This is where it starts — your professional story, distilled into a few powerful lines. Your summary isn’t about listing tools. I’s about communicating your value, perspective, and unique lens on the work you do. In your comment below, include: - Your specialty — what you do best - Your top affinity — who you connect with naturally (ex. educators, nonprofits, open-source, etc.) - Your previous industry or current vertical (if applicable) — where you’ve built or what you’ve transitioned from Example: Backend developer who thrives in early-stage environments and messy codebases. I’ve worked mostly in FinTech, focusing on API reliability and transaction safety. Former financial analyst — I bring a systems mindset to engineering.

Take a minute, reflect, and decide which single goal you’re optimizing for during this process: pay, location, lack of competition, or ease of interview. Write out what decisions you’ll make in your job search that reflect that priority. Keep it short and clear (2–3 bullet points).

Find and join one WhatsApp tech affinity group that connects with your background or goals. Share which one you joined — include a short note about what drew you to it or why it is relevant to you.

Write down 3–5 things that describe how you create value — not technologies, but traits or patterns of impact. “The themes that define my specialization are ___.” It doesn’t have to be perfect — this is about clarity, not branding.

Take a few minutes to reflect on your experiences from a results perspective. Build off of “One example of a result my work has created is ___.” Don’t worry about making it perfect — just start connecting your code to outcomes.