A pretty boring post but there are a few good tips in there. And I post it because it’s a big deal to me, even though it’s not interesting for most people to read.
Hello I’m resurrecting my own contracting firm again. It’s a done decision. Is because I am more of a hired gunman / mercenary archetype than a serf. It’s the trade off between safety vs independence (and money), (which is a false comparison because safety is a mere illusion). It’s because I wish to be more of a wolf than a dog on a leash. Or I could be a wild dog or a hyena. Or a regular unleashed dog.
Anyhow I’ve started creating my CV. It’s an activity I hate all aspects of. First I started doing it using some .docx or google doc template and copy pasting snippets from various sources like older CV:s, often thereby destroying the formatting. That process annoys and even angers me. However I found this RenderCV project on Github, and I’ve asked ChatGPT to embellish my Linkedin profile, so I’m feeding that text to the YAML source and yes it’s taking shape. I don’t like writing the CV text because it feels like four pages of bragging. The thing is; how can I convince the potential clients that I’m humble when I hand in four pages of bragging? Normally I would let my high quality top notch work do the talking on my behalf, and meanwhile I would be truthful about that there are things in all aspects of my life I could improve.
Anyhow
Some people claim detailed really thick CVs are best, others recommend a terse, max 1 page. I’ll make both variants and use my gut feeling about which one send to which client. Maybe a custom tailored one for someone. Like catfishing.
The second preparation, and this it’s important, is to be ready for multiple rejections and failures and to not get disheartened. It’s easy to think your only as good as your last achievement or lack thereof, or just because those who are interviewing you might be condescending, or you make a stupid code test code, or you say something inappropriate or whatever, that you aren’t cut out or something, but that’s not true.
Indeed.
Ok and thirdly, where I failed last time, is to be cool.