tl;dr:Sean, VP of Innovation at Microsoft, recently reviewed applications for a role and noticed more than one candidate doing these: (1) Don’t pad your resume with typical activities e.g. attended daily stand-ups. (2) Don’t claim outlandish results. Be honest. (3) Stay away from resume templates. Others use them too. (4) Link to external sites e.g GitHub. It’s less about the content or code. Shows you care about community. (5) Don’t use AI. (6) Find communities e.g. Twitter, Mastodon to submit applications as it’s a reference of places you participate.