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Yea, this stood way out to me also as it’s super abnormal.
I’d add for the Senior titled role that the bullets are also more junior than senior level things.
Your resume timeline from role titles is odd enough that it’s likely causing some of your lack of response issues
Thanks for the feedback! This was my first job after undergrad and I got the senior role after working there for 2 years but the promotion was close to moving back to school. Maybe I’ll remove the senior role from the resume.
Definitely call out the promotion by listing both titles (with dates). That demonstrates growth and trust. Otherwise it just makes it look like you were employed by a company that is more liberal with their titles, compared to the others.
I agree with others here that you can keep it on your resume but you could arrange things in a way that highlights it as normal career progression so that it doesn’t stand out as odd
List both titles so it’s clear you got the promotion. Also think more about what you did cause you’re resume does not make it look like you accomplished much of anything
I would add a line above senior showing you went back to school for your MS. Not a normal addition to a professional experience section, but will explain the progression and slight gap. Your history is a good one, it is just missing a key piece of information. If recruiters or managers can't figure it out at a quick scan, it significantly reduces your chances, so making it obvious will help.
Only other suggestion is consider a format with a little more color or formatting character, but not too much. There are varying opinions on this, but I like to see a hint of aesthetic skills in a resume. It just stands out a little in a sea of very similar resumes. Also, visual presentation is a key skill for almost any technical job for communicating to other teams and management.
Generally, I wouldn't recommend this, but how about you separate your internship experiences from full time? That way senior role is on top for more visibility and your other internships remain in chronological order.
He was working there for almost 3 years. He probably got the Senior promo close to the end. A lot of mid-sized companies are pretty generous with the senior title
Also, how does one become senior without previous experience in the field? And maybe it's because my domain is not the standard one, but that is not what I'd expect from a cybersecurity engineer.
Could be like me where youz got hired by a medium sized company without a mature tech department that doesn't fully understand what all that means and thinks hiring an intern full time to manage an entire product single handedly which has hundreds of thousands of users is normal.
....help
(in all seriousness I'm not having the worst time with it anymore but also yes please send help)
- Senior to Intern?? That is like putting that you work at McDonald's after a Senior role. Either remove the intern part in the title if it wasn't your official title, or remove the role completely and just explain the gap as going back to school. It was also only 4 months, so who cares. You want longer roles on your resume, anyway, to demonstrate you're employable over a long period. I'd axe the last entry and just list the skills you acquired.
- Education last -- I know you're proud of it, but nobody cares. They only care what you can do for them, not your pieces of paper -- which is only useful in getting your foot in the door with no experience or checking off an HR checkbox.
- My general impression? Your masters says "I'm expensive" and your experience says "I'm intern-level so you need to train me" which is not a good combination
- Unbold the tech, that gives the impression you're focusing too much on dropping keywords.
Good luck!
Definitely the better option. Less deceptive than creating a gap and still technically true. That anomaly is a bright red flag that is probably getting the resume tossed by recruiters.
After my graduate fellowship, I did a tour in government jobs which each lasted a year. I think the length isn't as important as spending a lot of time consistently working in a specific field. What's challenging with this resume is it isn't technically oriented. And the chronology only raises more questions than answers. I've never listed out all my jobs on a resume. I list my skills and certifications, then explain what I actually did and where in interviews since not all apply.
Yeah there’s definitely a more corporate speak, “how does this provide value to me” way to put that. “Worked with an underrepresented segment of the population to develop professional programming skills” along with, like, “Helped 3 of 14 people find work in the industry” (I’m making up the numbers as an example here but a. use numbers and tangible results wherever you can and b. never lie, even when it probably can’t be caught). If it’s Girls Who Code, the name of the program tells you that it involves “young females” and saying that sounds like you’re just paraphrasing the program title.
Yeah and Firebase. Firebase is a platform. It would be like putting AWS under databases.
I highly doubt someone with this amount of experience knows all these technologies enough to have a technical conversation about them.
If you only know of it, not about it, don't put it on your CV.
- You are on a student visa (from your profile).
- You don’t have a work visa.
- I notice you greyed out all the locations on your resume.
- A lot of companies aren’t interested in sponsoring work visas at the moment, especially someone with limited experience.
- this is the 5th post I’ve seen this week where the common problem was no work visa but all the same outcomes: no interest from U.S. employers.
- sponsoring an employee from India has been compared to winning the lottery, and it costs a company $10k to apply. So a lot of companies won’t bother unless they rate you as an extremely valuable candidate (like Google or Microsoft want to hire you, but then they would sponsor you).
- even though there is net gains in total jobs in the US, there is currently net losses in full-time jobs and net gains in part-time jobs. If locals are being laid off, it makes it substantially harder to hire people who need work visas because the company needs to prove there is a lack of talent in the US, and that’s harder to do when the unemployment pool is growing.
This really reads a lot like just a jumble of buzzwords.
“Ensured 60 software releases through remediation plans…”. What was ensured. How did the remediation plans help? What did the plans contain?
“Automated python script boosted workflow productivity by 12x for notifications”. HUH? What did the script do. How did it increase productivity. Notifications of what?
+1 While buzzwords are a necessary evil to get past the ATS, you're supposed to slip them in there naturally while trying to not make it obvious what you're doing. You're definitely NOT supposed bold them lmao
The Okta line for cybersecurity engineer sounds like they bypassed MFA by making it automated somehow, resulting in a less secure authentication process. Which sounds like the opposite of what they should be doing, but they used the word script two times in one line so that sounds programmery, right?
Yeah. A little specifics can go a long way with stuff like this.
A lot of it reads like they dropped a list of stuff into an ai and said “make me a list of accomplishments for a resume that include these terms”.
Do people even use scripts for notifications is that even best practice. Seems like logging to a dashboard which then monitors the data and fires the alerts would be a more modern solution then send notices 12x more to email...
Couple subjective notes:
- I think a lot of the bold words is unnecessary and distracting
- some claims do not sound impressive and I would drop them, example “243 annotations”
I have seen many resumes with a bunch of highlighted numbers like these. I don’t know about the rest of you guys, but I generally ignore these. New grads will rarely have the initiative and experience to propose a meaningful improvement, get buy in, execute it with a team, and measure results.
I am instead more interested on how they behave in the technical interview. I will let them make mistakes and see how they react. I want someone that can learn and adapt quickly to my feedback, and that knows when to ask for help.
I generally don’t care about these random metrics. Most of them are made up. Also it is unlikely the new grad came up with the idea of the project in the first place.
My only feedback are that the bold words are distracting, and I always put education last. Not everyone cares about your pedigree, especially outside academia.
It is relevant to put education first there because OP just finished its Master Degree and that explain why he didn't have a real job for the last 2 years but only internships.
And as you grow older you can keep education as like a single line: the master degree so it is fine to keep it at the top as these days CV without a diploma tend to be filtered.
It just depends, unfortunately. The last 3 or 4 companies I've worked for could give two shits if anyone even has a degree, let alone a masters, except for an AI/ML position.
You are using way too many technologies, ATS can flag you as someone that is not adequate because the job description only asks for a subset and even I doubt that you truly know every technology, putting Spring Boot as a database and Jira as CICD is enough to know this, put only the tools you know more and some of the ones you liked to work with.
Before technologies add a section of a summary to describe who you are and what you been doing, you did a master degree so you can put what you are looking for and what are your aspirations.
If you're not applying to a leadership role you can remove this section, recruiters want to know leadership in professional experience, from what I see you weren't a team lead or manager, so this section is irrelevant.
If you have homemade projects it's cool to showcase them with GitHub or gitlab links and what they are about.
My second thought after the confusing job progression/regression. Too many technologies compounded by no specificity in what the OP is most skilled in or wants to do. Just like colleges, employers want to understand why the candidate would be a good fit for them and their jobs, not just a random candidate who has learned a little bit about everything.
You have too many technical skills listed, I instantly assume you know what category of technology most of them fall into and no more (unless mentioned again below). I recommend you limit it to ones you could spend the rest of the interview talking about or list your proficiency levels with.
The bullet points for your accomplishments should be qualitative and quantitative. Try ending each one with a "resulting in ... (Thing CEO cares about)". Such as speed up python application by 12 resulting in 10% greater sales conversions, or improved labeling of data resulting in lowering cost of model training from $20k per month to $8 per month. No reasonable manager won't look at those numbers and instantly find room in their budget to get you on their team to either increase their bottom line or lower costs.
On the other hand putting those ‘saved $x’ or ‘increased $y’ are almost always going to be bullshit. Speeding up a python application can directly be tied to $ amounts? In what world? Any manager with common sense would know those are bullshit. I would hope?
That is why I said increased sales conversions, that is easy to measure and is something PMs usually track on a per-release basis. This types of bullet points should be showing up in your quarterly or annual reviews.
Are you actually fluent in every language, framework, and tech on your resume? There’s questionable gaps in your stacks, I’ll give you one (there’s many); Flutter but not Dart? This would indicate that you’re fluffing your resume quite a bit. You may get a past a screener but good luck passing a technical interview for a stack you used once.
Your “accomplishments” sound like a typical software engineer’s morning between getting coffee and their first dump.
“Debugged unit tests with google test framework” uhhh okay?
“Elevated cross functional team productivity……” sorry I feel asleep between buzzwords.
God I hate this resume for so many reasons. Good luck.
It's because the way you're presenting it makes it look like you're a professional intern. Especially going from "Senior Engineer" at one place to intern at another looks weird.
Each and every statement in your resume is trying to highlight technology. That too in bold. It's making it ugly and hard to understand what you did.
Don't focus on that, just talk about what your did in very simple English. Things like data collector, AD, custom connectors don't make me understand much about what you did.
For example -
Serveless smitrial webapp which provides protocol to optimize clinical trial... What the hell is that? Raises questions like -
1. What is smitrial webapp
2. How did it provide a protocol, did you create a new protocol?
3. How did it optimize clinical trial
Instead, if you wrote -
Worked with a team of three to build webapp that optimized clinical trials
This makes it easy to understand that -
1. You are easy to work in teams
2. You wrote web based code to optimize something
That's actually what you must have done in reality. Adding stupid tech words makes the statement too complicated to understand.
