Bill Gates posted his resume 48 years ago: “Not as good-looking as yours”

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To find the ideal job, a good resume is essential, and it is also the company’s first impression of a job seeker. Like many people, Bill Gates wrote his résumé as a young man to find his dream job.

The Microsoft co-founder ranks fourth with a fortune of $129 billion in the 2022 list of the world’s billionaires, according to Forbes. In an effort to boost the confidence of millions of aspiring young job seekers around the world, Bill Gates, 66, shared the first resume of his life on LinkedIn as a 18-year-old at Harvard. A freshman.

Bill Gates jokingly wrote in the post: “Whether you are a fresh graduate or a college dropout, I believe your resume is much better than mine 48 years ago (1974).”

Source: Bill Gates LinkedIn

As soon as these words came out, netizens were not calm, 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. During his time at school, Bill Gates took courses such as operating system structure, database management, compiler construction, and computer graphics, and received A’s and was also named an honorary student.

In addition, he has experience in programming languages ​​such as FORTRAN, COBOL, ALGOL, BASIC, etc. 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 co-leader and partner in a scheduling program at Seattle’s Lakeside School that eventually made more than $10,000 in profits. 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 worked for 9 months as a programmer for the TRW Systems Group in Vancouver, which developed space systems for military and civilian use.

Based on his past experience and knowledge, Bill Gates has identified job-hunting goals for systems analysts and systems programmers, and listed an ideal salary of $12,000, which is equivalent to 7.1 in 2022 based on inflation million dollars. That was considered a “huge” salary for a freshman at the time. But Bill Gates also said that his expected salary and work location are “open (unlimited)”, and he is willing to accept a reasonable salary that matches his experience for a good job, and is willing to move anywhere.

It is noteworthy that Bill Gates also mentioned some personal information in this resume, such as height 5 feet 10 inches (about 1.78 meters), weight 130 pounds (about 59 kilograms), home address at the time and so on. These contents have also been criticized by some experts as not necessary to write them on the resume.

At the same time, for this sharing by Bill Gates, 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. , and look back every now and then. Because sometimes, we forget how much we’ve accomplished in life.”

Finally, what do you think of Bill Gates’ 48-year-old resume? Do you remember the content of your first resume? Welcome to leave a message to share~

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