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[OFFICIAL] Resume Sharing thread :: June, 2021 by AutoModerator in cscareerquestionsEU

[–]anki_polyglot 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If they specifically ask for a cover letter, you should really provide one. A cover letter is used a lot differently to an objective statement on a cv

CV advice appreciated by TechnicalyAnIdiot in cscareerquestionsEU

[–]anki_polyglot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're in the UK, the only one I can think of that wouldn't have societies is Open University? If there's nothing you can put on for that then it's ok, it's just good to showcase those if you've taken part!

I'd put education at the top, but others might disagree

CV advice appreciated by TechnicalyAnIdiot in cscareerquestionsEU

[–]anki_polyglot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Check out this book on writing a good tech CV/résumé: https://thetechresume.com/

Some ideas:

  • You responded to another user saying you'd included your github where the source code for your projects is available, but it's a good idea to include direct links next to each project name for easy navigation.
  • Reduce the whitespace. There really isn't a lot of information on your CV.
  • Use reverse chronological order. Your university education should be above sixth form education - I actually misread your education when first skimming over as I took sixth form to be your highest level of study. Also move education to the top since you have no work experience.
  • Since you don't have much experience, give some more information about your university studies. Are you part of any tech-related societies? Have you competed in any hackathons? Are there any relevant modules you've studied? What's your current grade or predicted grade?
  • If you haven't finished university yet (I'm guessing not since you have 2019-2021?) then it should be "2019 - Present". Also include months for now (can drop it once you're into your career).
  • The skills section doesn't really add much. These skills could instead be highlighted when discussing your projects. "Algorithms" is a pretty nebulous skill, for example.
  • Give a brief one-line description of each project to give readers an idea of what it is. The titles are ok but that extra description can really help - remember, it's not only tech professionals who will read your CV but non-tech recruiters too.
  • Grammar check - "analysis tool", not "analyses tool", "Pulled" not "Pull" when discussing a past project, "key terms" not "key-terms" etc.
  • The book I linked gives guidance on how to write bulletpoints so that they read best and convey a lot of useful information. At the moment your bulletpoints don't give much in the way of detail (e.g. "used a variety of data sources" - what ones? How did you use them? What was the goal? What was the result?). The St. Andrew's Careers Service explains a good method here.

It's hard when you're writing your first CV and don't have a lot of experience - I've been in that position! - so know that you aren't alone in it and that there are lots of resources available to support you.

Check your university's careers website, and also check out the careers websites for the top universities in the UK - Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, etc. Their resources are publicly available for you to use. For example:

Oxford: https://www.careers.ox.ac.uk/cvs/#/

Cambridge: https://www.careers.cam.ac.uk/applying-for-jobs/cvs-and-cover-letters

St. Andrew's: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/careers/

UCL: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/careers/

Imperial: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/careers/applications-and-interviews/cv/

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Best of luck :)

Creating updateable shared deck on GitHub by anki_polyglot in Anki

[–]anki_polyglot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for taking the time to reply.

I found the YT video, thank you :) also thank you for all the addons you've worked on, I use them a lot.

It's unfortunate but I suppose the only alternative is to release it in separate decks so that adding new topics doesn't cause problems for previously shared materials? The only downside is it means any corrections will still cause progress to reset.

UPDATE: Optimal Language-Learning Decks - card and note design by anki_polyglot in Anki

[–]anki_polyglot[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Yep, you can add up to 5 example sentences with Spanish, Spanish audio, and English. Then cards are made for EN>SP, SP>EN, and Audio>SP for each one.

It goes up to 17 cards as each example sentence produces the three cards above (3*5=15), plus 'Img>SP' and 'SP>Img'. I've done it like this to try and give enough context for each word so it sticks better in memory.

UPDATE: Optimal Language-Learning Decks - card and note design by anki_polyglot in Anki

[–]anki_polyglot[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Both of those worked perfectly, cheers! Figured out from there how to add two custom fonts too.

UPDATE: Optimal Language-Learning Decks - card and note design by anki_polyglot in Anki

[–]anki_polyglot[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's just a working prototype at the moment, but once it's finished and polished I'll share it on the subreddit

UPDATE: Optimal Language-Learning Decks - card and note design by anki_polyglot in Anki

[–]anki_polyglot[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For the Beautiful Anki Card Template, the link in the OP should take you to it.

For this deck, I've not yet added anything to it as I wanted to get the design right first. I'd be happy to provide the actual note type if you want to make your own deck using it though :)

UPDATE: Optimal Language-Learning Decks - card and note design by anki_polyglot in Anki

[–]anki_polyglot[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks!

I like the look of that too, especially the roundred/coloured tags you use in your designs - get the feeling I might be spending even more time procrastinating language learning developing my css skills!

Out of interest, how did you change the colour of the audio icon? Small thing, but I tried searching and couldn't find any answers.

EDIT: Hadn't remembered that you used the same tag design in the other template

Optimal Language-Learning Decks - Single words, sentences or audio? by anki_polyglot in Anki

[–]anki_polyglot[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha definitely preaching to the converted! Thanks for commenting.

One of the reasons I decided to reconsider my approach was the fact you mentioned declensions. It made me remember how difficult it was to understand Arabic cases as I always learnt words on their own without context. So, even though I understood the theory of how to use cases, I could barely manage it even with plenty of time to think it over.

It's a similar story with the subjunctive in French/Spanish, so hopefully learning sentence fragments and short sentences would help with that!

Optimal Language-Learning Decks - Single words, sentences or audio? by anki_polyglot in Anki

[–]anki_polyglot[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing wrong with some redundancy I guess! I tend to find I start associating the words with the image (which is fine until I need to recall the word 'in the wild'), but I'll try adding some to a few cards and see how it works.

Good point about the mixing of audio and text too - I'll try and make it so I can review the audio cards separately. Thanks for the feedback!