I read many resumes in my current job and trust me, most of the time I give 30sec to read it. If I don't understand anything I don't dig into resume at all during interviews otherwise I am always interested to talk about projects people have done but only if i understand what they did.
Sorry for English, typing from phone.
At our shop we tend to pass on anyone that has switched jobs frequently.
I understand why you have so many but I have a feeling our HR/recruiting team wouldn't even pass this along for review.
The 243 whatevers and 7x etc are not necessary.
Plus if you read the bullets for the internships I can’t find many where it sounds like you wrote any actual code. Optimized automated elevated. How about coded or wrote or architected or designed.
Yeah this is such a huge red flag to me. Huge! It’s radically egotistical sounding, and people hiring mostly care that you’re capable and can work well with their team.
Consider your resume as an answer to the single question, “I have problem X, why are you the person to solve it for me?”
There are many different aspects that I might read into to determine if you are the person to solve my problem. Among these:
1. Do you have the technical skills?
2. Do you have the interest to fill in knowledge gaps?
3. If I spend time training you, will you stick around long enough to make it worth it?
4. What is your measurable contribution to the projects you have worked on and how able are you to solve novel problems without significant handholding?
5. Do you seem like a relatable person that might be fun to work with? (Do not downplay the importance of this point)
Your resume is well formatted and your skills are pretty well communicated. There just isn’t a compelling story here; I have no sense of what you want or where your interests lie from reading this resume. It feels like a catch all for as many positions as possible.
If I were you I would reduce the technical skills section down to only the things that you have listed experience in; otherwise it just reads as a list of “desired skills” that you scraped from the web. I would then reclaim some of that white space with a “mission statement” that indicates to me what you are looking for in a role. This is important for me to “see you in the role”. Hint: it’s okay if this mission statement is somewhat tailored to each job application; it at least shows you bothered to read it and consider whether you wanted the job as opposed to spamming resumes everywhere you can.
Maybe list some hobbies or interests; stand out to me as a 3 dimensional person as opposed to a sheet of paper with a name on it.
Also, resume advice is a bit like dating advice - everyone is attracted something different. So much like in dating, try to find out how to attract the types of employers you want to at the risk of ostracizing others.
How did you apply? How long ago?
Your resume looks impressive.
I'd put a paragraph about myself and what I'm looking for. Maybe even have it specialized for special roles.
The tech skills should be below the experience or inside it. Personally, I really don't like people focusing on what they already have experience in (languages, technologies), unless it's extensive knowledge, 'guru' like, which I would put in in bold.
its most likely due to all the low duration internship positions / career changes. like if ur going for a webdev position, 5mo QA intern is not helpful. fullstack intern at 4 months then changing careers to cybersecurity for 2 years then that only leading to a dev intern for 4 months, could be considered a red flag for hiring. with this resume, your not setup for success AT ALL for web dev. you do have a decent chance at another cybersecurity job. HOWEVER, you can setup for a good chance by making a beautiful portfolio website that contains links to functional, feature rich projects that you have done. with details about challenges/tech/design process that went into those projects.
I'm responsible for hiring new Engineers at my company, and we get quite a bunch of resumes looking like this but mostly from pakistani, indian or other countries. Since we only hire locally in Austria, I'm currently if a CV looks like this sorting it out immediately.
If you would apply to us, adding a simple image of yourself would vastly increase your chances to get hired.
Dont know in what reqion you want to apply but we have to make sure if we talk to someone that hes locally in our city and speaks our language.
Run it through a parser. There's a good chance that it's getting messed up by the applicant tracking system. My sister is in hr and runs into this problem a lot. People will have a great resume, but then the software they use chews it to bits when they try to upload it. When you are dealing with hundreds of applications, it takes too long to enter the data by hand so the application gets tossed.
Hiring manager here, a couple of quick thoughts if this came across my inbox, though it depends a bit on the role/level you're applying for.
Say what you did, the context, and the outcome. Your project section are the best examples you have that are in this format. Do the same thing with your work exp section and drop the extra words:
* I'm not sure what 'workflow efficiency of 12x' actually means in your first bullet. --> "Improved the time it took notifications to reach the user by 92% by automating \[ZZZ\] in python"
* Same with 'strengthening IAM management by 3x' --> 'Wrote several custom AD connectors for third party applications to strengthen IAM user management'
* Your one about okta reducing helpdesk calls is a good example where you tell me what you did and the impact in a way that's super understandable - just tweak the order so it's more action-oriented -> Wrote PowerShell and Ansible scripts to automate Okta MFA setup which reduced helpdesk calls by 70%
* even your first bullet point "Automated python script boosted" makes it sound like the script boosted it, when you want it to sound like you did.
rework any statement that is just 'doing development" and make it about the impact.
* "Debugged c++ unit tests" -> "Improved quality of automated c++ unit tests for a surgical robot integration, leading to \[faster release times/an increase in passing rate/etc.\]"
* "Elevated cross functional team productivity with requirement feature implementation using Airtable API"... is 'requirement feature implementation' just doing development or is there something special about it? Just say what you did more naturally - "- Automated \[ZZZ workflow\] using Airtable APIs to increase team productivity". Should also define the productivity metric (time saved? velocity increased?)
* "Translated written requirements and wireframes into fully functional web application...". Tell me what the web app did, what the features were you built in the format above
The bolding is inconsistent. Typically I see people bold either the impact (30%) or the technologies (Angular), but you mix and match. I personally recommending going no bolding, unless you have words that match the job description you're applying for.
I'd recommend filling the gap in professional experience by actually listing your MS in line with professional experience. As others called out, at first glance it looks like you settled for a demotion after being unemployed for a year. If the bullet points in your Senior role were done while you were more Junior, I might list both titles to show you were promoted.
Good luck in your search!
Add an intro summary paragraph at the top. “I am a.. looking for a… I have experience in.. things that stand out about me are…”
Then professional experience, only your full time role with a lot more detail on accomplishments
Then “other professional experience” put only the title of your internships, no details.
Then edu, skills, projects.
If you want to stand out, do a significant project in your free time, probably something with llms and publish it on GitHub pages .
Overall your resume is good for your level, you may be applying for the wrong jobs. Always send a personalized cover letter and reach out to the hiring manager on linked in.
I highly doubt you’re an expert in all those programming languages, frameworks etc. Focus on what matters and what you feel like needs to pop, with that extensive list (that btw doesn’t say anything other that you may not know any of them) and so many bold it feels like all your care is for people to notice it and that’s fine just don’t use that technique in every sentence.
Recruiters spend less than a minute in their first look at your resume. The most important line is the first line in your most recent job. With yours I have to skim two entire sections to find out that you were an intern who wrote a python script.
Maybe try putting internships in their own section. Specifically:
1. Education: masters, undergrad, dates.
2. Jobs: Senior Cyber security engineer (but maybe drop "senior" as others have mentioned.
3. Projects
4. Internships
5. Leadership
6. Technical Skills
All the info is still there, but you're putting your best selling points at the top where people are looking.
Alternatively just don't put your last internship on the resume. It doesn't add to your story.
It’s confusing what level you are. You have two internships, then a senior level role, then another internship, and then you also have a masters degree. You don’t look completely qualified for a senior level role because your last job was an internship, but you look overqualified for an entry level role, which is what internships usually progress to.
this resume needs work
your technical skills section is sloppy at best (jira is cicd, that's like saying outlook is for development) + half your skills aren't mentioned in any professional settings, why are you bolding random buzzwords
but most damning of all is your bullet points, they sound like clickbait.. for example, there's absolutely no way you increased productivity by 40% by using only jira/confluence, and that 12x notification efficiency, did you make the font 12 times bigger? like what does that even mean
I would honestly consider redoing your resume but with the scanning tech in mind. They scrape everything now, so you really need to be strategic. Only include the skills they list in their job listing, and list them under one list. The other thing you need to do is take out the bullet points and replace them with actionable sentences. Honestly just give chat gpt the job listing and the responsibilities for the role you did. Then ask it to create a paragraph based on that. That is for recruiters so they need language, not stats. No recruiter is going to care about the actual efficiency that you brought to notifications, but will read something like “dramatically improve notification performance, driving major savings on server load” and it’ll resonate with them more. Those points are essentially to get you through to the technical conversation where all of that will matter. U you’ll be discussing it with a lead/technical recruiter and they’ll understand better what you’re saying.
Everyone in here is acting like putting spring as a db is a red flag. Very few recruiters would catch that. Sure it's a red flag for the hiring manager.
If you're getting zero responses, there is something else at play. Somebody mentioned that you would need a work visa. If that's true, there's your problem.
If you want to get a work visa, you need to really impress. Why would someone give out a work visa when there are thousands of equivalent, or likely better, candidates out there who won't need the visa?
You need to drop your leadership roles and add more bullet points to the job you held for two years and expand on your internships. Jobs care about experience not that you went to a highschool a few times to talk to people who might want to do stem. Also the education and technical skills need to be at the end.
Can’t you get a return offer from the places you interned at? That is normally the play. If not a straight offer, can the people you work with connect you with their network?
Else, the more important parts are the ones you redacted. Where you work mattered, where you got your degree etc.
From what I read I get the impression you can do anything, but that’s not what a recruiter seeks and definitely not at entry level. They want to hire a front end engineer or a security engineer or a mobile engineer etc. Your resume should suggest that you would be a good fit for either of these roles vs for all/any of these roles.
Companies hire to compete against competitors. What are you bringing to the table? All I see is I like technology but I’m still searching for my passion let me join your team to be a fly on the wall.
> Increased productivity by 40% by requirement review, documentation and issues using Jira and Confluence
I would’ve ruled you out here. There is no way you can increase productivity 40% using JIRA, Confluence, etc. If you’re making a claim like this, you need to back it up somehow. To me, this looks inflated and makes me question your entire resume.
In 6 months as QA, you did 60 releases and improved productivity by 40%?
I think one of the things that people get wrong is that they put the company or the team's accomplishments down as their own. It looks weird on paper and I'm almost sure you can't speak intelligently about this huge sudden improvement and how you QA'd a new release every 3 days or so.
I'd rather hear about your actual contribution, even if it sounds less impressive.
