The Résumé That Landed a Data Specialist a $300,000 Job at Google

• Ankit Virmani made a profession swap from consulting to tech.
• After a full day of labor at Deloitte, he would spend hours each evening instructing himself how one can code.
• The résumé that landed Virmani a job at Google is 2 pages lengthy — a choice he defends right now.

Ankit Virmani had spent 5 years in consulting when he started eyeing a shift to tech.

“I all the time thought in my coronary heart that I needed extra technical depth. I needed to construct issues quite than promote them an excessive amount of,” mentioned Virmani, who first moved to the US from India to pursue a grasp’s diploma.

Within the first half of 2020, he dove proper in.

After wrapping up a day at his full-time job at Deloitte, Virmani would spend three to 4 hours training coding each evening, and one other two hours studying up concerning the trade. He additionally started spending time with folks within the subject, asking them about real-time eventualities and what challenges they face of their jobs.

“I did not need solutions from them. I needed their thought course of —how do they navigate via these advanced challenges at scale,” he informed Enterprise Insider.

It did not repay instantly. He was rejected by Microsoft and Amazon at totally different phases of their software processes.

Six months after deciding to change careers, he landed a task as a knowledge and machine studying specialist at Google’s Seattle workplace.

Here is the résumé he used to use for his job at Google, which pays greater than $300,000 a yr. BI has verified his employment and compensation.

Sacrificing the ‘one-page solely’ résumé rule

Trying again on his résumé 4 years later, Virmani mentioned he would make some formatting adjustments.

“This résumé is giving significance to every thing equally, which is what I do not like,” he mentioned. “I might have a gradient of significance, like government abstract on high, achievements thus far, after which I might go to skilled expertise, training, and technical expertise.”

However with extra perception into what employers like Google respect, Virmani mentioned he would preserve a number of issues the identical — together with the size of the doc.

1. Sacrificing the “one-page solely” rule to enhance readability: Virmani broke the “one-page solely” rule and prioritized having an uncluttered résumé. “It has very neatly structured sections and high-level themes,” he mentioned about utilizing subheadings like “knowledge structure” and “cloud technique.” His supervisor at Google later informed him that model helped them decide up on his duties with out having to decipher the strains beneath.

2. Highlighting staff effort: Virmani mentioned some folks overly spotlight particular person contributions on their résumé: “It is by no means that approach, at the very least in my expertise — it is all the time teamwork.” That is why he centered components of his résumé on his groups’ accomplishments. “Google extremely, extremely appreciates honesty and humility. That is the tradition of the corporate — we all know that nothing nice will get achieved by a person,” he mentioned.

3. Saving some particulars for the interview: Virmani mentioned he was cautious to not over-explain his previous tasks in order that he might construct curiosity and have an excellent dialog throughout the interview: “When you put every thing within the résumé, you will run out of factors to speak about within the interview.”

Virmani shouldn’t be alone in selecting to sacrifice “typical” résumé selections. For Shola West, that got here within the form of breaking the “no résumé hole” concept.

West is a part of a rising group of Gen Zs who’re making an attempt to destigmatize the résumé hole — a interval of unemployment between jobs or between training and work.

West beforehand informed BI she took a yearlong break initially of her profession to know what she actually needed to pursue. She embraced her résumé hole and now works at an promoting company and runs a profession recommendation aspect hustle.

For Mariana Kobayashi, breaking from the résumé norms meant abandoning the written format altogether.

Kobayashi landed a task as an account government at Google after she curated a video about why she ought to get the position.

She despatched her video résumé, which took her 10 hours to create, to the hiring supervisor immediately, Kobayashi beforehand informed BI. A Google recruiter noticed the video and reached out to her, and he or she ultimately landed a task on the tech large.

Do you’re employed in finance or consulting, and have a narrative to share about your private résumé journey? Electronic mail this reporter at shubhangigoel@insider.com.

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