Seed Development

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What is a seed?

  1. Definition: A seed is a highlight on from your professional experience that can be developed into a section on your resume.
  2. Components of a Seed: Each seed contains key information about the project and role that includes: company, team, role, project output and impact. At this stage, it is more important to capture ideas than to polish.
  3. Personalized Seeds: Seeds that are adequate for a junior role are very different from what will be required to land a more senior position. Do your best to accurately capture the work you have done. This is what makes you uniquely impressive in your career stage.

Examples

Engineering Level Descriptions

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For Engineers with Almost No Experience:

  1. Taught myself how to code in order to write scripts that would make my team’s work easier.
  2. Bootstrapped my freelance software development business from 0-15 clients in 1 year.
  3. Volunteered to lead a small project and delivered results within a tight deadline.
  4. Collaborated with a team to organize a major event, focusing on logistical and technical support.
  5. Created an innovative solution for a class project that was adopted by the department.

For Junior Engineers:

  1. Contributed to the successful launch of a new feature in a collaborative project.
  2. Actively participated in technology meetups and hackathons, contributing to winning solutions.
  3. Improved a process or tool that increased team efficiency or productivity.
  4. Undertook additional training or certifications to fill a skills gap in the team.
  5. Led a small team or project group in a technical challenge or coding competition.

For Mid-Level Engineers

  1. I collaborated with a team of 5 engineers to develop a real-time event-tracking system that processed 2 million daily events. I owned the data ingestion pipeline, ensuring 99.9% uptime and a 20% improvement in processing speed.
  2. Working on a team of 3, I built a new user onboarding flow in React and integrated it with our back-end API, reducing first-week user drop-off by 15%. I handled state management and API integration.

For Senior Engineers:

  1. I have formally mentored 15 junior and mid-level engineers, introducing a structured code review process that reduced critical production defects by 25% and accelerated two of my mentees’ promotions by a year.
  2. I led a cross-functional team of 8 engineers (backend, frontend, and QA) to transition our monolithic platform to a microservices architecture, reducing page-load times by 35% and enabling a 20% increase in daily active users.

What the process is NOT

We are not building your resume from scratch, if you have not done any kind of resume building before, talk to your FM team first and view our resume template here.

When you're ready, proceed to the next step so we can start evaluating your Seed Statements!