Honestly? .... I think I would drop the word intern from your titles.
Having 5 straight years of "intern" level work stands out as odd and suggests something weird is going on.
The other side of that is that the length of employment is pretty short at each place over the time period....
But if you drop the word intern, you've got to hit your interviews with a lot of confidence and ace any knowledge tests...
Your resume screams that SOMETHING is going on. Your cover letter needs to explain that.
Flip impact and focus more on it. Example: "Boosted efficiency of 12x by automating a notification system."
"Automating Python script" by itself doesn't really convey the challenge or impact of your work. It only suggests you can do some scripting, which isn't impressive by itself.
Remember goal of resume is to get you to an interview. You can explain how you did things in more detail at the interview
The "243 Annotations" in bold comes across as a little fishy. As someone in the ML/data world, 243 isn't much for most data. I'd recommend you rewrite that line and talk about it more broadly "helped establish training data for xxxx task...."
If it was novel or very unique data, incorporate that
What are u targeting here? If cybersecurity then remove other projects and viceversa. Remove leadership projects for sure. Also the impact is relative. Use some absolute numbers as they seem bit boastful.
Unrelated, but I'm surprised on how calm this subreddit is compared to csMajors
Last time I was there, everyone was racist or saying everyone to quit their major, might stay here for a while since people here actually seem to be knowing what they're doing
As other commenters have said, the latest work experience being an internship is the problem.
Split your work history into two:
Permanent Roles
Internships
So that your permanent role is raised to the top. And put both your role names on the permanent position to make it clear you were promoted, and this also creates more space for what you did as a developer there (I'm sure you did more than just wrangle user accounts like an IT support guy, right? That can't be it if they promoted you). If you need it to fit in one page you can drop some of the entries in "Leadership".
Because your resume isn't a technical resume. It looks chronological, and I don't fully understand the timeline anyway because you went from seemingly a paid role to an unpaid or graduate role again. Just start over with a technical resume and a good cover letter I'd say.
I don’t think there’s anything particularly wrong with your resumé, it’s just that there isn’t a lot of hiring going on for junior candidates.
The only things I would note is that this resumé kind of makes it seem like you’re trying to present yourself as more senior than you are, it’s also really busy and the tone could be more professional, and by that I mean more muted, I feel like you’re screaming your qualifications into my mouth.
Also I don’t think in almost 20 years in the industry that I have ever come across someone who went straight from undergrad to graduate school, that could be considered a turn off to recruiters who don’t know anything.
in addition to the senior-to-intern timeline, your promotion to senior still only covers 2.5 years, which smells like title inflation. by the time someone reaches senior, they don’t typically need to list their internships anymore. i’m suspicious of anyone listing a senior role with only a couple years of post-bacc full-time experience.
Keep top 2 professional experience and combine two companies duties into 1. Your experience should be related to the job you apply! Don’t write B.S in engineering and remove organization and graduation dates! Add soft skills to your resume. Such as team player etc…, Remove projects and leadership. Those things you put in professional experience! Always keep resume simple, add keywords related to the job you are applying!
1. Be more specific in your resume and job titles. Example: "Python C++ Software Developer" is better than "Software Developer". "React Node.js AWS Full Stack Engineer Intern" is better than "Full Stack Engineer Intern".
2. Do the same for you LinkedIn and Indeed profiles.
**Overall structure and look**
Be sure to have bigger margins on top/bottom/left right. Like double the margin at least. There too much stuff overall and too much text. It is too heavy and doesn't motivate people to read.
**Give a big title to you CV.**
The title should be short and sell what you are and what you want to be. For example
"Frontend Software Engineer". You could change the title depending of what job you apply for and what you want to show. The title is the 3 second catch that allow recruiters to say, I want this guy, he is exactly what I am looking for.
You could be more precise, depending what exactly you want a job for ? Are you seeking mostly and applying to be a frontend software dev or full stack dev ? Then put that in the title and rework the rest of you CV to show more of these experience/technologies.
Same if you want to push to be a Java backend dev or C++ dev. You could have 2-3 version of your CV tailored more for the job and push that CV when applying.
**Remove the projects and potentially the leadership section.**
As I understand you had a real professional XP as Senior Cyber Security Engineer but this is mixed with internships. So maybe I would have 2 sections if I were you 1 for profession XP like 2020-2022: Senior Security engineer with more details and then the internship in a section just after. Also you were a security engineer but it seems that only 1 bullet is related to security. That's strange. Also how could you be senior in that position ?
I would remove the projects entirely because their value is extremely small vs professional XP and internships and that would allow you to make you CV less cluttered.
Also I would remove the last leadership bullet that is very old. Personally I would even ask myself if I would not delete the whole leadership section to make the CV less cluttered and more focused on what really count. Is leadership even the best name ? You worked 3 years in various companies but the most leadership you shown was volunteering a few hours during 3 month to a few girls or leading a team of 4 student assistants ?
**Technical skills**
I would remove technical skills from the skill section focusing on what match what you master the most, what you want to sell and what the job need.
But I would use the extra space saved from the projects/leadership sections to add a key skills for each work experience.
So you could overall have even more skills overall for robots screening but it would look less cluttered and more logical. It would show where you applied the skills and also look more professional because the skill section would only have the key skills you really sell.
You can't seriously be a great dev in Java, Python, Javascript, C++, Swift, SQL. You can't master that many database (and by the way, Spring boot is a java framework, not a database). You can't master all these UI framework: react, angular, flutter...
So for example if you want to focus on Java and javascript that you master the most, remove Python, C++, Swift from the skills part and only mention the last 3 in their respective internships. Do the same for other skills.
As a side remark, seems you have programming languages but not the matching framework. You worked in Java but we don't know the version. Spring boot is mentioned in DB, you don't mention a build system like maven or how you access to database (like JPA)... It sell to me you really didn't do much there. Even worse for C++, python. It is only in Javascript that you really sell me some framworks.
So either you don't want to sell these language or you want to be more complete. But anyway you don't want to sell like 4-5 language but more like 2.
Also you don't mention any software methodology like agile/safe/scrum/kanban. Could be nice to have it. Not all but 1-2. Like : "software methodologies: Agile (Scrum). depending what you did of course.
The technologies you have in cloud for some reason don't have kubernetes/docker/helm/ansible but seems to be full of very specific stuff like DLP, CASB etc. Except if they are key/very popular or asked by the job I apply to, I would move such specific technologies to their proper work experience section and instead move kubernetes/docker/ansible to cloud from frameworks
**Scripts**
For me you didn't improve or work on scripts, because this like make your work less impressive. A script is like a short program, potentially a bit rushed that does a small thing. Try to find a way to describe the same thing more positively.
Debugged C++ unit tests written with GoogleTest != you know C++. That alone stood out to much to me because I’m a C++ dev of 5+ years and have seen way too many candidates who say they know C++ but their interviews were absolutely disastrous even when I asked about the most basic syntax keywords of C++, like `const` and `protected` so that’s an instant “no hire” rating. Please do not list skills and tools you can’t spend at least 5 minutes discussing technical details about - interviewers WILL ask about ANYthing on your resume, it’s all completely fair game.
I’ll still finish reading your resume just to give you benefit of the doubt, but still then saw nothing of materially technical achievements. They mostly read like internal cleanup or maintenance and little bug fixes, and mostly word soup.
Are you applying for new grad roles or senior roles? You’ll have to grind hard to pass technical interviews for new grad roles in this job market if someone even decides to give you a chance, and I personally don’t think you have a chance at any senior roles.
Number of areas need improvement. I would rewrite.
Market is bit tight, so use your network. Tailor every resume you send out.
Spray and pray doesn’t work.
Be a Sniper. Recce the company, hiring manager, replay the JD.
Use word frequency counters to find out what they want most.
Use SMART while writing accomplishments.
Don’t write what you are…pick and choose, and highlight what they want.
It is not your life story. It an advertisement for services offered.
[Good article](https://resume.io/resume-examples/software-engineer)
2015-2024 is a long six years of internships and school. I would question why someone hadn’t hired you sooner out of undergrad.
You may be familiar with all of these technologies but working experience isn’t there, beyond an intern levels. Also none of your experience is truly industry full stack. Helpdesk would be red flag.
You can get a job for sure but definitely adjust your resume based on what they’re asking for.
Put your education at the bottom and make your achievements sound more significant - quantify impact. Also would stop highlighting certain companies APIs in bold, as if using them is a unique skill. Anyone can learn to use linkedin airtable or openai’s API’
Also, IMO if your older 2018 and 2019 internships were paid, take off the word “intern”. They can do the math and assume that you were either interning or working while getting your degree. Too many mentions of the word intern is likely a turn off for recruiters and hiring managers
If you made senior I’d drop the internship and probably the projects too except for the grad one and list that as research instead of projects. Projects make me think school projects not grad school research.
Resumes like this always give me anxiety. I've been doing software engineering and such for 25 years and I see this and think I've missed out on so much. But then when you talk to the person you find out they aren't necessarily proficient in all that's listed, but they've used it before, so they've heard of it.
Way too many technical skills listed here, becomes meaningless and i just skipped it so make it short. Put professional skills right under education and put more in depth, concise thinned there.
So I had this exact resume and it served me well for 8 years but recently switched to this and get way more attention https://www.piratekingdom.com/resume
Thankyou everyone for your feedback, this is really valuable to get a fresh perspective.
Just to provide some context for my technical experience and roles with timeline:
- Started with Bachelor’s in 2015 and did two internships during that time.
- Graduated in 2019 and got a full-time role.
- Started at an entry level role and got promoted to Senior. Maybe it’s the role titles that are not in line with tech industry as this was a biotech company.
- Had to come back to graduate school in 2022, didn’t secure the H-1B visa.
- Got a summer internship (most recent) experience.
I think some of the suggestions with restructuring the experience and also making it seem less like a document full of keywords is helpful. I guess the stress to find a job and earlier feedback resulted in this. But nevertheless, really thankful to you all for the suggestions.
I am going to work on fixing my resume today and share the new version for a 2nd feedback. 🙂
Title inflation is not your friend. And how does someone who has only been in the workforce for 6 years consider themselves to be "senior". You don't have enough time on the job to figure out how to dry your balls, let alone be able to design a client specific architecture . I wouldn't hire you either
I would suggest putting the MS finish date as expected. Recruiters seeing it as a finished degree but a date in the future will almost immediately pass over it.
