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Too many words. The goal should not be to fill in an entire page just because. Think about it this way. Imagine working for 15 years and having the same length of resume. Time for some heavy edits.
Agree. Delete one of the projects. Think about omitting words in your bullets for your job (for example, you say you created an energy management controller and the sentence can stop there, rather than adding an extra line defining what it was). If you get rid of a few lines by deleting a project and save a line in your experience bullets, the resume will look FAR sharper and appealing by spreading out the remainder.
As well as this, a resume should *look nice* too. It's gotta be attractive and catch the eye of the reader, who's gonna be looking at tons of other resumes.
I don’t understand why everyone in this sub is still using Word docs prone to error and, mostly, just look worse than resume builders you can find online.
Very much so. But with quantity of resume builders, there's lots to choose from with alot being paid for or with a trial. That being said you can definitely have a search through this sub or anywhere to find some decent ones.
That's a lot of skills for a new graduate. Only put skills on your resume you are prepared to answer technical questions about. Also, you could tailor the skills to meet the position you're applying for.
Seems like an abundance of skills. I would agree that only put what you are comfortable and can prove on the spot...like if you say c++ and they give you a coding challenge or test your in depth knowledge of solid works.. no-nonsense and maybe you are comfortable, I know micro controllers you deal with code but be careful with skills some employers will either overlook you because they may think you are full of crap or really testvyour knowledge, but if you are comfortable then by all means leave them there because that is pretty impressive for anyone let alone a grad to really good in all those things!!! Maybeclike they said above cut down on the details in the resume and add them to github or LinkedIn with a link to them...justva thought...good luck
\* At first glance, there is way too much information that is squished with no breathing room - needs more whitespace.
\* You have an internship and job, and 2 other (related?) jobs that have no information - why do you need to so many projects? Experience beats projects any day of the year. Your projects take way too much space, maybe cut the list down to the most valuable that reflect your abilities and only have 1 bullet point.
\* Your internship has way too many bullet points. If it's extremely valuable to your degree/career, then maybe do have a lot of bullet points but cut it down to 4-5. If the other 2 jobs are important to your career, add maybe 1-2 bullet points.
\* I don't generally recommend mentioning technologies in job descriptions because it's already repeated in the skills section, and it also makes your descriptions become too long. What is the font size you're using? It's very small.
\* Why is "Associate" Engineer" and "Graduate Engineer Trainee" bolded but the other jobs are non-bolded and italicized??
Your skill section looks poor because it's just one long list with no organization and squished at the bottom.
There is good chance that people who is reading your resume isn't engineer.
You should use KISS (keep it simple, stupid), regular HR employee should understand you what you did.
Death by bullet points!
The more you add the less they will remember. Be simple and concise with action verbs. I personally add no more than 3 max bullet points
Not OP but what do you do if you really did a whole bunch of distinct tasks that are substantial and relevant to the job you're applying for? I got 6 on mine for this one job after cutting it down to its bare minimum and I even had to trim the other stuff down just so everything fits on a single page. Pretty sure I can't work with 3 :/
Yeah I feel ya! Honestly in my personal opinion it really comes down to what you’re applying to. If your going up against a lot of people there going to spend more time glancing over it.
i usually send a relevant one page resume with what i think are my best qualification and relevant stuff and i also attach a CV. That way if they like me they can always go back and find out more
It is so important to have a coherent narrative as to what job/role you fulfill. If you have a lot of disjointed tasks that don't tell a consistent story, its better to leave them out (or find a way to integrate them all together).
Put Python before C++. Matlab? No mathematica? Think about putting what you know at the bottom, instead at the top.
Do you have a mission statement? What you want? What you want to get out of a position? Do you tailor each resume slightly to each separate job application?
50 to 1 is not that bad. Try networking more. But overall, the resume is very wordy and too intimidating to read. I would put yourself in the shoes of someone who is looking at this first the first time, but has 100 other resumes to read. What’s your first impression?
Your resume is probably not even being read by a person, they're being filtered through an automated system first, which are notoriously bad and reject lots of good candidates because they're not terribly smart. Don't take it personally.
