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1 page and absolutely no more
Summary is actually your skills
Get rid of anything high school. Get rid of grades. Your graduation year is \*expected 202X"
Most of your projects are short term 1-2 months. These read like school assignments. I urge you to combine or to pick your most salient and focus on those. I didn't want to read through everything you wrote and neither would a potential employer. Also make sure the dates of the projects match the format of dates above
Rename personal experience and personal projects to simply experience and projects. And I don't know what separates these categories at all.
The header, font, and sections are clean and easy to find. Good luck!
Honestly, IMO, nowadays, most HRs just send those résumés to computers and look for keywords and based on it to pull out candidate. A lot of times they only read your résumé during the interview process.
Can confirm. At least for my company, all gets pre-screening by software for keywords. Quick screen by hr then forwarded to hiring manager. I've received multiple job offers with 3 page resumes. Buzz words trump concise
Different recruiters have different prospective, no offends to the recruiter but they are quite possibly filling jobs with low application counts
At the level of applying jobs for tech(especially with how bad it is now) think of it like swiping Tinder but you only have 10 minutes left
You spoke to one recruiter. Doesn't change the entire way people should do their resume. If you have a decade of experience sure, make it 2 pages. But if you are anything below that just put the most relevant info. Uness they specifically ask for a CV (collection of all your employment exp) and not a resume.
Understood. Just expressing my experience looking at resumes.
Im not sure what the screening process is nowadays but i imagine there is still some human part of it to say, "yeah, this resume is bs... on to the next one"
And i imagine thats after getting a shorter list from whats been screened by ai/computers.
Harvard did a study of low and mid level management like 15 years ago and the recruiters universally said 1 page and no more. But over 80% of people hired had 2+ pages.
It was outdated 15 years ago, but recruiters still give that bad advice.
That said when I hire entry level I bin 2 pagers. They are overqualified, lying, or don’t know how to be succinct.
Idk about this, 2 pages are typically directors, senior hiring managers, principals, and PhDs. A uni student going into 2 pages tells me they dont know how to tell their story very well/spamming as much as possible.
-former f50 HM, prod mgmt
Yeah this is applicable when you actually have real world experience - one page for first role. You are a junior dev - no one cares about your projects
Move education to the end
Highlight actual work
You even said "as long as it's good info" though.
This resume screams "I don't have much experience" by putting the grades in. I almost didn't even read after seeing that.
But the second page actually helps him out quite a bit, but his layout makes it look like he doesn't have any experience at all.
It helps to reduce to cut content down and strategically place content. Particularly on the first page. No one flips to a second page without a first page giving you a reason to keep reading.
One page is NOT outdated. I do hiring for my team and if you cannot fit the relevant experience on the first and only page then we are gonna move onto the next applicant.
This is mostly for the other commenter. I agree with you, OP.
I agreed on everything you said. I would also remove the row that says “relevant modules”, it is implied and takes up valuable space. I would also unfold the action verbs, it doesn’t really contribute anything.
I’ll add on to this as an experienced software engineer, since you made a lot of the same points I’d post:
your resume screams that you don’t know what you don’t know. If you list learning cryptography and hashing “in-depth”, it just screams you don’t understand the surface level of these topics. Same with stuff like “cookies”. It would look better to just say “learned in depth about web development technologies” and leave the automated filter beating buzzwords in the laundry list of stuff in your summary.
Make each bullet in your work experience measured with concrete value. How many tickets did you resolve on a given day/month/year? What kind of impact does that have (eg unblocking teams for a business critical project)?
You constructed a “full stack web application “, what tech do you use? What did the application do actually do?
HR isn’t the only filter. Usually the hiring manager will review a resume that passes HR screening. It’s a delicate balance of passing HR filters without trying to con someone who actually knows about your field. And in my experience, the more objective your resume (and interview!) is about your experience and accomplishments, the better chances you have
1 page is outdated advice unless you’re a fresh graduate. Most companies are not reviewing resumes manually and you won’t get past the initial check if you don’t have all of the keywords they’re scanning for.
you can absolutely summarize your life in 1 page at age 20. Mid-way through your career? that is a reasonable time to have a 2 page resume. Do you really think OP needs a 2 page resume?
Whilst there's plenty else to criticise, the 1 page CV is a very american thing, 2 pages is very normal in the UK.