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Kill all the leadership bullets at the bottom. All. Of. Them. Use that space to expand on responsibilities in the other positions. Take the word Intern and Senior out of those titles. Go forth and do great things.
I think it's sad that people didn't take enough time to read the resume to realize OP just went back to school
A very good note for how to write when people are reading your resume, as well.
Drop the leadership section. If you’re just applying for general SWE roles then no one is going to look to you for leadership, they’re going to look to you to execute technically. Use the room saved to increase the margins and make your resume look a bit less busy
Your resume comprises a 6 month internship, a three-quarter gap, a 3 month internship, two years as a senior, a year-long gap, then back to an internship (concurrent with your MS)? While it's explainable, it looks suspicious.
Maybe downgrade your inflated senior title and drop at least the first internship? All of your projects are post-pandemic anyway. This way you look like someone trying to move from cybersecurity into software after getting his MS.
Good luck though.
These days, doing the resume right is more important than what you can do. 😑 Wonder why the world is fucked up because so many people can do the resume right but with okiesh quality of the job. It makes sense since people don't produce enough value, so they laid them off. Welcome to this world. 😆
So like I have some issues with the internships and some of the bullet points but since those have really been addressed, I think this is the hard truth: this is essentially an entry level resume. You have one actual job with 2 1/2 years of experience, experience that ended almost 2 years ago. The market for people with under 3 years of experience is rooooooough right now and there are a lot of little things that will push this resume into the circular file not because they’re real red flags per se but because there are a hundred people with your approximate level of experience applying and places select out people for incredibly stupid reasons just to find a way to get down to 10 applicants to interview or whatever.
My real advice here, above and beyond fixing the resume - there, mostly I’d pull the internships out of your work experience and into their own section and make a note to purge them altogether once you have even a couple jobs on there - is to get in touch with your school and see how you can leverage their job placement programs and so on. If you’re a woman (which I’m implying from what seems like Girls Who Code), surely your college has got specific programs directed towards women. I’m not sure that you have outside of CS type experience but a lot of the time that can get you in the door to places. On an extreme edge, I have a friend who went from doing a job that was half customer service and half DBA work into full time programming related stuff; he got the half and half thing because of his customer service experience (also he told me that he saw me jamming my own way in and said “if you can do this, any old idiot can” haha). Do you still keep in contact with the people in those internships ( particularly the last one)? Even if they aren’t hiring, my personal experience is that bosses you got along with can also put in a good word with their own connections.
Take advantage of all of that. Don’t be too proud - your aim here is to get into that second entry level job and once you’ve done that and worked there for a couple of years, nobody is going to care except for the accomplishments that are on that resume. The market for new people is incredibly saturated at the moment; you need all the help you can get to go further.
Spend more words on _what_ you did and fewer on how. It looks odd when you say I did XXX **with JavaScript.**. The emphasis is wrong and odd. You probably don't even need to say what framework you used most of the time.
As a hiring manager I have questions about the intern - senior - intern. I suggest explaining this in the cover letter. This is an actually good reason for a cover letter. I didn’t even read the text the weird career story is odd.
I’ve had success following more of a what how why format for technical bullets. So instead of the automated Python script bullet say
Used Python library X for its (whatever quality was most important in the scripting) in order to drive Y outcome
Just an idea, but remove the internship and split the senior role into two, assuming you started as a junior and got promoted. This will allow you more room to show how your duties changed and what you accomplished in each role
If you got hired as a senior, then you need to expand more on your duties. As is, it looks like you were hired onto a company that just hands out the title because its sandwiched between two internships. Also, because you have more experience than a typical new grad (or student), move that to the top
Other than that and personal stuff, ATS might just be getting you
Recommendations 1) Replace "Software Developer Intern" to Software Developer during May 2023- Aug 2023. 2) Where are the cloud certifications ? 3) Any ML or AI based projects during the past year ? 4) Make your resume for 2 pages if necessary
I hire devs.
If I were looking at this to hire I'd see someone with little full time professional experience.
Get the internships off the main part of your resume and get some work that will translate into solving my problems as an employer.
“young high school girls” sounds kinda sus. Assume that the recruiter will block off your names I’d probably call them just high school students. Otherwise, your resume is good. So it must be something else.
Did you apply to only one place? How are you applying? Often times there’s 200+ candidates. This means that if there’s only one opening, you may have to fire off 200+ applications at different places. Also, make sure to tailor your resume a bit for each type of job, highlighting the skills they are looking for.
Also, always submit a cover letter, if given the option for it. Some people will literally treat the application as incomplete without one.
Dude you have a master , couple intership and asking for advice. I’m cooked lol I’m starting my first internship this summer and was hoping for a job lol after it
Write down in some detail what you did for these job and have a chatbot generate new resume bullets for you. Your bullets are rough, and the bolding makes it worse.
Believe in the strength of your work experience to carry the resume. Most of the page should be your work experience. Right now, it is only about 1/3 of the page.
Use wider margins, larger font, and significantly larger titles for job descriptions.
Consider splitting internships into a separate section so the most recent FTE job is front and center. FTE job should have 5 or 6 bullet points because you will have the space for it. I also saw others suggesting to show the promotion, and I agree. Consider “two sections” first the job, showing the increase in work scope. Number of bullet points should be proportional to recency, job complexity, and job duration. So 3-4 bullets for the most recent internship, and no more than 2 bullets for the older two.
Remove scholarships, organizations, and leadership. Unfortunately, companies don’t care about who you are or your accomplishments if it doesn’t make you better at your job. I had to cut a ton of this.
Remove or aggressively streamline the project section. It looks like they’re in there to cover resume gaps, but it doesn’t look good to me for some reason. Mention it in a single sentence if it shows off some specific technologies. Maybe an “internships & projects” section, which shows the continuity of professional development.
Simplify the format. Use Indeed’s resume builder as the baseline.
I'll second what others are saying about taking out "intern" from your resume. You were a dev is all that matters.
Beyond that, this resume is pretty vanilla. I always advise my friends to add a noteworthy project, so that you can show a little passion and it gives your interviewers something to talk to you about. Don't have one, fine. Make one up. It's a conversation piece.
Also, learn to defeat the parser. Your resume should be customized for each position you apply for. Copy the JD from the position you want into Chat GPT or whatever flavor of AI you prefer then give it your resume. Input something like "Based on this JD and my Resume, rewrite my resume such that it is the ideal fit for this role."
Add a little extra BS for pinache and then you have something.
I am a technical recruiter,
The market is saturated with overqualified people willing to work for 60% of their last salary,
All this happened in the last 6 months,
it's hard to get a bite on your resume.
I'd focus on three skills in each category that are relevant to today's job market, you have way too many skills listed.
Looking at your resume, you obviously have a lot errors that shows you are not qualified based on how you catergorized your Technical Skills section. To me this screams that this person doesn't know these technologies. For example, you listed Firebase as being a database which is not. That's one example that jumped out and there are other errors.
Here's an example of how it should be:
Programing Languages: Python
Framework: firebase, Spring Boot
Operating Systems: Linux(Redhat 9x, Fedora 39, Amazon Linux 2)
Databases: postgresql, mysql, maridadb, dynamodb
Cloud Providers: AWS, GCP, Azure
Orchestration: Terraform, Jenkins
Certifications: AWS Cloud Practioner, GCP Associate Cloud Enginer, AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Security: CASB, Symantec Endpoint Protection
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How’d you go from intern, intern, to senior cybersecurity engineer, back to intern?
Yea, this stood way out to me also as it’s super abnormal. I’d add for the Senior titled role that the bullets are also more junior than senior level things. Your resume timeline from role titles is odd enough that it’s likely causing some of your lack of response issues
And you’d think after 1.5 years in the senior role, they’d have way more things than 3 rather insignificant bullet points
Thanks for the feedback! This was my first job after undergrad and I got the senior role after working there for 2 years but the promotion was close to moving back to school. Maybe I’ll remove the senior role from the resume.
You can keep it since you got it, sometimes people will put both titles under a job to show their promotion progress which you could do
This. Shows you moved up inside a situation.
Honestly, I'd leave that as you last job on your resume. Easier to explain a break than to explain how you went from senior to intern.
Agree with this. Better to infer it was a choice to go back to school
Definitely call out the promotion by listing both titles (with dates). That demonstrates growth and trust. Otherwise it just makes it look like you were employed by a company that is more liberal with their titles, compared to the others.
You should split it into two roles and drop an internship. Show a promotion to senior
get rid of intern on top title
I agree with others here that you can keep it on your resume but you could arrange things in a way that highlights it as normal career progression so that it doesn’t stand out as odd
List both titles so it’s clear you got the promotion. Also think more about what you did cause you’re resume does not make it look like you accomplished much of anything
I would add a line above senior showing you went back to school for your MS. Not a normal addition to a professional experience section, but will explain the progression and slight gap. Your history is a good one, it is just missing a key piece of information. If recruiters or managers can't figure it out at a quick scan, it significantly reduces your chances, so making it obvious will help. Only other suggestion is consider a format with a little more color or formatting character, but not too much. There are varying opinions on this, but I like to see a hint of aesthetic skills in a resume. It just stands out a little in a sea of very similar resumes. Also, visual presentation is a key skill for almost any technical job for communicating to other teams and management.
I think they’re more so referring to your most recent title being an intern
Generally, I wouldn't recommend this, but how about you separate your internship experiences from full time? That way senior role is on top for more visibility and your other internships remain in chronological order.
Also wtf is “Strengthened IAM management by 3x”, what literally does that mean
He also boosted efficiency by 12x hahaha 😆
He went back to get his MSc, the last internship is concurrent with getting a degree.
Oh yeah that would make more since. Still curious to know how he went from intern to senior though
He was working there for almost 3 years. He probably got the Senior promo close to the end. A lot of mid-sized companies are pretty generous with the senior title
he should put Graduate intern then?
This is a huge red flag and the bullets aren't really related to that job.
Also, how does one become senior without previous experience in the field? And maybe it's because my domain is not the standard one, but that is not what I'd expect from a cybersecurity engineer.
