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How powerful your resume is can determine whether your career as a remote developer soars high or nosedives. I have put together all the tips that helped make my remote resume shine. The idea of remote work is no longer novel to any of us, especially in the business world. Though the world is still grappling with the effects of the Covid 19 pandemic on business, the one thing that has become normalized, instead of being only need-based, is remote work. Turing’s CEO, Jonathan Siddharth, says that people want the flexibility to work from anywhere. Here’s what he recently said at the Zinnov Roundtable While remote work has its many pros, it comes with its challenges. First, it is difficult for recruiters to scan through the vast talent pool that remote work offers. Second, it may be challenging to narrow down candidates from among the many resumes received. From the candidate’s perspective, it becomes crucial to draft a resume that shines! Not only that, it must be a resume that is caught by the recruiters’ AI net. Reverse the order of that, if you will. So, as the world transitions to working remotely or in a hybrid environment, it’s important to know the essentials of a remote developer resume. Now, it’s not uncommon to get spotted on LinkedIn if you have a stellar and active profile there, but if not, you can and should make sure that you have an attractive resume. I know I procrastinated far too long before I finally made one for myself; I agree it’s an arduous task. But the tips below should help you shape one quickly. The devil is in the details Let’s change that to say that the details are the holy grail for a resume that enchants recruiters. Even before a recruiter has a look at your resume, the AI tools and software shortlist it for the recruiter to do so. Since the AI tools are trained for specific details on your resume, it’s prudent to craft the resume using words and details mentioned explicitly in the job description. Talk about everything you know or have done or achieved, but highlight the tech stacks, skills, and certifications relevant to the job description. Does this mean that you will have to redesign your resume every time you apply for a new role or to a different company? Short answer - Yes. Long answer? Read on. You must design an all-purpose resume and keep it ready for when an opportunity arises. Go through the job description carefully and then re-design your resume highlighting the minimum and preferred qualifications and relevant experience. Shortlist the jobs you want to apply for Whether it is one or more jobs, shortlist them before you undertake the journey of the application process. Apportion time to carefully review the job descriptions and highlight all the mandatory and preferred requirements. While it is preferable to have a resume that checks all the required boxes, ensure that you select jobs where you can at least check the mandatory requirements. For example, I am a writer with experience across different sectors, but I prefer writing about the technology field. When shortlisting jobs, I try to find writer roles in this field, particularly. Even so, it is not necessary that all types of writer roles in technology are to my liking. So, I must ensure that I choose the ones I feel most comfortable with and avoid those that I find complex or uninteresting. Shortlisting jobs is a very important part of job applications. Most often people apply indiscriminately to “roles” but it is equally important to find out whether the company you are applying to has good human resource policies. The background check of the role, the company, and, if possible, reading company reviews of past employees can help in making a solid shortlist. Excellent and apt shortlisting increases the chances of writing a great resume and getting selected. Once you have an idea of the details you need to add and have a shortlist, the real work begins. Since you are writing a resume for a remote role, your resume must reflect your remote capability. For this, you need the following: Correct contact information As a remote developer, you need to ensure that your phone number, email address, and link to your LinkedIn profile are correct, recent, and clearly visible in your resume. If you maintain any other relevant social or professional profiles, add their link to your resume. Usually found at the top of your resume, your contact information determines whether your recruiter can reach out to you without any hassles. Applying for a remote role does not mean you can omit your location. Most employers would like to know where their employees are based. Some companies offer remote roles but within a particular geographical region. So, you must add your current location and, if required, your permanent address also in your resume. Though, adding the city, state, and country of residence usually suffices. Customized professional summary Again found at the top of your resume, the professional summary is what the AI tools or the recruiters themselves scan first to see if you are a fit for the job. Thus, for every job you shortlist, you must customize your professional summary. There may be some keywords from the job description that you may want to add to your professional summary. While this summary contains a snapshot of your work experience, ensure that the snapshot matches the