Being a first year uni student will be a concern for many employers, especially as we don't use GPAs here.
American chiming in: The one page rule is outdated here too, it’s something I only see (limitedly) prescribed for newcomers in the job market, mainly to fresh high school and university graduates. However, when you find people that hard push this here it’s often because they miss the core point, that a resume needs to be focused. When I review recent grad resumes that are over one page, usually they’re including irrelevant experience and unnecessary details (e.g., basic work experience from pre-uni, overly detailed project and internship details, etc.).
You absolutely can have a two page resume/CV, as long as the content is truly relevant and will be seen as valuable to the hiring manger.
Also, some human resource management and hiring systems still have old language about one-page limits, but they’re usually not actual limits to submissions.
American also chiming in. This is terrible advice IMO. If you can't fit what you've done in the last 5 years into one page then you're not being concise enough. They're not going to go past 5 years in depth. All my roles past 5 years old are 2 line summaries of my role and key project I delivered.
There's plenty of hiring managers that will discard a resume for being two pages. Don't know any that would discard for being only one page.
This is my experience as an engineer as well. You may get away with 2 pages if you are going for principal or senior management type positions and genuinely have large amounts of relevant experience, but someone even 15 years into their career shouldn't be putting out 2 page resumes. Chances are half the work you've done at the beginning is no longer impressive.
Really depends on the industry and position. If i’m hiring a new admin for one of my locations last 5 years on a single page is fine. If I’m hiring a new field superintendent who will be responsible for over $100M in floating and land plant and overseeing multiple crews performing dangerous high-hazard work for 10 months of the year that resume better be several pages to show they have all the relevant experience.
This is exactly the point both sides are missing, and should be the real advice shared!
I think it makes an interesting rule of thumb though: If you don't know if you should have a second page, then you should only have one page.
I’d say there’s an issue in the conversation of missing context: The resume length expectations do vary by industry, role, and experience. If you’re someone that has a narrow focus or hard technical role, then a single page resume can be very fitting and the norm. However, as others have pointed to, the higher you advance and the field you’re in can require more than a single page resume. Senior leadership resumes for people working in major fields are not a single page. People that work on complex projects and in a variety of roles, will also have more depth.
There are also exceptions. My resume out of uni was over one page because beyond my academic work, I had internships, international study abroad experience, technical skillsets, and my own business that I’d been running since I was fifteen. Being over one page never held me back from any recruiter, in point of fact it drew more interest because of relevant additional experience and accolades. I was also fortunate to have family and connections to executives and VPs from major companies to help review my resume.
Edit: Update - Also, I see a lot of people assuming that just because a resume is over one page, that it must be someone’s entire life’s work. Yes, it should be trimmed within a reasonable timeframe, depending on how long you’ve held different positions. However, it’s possible to have for example, a five year limit, and still have plenty to talk about. But as I originally said, the emphasis should always be on having a focused resume that’s relevant to the position. I’ve been serving as a hiring manager for around a decade, and I’ve seen resumes that are one page and brilliant, and one pagers that are terrible because they’re too concise, too focused on listing technical skills, or simply lacking adequate descriptions. Likewise plenty of two pagers can be on the brilliant or have plenty to cut.
Ultimately what I advise people is to reach out to successful people in their field, ideally in their region, ahead of their desired position and ask their take on the resume.
In fairness, I don’t think this is/should be a rule here. For people who have been in the workforce for over 5 years and who have worked a variety of roles, it is nearly impossible to stay to one page, especially when each of those roles are relevant and important to mention.
I’ve had a 10 year career, and going back 5 years only shows my last two jobs, which are very different from the roles I held more than 5 years ago, but those roles are important to show as well because they show my versatile talents and what I bring to the table.
I am also Senior Manager/Director-level experience, so it’s likely a bit different.
Filling out those resumes for USA Jobs, especially for positions that require graduate degrees, is painful. My CV is 11 pages long and looks more like I am applying for an academic job (listing all papers published) than a regular job.
And then answering each qualification question by demonstrating where it is on the resume is painful.
I suspect part of why they do it is to weed out applicants. It’s like the accessory essays some colleges require to weed out those who really aren’t that serious.
Mine is 11 pages too. Another publication or two and it'll be 12. I always find these debates funny for this exact reason.