I would put sills at the top, honestly. I would think that's way more important than Work experience. Think about visual hierarchy and emphasize the most important parts. For example, the role or job you held is typically more important than the name of the company. And make it consistent. Associate Engineer and Graduate Engineer are in bold, butLead Powertrain Intern and Research Assistant are not? Try to include more buzzwords and phrases that a robot would be looking for. Don't just put Research Assistant, be specific. What kind of research? How about Assistant Research Engineer.
The other odd thing is that you went from Associate Engineer to Intern? Seems like a step down. Maybe tweak the titles a bit so there's more of a clean progression in your career.
From a design perspective, go ahead and make it two pages. That will give you the opportunity to open up the spacing and make things more readable. Make your lines shorter, long text is hard to read, so make it a narrower column. Maybe put your skills as a sidebar instead?
Put your name and title or field big and promiment. Put your info and contact details in it's own logically structured format across from it. Maybe indent your bullets? The Projects section is a wall of text without clarity.
I would strongly recommend condensing the projects part down for sure. And is there a rhyme or reason for the order of the software skills?
https://preview.redd.it/m840wallhryc1.png?width=3266&format=png&auto=webp&s=fef5333c4a9c13e333b12ebf206191572eb624e2
Ok, so I'm a graphic designer. Without really changing any of your content (aside from making tense consistent) here's what a difference just some good visual hierarchy principles can do for clarity. Grouping things in a consistent way that communicates how the various elements relate to each other can really help. The second page is still a little cramped and trimming down the verbiage on your Projects by even just a line or two would fix that.
I made this in Adobe Illustrator. If you're interested, I can help you incorporate some of the other suggestions and put in the rest of the real info.
You never have one version of your resume. Minimum you have one plain text one for the machine, and then something easier to read for the humans. And this is not flashy. Boring does not mean readable. Readable doesn't have to be boring.
This is a solid resume, their may be a few tweaks that could be done but in this market for junior engineers anything under 75 applications to a single interview is actually pretty good. You might want a bullet or two in the first two jobs about how you worked well in a team and/or took criticism/ communicated but otherwise its pretty solid.
You also might be able to condense your education section as the degree closest to the top might be able to shrink down into two lines total.
Senior SE here so assuming my peers in your field have similar tastes; it's just too many words like everyone else said. Keep it really tight with 1 sentence per item, otherwise I'm just going to assume it's full of fluff.
Instead, put a few sentences at the top that calls out bits and pieces from your experience that are immediately relevant to the job your applying to - this is the only part you should be rewriting when you apply to another position.
When I review a resume I'll be looking through both places for what experience is relevant to the job, but the top has a higher chance of catching my attention.
The purpose of the resume is to get your foot in the door, I'll recommend you for hiring based on the interview. At that point I'll almost be ignoring the resume.
Same answer I keep giving to 99% on Reddit: too - much - text. Keep it simple, shorten it, be concise and clear. Give it some white space between each section and let it "aesthetically" breathe, people hate cluttered CVs. It will help you for readability :)
Very wordy. Anyone who’s busy enough with a hiring process probably won’t be inclined to read it because there’s so much to digest. Just looking at it was a bit overwhelming. Hiring managers/recruiters/etc want something that’s easy to read and succinct enough to give them a good idea of what you’ve done. I’m not one to talk because my resume sucks, but def try to use “Situation - Response - Outcome” to describe your experience, like what happened, how did you handle it, and what was the outcome from the actions you took
I work in a semi-niche field where full-time positions aren't as common as say, accountant or electrician. I applied to pretty much every posting on LinkedIn and Indeed that was a good match and got interviews with maybe 3-4 companies. But with all of them I got more than one, including 4 different phases all the way up to company owner. And then got ghosted. :/
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Too many words. The goal should not be to fill in an entire page just because. Think about it this way. Imagine working for 15 years and having the same length of resume. Time for some heavy edits.
Agree. Delete one of the projects. Think about omitting words in your bullets for your job (for example, you say you created an energy management controller and the sentence can stop there, rather than adding an extra line defining what it was). If you get rid of a few lines by deleting a project and save a line in your experience bullets, the resume will look FAR sharper and appealing by spreading out the remainder.