job description. Include only the relevant parts of your experience in your professional summary. Since you are applying for a remote development role, your professional summary must include your experience and ease of working remotely. Adding experience in remote video conferencing, maintaining customer support through email or phone, and delivering online presentations of your projects can show your comfort level with remote working. Design your resume exclusively for remote work If you have remote work experience, it’s great because you can add that to your resume as is. However, if you are only now contemplating going remote, you need to display that you have it in you to work remotely. All kinds of offline work also include certain competencies that are much needed for remote work. For example: Knowledge of remote collaboration tools such as Asana, Trello, Google WorkSpace, Slack, etc. Knowledge of video conferencing tools such as Zoom, Google Meet, Airmeet, Skype, etc. Comfort in using Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, and Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Time and schedule tracking with Google and other calendars; and project management through Asana, Slack, etc. Online GitHub or other profiles that serve as an online repository of your work Your ease with online working inspires confidence in the recruiter hiring you. Include as many of the above as possible in your resume to highlight your suitability for the remote job you are applying for. When mentioning your past work titles, if you have remote experience, add it to the title. For example, Technical Content Writer, Turing, Remote. If you do have some past remote work experience, ensure that you add it at the top, even if the resume is chronological. You can choose between a chronological or functional resume type or even design a hybrid resume that contains your experience in both a chronological and functional manner. While a chronological resume talks about experience starting from the most recent and going to the earliest, a functional resume focuses on the functions that the job description requires. Going with a hybrid resume may be useful for remote work. Talk about your remote skills I am sure the main purpose of working so hard on creating the perfect resume is to score an interview with your dream company. While your technical skills will help you score one, they’re not the only thing a recruiter is looking for. In a remote setting, soft skills such as collaboration, teamwork, team management, etc., are equally important in getting you a foot in the door. You should also talk a little bit about your remote planning and execution skills in your resume. The recruiter wants to know and understand whether you are a self-motivated person who can work without external supervision. This is one of the key requirements of remote work, and the resume is your first interface with the recruiter. Ensuring that you highlight this crucial skill can determine whether you get the interview call. You can highlight them in a section of your resume as follows: Good communication skills Time management Remote team management Self-motivation Detail orientation Tech-savvy Keen observation Critical thinking Include the X-factor in your resume Your technical and soft skills can ensure that you are on the shortlist, but adding an X-factor can put you on the top of the pile. What do I mean by X-factor? Things that you do, not for yourself but the community at large. Things that make you a trustworthy person and a bankable employee. For example: Providing free resources to open-source communities Having a technical blog or white papers Having tech patents Having publications in journals Contribution to the community - leading or participating in diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives Include a separate section about these or other achievements. This section would be the star attraction of your resume. Add numbers to build authenticity Numbers speak louder than words. Show your achievements through numbers. When talking about key projects, you can: Outline the problem that you had to solve Mention the approach that you took to do that Highlight the results you achieved Talk about any insights that you could use for future projects Following the above approach can do two things - build credibility and show detail orientation. Both of these can tilt the balance in your favor. I recently attended a Turing Community workshop in which the speaker talked about some of the steps above. I was happy to learn that I was already following most of the advice! I have tried to cover it all here. However, if you still have any doubts, you can and should attend such free online events to learn how you could optimize your resume for remote developer positions. You can also reach out to me on , and I would be happy to help. Twitter