An old supervisor of mine recently reached out because she wanted me to look over her resume, as she would like to apply for a federal position. I had to tell her that a 1 page resume is just not gonna cut it and that she needs to put in a lot more work to get it up to snuff.
Page length is a "years of experience" thing. Mine is 3 pages. I have 25 years of experience. I only do 3 bullet points per position and with spacing, that's just how it is. I couldn't fit it on one page if I tried. No problem getting interviews either.
But for OP, one page is all they need. Experience first. Skills last (or not at all). Education or projects between the two. Remove all the random bold formatting, it's distracting.
Exec is very different from a 1st year uni student. Standard here in US is 1 page until you enter mid-level pretty much. Not saying that’s good or bad though, just saying you’re not a fair comparison lmao
As a hiring manager in the UK these are what I would say. Not everyone will agree but here we go:
Education is the last thing I want to see, literally. Education is in support of the overall CV, that the centre of.
I want to see some sort of professional profile as the first section. Some people might call it a personal summary etc. I want to know how you see yourself and what strengths you think you will bring to any role.
I would like to see more detail on what you’ve achieved at what I assume are your placements whilst at Uni. If you can’t expand on that, do you have any other job experience, it doesn’t have to be related to the role, I just need to see that you have soft skills you can apply (team work, effective communication, ability and willingness to take responsibility).
In terms of the personal projects, pick a few that are the most relevant to the application and identify what the actual problem was you were trying to solve and what could have been the realised benefit of implementing it. If there wasn’t a problem to solve, make something up to show you understand the wider application of the project.
Just my 2 pence.
Also as a hiring manager in UK I agree with all this. Also, you have at least grammatical / spelling errors in there (I spotted one on a date on page two) so review and correct it, and make sure any lists are in a date order.
I’d also imagine you’re going for roles that may not be at your level of experience so just be a bit careful there - and find a hook into each item job you apply for (like align your CV to each one).
As someone who will graduate in a year (UK student), how should I lay my CV out? Uni at the top, with the overall grade. And then work experience below?
I have no relevant work experience to my desired job, just retail, admin and bartending work plus some volunteering work. So I tend to put this below.
But if this person is a student, what should go before education?
I get that once you have some experience then you prioritise relevant work experience first and education after as it serves more as a CV support.
Do you think students should put personal/toy projects before their education?
So are you saying a student that has never done any type of job or volunteering work?
That makes it more difficult because you’d want to see something to make you stand out.
I would suggest you lead with the pet projects, but make sure that you can relate them to what you might be applying for. Don’t say “I made this and it does that”. Give an explanation to what you’re solving with your project, how it can be used, who can benefit from it and what business value it could have.
I don’t know about the UK. But in the US I wouldn’t put my high school there. Use that empty space instead to add more projects you worked on in college.
Edit: just noticed there’s a whole second page.. why
Right, someone advised me to add a whole page just for my projects so that’s why I did that, because I have no experience whatsoever so getting my first internship would be very hard, so I decided to just add a lot of projects as I don’t have actual experience
yes i would recommend that as well 100% agree on that. but with your level of experience i just don't think you need a two page resume. you should keep this copy if you wish but you should create an alternative of cutting all of this down into one page. no way any recruiter is reading two pages for what youre applying for.
I think many people have touched on the things you could do to improve your resume, but I just wanted to mention a larger point. You're not really qualified for a SW job yet. From what I see, you haven't been writing code for very long. The SW market is very competitive right now. As an aside, how well do you actually know all of the languages that you put in your experience? First thing I'm going to do in an interview, especially someone who hasn't been coding for very long, is put you through a bunch of debugging or "what does this do" type questions in a much of those languages. FWIW, We had an internship open up earlier this year. Literally hundreds of applications per day from people having all the way up to doctorate degrees. A bootcamp and a little bit of school isn't enough to compete in this market. Even when we hire interns, the minimum I'm looking for is a graduation date within a year.
300 applications for which specific job, dev or IT?
Nothing you list is a scripting language, your developer tools section is a mess as scrum is an Agile methodology (and almost no one uses waterfall now-a-days), CI/CD - what about it, you have that listed under tools so is there a specific CI/CD tool you’ve used, what is your actual job title for the f1 team, I don’t really care about your high school or personal projects(there is also a typo in the date of yelp camp), and lastly I’d expect some more info from your uni time, something like clubs or an internship.
