So long, farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, goodbye!

This weekend I've been rewriting my CV to try and make it more suitable for the modern HR/employee application system like Workday, Greenhouse.io, A.I. selection bots, etc. so that it stands a better chance of not getting a rejection during the shortlist stage (which now stands at 35 over the past month).
 
I've effectively taken the CV that I last updated in 2023 (and which has largely gone unchanged) and reworked things to bring it up to date, including adding a bullet point list of core competencies and services (highlighted) which should cover most things.  It replaces a CV that I had dramatically altered to based on 99 billion people's opinions as to what an ideal CV should look like.  The new CV is still 8 pages in length (It covers 29 years of experience after all), but should allow A.I. and search systems to get to the nitty gritty - and should give humans giving it a quick glance a good taster of what I can do so that it draws them in and hopefully secures a first screening interview.

But, that's not the point of this post. 

I have also been writing my farewell email to the company.  The first draft felt as if it was a small novel in which I pontificated about how I was warned back in 2008 about working in the video games industry and that regardless, I had no regrets about doing so.  But I've trimmed it back to about four paragraphs, made it more professional, and generally tried to take some of the emotion out of it because I have genuinely enjoyed my time working for the company.  The department I've been working for has felt more like a second family to me than most other places I've worked for.  And I shall genuinely miss them.  When I was a kid in North East London playing computer games on my ZX Spectrum or Amstrad CPC464, I never thought I'd actually get to work for a games company - and having had a peek behind the curtain for two and a half years has been an absolute privilege.

So yes, I'm writing and rewriting my farewell email because I want to get it right and to let the people I've been working with for these past few years know that I have appreciated them all (whether they've appreciated me is another matter - haha).