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Hybrid events are predicted to . dominate 2022 Two years into a global pandemic and there’s no slowing the virtual events market. The space is expected to and the desire to better engage as a new remote society is just at the tip of the iceberg. reach $500 billion by 2028 In-person events were hit hard by the pandemic, resulting in a huge shift to virtual and, ultimately, a need to innovate the user experience. Engagement is among the most critical factors to elevate the user experience from good to great and is widely regarded by marketers as the most important ingredient for a successful event. Despite this fact, engagement solutions are few and far between. Amidst the pandemic, event organizers tapped into software solutions like Zoom to stay afloat but, after a while, it left little to be inspired. As the permanency of remote life sinks in, industry leaders are naturally reevaluating how they remotely engage with audiences as event attendees demand more from virtual events in our new decentralized world. Now, new-to-market event platforms are offering features that cater to specific event types. One company leading the space (and recent Series B announcement) is event-led engagement platform Airmeet. I met with their team to find out more about how they are leveraging virtual spaces to elevate the digital experience for multi-format events such as virtual webinars, hybrid large-scale conferences, trade shows, workshops, and more. In fact, their immersive engagement suite enabled over 120,000 event organizers to stream 150 million minutes of video to audiences around the globe in 2021. “Customer engagement has been fast evolving into a space that needs to go beyond the traditional channels. Brands have to start conversations and engage with customers without losing their human touch in the virtual space” Lalit Mangal, co-founder of Airmeet. Platforms specializing in engagement capabilities that can maximize the opportunity between virtual, IRL, and hybrid events are on the frontier in realizing what actually makes an event successful: conversation, connection, and customization. So how can anyone at any level or any organization use events in 2022? REPLICATED VIRTUAL WORLDS There are obvious challenges when it comes to navigating a virtual event like an in-person one. Advanced features that help replicate the physical format such as 1:1 interactions and immersive booths promote a seamless and interactive event-attendee experience. In 2022, we’ll see more attention to design detail that allows for additional flexibility in virtual spaces. PERSONALIZED EXPERIENCES An end-to-end customization experience in the virtual world provides event managers with several benefits. Personalization will be key from booth branding to monitoring attendee behaviour for targeted marketing segmentation. AI-POWERED CONNECTIONS The end goal of events is often networking and building relationships. AI-driven technologies have the ability to customize networking sessions that prioritize attendees' matches for more efficient connections. It's a key differentiator to immersive experiences and making long-term connections. The growth of remote collaboration and our decentralized world will only fuel the demand for more immersive, engaging and interactive experiences. As the event management community gears up for another year of virtual vs. hybrid vs. IRL, we’ll see immersive engagement emerge more intentionally as an industry focus area.

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HackerNoon Reporter: Please tell us briefly about your  background. I am Surbhi Rathore, the CEO and cofounder of . Symbl is a programmable platform that empowers developers and businesses to monitor, act, and comply with voice, video conversations at scale in their products and workflows without building their in-house data science expertise. Symbl.ai I am a Techstars alum, co-founded Symbl almost 3 years ago and is now backed by Amazon and has raised an early-stage venture round of $6.5M which deployed capital to grow a global team of tech enthusiasts to more than 50 people. For more than a decade, I have worked in technical and customer-obsessed roles in both startups and enterprises such as Nevis Networks and Amdocs. Before co-founding Symbl, I worked in the Conversational AI space with a focus on delivering value to Telecommunication users. With a geographically distributed presence, I am excited to be an international tech leader who advocates for Women in AI with a personal mission to inspire more women to work in Data Science. I am a national speaker, an accessibility equity champion, and the ultimate venture capitalist. I have been honored with the Women in Voice Award for Founder of the Year, Amazon’s Top 10 Women to Watch in 2020, and the Will Reed Top 50 Companies in 2021. What's your startup called? And in a sentence or two, what does it do? Symbl enables developers to build next-generation AI-powered communication experiences with APIs that deliver the most relevant and accurate speech recognition and contextual intelligence in milliseconds. We are proud to be empower a community of builders that are championing the voice-first movement and pushing the limits of how conversation data is used for the growth of individuals and businesses. Businesses building with Symbl are enabled to build more inclusive and accessible communication applications with live captioning, AI-powered search and indexing, real-time call tracking for coaching, compliance, automation and more. What is the origin story? My co-founder Toshish and I were working on a conversation AI platform for the telecom domain to make it easy for telco businesses to adopt conversational interfaces in their self-service applications - enabling chatbots and virtual assistants for basic telco workflows. We had a strong thesis that while chatbots will help