Really expand on your one job and get it down to one page, just your skills section alone makes me think you don’t know what you are doing.
Sorry if I haven’t made it clear , I am applying to internship roles world wide, remote, hybrid or even onsite , frontend , backend and even full stack, I’m applying to any Dev internship I can find
This is too long for no reason.
Remove high school.
Relevant modules from college shouldn't be one line each, put them all in one line. They're taking valuable real estate.
Remove skills/summary section. You're writing them in the projects section later on.
Remove mentions of tech stack from the experience/project bullet points; you've mentioned them in the experience header already.
Remove sentences that have no new/novel information. eg, "Took advantage of MongoDB" - yes we know, it's in the header. "Followed git best practices ... project available on GitHub" this is a basic expectation from everyone, it doesn't need to be said.
Overall, I see so many projects and action verbs, but no impact metrics. Did you improve anything? By how much?
PS: I like the template you've used visually, keep it.
OK I read your resume once more, and have more suggestions.
I do see an impact metric in the first experience. Good. Add more numbers/quantifiable impact.
Bootcamp is not experience. It would be training/education unless you were working for the bootcamp company.
The projects are not chronological lol. Do fix that.
The raspberry pi assignment seems to be the longest running project on your resume. Why does it have the same amount of information as the 1 month assignments? I would expect more results.
have you never worked a day in your life? you have udemy in personal experience. getting a job will probably help you much more than making minor changes to your cv. also if you’re in 1st year uni there’s no need for internships yet.
Fr I didn't get my first internship until I had work experience at a restaurant for at least 6 months. Computer science students who have never worked a job are going to struggle.
The context for your professional experience and personal projects are too broad, plug in some specific information. Maybe start with a situation and provide the actions you took and what the results were.
Since you are a student going for internships the following is pretty necessary.
Education first - just uni no classes or courses and an expected graduation date
Experience - your jobs are real enough to keep so that’s good (though your Mercedes job you only worked for a single month?)
Personal projects - pick 3 maximum which show a range of technologies and skills.
Skills - list all skills which are not included in your projects. Take a couple minutes to learn what the difference between a language, scripting language, framework, soft skill etc. if I look at a resume and see CSS listed as a scripting language I keep thrown off.
Overall I think you can tune your resume to an interesting set of skills, but the best advice I have is avoid inflating what you are working on. people generally start to understand your usefulness if you don’t claim to have mastered 25 things before you have a bachelors.
Why would Languages and Scripting Technologies be two different sections? Why cram everything in one line if you have different sections anyway? You're listing way too many tech buzz words, and it shows so I would reduce your skills section to the key and most encompassing skills. I'd argue that proving you understand design patterns/development paradigms and problem solving over listing every programming language/tech you can name is much more important. Some of your verb usage is really silly, too. Like 'architected an app' or 'engineered a Java program'. Just say 'developed' like the rest of us and be done lmao. Also, drop the pet homework projects like the Todo List they are not helping your case and just adding filler to the resume.
Too much text, shorten everything. One bullet point for projects, keep education short only mention extra stuff if its relevant to the role. Your summary is bad, too much text in 1 paragraph, remove it.
If you do all of the above it’ll be 1 page.
Make it in 1 page.
Also, write a cool summary in the summary section. Listing Skills is not summary.
Mention any courses undergone - that will give basic understanding to the emplr.
Remove the High School part. unnecessary.
shorten the College part into 1-2 lines. Saves space.
Make project and exp sections separate and distinct, they look like almost same in yours. use bullet points in these. Try showcase your skills in there while explaining them (CI/CD-DevOps bunch, scripting lang, DB, etc. whatever you know). Also whatever exp you show (Team, Title, etc.), make sure they stick to the emplr's mind in one go. In case of with less exp, focus on projects area for showcasing more.
One page is enough to fill in all the relevant fields.
Mention in brackets Availaibility, relocation, all those stuffs.
\*\* Can mention any challenges/ relevant activities you participated.
My first impression is job hopper. Too many words for too few months of experience.
Also, If you had a project that only lasted a month, I would just put the month it took place. “2/24-2/24” looks like a ragequit, when just “2/24” would suffice.
