Week 4 Session: Crit: Your Resume, Annotated

Bring a resume — yours, a friend's, or a fictional one — and annotate every line that exists to compete rather than to inform

15 March 2027

Before the session#

Bring a resume, printed or on a laptop. Classify each line as “informs” or “competes,” and for every competing line, name the specific pool of other candidates it is positioned against.

In the session#

Swap annotated resumes for a peer competitive review. The room audits each other’s classifications — a line one person flags “informs” is frequently reclassified by someone else as “competes.”

Afterwards#

Retain the annotated version as a reference artefact. It functions as a useful benchmark when Assignment 1 asks you to justify why your own instance constitutes involution rather than ordinary effort.