automate some functions, talking to humans will never go away. We had the opportunity to experience customer conversations at scale in the Telecom domain and see firsthand the impact of AI/ML. Owing to the limitations of not being able to use existing technologies to contextually comprehend human conversations that are by far the most chaotic and unstructured data and to be able to passively listen to conversations on calls and videos and provide recommendations to users to do better, we started Symbl. What do you love about your team, and why are you the ones to solve this problem? We are a platform by builders, for builders. Our team is built with engineers and experts that are passionate about solving problems with AI/ML at the intersection of communication tools. We never give up and are hustlers and opportunity seekers, who are customer-obsessed and only care about delivering the best experience to our developers and customers. We are a diverse team from several cultures and backgrounds coming together and working as one big family. We thrive on innovation and ideas that are brought, worked, and nurtured in an open environment without the biases of who started what! If you weren’t building your startup, what would you be doing? If I were not building Symbl to democratize conversation intelligence tech for developers, I would build Symbl to solve the adoption of AI/ML in the telco space which I have spent years in. I know the value of shaving even seconds off a call. Roles don’t matter, but I am sure I’d be helping create value and opportunities for the maturity of the voice ecosystem. At the moment, how do you measure success? What are your core metrics? Customer happiness and product value are the ultimate success metrics for our company. Another important one that I like to add is employee growth since that people are really what defines the journey of the company. What’s most exciting about your traction to date? Symbl is working with some of the world’s best high growth VC-backed startups like Airmeet, Yac, Hubilo, Racket, RevenueGrid, Moonbeam. It is so exciting to work with other founders that are equally passionate about changing the landscape of online communications in this new normal. We are also extremely excited and proud to partner up with with - the leading developer platform for real-time engagement for voice and video in just a year of releasing our platform. Agora.io We continue to collaborate with community drivers like Postman, and AWS to make it seamless to adopt conversation intelligence over voice or video applications. Dolby.io What technologies are you currently most excited about, and most worried about? And why? I am really excited about the evolution and maturity of the NLP landscape and how that gets applied to speech, audio and video interfaces. We are losing extremely valuable data today in voice conversations and leveraging that for the next generation of experiences that I am personally very excited about. What drew you to get published on HackerNoon? What do you like most about our platform? I have always been drawn to community platforms where people can authentically connect, collaborate and learn from each other - and HackerNoon lies in the centre of builders supporting builders! What advice would you give to the 21-year-old version of yourself? Backpack around the world and then join a startup where you can make an impact early on. P.S There is no better way to learn than to collaborate with other diverse cultures and minds. What is something surprising you've learned this year that your contemporaries would benefit from knowing? Customer stories are the most important part of an early-stage business for investors, new team members and also other prospects to understand the value of your platform in an authentic way. Time-box writing a case study with the first customer you sign in 3 months of working with them to be sure you are able to quantify value. Don’t forget to vote for Symbl.AI as . Startup of the Year in Seattle

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I am sure that you already have Zoom, Slack and Asana on your computer. But daily office life is more than written tasks and planned meetings. There are lunches with your team, spontaneous talks near the water cooler, common tasks and goals you want to acheive. It’s your comfortable workplace and it by itself motivates you to be productive. Just look at the bunch of stickers on the wall — big things are waiting for you! After we all switched to remote work, many of these processes disappeared from our lives. But it seems to me that we can move them online . Life in office has a lot of invisible and important processes in it. painlessly So let’s talk about these processes and the tools that help us recreate the office vibe at home! The ones that help remote teams keep in touch, talk to each other more and don’t miss the opportunities they could have in the office. p.s. You will not find tools here. And I did it in purpose. very popular How to create the atmosphere of the office home Try TandemChat . it’s a virtual office — you can quickly interact with colleagues, spontaneously call them and work together on the same platforms (Trello, Notion, Google Docs, etc.) Description: , , , [not launched yet], [not launched yet], [not launched yet]. Analogs: RemoteHQ Teemly Pragli Makespace With wfhland How to recreate the