[andyish]

You've worked at and founded startups and so you must have done sales and marketing. This is no different, you're just pitching yourself. Understand who your audience is and what they're looking for and don't forget, presentation is everything.

Positioning yourself correctly, too low and you'll never get past the sea of grads.

Distill your history down so it appears you've had a more stable career history. A random HR bod is going to review your CV and they do not care how many startups you've founded or accelerators you got accepted into. If you've got loads of entries in your career history they're going to stick you on the no pile.

Regardless of how it is internally, corporations don't like lone wolves or individual contributors. They have 'company values' and want someone who works well in a team, has done some mentoring, works well with others, understands the processes, etc etc etc (that is until you start then it's all about delivery). I'd try positioning your CV to appeal to those values with the technical skills to back it up.

In summary - lose the fluff from cv/applications - present a more stable career history - emphasis on teamwork, working with other departments, mentoring

And, I wouldn't worry about AI, offshoring - yes, AI - no. I'm still waiting to be shown an AI-generated SaaS app with real users, or even a functioning tool that's not just a clone of Flappy Bird.

[mertleee]

Thanks for the advice.

I've always sort of struggled putting myself in the shoes of someone who would read my resume and then pick me over another candidate.

Cover letters used to help with this - but I don't think even HR folks read these anymore...