make sure your CV, LinkedIn, and cover letters are as polished as possible and clearly outline experience that’s relevant for the role you’re applying for
AskAManager has a great guide to writing resumes. The most useful thing I got from it is how to write specific accomplishments, not just list job duties.
Eli, can you say more about what counts as relevant experience, for junior generalist roles?
Relevant experience might include: organizing some kind of student group (EA or otherwise), volunteering at a conference, working part time as someone’s assistant, supporting or running a project where there would have been ops-type work (like running a cake delivery business), or doing any kind of service-related job like working in a coffee shop or restaurant.
As counterexamples, things that are not relevant experience might include: working on a challenging EA research project, academic credentials, building something technical where technical skills are not really part of the job.
Having this non-relevant experience is unlikely to harm someone’s chances of getting a junior generalist ops role, but it might not help much either, and an application might be seen as weak overall if this is all they’re putting forward.
AskAManager has a great guide to writing resumes. The most useful thing I got from it is how to write specific accomplishments, not just list job duties.
Eli, can you say more about what counts as relevant experience, for junior generalist roles?
Relevant experience might include: organizing some kind of student group (EA or otherwise), volunteering at a conference, working part time as someone’s assistant, supporting or running a project where there would have been ops-type work (like running a cake delivery business), or doing any kind of service-related job like working in a coffee shop or restaurant.
As counterexamples, things that are not relevant experience might include: working on a challenging EA research project, academic credentials, building something technical where technical skills are not really part of the job.
Having this non-relevant experience is unlikely to harm someone’s chances of getting a junior generalist ops role, but it might not help much either, and an application might be seen as weak overall if this is all they’re putting forward.