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Big question: I am applying for a Engineering Manager position but I am not sure if I should focus 50% technical and 50% management skills on my resume. I am a little confused.
I read somewhere that the biggest mistake is to put too much emphasis on technical skills and not enough on management type accomplishments.
So what is a good ratio for technical and management skills for a Engineering Manager position resume?
My guess is 70% management accomplishment bullets and 30% technical bullets to show that I am indeed qualified to take on the engineering complexity.
What do you think?
Separate your roles.
I split my two roles out on my resume. That is to say. I have been with the same company for some time. I was an individual contributor for 7 years and then a manager for the past three. The two roles are separate on the resume. The most recent role (management) focus on my responsibilities and accomplishments in this role. Under that, I list the same for the more technical / individual role that i had up until then. That format gives the reader a nice progression of my career. I would say each is about even in amount of information (50/50), however, I do not put technical / clinical bullets under the management role.
Chris