If you want to find your ideal job, a good resume is essential. It is also the company's first impression of you. Like many people, when he was young, Bill Gates also wrote a resume to find his ideal job.
According to "Forbes", in the 2022 global billionaire list, the Microsoft co-founder ranked fourth with a wealth of US$129 billion. Recently, in order to boost the confidence of millions of ambitious young job seekers around the world, 66-year-old Bill Gates shared his first resume in his life on LinkedIn, when he was only 18 years old and was a Harvard University a new student.
Bill Gates wrote jokingly in the post: "Whether you are a recent graduate or a college dropout, I believe your resume looks much better than mine 48 years ago (1974)."
This is the first sentence After all, not many people can reach the level of Bill Gates.
The resume posted by Bill Gates shows that although he was only a freshman at the time, his strength was not simple. While in school, Bill Gates took courses such as operating system structure, database management, compiler construction, and computer graphics, and obtained A's in all of them, and was also named an honorary student.
In addition, he has experience in FORTRAN, COBOL, ALGOL, BASIC and other programming languages. Before entering university, he worked as a project leader in a technology company, responsible for the overall design of the project.
In 1972, he also served as a co-leader and partner in a scheduling project at Seattle's Lakeside School, which ultimately generated profits of more than $10,000. In the same year, Bill Gates even designed a system for traffic engineers to study traffic roads with his partner of the same year and later Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
In 1973, he also served as a programmer for 9 months at Vancouver's Trina (TRW) Systems Group, which mainly develops military and civilian space systems.
Based on his past experience and knowledge, Bill Gates determined his job search goals for system analysts and system programmers, and listed an ideal salary of US$12,000, which is equivalent to 2022 based on the inflation rate. More than $71,000.
This was considered a "huge" salary for a freshman at the time. But Bill Gates also said that his expected salary and working location are "open (unlimited)". He is willing to accept a reasonable salary that is consistent with his experience for a good job, and he is also willing to move anywhere.
What is striking is that Bill Gates also mentioned some personal information in this resume, such as a height of 5 feet 10 inches (about 1.78 meters), a weight of 130 pounds (about 59 kilograms), and his home address at the time. These contents have also been criticized by some experts as unnecessary to include in a resume.
At the same time, regarding Bill Gates’ sharing, a user named Noemi Barrazueta expressed that he was inspired: “Thank you for sharing, this is a great one-page resume. We should all keep copies of past resumes. files, and look back from time to time, because sometimes, we forget how much we have accomplished in life.”
Finally, what do you think of Bill Gates’ resume from 48 years ago? Do you still remember the contents of your first resume? Welcome to leave a message and share~