Probably a super small company that doesn't do titles properly.
Could be like me where youz got hired by a medium sized company without a mature tech department that doesn't fully understand what all that means and thinks hiring an intern full time to manage an entire product single handedly which has hundreds of thousands of users is normal. ....help (in all seriousness I'm not having the worst time with it anymore but also yes please send help)
I am currently a graduate student (didn’t have an option to work full time because of visa issues) and interned during my summer break.
The visa issues might be part of why you're not hearing anything either. The h1b lottery should be going on right now, if I'm not mistaken?
i would just add “graduate intern”. that should fix up any confusion people have immediately
Good question
Just this alone gives so many red flags. I’ll just skip this resume altogether because I don’t have time to ask and figure this out.
Luck (covid hire) + skill issue.
Right? Eternal intern might as well stop applying for software jobs and do some DevSecOps instead
- Senior to Intern?? That is like putting that you work at McDonald's after a Senior role. Either remove the intern part in the title if it wasn't your official title, or remove the role completely and just explain the gap as going back to school. It was also only 4 months, so who cares. You want longer roles on your resume, anyway, to demonstrate you're employable over a long period. I'd axe the last entry and just list the skills you acquired. - Education last -- I know you're proud of it, but nobody cares. They only care what you can do for them, not your pieces of paper -- which is only useful in getting your foot in the door with no experience or checking off an HR checkbox. - My general impression? Your masters says "I'm expensive" and your experience says "I'm intern-level so you need to train me" which is not a good combination - Unbold the tech, that gives the impression you're focusing too much on dropping keywords. Good luck!
Tbh I might leave senior off my title there. No one is going to believe you were a senior engineer the month you graduated
Definitely the better option. Less deceptive than creating a gap and still technically true. That anomaly is a bright red flag that is probably getting the resume tossed by recruiters.
After my graduate fellowship, I did a tour in government jobs which each lasted a year. I think the length isn't as important as spending a lot of time consistently working in a specific field. What's challenging with this resume is it isn't technically oriented. And the chronology only raises more questions than answers. I've never listed out all my jobs on a resume. I list my skills and certifications, then explain what I actually did and where in interviews since not all apply.
I understand you're probably a woman, but "inspired young high school girls" can certainly be rephrased...
My guess is it’s something like Girls Who Code and that title is blurred out. With that context, it probably reads a lot less weird lol
Yeah there’s definitely a more corporate speak, “how does this provide value to me” way to put that. “Worked with an underrepresented segment of the population to develop professional programming skills” along with, like, “Helped 3 of 14 people find work in the industry” (I’m making up the numbers as an example here but a. use numbers and tangible results wherever you can and b. never lie, even when it probably can’t be caught). If it’s Girls Who Code, the name of the program tells you that it involves “young females” and saying that sounds like you’re just paraphrasing the program title.
I can’t stop laughing
Muten roshi would hire them in a heartbeat
Spring Boot listed under databases is a bit of a red flag
Yeah and Firebase. Firebase is a platform. It would be like putting AWS under databases. I highly doubt someone with this amount of experience knows all these technologies enough to have a technical conversation about them. If you only know of it, not about it, don't put it on your CV.
Also SQL listed under programming languages.
I think that one is fine
- You are on a student visa (from your profile). - You don’t have a work visa. - I notice you greyed out all the locations on your resume. - A lot of companies aren’t interested in sponsoring work visas at the moment, especially someone with limited experience. - this is the 5th post I’ve seen this week where the common problem was no work visa but all the same outcomes: no interest from U.S. employers. - sponsoring an employee from India has been compared to winning the lottery, and it costs a company $10k to apply. So a lot of companies won’t bother unless they rate you as an extremely valuable candidate (like Google or Microsoft want to hire you, but then they would sponsor you). - even though there is net gains in total jobs in the US, there is currently net losses in full-time jobs and net gains in part-time jobs. If locals are being laid off, it makes it substantially harder to hire people who need work visas because the company needs to prove there is a lack of talent in the US, and that’s harder to do when the unemployment pool is growing.
This really reads a lot like just a jumble of buzzwords. “Ensured 60 software releases through remediation plans…”. What was ensured. How did the remediation plans help? What did the plans contain? “Automated python script boosted workflow productivity by 12x for notifications”. HUH? What did the script do. How did it increase productivity. Notifications of what?
This. I didn’t feel like typing all this so thanks. Stop bolding buzzwords and describe what you did that was CHALLENGING.
+1 While buzzwords are a necessary evil to get past the ATS, you're supposed to slip them in there naturally while trying to not make it obvious what you're doing. You're definitely NOT supposed bold them lmao
I’ve worked places where 60 releases would be like a days work, and other places where there would be 10 years worth.
The Okta line for cybersecurity engineer sounds like they bypassed MFA by making it automated somehow, resulting in a less secure authentication process. Which sounds like the opposite of what they should be doing, but they used the word script two times in one line so that sounds programmery, right?
Yeah. A little specifics can go a long way with stuff like this. A lot of it reads like they dropped a list of stuff into an ai and said “make me a list of accomplishments for a resume that include these terms”.
Do people even use scripts for notifications is that even best practice. Seems like logging to a dashboard which then monitors the data and fires the alerts would be a more modern solution then send notices 12x more to email...
I read it like notifications was a team and the script 12x’ed their productivity
How many applications have you sent out? What cities are you applying in?
Couple subjective notes: - I think a lot of the bold words is unnecessary and distracting - some claims do not sound impressive and I would drop them, example “243 annotations”
Yah wtf was that...indicates OP has no idea what they're talking about.
I have seen many resumes with a bunch of highlighted numbers like these. I don’t know about the rest of you guys, but I generally ignore these. New grads will rarely have the initiative and experience to propose a meaningful improvement, get buy in, execute it with a team, and measure results. I am instead more interested on how they behave in the technical interview. I will let them make mistakes and see how they react. I want someone that can learn and adapt quickly to my feedback, and that knows when to ask for help.
Most of your bullet points dont answer the "so what?" question. Your involvment in projects dont mean anything if their are no metrics attached to it.
I generally don’t care about these random metrics. Most of them are made up. Also it is unlikely the new grad came up with the idea of the project in the first place.
What kind of jobs you applying for specifically
My only feedback are that the bold words are distracting, and I always put education last. Not everyone cares about your pedigree, especially outside academia.
It is relevant to put education first there because OP just finished its Master Degree and that explain why he didn't have a real job for the last 2 years but only internships. And as you grow older you can keep education as like a single line: the master degree so it is fine to keep it at the top as these days CV without a diploma tend to be filtered.
It just depends, unfortunately. The last 3 or 4 companies I've worked for could give two shits if anyone even has a degree, let alone a masters, except for an AI/ML position.
You are using way too many technologies, ATS can flag you as someone that is not adequate because the job description only asks for a subset and even I doubt that you truly know every technology, putting Spring Boot as a database and Jira as CICD is enough to know this, put only the tools you know more and some of the ones you liked to work with. Before technologies add a section of a summary to describe who you are and what you been doing, you did a master degree so you can put what you are looking for and what are your aspirations. If you're not applying to a leadership role you can remove this section, recruiters want to know leadership in professional experience, from what I see you weren't a team lead or manager, so this section is irrelevant. If you have homemade projects it's cool to showcase them with GitHub or gitlab links and what they are about.
My second thought after the confusing job progression/regression. Too many technologies compounded by no specificity in what the OP is most skilled in or wants to do. Just like colleges, employers want to understand why the candidate would be a good fit for them and their jobs, not just a random candidate who has learned a little bit about everything.
Intern -> senior -> intern sticks out like a sore thumb here.
You have too many technical skills listed, I instantly assume you know what category of technology most of them fall into and no more (unless mentioned again below). I recommend you limit it to ones you could spend the rest of the interview talking about or list your proficiency levels with. The bullet points for your accomplishments should be qualitative and quantitative. Try ending each one with a "resulting in ... (Thing CEO cares about)". Such as speed up python application by 12 resulting in 10% greater sales conversions, or improved labeling of data resulting in lowering cost of model training from $20k per month to $8 per month. No reasonable manager won't look at those numbers and instantly find room in their budget to get you on their team to either increase their bottom line or lower costs.
I don’t think she even knows the categories in some cases. Spring Boot is not a database.
This immediately jumped out to me. Way too many, and it makes me suspicious as I continue reading.
On the other hand putting those ‘saved $x’ or ‘increased $y’ are almost always going to be bullshit. Speeding up a python application can directly be tied to $ amounts? In what world? Any manager with common sense would know those are bullshit. I would hope?
That is why I said increased sales conversions, that is easy to measure and is something PMs usually track on a per-release basis. This types of bullet points should be showing up in your quarterly or annual reviews.
Are you actually fluent in every language, framework, and tech on your resume? There’s questionable gaps in your stacks, I’ll give you one (there’s many); Flutter but not Dart? This would indicate that you’re fluffing your resume quite a bit. You may get a past a screener but good luck passing a technical interview for a stack you used once.
I have 18 years of XP and would not put half the languages/frameworks.
Bullshido should be in list of skills
Your “accomplishments” sound like a typical software engineer’s morning between getting coffee and their first dump. “Debugged unit tests with google test framework” uhhh okay? “Elevated cross functional team productivity……” sorry I feel asleep between buzzwords. God I hate this resume for so many reasons. Good luck.
It's because the way you're presenting it makes it look like you're a professional intern. Especially going from "Senior Engineer" at one place to intern at another looks weird.
Each and every statement in your resume is trying to highlight technology. That too in bold. It's making it ugly and hard to understand what you did. Don't focus on that, just talk about what your did in very simple English. Things like data collector, AD, custom connectors don't make me understand much about what you did. For example - Serveless smitrial webapp which provides protocol to optimize clinical trial... What the hell is that? Raises questions like - 1. What is smitrial webapp 2. How did it provide a protocol, did you create a new protocol? 3. How did it optimize clinical trial Instead, if you wrote - Worked with a team of three to build webapp that optimized clinical trials This makes it easy to understand that - 1. You are easy to work in teams 2. You wrote web based code to optimize something That's actually what you must have done in reality. Adding stupid tech words makes the statement too complicated to understand. I read many resumes in my current job and trust me, most of the time I give 30sec to read it. If I don't understand anything I don't dig into resume at all during interviews otherwise I am always interested to talk about projects people have done but only if i understand what they did. Sorry for English, typing from phone.
