How to present yourself

I have briefly touched on some aspects of presentation and how to make yourself appealing to recruiters. Let me reiterate everything I think is key.

The first part of highlighting how you present yourself is beefing up your LinkedIn profile. We covered this in great detail in Chapter 5, Building Your Network, but I will say that having a professional page that has a high-quality picture and high-quality content is key. What makes content high quality? Part of it is the writing and part of it is the content. In general, I recommend having your profile and resume be the same or very closely related. I create my resume based on my LinkedIn profile, and whenever there is an update, I do it on the profile first, then export the resume later.

Having someone proofread your position summaries and making sure they are descriptive enough goes a long way to having a recruiter read them. In a technical field, you must describe the technical skills you used for each...