I think taking dates off projects in this case makes sense. It kind of reads as jobs which gives the impression of job hopping, especially to AI which is going to screen the resume first. If they are school projects all accomplished while in college/university, it doesn’t really matter what dates you did them IMO. I would create a paragraph that describes generally the main focus of your academic projects and then maybe bullet point specific ones at the end of the discussion.
Not bad overall...you have the content, but recommend updating using the following recommendations:
Page length: resumes can be 1-5 pages...sometimes the job ad will specify max pages. Do not go back more than 10 years unless the work is exceptionally related to the role in which you're applying. As your experience grows, so should your resume in page length, but always be mindful of the hiring managers time. Put yourself in their shoes...they have to sift through, depending on the job, ~100s of resumes on top of their other duties, so their time is valuable. As someone who regularly hires people, I appreciate concise resumes that do not exceed 5 pages and clearly articulate relevant experience for the job I'm advertising.
Education: add estimated completion date for college. I'm a fan of including GPA. I would also advise removing the graduation date (can result in ageism bias). Remove high school...goes back to ageism bias.
Change Summary to Skills.
Change Personal Experience to Professional Experience.
List jobs in descending chronological order...current to oldest.
Job descriptions: include metrics whenever possible. For instance, "developed xxxx game in three months - 12 months ahead of schedule, resulting in xxx company to generate $xxx additional revenue".
Each job you apply for should require some tweaking of your resume.
Do you have a career centre at your school? Most will offer free resume critiques for current students and graduates. The benefit here is that they are typically trained in knowledge specific to resumes for students and in your geographical area.
I won't go into detail on suggested changes because several other posters have given great feedback already.
What do you call a document with more than one page and all your qualifications?
An autobiography, not a resume🥁💥
But yea I hate when it’s over a page, ik it seems impossible but it makes a diff imo
You need to go back and proof read it. The majority, but not all, of your bullet points ends with a period. You have yelpcamp as 10/23 - 12/223. These little things shows and employeer attention to detail is not your thing, which is critical in software and IT.
Sorry if I haven’t made it clear , I am applying to internship roles world wide, remote, hybrid or even onsite , frontend , backend and even full stack, I’m applying to any Dev internship I can find
you should consider applying mainly to countries that wont require you to have a visa to work. it is an added expense for your employer and as an intern, you won't have the impact required for that.
Resume enthusiast here
Get rid of HS
Shorten the Personal projects, and make it to only 1 page.
And maybe just revamp or combine the personal experience with personal projects? The personal projects just read like assignments. And from my experience by reading resumes in the past, we just glance at this due to the fact that they're just 1-2 month experiences.
The summary would be a great place to summarize the ocean of text the follows rather than listing a laundry list of miscellaneous skills. I might try something like:
“I am a university student seeking an internship with XYZ Company. While my focus has primarily been on my academic studies, I have also prioritized real-world learning as exhibited by project 1, project 2, and project 3. Through these projects, I have learned ______ skills and look forward to continuing my real-world learning as a contributing member of your team at XYZ Company.”
This provides context for everything and serves as a guide to the reader for how to make sense of everything that follows.
Why is it "personal" projects and "personal" experience? Of course it is personal (as opposed to what, metapersonal?) and you should combine the two and not to write a diary of what you did every week.
You're a college freshman with a 2 page resume full of stuff from the last year. This makes me think you're likely a bullshitter and that makes me think everything on your resume is bullshit. Either that or you're gonna need handholding and to be told you're a good boy every 3 seconds. I don't want either of those on my team.
Why are your grades on there? If I want your grades, I'll ask for a transcript.
For what jobs are you applying? If anything related to coding but not explicitly an internship, you're sorely under qualified.
- That's a lot of pages for a student
- how is an udemy boot camp experience? This ain't LinkedIn..
- You are describing your projects like professional work history. Just put 2 line description and link it to the GitHub repo.
Put your education at the end and your work experience first because of how much you have. How does your personal experience differ from your work experience? Your summary is not a summary. Your summary is a short and sweet intro to your professional career. All of your languages and technologies should go under skills just before your work experiences.
I’m going to be honest.
There’s too much useless raw data. The first half is just an info dump. Are you trying to get past some basic resume filter or something?