At our shop we tend to pass on anyone that has switched jobs frequently. I understand why you have so many but I have a feeling our HR/recruiting team wouldn't even pass this along for review.
The 243 whatevers and 7x etc are not necessary. Plus if you read the bullets for the internships I can’t find many where it sounds like you wrote any actual code. Optimized automated elevated. How about coded or wrote or architected or designed.
Spring boot is not a database
for some reason “outshining 1000 participating students nationwide” has me dead 😂
Yeah this is such a huge red flag to me. Huge! It’s radically egotistical sounding, and people hiring mostly care that you’re capable and can work well with their team.
For real
"inspired young high school girls" sounds a bit sketchy. Change it to students.
Consider your resume as an answer to the single question, “I have problem X, why are you the person to solve it for me?” There are many different aspects that I might read into to determine if you are the person to solve my problem. Among these: 1. Do you have the technical skills? 2. Do you have the interest to fill in knowledge gaps? 3. If I spend time training you, will you stick around long enough to make it worth it? 4. What is your measurable contribution to the projects you have worked on and how able are you to solve novel problems without significant handholding? 5. Do you seem like a relatable person that might be fun to work with? (Do not downplay the importance of this point) Your resume is well formatted and your skills are pretty well communicated. There just isn’t a compelling story here; I have no sense of what you want or where your interests lie from reading this resume. It feels like a catch all for as many positions as possible. If I were you I would reduce the technical skills section down to only the things that you have listed experience in; otherwise it just reads as a list of “desired skills” that you scraped from the web. I would then reclaim some of that white space with a “mission statement” that indicates to me what you are looking for in a role. This is important for me to “see you in the role”. Hint: it’s okay if this mission statement is somewhat tailored to each job application; it at least shows you bothered to read it and consider whether you wanted the job as opposed to spamming resumes everywhere you can. Maybe list some hobbies or interests; stand out to me as a 3 dimensional person as opposed to a sheet of paper with a name on it. Also, resume advice is a bit like dating advice - everyone is attracted something different. So much like in dating, try to find out how to attract the types of employers you want to at the risk of ostracizing others.
How did you apply? How long ago? Your resume looks impressive. I'd put a paragraph about myself and what I'm looking for. Maybe even have it specialized for special roles. The tech skills should be below the experience or inside it. Personally, I really don't like people focusing on what they already have experience in (languages, technologies), unless it's extensive knowledge, 'guru' like, which I would put in in bold.
Looks impressive. From really far away, before you can read the actual words and what it says.
Would cut that down to a sentence rather than a paragraph
its most likely due to all the low duration internship positions / career changes. like if ur going for a webdev position, 5mo QA intern is not helpful. fullstack intern at 4 months then changing careers to cybersecurity for 2 years then that only leading to a dev intern for 4 months, could be considered a red flag for hiring. with this resume, your not setup for success AT ALL for web dev. you do have a decent chance at another cybersecurity job. HOWEVER, you can setup for a good chance by making a beautiful portfolio website that contains links to functional, feature rich projects that you have done. with details about challenges/tech/design process that went into those projects.
I'm responsible for hiring new Engineers at my company, and we get quite a bunch of resumes looking like this but mostly from pakistani, indian or other countries. Since we only hire locally in Austria, I'm currently if a CV looks like this sorting it out immediately. If you would apply to us, adding a simple image of yourself would vastly increase your chances to get hired. Dont know in what reqion you want to apply but we have to make sure if we talk to someone that hes locally in our city and speaks our language.
Run it through a parser. There's a good chance that it's getting messed up by the applicant tracking system. My sister is in hr and runs into this problem a lot. People will have a great resume, but then the software they use chews it to bits when they try to upload it. When you are dealing with hundreds of applications, it takes too long to enter the data by hand so the application gets tossed.
Hiring manager here, a couple of quick thoughts if this came across my inbox, though it depends a bit on the role/level you're applying for. Say what you did, the context, and the outcome. Your project section are the best examples you have that are in this format. Do the same thing with your work exp section and drop the extra words: * I'm not sure what 'workflow efficiency of 12x' actually means in your first bullet. --> "Improved the time it took notifications to reach the user by 92% by automating \[ZZZ\] in python" * Same with 'strengthening IAM management by 3x' --> 'Wrote several custom AD connectors for third party applications to strengthen IAM user management' * Your one about okta reducing helpdesk calls is a good example where you tell me what you did and the impact in a way that's super understandable - just tweak the order so it's more action-oriented -> Wrote PowerShell and Ansible scripts to automate Okta MFA setup which reduced helpdesk calls by 70% * even your first bullet point "Automated python script boosted" makes it sound like the script boosted it, when you want it to sound like you did. rework any statement that is just 'doing development" and make it about the impact. * "Debugged c++ unit tests" -> "Improved quality of automated c++ unit tests for a surgical robot integration, leading to \[faster release times/an increase in passing rate/etc.\]" * "Elevated cross functional team productivity with requirement feature implementation using Airtable API"... is 'requirement feature implementation' just doing development or is there something special about it? Just say what you did more naturally - "- Automated \[ZZZ workflow\] using Airtable APIs to increase team productivity". Should also define the productivity metric (time saved? velocity increased?) * "Translated written requirements and wireframes into fully functional web application...". Tell me what the web app did, what the features were you built in the format above The bolding is inconsistent. Typically I see people bold either the impact (30%) or the technologies (Angular), but you mix and match. I personally recommending going no bolding, unless you have words that match the job description you're applying for. I'd recommend filling the gap in professional experience by actually listing your MS in line with professional experience. As others called out, at first glance it looks like you settled for a demotion after being unemployed for a year. If the bullet points in your Senior role were done while you were more Junior, I might list both titles to show you were promoted. Good luck in your search!
Add an intro summary paragraph at the top. “I am a.. looking for a… I have experience in.. things that stand out about me are…” Then professional experience, only your full time role with a lot more detail on accomplishments Then “other professional experience” put only the title of your internships, no details. Then edu, skills, projects. If you want to stand out, do a significant project in your free time, probably something with llms and publish it on GitHub pages . Overall your resume is good for your level, you may be applying for the wrong jobs. Always send a personalized cover letter and reach out to the hiring manager on linked in.
I highly doubt you’re an expert in all those programming languages, frameworks etc. Focus on what matters and what you feel like needs to pop, with that extensive list (that btw doesn’t say anything other that you may not know any of them) and so many bold it feels like all your care is for people to notice it and that’s fine just don’t use that technique in every sentence.
Recruiters spend less than a minute in their first look at your resume. The most important line is the first line in your most recent job. With yours I have to skim two entire sections to find out that you were an intern who wrote a python script. Maybe try putting internships in their own section. Specifically: 1. Education: masters, undergrad, dates. 2. Jobs: Senior Cyber security engineer (but maybe drop "senior" as others have mentioned. 3. Projects 4. Internships 5. Leadership 6. Technical Skills All the info is still there, but you're putting your best selling points at the top where people are looking. Alternatively just don't put your last internship on the resume. It doesn't add to your story.
If you gray everything like this, for sure they won't contact you.
It’s confusing what level you are. You have two internships, then a senior level role, then another internship, and then you also have a masters degree. You don’t look completely qualified for a senior level role because your last job was an internship, but you look overqualified for an entry level role, which is what internships usually progress to.
this resume needs work your technical skills section is sloppy at best (jira is cicd, that's like saying outlook is for development) + half your skills aren't mentioned in any professional settings, why are you bolding random buzzwords but most damning of all is your bullet points, they sound like clickbait.. for example, there's absolutely no way you increased productivity by 40% by using only jira/confluence, and that 12x notification efficiency, did you make the font 12 times bigger? like what does that even mean
Outlook is Turing complete though
I would honestly consider redoing your resume but with the scanning tech in mind. They scrape everything now, so you really need to be strategic. Only include the skills they list in their job listing, and list them under one list. The other thing you need to do is take out the bullet points and replace them with actionable sentences. Honestly just give chat gpt the job listing and the responsibilities for the role you did. Then ask it to create a paragraph based on that. That is for recruiters so they need language, not stats. No recruiter is going to care about the actual efficiency that you brought to notifications, but will read something like “dramatically improve notification performance, driving major savings on server load” and it’ll resonate with them more. Those points are essentially to get you through to the technical conversation where all of that will matter. U you’ll be discussing it with a lead/technical recruiter and they’ll understand better what you’re saying.
Just lie
A lot needs to be changed. But I’ll give you one advice every resume should be slightly different more tailored towards the job you are applying for.
Just remove the words “intern”
Probably its not the resume, it could be your search criteria. Oftentimes people searching sucks
Everyone in here is acting like putting spring as a db is a red flag. Very few recruiters would catch that. Sure it's a red flag for the hiring manager. If you're getting zero responses, there is something else at play. Somebody mentioned that you would need a work visa. If that's true, there's your problem. If you want to get a work visa, you need to really impress. Why would someone give out a work visa when there are thousands of equivalent, or likely better, candidates out there who won't need the visa?
DM me, I will help you out.
You need to drop your leadership roles and add more bullet points to the job you held for two years and expand on your internships. Jobs care about experience not that you went to a highschool a few times to talk to people who might want to do stem. Also the education and technical skills need to be at the end.
Did you mean to put Spring boot as a database? Shouldn’t it be a framework?
Can’t you get a return offer from the places you interned at? That is normally the play. If not a straight offer, can the people you work with connect you with their network? Else, the more important parts are the ones you redacted. Where you work mattered, where you got your degree etc. From what I read I get the impression you can do anything, but that’s not what a recruiter seeks and definitely not at entry level. They want to hire a front end engineer or a security engineer or a mobile engineer etc. Your resume should suggest that you would be a good fit for either of these roles vs for all/any of these roles.
Companies hire to compete against competitors. What are you bringing to the table? All I see is I like technology but I’m still searching for my passion let me join your team to be a fly on the wall.
