The first month in my first startup and I already knew that I wanted to be in it for the long run - I was in love guys. 

• Google Suite: Familiar with Gmail, Google Drive and the other most-used applications such as Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Sheets.
  
  
• Comfortable with Technology: Also known as IT-literate, you are comfortable with learning a new software or use a different hardware or operating system for work
  
  
• Great at Teamwork: "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together". This phrase applies heavily in the startup world and so they need members who are great team players and cooperative when the need arises.
  
  
• Great Communicator: Startups needs their members to be able to relay their thoughts articulately and properly. It should be a given that most of us went to school and would have the desired flair of communicating with another human being, but unfortunately that is not the case with some of the candidates I have encountered. 
  
  
• People Skills: Other than you hard skills, achievements and all the Dean's List that you show in your resume, startups actually want to work with people that they like AKA would like to work with. This is because startups are generally small in size and the whole team will probably be like a second family where you eat, work, laugh and grind together. So bring your personality to the interview, set yourself apart from the rest! 
  
  
• Critical Thinking: Without this you won't be able to survive. Really. Startups will need you to be able to think on your feet and most of the time under pressure, in a fast-pace environment. Sometimes it can be as stressful as Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen show. If you need to have manuals or check with your boss on every single little thing, startups are probably not for you.
  
  
• Self-Starter and Proactive attitude: These are bonus traits that will make your career in the startup thrive and prosper. Your Founder or future boss may even check for these traits right before they call you in for interview i.e whether you ask for an information that could easily be found via Google Search during a quick call with HR or provide your portfolio along in your application.

So your resume needs to give the hiring person what they need, where they need it and is easy to read. 

• Nice Headshot photo
  Show a nice headshot photo with your best smile! We'd love to place a face with your name, it is human nature to be more drawn to faces than words.
  
  
• Your Education
  We obviously want to know where have you gone to study. State the university name in full and the major that you took, and whether it was a Certificate, Diploma, Degree or Masters.
  Tip: Show off your CGPA 3.9 grade, sports / co-curricular activities or even the Secretary title you got in Kadet Remaja Sekolah (KRS) here
  
  
  
  
• Show Off Your Achievements
  Show what you achieved in university or high school, or even with your own personal passion projects. Tell me that you run a part time Graphic Design service, or had a successful project on sustainable livestock feeding using big data and Ai, or your team at school won a 3-day Hackathon in Beijing for the Most Innovative Idea. Your part time work at Starbucks can come after or just ditch it if not necessary.
  
  
• Your Work History
  Remember I talked about Critical Thinking earlier? If you're applying to a startup that offers brand activations and event solutions and you have experience doing part time events for the last 2 years in uni, you would want to put your work history first before your education. Experience usually weighs more to a startup because sometimes in life, being a book smart doesn't make you a street smart.
  

  Experience usually weighs more to a startup because sometimes in life, being a book smart doesn't make you a street smart. 

• Your Skills
  Sometimes the hiring person is an Admin and wouldn't know what Javascript is. So it's important that you list out the skills that you know of, starting from the ones that you are very confident with down to the least. You may also list out your soft skills here (psst..remember the Skills that Startups Love I told you earlier?).
  
  Tip: Yes, you may put in your languages here as well and do state whether you can read, write and speak in each - it'll make my life easier. TQVM.
  
  
• Miscellaneous Stuff
  Add some flair and set yourself apart from your competitors with other related information about yourself i.e hobbies, volunteering work or sports, but don't get too far with it. We just need to know that besides your Type A achievements at school and work, you are also passionate, personable, inspiring or at least fun to be around with.
  
  
• 2-3 Fonts and 1-Page Only
  Have you heard of Typography? Having 2-3 fonts max for your resume with coordinated, matching colour theme will make it stand out from the rest and most importantly, a joy to read. And unless you are an experienced candidate, I expect your resume to be just a one-pager. So make your content easy to read and succinct. Also play with the formatting styles i.e Bold, Italic and Underline to make it easier to find information on your resume.
  

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