feeling of the meeting in one place Try HighFidelity . virtual spaces that simulate real meetings. Description: , . Analogs: Connect.club Airmeet How to recreate the small talks before the meetings Try Brightful . short games / quizzes that are designed to help the participants of the meeting to find connection with each other in a friendly way. Description: How to replace the meeting-boards that help you find the best decisions Try Ment . A visual platform that simplifies decision-making for teams. Description: How to recreate the opportunity to meet colleagues spontaneously (and not only colleagues) Try . NextPage An app that allows you to meet spontaneously online with colleagues and friends. Description: How to recreate the tradition to put stickers on the board Try Parabol . : software for conducting online retrospectives. Description How to transfer the coffee breaks from offline to online With Hallway . A Slack bot that automatically allocates time for joint coffee breaks. Description: How to recreate the code cross-editing process Try GitDuck . : tools for developers that enables to talk, share your code and do pair programming with ease. Description How to recreate the feeling of being idle in front of colleagues Try Focusmate . “virtual coworking” — where you can easily find a “colleague”, and monitor the concentration and productivity of each other. Description: How to replace meeting moderator Try Macro . : an add-on for video calls services (Zoom, Meet) that helps make meetings more efficient. Description How to recreate the daily stand-up’s with your teammates Try Standups . “stories for stand-ups” — update each other regardless of their time zone or location, using async video & voice messages. Description: How to replace assistant who makes meeting notes Try Hugo . : An app that makes it easy to create, store, and collaborate on notes after a meeting. Description How to recreate an opportunity to share emotions during meetings Try . Nod extension for Google Chrome that allows you to exchange emotions during Google Meet calls. Description: How to replace assistant who helps you with your schedule Try . Clockwise : An app for G-Suite that optimizes your calendar, searching for a best time for a focused work. Description How to replace meetings, yep, all the meetings (even virtual ones) Try [not launched yet, but seems promising — from creators of Meerkat и Houseparty] SlashTalk : it is not clear yet, but their manifesto says that they want to decentralize communication within the teams completely. Description

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This is a part of my “ Journey with Azure ” series So as a part of playing around with Azure, I decided to clone AirMeet’s codebase with Azure as a backend service. is currently running on with Datastore as a . The equivalents on the Azure side are AppService with TableStore as the database. Based on that experience here are some of the differences between the two NoSQL key-value stores. Airmeet AppEngine database Structuring your Storage Table Storage needs a partition key and a row key, whereas data store only needs a key. Now you may look at it as extra work, but this also allows you to plan around your data structure and also for possible performance benefits in the future. Web interface & Azure Storage explorer GCP has a slightly better interface. For example, I can do a multi-select in the interface to delete multiple entities, I was not able to get the same working with Table Storage. Azure, on the other hand, has a big win in the Storage Explorer App, which allows you to view your tables, queues and blobs via an App. Update entity This is my favourite feature of TableStorage, While an update is possible in Datastore, it is more of reading the entity, modifying it on the client side and write the entire object. Reading partial entities Table Storage has an SQL like query model, thus you can actually read only a part of an entity, super useful when you have large entities and want to save on cost on bandwidth. Cost comparison Doing a cost comparison would be unfair, more important it would be inaccurate because of the way pricing is structured on both the products. Azure has more billing options based on how you want your data to be replicated. GCP does not provide that flexibility (or limits complexity based on how you are looking at it). Azure also treats your reads, writes, and delete equally when it comes to cost, whereas GCP has different pricing for each operation, where reads cost 1/3rd of writes. Overall operation costs are lower on Azure at $0.00036 per 10,000 transactions for a table stored in East US with Locally Redundant Replication. GCP $0.036 per 100,000 entities reads. Writes are 3X more expensive as mentioned before. In most cases, Azure will be cheaper unless you can fit your workload into GCPs free monthly tiers. Nitpicking One issue I had initially when moving from DataStore to Table Storage is the fact that I had to worry about “creating tables”DataStore simply creates the entity group if does not exits. The same logic did not work on the TableStore side, in fact my method failed until I wrapped it around the method. If there is something in the documentation, I certainly missed it.# insertEntity createTableIfNotExists Originally published at ravivyas.com on March 19, 2019.

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