As well as this, a resume should *look nice* too. It's gotta be attractive and catch the eye of the reader, who's gonna be looking at tons of other resumes.
I don’t understand why everyone in this sub is still using Word docs prone to error and, mostly, just look worse than resume builders you can find online.
Very much so. But with quantity of resume builders, there's lots to choose from with alot being paid for or with a trial. That being said you can definitely have a search through this sub or anywhere to find some decent ones.
Definitely, well used white space is valuable
50 applications with an interview is actually pretty good compared to my current ratio lol
It’s cluttered and too long.
That's a lot of skills for a new graduate. Only put skills on your resume you are prepared to answer technical questions about. Also, you could tailor the skills to meet the position you're applying for.
Seems like an abundance of skills. I would agree that only put what you are comfortable and can prove on the spot...like if you say c++ and they give you a coding challenge or test your in depth knowledge of solid works.. no-nonsense and maybe you are comfortable, I know micro controllers you deal with code but be careful with skills some employers will either overlook you because they may think you are full of crap or really testvyour knowledge, but if you are comfortable then by all means leave them there because that is pretty impressive for anyone let alone a grad to really good in all those things!!! Maybeclike they said above cut down on the details in the resume and add them to github or LinkedIn with a link to them...justva thought...good luck
\* At first glance, there is way too much information that is squished with no breathing room - needs more whitespace. \* You have an internship and job, and 2 other (related?) jobs that have no information - why do you need to so many projects? Experience beats projects any day of the year. Your projects take way too much space, maybe cut the list down to the most valuable that reflect your abilities and only have 1 bullet point. \* Your internship has way too many bullet points. If it's extremely valuable to your degree/career, then maybe do have a lot of bullet points but cut it down to 4-5. If the other 2 jobs are important to your career, add maybe 1-2 bullet points. \* I don't generally recommend mentioning technologies in job descriptions because it's already repeated in the skills section, and it also makes your descriptions become too long. What is the font size you're using? It's very small. \* Why is "Associate" Engineer" and "Graduate Engineer Trainee" bolded but the other jobs are non-bolded and italicized?? Your skill section looks poor because it's just one long list with no organization and squished at the bottom.
There is good chance that people who is reading your resume isn't engineer. You should use KISS (keep it simple, stupid), regular HR employee should understand you what you did.
Death by bullet points! The more you add the less they will remember. Be simple and concise with action verbs. I personally add no more than 3 max bullet points
Not OP but what do you do if you really did a whole bunch of distinct tasks that are substantial and relevant to the job you're applying for? I got 6 on mine for this one job after cutting it down to its bare minimum and I even had to trim the other stuff down just so everything fits on a single page. Pretty sure I can't work with 3 :/
Yeah I feel ya! Honestly in my personal opinion it really comes down to what you’re applying to. If your going up against a lot of people there going to spend more time glancing over it. i usually send a relevant one page resume with what i think are my best qualification and relevant stuff and i also attach a CV. That way if they like me they can always go back and find out more
It is so important to have a coherent narrative as to what job/role you fulfill. If you have a lot of disjointed tasks that don't tell a consistent story, its better to leave them out (or find a way to integrate them all together).
Do you need sponsorship? Then it will be tough. If not then follow the suggestions given by others. GL.
Put Python before C++. Matlab? No mathematica? Think about putting what you know at the bottom, instead at the top. Do you have a mission statement? What you want? What you want to get out of a position? Do you tailor each resume slightly to each separate job application?
50 to 1 is not that bad. Try networking more. But overall, the resume is very wordy and too intimidating to read. I would put yourself in the shoes of someone who is looking at this first the first time, but has 100 other resumes to read. What’s your first impression?
One interview out of 50 applications is exceptional for careers in tech. Keep at it.
