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Princeton University has just announced that most students from families earning up to $250,000 a year won’t have to pay tuition starting this fall. 🎓💸
Families making $150,000 or less will continue to have both tuition and expenses fully covered, as they have since 2022.
This change is part of Princeton's plan to increase its financial aid spending by 16% for the 2025-26 academic year, bringing the total to $327 million.
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Very thorough analysis and breakdown of what makes for an effective résumé.
[ from: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diegogranadosh/ ]
This is the resume I used to get my job at Microsoft in 2019.
While it's certainly not perfect, there are a few things that helped me in the process and I'll show them to you, using colors 👇
[1] Format
Don't worry about searching for fancy, colorful, complex templates. A black&white plain old boring template works.
Recruiters & hiring managers care about your accomplishments and about you, not about the colors you chose for your resume (unless you are a designer or something similar).
[2] Write accomplishments with X-Y-Z
Most of my accomplishments written using as a base the X-Y-Z formula (shared by Google recruiters)
"Accomplished [X], as measured by [Y], by doing [Z]"
Follow it as close as possible, but don't be afraid to put your own style into it (as long as you share your X,Y & Z)
[3] Use strong verbs (red 🔴)
Start every accomplishment with a verb in past tense.
- Strong Verbs (Led) >>>> Soft Verbs (Assisted)
- Try to use verbs relevant to the role. For PM I used: Led, Designed, Researched, Prioritized, etc.
[4] Relevant Skills (blue 🔵)
Notice how I don't have a "skills section" full of Product Manager keywords like "cross-functional", "leadership", "prioritization", "Roadmap"?
The keywords in blue are embedded in my accomplishments. I'm showing the context of how I used those skills to help customers, my team, and/or the organization.
I took these keywords from job descriptions I wanted to apply to.
[5] Show your impact (yellow 🟡)
Not every accomplishment has to have impact, but try to add as many as you can. Impact shows that:
- You can do the job
- You can do it well
- You can make a difference
Anyone can "complete a project in time", but not everyone can "complete a project in time by doing # # , and having an impact of yyyyy"
If you struggle to find the impact, think about this:
- What is it that without YOU it wouldn't have been possible? What did it cause (impact)? How did you measure what happened?
[6] Technical Skills (green 🟢)
I write down all the technical skills that I know and can show some 'proof' (a test, a score, etc.). Many of these are taken from the job descriptions I was applying to.
A few things to remember:
- 'sprinkle' tech(hard) skills here and there
- don't throw all of them in a giant skills section
- don't have 🟢 > 🔵 (unless you go for Software Engineer roles)
[7] Other stuff to keep in mind
Length? 1, 2, 3 pages are ok. You may have a lot of experience. Make it RELEVANT, that's what matters.
Tailoring your resume to the job >>>> almost everything else.
Don't submit the same resume to every job.
Triple-check for grammar/spelling mistakes.
BONUS: While I worked on my resume for a while (and there's still A LOT of room for improvement), what got me my recent jobs was the fact that I networked a lot.
Don't underestimate the power of networking.
✌️ Hope this helps!
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