Puri: A resume's 'Other' section is the only real candidate differentiator
Shaan Puri · This Hedge Fund Manager Got Away With Insider Trading… Then Made Billions (#509) · Oct 19, 2023 · at 26:58
Sean Puri relays career advice given by a hedge fund manager during a college guest lecture about standing out in ultra-competitive hiring pools.
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“The only thing I can look at to even decide, do I want to meet this person, is the bottom fifth of your resume. The very bottom, 20%, where it says other. And that's your chance to say other stuff you're into, your interest, your story, something you've done that's remarkable or notable. Because that's the only way I'm going to differentiate between all of you that are raising your hands right now. Because otherwise, you're all students. You all did an internship. You all got a three point whatever GPA. It doesn't matter that you were on student council. Like, no one cares. And when he said, he goes, so I would take the next three years, four years of your life after college, and I would go stuff that other column because either you're going to make it big doing something cool, or even if all those fail, when you go to apply to a job like mine, I'm going to have some reason to actually want to talk to you.”
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