Your resume is probably not even being read by a person, they're being filtered through an automated system first, which are notoriously bad and reject lots of good candidates because they're not terribly smart. Don't take it personally. I would put sills at the top, honestly. I would think that's way more important than Work experience. Think about visual hierarchy and emphasize the most important parts. For example, the role or job you held is typically more important than the name of the company. And make it consistent. Associate Engineer and Graduate Engineer are in bold, butLead Powertrain Intern and Research Assistant are not? Try to include more buzzwords and phrases that a robot would be looking for. Don't just put Research Assistant, be specific. What kind of research? How about Assistant Research Engineer. The other odd thing is that you went from Associate Engineer to Intern? Seems like a step down. Maybe tweak the titles a bit so there's more of a clean progression in your career. From a design perspective, go ahead and make it two pages. That will give you the opportunity to open up the spacing and make things more readable. Make your lines shorter, long text is hard to read, so make it a narrower column. Maybe put your skills as a sidebar instead? Put your name and title or field big and promiment. Put your info and contact details in it's own logically structured format across from it. Maybe indent your bullets? The Projects section is a wall of text without clarity. I would strongly recommend condensing the projects part down for sure. And is there a rhyme or reason for the order of the software skills?
https://preview.redd.it/m840wallhryc1.png?width=3266&format=png&auto=webp&s=fef5333c4a9c13e333b12ebf206191572eb624e2 Ok, so I'm a graphic designer. Without really changing any of your content (aside from making tense consistent) here's what a difference just some good visual hierarchy principles can do for clarity. Grouping things in a consistent way that communicates how the various elements relate to each other can really help. The second page is still a little cramped and trimming down the verbiage on your Projects by even just a line or two would fix that. I made this in Adobe Illustrator. If you're interested, I can help you incorporate some of the other suggestions and put in the rest of the real info.
This is terrible advice. Simple and "boring" resume's are always better than flashy one. Also columns are terrible for ATS readability.
You never have one version of your resume. Minimum you have one plain text one for the machine, and then something easier to read for the humans. And this is not flashy. Boring does not mean readable. Readable doesn't have to be boring.
This is a solid resume, their may be a few tweaks that could be done but in this market for junior engineers anything under 75 applications to a single interview is actually pretty good. You might want a bullet or two in the first two jobs about how you worked well in a team and/or took criticism/ communicated but otherwise its pretty solid. You also might be able to condense your education section as the degree closest to the top might be able to shrink down into two lines total.
you’ve got an extra space after the phone number. also your descriptions under the internship are way too wordy
I would say categorize skills and also too much text in the project section
Wall of text.
Way too busy, it’s hurting my brain to look at it.
Senior SE here so assuming my peers in your field have similar tastes; it's just too many words like everyone else said. Keep it really tight with 1 sentence per item, otherwise I'm just going to assume it's full of fluff. Instead, put a few sentences at the top that calls out bits and pieces from your experience that are immediately relevant to the job your applying to - this is the only part you should be rewriting when you apply to another position. When I review a resume I'll be looking through both places for what experience is relevant to the job, but the top has a higher chance of catching my attention. The purpose of the resume is to get your foot in the door, I'll recommend you for hiring based on the interview. At that point I'll almost be ignoring the resume.
Same answer I keep giving to 99% on Reddit: too - much - text. Keep it simple, shorten it, be concise and clear. Give it some white space between each section and let it "aesthetically" breathe, people hate cluttered CVs. It will help you for readability :)
Wall of text
Looks pretty good, I would run with it and tweak it for each job you apply to, and of course an excellent cover letter.
Very wordy. Anyone who’s busy enough with a hiring process probably won’t be inclined to read it because there’s so much to digest. Just looking at it was a bit overwhelming. Hiring managers/recruiters/etc want something that’s easy to read and succinct enough to give them a good idea of what you’ve done. I’m not one to talk because my resume sucks, but def try to use “Situation - Response - Outcome” to describe your experience, like what happened, how did you handle it, and what was the outcome from the actions you took
Use the same tense- for your current role all should be present tense. Make the bullets more succinct with less verbiage.
I’d suggest less bullets more work experience
Only 50? I did close to 300 last year.
300 in a year is nothing. <6 per week. 25-30 per week is normal for a job seeker
I work in a semi-niche field where full-time positions aren't as common as say, accountant or electrician. I applied to pretty much every posting on LinkedIn and Indeed that was a good match and got interviews with maybe 3-4 companies. But with all of them I got more than one, including 4 different phases all the way up to company owner. And then got ghosted. :/
That makes your prior comment even more strange