Make the relevant evidence easy to find.
A profile or resume does not need to contain everything. It must help the reader quickly understand the target role, strongest evidence, scope of work and credible outcomes.
Ten-second scan
If a recruiter reads only your headline, top third of the resume and first two experience bullets, what role will they believe you are suited for?
LinkedIn profile audit
Headline
Target role + specialization + evidence. Avoid an unstructured list of every tool learned.
About
Present focus, two or three proof points, and the direction being pursued.
Experience
Problems, ownership, decisions and outcomes rather than copied job descriptions.
Featured
Two to four strong artifacts: project, talk, paper, demo or repository.
Skills
Relevant skills supported by actual work or projects.
Settings
Accurate titles, locations, work modes, contact details and job preferences.
Resume principles
Weak bullet
Worked on a machine learning model for recommendations using Python.
The problem, ownership, method, scale and result are all unclear.
Stronger bullet
Improved top-10 recommendation recall by 11% by adding session-level features and time-aware negative sampling across 4.2 million interactions.
Every number and claim must be truthful and defensible.
[system] using [method], achieving [measured result] on [scale], leading to [outcome].This is a thinking template, not a sentence generator. Not every bullet needs every field, and a fabricated metric is worse than an honest qualitative result.
Resume defence sheet
Prepare this for every significant project or achievement. Anything written on the resume is permission for the interviewer to ask deeper questions.
Problem
What user or business decision mattered?
Ownership
What did you personally design, code or decide?
Data
How was it collected, labelled, split and checked?
Model
Why this baseline and model family? What alternatives were considered?
Metric
Why did the metric represent the real cost?
Result
How was the result measured and at what scale?
Failure
What underperformed or surprised you?
Production
How was the output deployed, monitored or consumed?
Reflection
What would you change with another month?
Formatting and templates
Overleaf CV gallery
Useful LaTeX templates. Prefer a restrained, readable layout.
Microsoft resume templates
Editable Word templates. Remove decorative complexity that does not help scanning.
Final PDF check
Proofread text extraction, dates, links, alignment, page count and filename before applying.