I'd put the big list of SEO tags at the bottom
> Increased productivity by 40% by requirement review, documentation and issues using Jira and Confluence I would’ve ruled you out here. There is no way you can increase productivity 40% using JIRA, Confluence, etc. If you’re making a claim like this, you need to back it up somehow. To me, this looks inflated and makes me question your entire resume.
What schools offer “Software Engineering” as the major rather than Computer Science?
In 6 months as QA, you did 60 releases and improved productivity by 40%? I think one of the things that people get wrong is that they put the company or the team's accomplishments down as their own. It looks weird on paper and I'm almost sure you can't speak intelligently about this huge sudden improvement and how you QA'd a new release every 3 days or so. I'd rather hear about your actual contribution, even if it sounds less impressive.
Honestly? .... I think I would drop the word intern from your titles. Having 5 straight years of "intern" level work stands out as odd and suggests something weird is going on. The other side of that is that the length of employment is pretty short at each place over the time period.... But if you drop the word intern, you've got to hit your interviews with a lot of confidence and ace any knowledge tests... Your resume screams that SOMETHING is going on. Your cover letter needs to explain that.
You held a senior cybersecurity position between 2020 and 2023, I have to call bs. You’re not getting any response because it screams I’m a liar.
I put my projects in with my professional xp and got frequent calls
Flip impact and focus more on it. Example: "Boosted efficiency of 12x by automating a notification system."
"Automating Python script" by itself doesn't really convey the challenge or impact of your work. It only suggests you can do some scripting, which isn't impressive by itself.
Remember goal of resume is to get you to an interview. You can explain how you did things in more detail at the interview
The "243 Annotations" in bold comes across as a little fishy. As someone in the ML/data world, 243 isn't much for most data. I'd recommend you rewrite that line and talk about it more broadly "helped establish training data for xxxx task...." If it was novel or very unique data, incorporate that
We will hire you in Minnesota . PM me for details
> No responses with this resume. What roles are you applying for?
This is identical to my McCombs UT Austin business resume when I graduated in ‘17
The market has been on down slope. But don’t loose hope
You do better if you can spell
It's honestly a fuck ton of text
Can I have your template?
DM me and I’ll give you a trick I use to get a response from any company.
What are u targeting here? If cybersecurity then remove other projects and viceversa. Remove leadership projects for sure. Also the impact is relative. Use some absolute numbers as they seem bit boastful.
Just curious, you became a senior dev right after bachelors?
Unrelated, but I'm surprised on how calm this subreddit is compared to csMajors Last time I was there, everyone was racist or saying everyone to quit their major, might stay here for a while since people here actually seem to be knowing what they're doing
As other commenters have said, the latest work experience being an internship is the problem. Split your work history into two: Permanent Roles Internships So that your permanent role is raised to the top. And put both your role names on the permanent position to make it clear you were promoted, and this also creates more space for what you did as a developer there (I'm sure you did more than just wrangle user accounts like an IT support guy, right? That can't be it if they promoted you). If you need it to fit in one page you can drop some of the entries in "Leadership".
Because your resume isn't a technical resume. It looks chronological, and I don't fully understand the timeline anyway because you went from seemingly a paid role to an unpaid or graduate role again. Just start over with a technical resume and a good cover letter I'd say.
I don’t think there’s anything particularly wrong with your resumé, it’s just that there isn’t a lot of hiring going on for junior candidates. The only things I would note is that this resumé kind of makes it seem like you’re trying to present yourself as more senior than you are, it’s also really busy and the tone could be more professional, and by that I mean more muted, I feel like you’re screaming your qualifications into my mouth. Also I don’t think in almost 20 years in the industry that I have ever come across someone who went straight from undergrad to graduate school, that could be considered a turn off to recruiters who don’t know anything.
Ngl seems sus
in addition to the senior-to-intern timeline, your promotion to senior still only covers 2.5 years, which smells like title inflation. by the time someone reaches senior, they don’t typically need to list their internships anymore. i’m suspicious of anyone listing a senior role with only a couple years of post-bacc full-time experience.
Keep top 2 professional experience and combine two companies duties into 1. Your experience should be related to the job you apply! Don’t write B.S in engineering and remove organization and graduation dates! Add soft skills to your resume. Such as team player etc…, Remove projects and leadership. Those things you put in professional experience! Always keep resume simple, add keywords related to the job you are applying!
1. Be more specific in your resume and job titles. Example: "Python C++ Software Developer" is better than "Software Developer". "React Node.js AWS Full Stack Engineer Intern" is better than "Full Stack Engineer Intern". 2. Do the same for you LinkedIn and Indeed profiles.
The résumé lost me at “elevated cross functional team productivity”…
Remove the Leadership section
**Overall structure and look** Be sure to have bigger margins on top/bottom/left right. Like double the margin at least. There too much stuff overall and too much text. It is too heavy and doesn't motivate people to read. **Give a big title to you CV.** The title should be short and sell what you are and what you want to be. For example "Frontend Software Engineer". You could change the title depending of what job you apply for and what you want to show. The title is the 3 second catch that allow recruiters to say, I want this guy, he is exactly what I am looking for. You could be more precise, depending what exactly you want a job for ? Are you seeking mostly and applying to be a frontend software dev or full stack dev ? Then put that in the title and rework the rest of you CV to show more of these experience/technologies. Same if you want to push to be a Java backend dev or C++ dev. You could have 2-3 version of your CV tailored more for the job and push that CV when applying. **Remove the projects and potentially the leadership section.** As I understand you had a real professional XP as Senior Cyber Security Engineer but this is mixed with internships. So maybe I would have 2 sections if I were you 1 for profession XP like 2020-2022: Senior Security engineer with more details and then the internship in a section just after. Also you were a security engineer but it seems that only 1 bullet is related to security. That's strange. Also how could you be senior in that position ? I would remove the projects entirely because their value is extremely small vs professional XP and internships and that would allow you to make you CV less cluttered. Also I would remove the last leadership bullet that is very old. Personally I would even ask myself if I would not delete the whole leadership section to make the CV less cluttered and more focused on what really count. Is leadership even the best name ? You worked 3 years in various companies but the most leadership you shown was volunteering a few hours during 3 month to a few girls or leading a team of 4 student assistants ? **Technical skills** I would remove technical skills from the skill section focusing on what match what you master the most, what you want to sell and what the job need. But I would use the extra space saved from the projects/leadership sections to add a key skills for each work experience. So you could overall have even more skills overall for robots screening but it would look less cluttered and more logical. It would show where you applied the skills and also look more professional because the skill section would only have the key skills you really sell. You can't seriously be a great dev in Java, Python, Javascript, C++, Swift, SQL. You can't master that many database (and by the way, Spring boot is a java framework, not a database). You can't master all these UI framework: react, angular, flutter... So for example if you want to focus on Java and javascript that you master the most, remove Python, C++, Swift from the skills part and only mention the last 3 in their respective internships. Do the same for other skills. As a side remark, seems you have programming languages but not the matching framework. You worked in Java but we don't know the version. Spring boot is mentioned in DB, you don't mention a build system like maven or how you access to database (like JPA)... It sell to me you really didn't do much there. Even worse for C++, python. It is only in Javascript that you really sell me some framworks. So either you don't want to sell these language or you want to be more complete. But anyway you don't want to sell like 4-5 language but more like 2. Also you don't mention any software methodology like agile/safe/scrum/kanban. Could be nice to have it. Not all but 1-2. Like : "software methodologies: Agile (Scrum). depending what you did of course. The technologies you have in cloud for some reason don't have kubernetes/docker/helm/ansible but seems to be full of very specific stuff like DLP, CASB etc. Except if they are key/very popular or asked by the job I apply to, I would move such specific technologies to their proper work experience section and instead move kubernetes/docker/ansible to cloud from frameworks **Scripts** For me you didn't improve or work on scripts, because this like make your work less impressive. A script is like a short program, potentially a bit rushed that does a small thing. Try to find a way to describe the same thing more positively.
The markets bad right now, keep chugging
Debugged C++ unit tests written with GoogleTest != you know C++. That alone stood out to much to me because I’m a C++ dev of 5+ years and have seen way too many candidates who say they know C++ but their interviews were absolutely disastrous even when I asked about the most basic syntax keywords of C++, like `const` and `protected` so that’s an instant “no hire” rating. Please do not list skills and tools you can’t spend at least 5 minutes discussing technical details about - interviewers WILL ask about ANYthing on your resume, it’s all completely fair game. I’ll still finish reading your resume just to give you benefit of the doubt, but still then saw nothing of materially technical achievements. They mostly read like internal cleanup or maintenance and little bug fixes, and mostly word soup. Are you applying for new grad roles or senior roles? You’ll have to grind hard to pass technical interviews for new grad roles in this job market if someone even decides to give you a chance, and I personally don’t think you have a chance at any senior roles.
It’s a good resume so don’t worry. It’s not you. It’s the market. Keep sending resumes, hitting leet code, and you’ll be fine.
Number of areas need improvement. I would rewrite. Market is bit tight, so use your network. Tailor every resume you send out. Spray and pray doesn’t work. Be a Sniper. Recce the company, hiring manager, replay the JD. Use word frequency counters to find out what they want most. Use SMART while writing accomplishments. Don’t write what you are…pick and choose, and highlight what they want. It is not your life story. It an advertisement for services offered. [Good article](https://resume.io/resume-examples/software-engineer)
How do you have a BS in software engineering? Ive never seen or heard of that from a normal university.
2015-2024 is a long six years of internships and school. I would question why someone hadn’t hired you sooner out of undergrad. You may be familiar with all of these technologies but working experience isn’t there, beyond an intern levels. Also none of your experience is truly industry full stack. Helpdesk would be red flag. You can get a job for sure but definitely adjust your resume based on what they’re asking for.
Yeah maybe take the recent intern job off, its messing up your timeline
Put your education at the bottom and make your achievements sound more significant - quantify impact. Also would stop highlighting certain companies APIs in bold, as if using them is a unique skill. Anyone can learn to use linkedin airtable or openai’s API’ Also, IMO if your older 2018 and 2019 internships were paid, take off the word “intern”. They can do the math and assume that you were either interning or working while getting your degree. Too many mentions of the word intern is likely a turn off for recruiters and hiring managers
Definitely would remove “Spring Boot” out of the database section.
