Memorisely' s campus event on Applying for Jobs part 1 

From this talk, my key takeaways include:

1) Put your portfolio link at the top of your CV, email. 

2) Hiring managers may have multiple portfolios open in different tabs to make comparisons. So avoid PDF portfolio if you can.

3) For CV, stick to hard facts about work

4) CV better to make it to 1 page instead of 2 to 3 pages because hiring managers will not have time to read so much. Show all the facts in 1 page. Make it easier for them to scan

5) Hiring managers first check all the requirements. If you do not match, then you will be ignored. 

6) Certain requirements can be flexible such as salary, years of experience, education level. But other requirements such as language, location if you do not meet, you will not hear from them

7) Give personalised projects in portfolio that relates to that job

8) If salary is not given, then try to look it up via Glassdoor

9) Recruiters are not best people to talk about culture since they will sell the job to you, they will only talk about the good things

10)  For startups you can ask -> how are they funded?

11) Tom Warren typically looks for candidates via Linkedin, Otta, Nodesk (his top three)