct advice from Laszlo Bock, who\u2019s in charge of all hiring at Google: <strong>\u201c[F]rame your strengths as: \u2018I accomplished X, relative to Y, by doing Z.\u2019\u201d<\/strong> The rest of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/20\/opinion\/sunday\/friedman-how-to-get-a-job-at-google-part-2.html?_r=0\">Thomas Friedman\u2019s conversation<\/a> with him is well worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is not a how-to guide to get a job at Google,\u201d cautions Evan (Google Maps\u00a0PM for\u00a0for Views, Photo Sphere, &amp; Panoramio). Having said that, you might appreciate his perspective on how he scans for candidates. Hand Jim a printout of your r\u00e9sum\u00e9 and tell him he has 30 seconds to read it. But, after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}