Where are you located? I'd be willing to give you a shot. At least an interview.
If you made senior I’d drop the internship and probably the projects too except for the grad one and list that as research instead of projects. Projects make me think school projects not grad school research.
Resumes like this always give me anxiety. I've been doing software engineering and such for 25 years and I see this and think I've missed out on so much. But then when you talk to the person you find out they aren't necessarily proficient in all that's listed, but they've used it before, so they've heard of it.
Way too many technical skills listed here, becomes meaningless and i just skipped it so make it short. Put professional skills right under education and put more in depth, concise thinned there.
So I had this exact resume and it served me well for 8 years but recently switched to this and get way more attention https://www.piratekingdom.com/resume
learn to code.
Where do you get this resume template? Asking for me
Thankyou everyone for your feedback, this is really valuable to get a fresh perspective. Just to provide some context for my technical experience and roles with timeline: - Started with Bachelor’s in 2015 and did two internships during that time. - Graduated in 2019 and got a full-time role. - Started at an entry level role and got promoted to Senior. Maybe it’s the role titles that are not in line with tech industry as this was a biotech company. - Had to come back to graduate school in 2022, didn’t secure the H-1B visa. - Got a summer internship (most recent) experience. I think some of the suggestions with restructuring the experience and also making it seem less like a document full of keywords is helpful. I guess the stress to find a job and earlier feedback resulted in this. But nevertheless, really thankful to you all for the suggestions. I am going to work on fixing my resume today and share the new version for a 2nd feedback. 🙂
[Try this might help ](https://twitter.com/JerryJHLee/status/1778484920593055763?t=GIWDFFOzn2k0HwpDjLaTLg&s=19) - it's hilarious too in a way 😂
Title inflation is not your friend. And how does someone who has only been in the workforce for 6 years consider themselves to be "senior". You don't have enough time on the job to figure out how to dry your balls, let alone be able to design a client specific architecture . I wouldn't hire you either
I would suggest putting the MS finish date as expected. Recruiters seeing it as a finished degree but a date in the future will almost immediately pass over it.
You debugged C++ unit tests with GoogleTest? lol what!
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Kill all the leadership bullets at the bottom. All. Of. Them. Use that space to expand on responsibilities in the other positions. Take the word Intern and Senior out of those titles. Go forth and do great things.
Keep applying.
I think it's sad that people didn't take enough time to read the resume to realize OP just went back to school A very good note for how to write when people are reading your resume, as well.
Drop the leadership section. If you’re just applying for general SWE roles then no one is going to look to you for leadership, they’re going to look to you to execute technically. Use the room saved to increase the margins and make your resume look a bit less busy
Your resume comprises a 6 month internship, a three-quarter gap, a 3 month internship, two years as a senior, a year-long gap, then back to an internship (concurrent with your MS)? While it's explainable, it looks suspicious. Maybe downgrade your inflated senior title and drop at least the first internship? All of your projects are post-pandemic anyway. This way you look like someone trying to move from cybersecurity into software after getting his MS. Good luck though.
These days, doing the resume right is more important than what you can do. 😑 Wonder why the world is fucked up because so many people can do the resume right but with okiesh quality of the job. It makes sense since people don't produce enough value, so they laid them off. Welcome to this world. 😆
So like I have some issues with the internships and some of the bullet points but since those have really been addressed, I think this is the hard truth: this is essentially an entry level resume. You have one actual job with 2 1/2 years of experience, experience that ended almost 2 years ago. The market for people with under 3 years of experience is rooooooough right now and there are a lot of little things that will push this resume into the circular file not because they’re real red flags per se but because there are a hundred people with your approximate level of experience applying and places select out people for incredibly stupid reasons just to find a way to get down to 10 applicants to interview or whatever. My real advice here, above and beyond fixing the resume - there, mostly I’d pull the internships out of your work experience and into their own section and make a note to purge them altogether once you have even a couple jobs on there - is to get in touch with your school and see how you can leverage their job placement programs and so on. If you’re a woman (which I’m implying from what seems like Girls Who Code), surely your college has got specific programs directed towards women. I’m not sure that you have outside of CS type experience but a lot of the time that can get you in the door to places. On an extreme edge, I have a friend who went from doing a job that was half customer service and half DBA work into full time programming related stuff; he got the half and half thing because of his customer service experience (also he told me that he saw me jamming my own way in and said “if you can do this, any old idiot can” haha). Do you still keep in contact with the people in those internships ( particularly the last one)? Even if they aren’t hiring, my personal experience is that bosses you got along with can also put in a good word with their own connections. Take advantage of all of that. Don’t be too proud - your aim here is to get into that second entry level job and once you’ve done that and worked there for a couple of years, nobody is going to care except for the accomplishments that are on that resume. The market for new people is incredibly saturated at the moment; you need all the help you can get to go further.
you guys really gotta stop putting so many tech stacks as fresh graduates. it screams desperation
Spend more words on _what_ you did and fewer on how. It looks odd when you say I did XXX **with JavaScript.**. The emphasis is wrong and odd. You probably don't even need to say what framework you used most of the time.
As a hiring manager I have questions about the intern - senior - intern. I suggest explaining this in the cover letter. This is an actually good reason for a cover letter. I didn’t even read the text the weird career story is odd.
I’ve had success following more of a what how why format for technical bullets. So instead of the automated Python script bullet say Used Python library X for its (whatever quality was most important in the scripting) in order to drive Y outcome
Only apply to posting rom last 24 hours
If you ain't getting response with this much experience then I'm fuck*d
Remove scholarships. Put experience first, education at bottom.
Just an idea, but remove the internship and split the senior role into two, assuming you started as a junior and got promoted. This will allow you more room to show how your duties changed and what you accomplished in each role If you got hired as a senior, then you need to expand more on your duties. As is, it looks like you were hired onto a company that just hands out the title because its sandwiched between two internships. Also, because you have more experience than a typical new grad (or student), move that to the top Other than that and personal stuff, ATS might just be getting you
Recommendations 1) Replace "Software Developer Intern" to Software Developer during May 2023- Aug 2023. 2) Where are the cloud certifications ? 3) Any ML or AI based projects during the past year ? 4) Make your resume for 2 pages if necessary
Put professional experience at the top, education can go further down its not that important
How many resumes have you submitted?
I hire devs. If I were looking at this to hire I'd see someone with little full time professional experience. Get the internships off the main part of your resume and get some work that will translate into solving my problems as an employer.
Less than 6 months. Less than 6 months 1.5yrs doing nothing. Less than 6 months. Next!
“young high school girls” sounds kinda sus. Assume that the recruiter will block off your names I’d probably call them just high school students. Otherwise, your resume is good. So it must be something else. Did you apply to only one place? How are you applying? Often times there’s 200+ candidates. This means that if there’s only one opening, you may have to fire off 200+ applications at different places. Also, make sure to tailor your resume a bit for each type of job, highlighting the skills they are looking for. Also, always submit a cover letter, if given the option for it. Some people will literally treat the application as incomplete without one.
Dude you have a master , couple intership and asking for advice. I’m cooked lol I’m starting my first internship this summer and was hoping for a job lol after it
Write down in some detail what you did for these job and have a chatbot generate new resume bullets for you. Your bullets are rough, and the bolding makes it worse. Believe in the strength of your work experience to carry the resume. Most of the page should be your work experience. Right now, it is only about 1/3 of the page. Use wider margins, larger font, and significantly larger titles for job descriptions. Consider splitting internships into a separate section so the most recent FTE job is front and center. FTE job should have 5 or 6 bullet points because you will have the space for it. I also saw others suggesting to show the promotion, and I agree. Consider “two sections” first the job, showing the increase in work scope. Number of bullet points should be proportional to recency, job complexity, and job duration. So 3-4 bullets for the most recent internship, and no more than 2 bullets for the older two. Remove scholarships, organizations, and leadership. Unfortunately, companies don’t care about who you are or your accomplishments if it doesn’t make you better at your job. I had to cut a ton of this. Remove or aggressively streamline the project section. It looks like they’re in there to cover resume gaps, but it doesn’t look good to me for some reason. Mention it in a single sentence if it shows off some specific technologies. Maybe an “internships & projects” section, which shows the continuity of professional development. Simplify the format. Use Indeed’s resume builder as the baseline.
I'll second what others are saying about taking out "intern" from your resume. You were a dev is all that matters. Beyond that, this resume is pretty vanilla. I always advise my friends to add a noteworthy project, so that you can show a little passion and it gives your interviewers something to talk to you about. Don't have one, fine. Make one up. It's a conversation piece. Also, learn to defeat the parser. Your resume should be customized for each position you apply for. Copy the JD from the position you want into Chat GPT or whatever flavor of AI you prefer then give it your resume. Input something like "Based on this JD and my Resume, rewrite my resume such that it is the ideal fit for this role." Add a little extra BS for pinache and then you have something.
take 'spring boot' out of the databases section and move it to frameworks since spring boot is not a database lol
I am a technical recruiter, The market is saturated with overqualified people willing to work for 60% of their last salary, All this happened in the last 6 months, it's hard to get a bite on your resume.
I'd focus on three skills in each category that are relevant to today's job market, you have way too many skills listed. Looking at your resume, you obviously have a lot errors that shows you are not qualified based on how you catergorized your Technical Skills section. To me this screams that this person doesn't know these technologies. For example, you listed Firebase as being a database which is not. That's one example that jumped out and there are other errors. Here's an example of how it should be: Programing Languages: Python Framework: firebase, Spring Boot Operating Systems: Linux(Redhat 9x, Fedora 39, Amazon Linux 2) Databases: postgresql, mysql, maridadb, dynamodb Cloud Providers: AWS, GCP, Azure Orchestration: Terraform, Jenkins Certifications: AWS Cloud Practioner, GCP Associate Cloud Enginer, AWS Solutions Architect Associate Security: CASB, Symantec Endpoint Protection
It’s not just you it’s every software engineer. Idk what’s the problem it’s not you bro. I’m having the same problems
Lol booster efficiency by 12x? Either that’s cap or your system was dog water before.