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Pre-Event Preparation & Resources

Attending Companies and Fair Map
How to prepare a resume for startups
Why should you work for a startup?
Starting a personal portfolio website
Resources from Spark SC members

Attending Companies and Fair Map

SCF is being held in USC’s McCarthy Quad on 11/10/22. Check out attending companies here. A map of where each company’s booth (and our resume review and headshot booths) on the day can be found below.

How to prepare a resume for startups

Preparing a resume for startups involves many of the same skills that you would employ when writing a resume, but here are the high-level tips from our resume reviewers.

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Use action verbs and show, don’t tell.

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Quantify everything in digits.

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Place the most relevant work at the top of your resume

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Divide your technical skills into proficient and highly proficient.

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If you’re an engineer, link your Github and portfolio. If you’re a designer, link your portfolio.

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Use consistent formatting across sections

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Leave out what’s unnecessary

If you have questions for Spark’s resume reviewers, email us! Otherwise, we recommend reaching out to the career center at your major school.

Why should you work for a startup?

Startups are small companies that have a lot of needs and problems to solve. Most people who work for a startup early on will have more agency and responsibility than they would at a larger company. This means that if you haven’t been recruited by a big, famous corporation, you haven’t lost out. At a startup, you can actually access more opportunities to impact more of your company or product, learn and exercise more skills, and dictate your own projects.

Starting a personal portfolio website

There are a lot of ways to create a personal website, but this blog post should set you up well to get started. It is possible to create a free, high-quality website—it just takes a little more time, effort, and patience than it would to use a site builder.

Why should I start a personal website? A personal website or portfolio website can help you showcase independent projects that showcase the initiative you’re taking to improve your skills. If you’re an engineer or a designer, these projects will be technical and creative documentation of your work. (Here are some examples.) If you’re in marketing or business development, these projects may look like a case study or a consulting report.

Resources from Spark SC members

Questions? Email gosparksc@gmail.com.