If you felt 2024s job market was tough as an engineer spare a thought for the leaders of the industry, many of which would have had a hellish job search last year.

- How do you seperate one engineering leaders from a CV from another, at scale? Well, with great difficulty it turns out.

If you know the space at all, the detail is critical - and AI, or your generalist TA person, are not great at teasing it out, especially when there are hundreds of applications.

- A big challenge for people entering leadership is that it is expected to be innate. And therefore, an issue exists in continuing development in a structured way.

As an engineer the scope to learn to learn is vast, but at least defined. As a leader though, training and development outside of an MBA can be difficult to continue.

- I tell any engineer who will listen to me about 'roadmap' - I was very pleased to see they had recently completed one for ‘engineering management’.

roadmap.sh/engineering-manager

Whilst it can’t get the naughty AI talent screening bot of death to put your CV through to a hiring manager. It will help you define what to discuss on your CV, and continue learning. Defining the intangible waters of engineering leadership skills, which are so often overlooked by traditional L&D programs.