I regularly cull my resume

Removing outdated and unwanted items cleanse my profile

Unlike most people who tries to squeeze all their experiences and skills into their resume and making themselves “leads”, “seniors”, or “experts”, I regularly did the opposite.

I have various reasons for doing that. The most obvious is when I don’t want to continue doing certain things. For example, for a period of time, the “Lean Six-Sigma” skillset was removed from my resume, simply because I no longer want to do process improvement.

Another reason for removing skills from my resume could be when I hadn’t performed the skill for too long. Programming languages are the most frequently missing, especially when I am no longer looking for a developer job. For example, languages like C/C++, Unix Shell Scripting, C#, MQL, and Pine are almost always missing because I just hadn’t used them for too many years. Sometimes I will add in only because I know that the knowledge of it is useful for a job but there is no need for me to be actually doing the coding. Yes, I have moved to the functional side years ago and my job is now more towards solution design and breaking requirements into digestible and simplified chunks for developers. Given my extensive experience working in the capital markets technologies, part of my job scope is also on mentoring juniors and prioritizing work.

Now, what may come as a surprise is also that I will remove actual experience in my resume, leaving employment gaps. The reason is sometimes simple: I used to do pro…