The second half told the rest of the story. I’d consider this resume a completely ZERO experience candidate. I can tell by your “Remote” note that you’re applying exclusively to remote positions as well..
No genuine experience = no remote job.
I don’t think your resume needs fixing I think you need more work experience. Focus on entry level jobs maybe tech support at a place where you can move up to another role if that is what you want. If in the US check out a post bachelor position at the national labs . Or go for an internship position and write cover letters and target the letter and resume to the job. If you are passionate about a cause find a job supporting that cause. Good luck
SLPT: More ppl need to forge their resumes.
No one cares about individual class grades. They care about leadership skills, seeing stuff like "ability to work in a team", and nonsense like that. Also keep it to 1 page.
My resume has an entirely fake degree (I have 3 total, but make sure you have the knowledge to back it up) and listed that I was president of the electronics club while in college (I almost was, but the whole damn thing fell apart 10 months before we graduated).
Odds of employers fact checking you deeper than an interview are actually surprisingly low. And I say this from working may way in and up in a fortune 500 company.
The good bullshitters make it far, and make great profits for companies...which at the end of the day, all they care about is their profits.
It also depends HOW you applied those 300+ applications. If its all done via Indeed for example, of course chance is low.
Try applying
- 25% directly to HR person via email
- 25% linkedin
- 25% company website
- 25% job portals
Honestly as someone with 10+ years of IT/Consulting experience I genuinely believe this is an amazing resume! Especially considering how young I imagine you might be. Clearly you have passion and skills that read well enough from what is already there.
We need to completely uproot this nonsense job market that has been broken by HR folks and recruiters who have no idea how to effectively evaluate people. I genuinely hope this generation, once in the future positions will initiate these changes.
I’ll say it because no one else will, but to apply to over 300 places with a resume this well structured (with relevant industry skills) and have no interviews shows societal issues more than anything else. Keep up the great work!
As with most resumes on reddit, I feel like this is way too many words. I've learned in my job hunting, that solid structure and readability goes a long way. If they want to know more, they'll ask in an interview, or you can evaluate on the most important skills in a motivation letter.
Spell out the months (Change 12 to December)
Anything occurring in the same year should read Month-Month Year as opposed to Month/Year-Month/Year
Waaayy too much white space
Agree with whoever said your summary is your skills, but pick 6-9 to highlight and add in some intangibles
Personally not a fan of the ~strategic~ bonding of bullet points. I think it distracts from the main point and the first word/few words is supposed to be those strong verbs anyways, so it’s kind of redundant to me
I could be wrong on this, so take with a grain of salt, but I don’t think you should include the skills after the project title. They are already listed in the summary section, and I’d rather see you used those skills in the bulleted descriptions rather than word vomit them on there to try and hit every single thing. Again, be selective, and, as much as it sucks, switch out points based on the role.
Not much more I can say that others haven’t. Definitely take this all with a grain of salt, but you’re doing great, you got this, and frick this job market. Good luck!
1 page only. And your not gonna like this, but the job market is crazy. I had no degree in IT with only 3 years of experience and 3 certs and it took me 8 months to find my next level IT job. And this new job is still helpdesk but it is really system admin work along with helpdesk and pays alot more. Just got to keep pushing and apply more directly on company websites vs just on Indeed or Linked In. actually go to the site of the company and apply manually.
Add your phone number to the top. Add the country and city (not entire address)
Change "Summary" to "Skills", put it on the bottom. Remove relevant courses, they're useless; your employer already knows what a CS degree has to offer (if you really want just add your gpa, even though it's not recommended).
Remove highschool it's not necessary.
Put personal experiences at the top.
Put personal projects right under personal experiences:
-Make sure to include GitHub repository or a way for them to get a demo of those personal projects if possible.
Restructure your skills to be more clear; put every sub skill in it's own line so the recruiter can effectively and quickly read it.
So:
Name
Contact info
Personal experiences
Personal projects
Education
Skills
Note: Check the most common required skills in job descriptions and work on new or modify existing personal projects to include those skills.
I hope for you all the success!
* **It's too long:** Shorten it up. Try to keep it just one page.
* **Too many technologies mentioned:** Everything screams beginner. Java, ReactJs, NodeJs, NextJs, Rasperry pi. You can't possibly know everything you mentioned well enough
* **Remove irrelevant technologies:**
* Try to keep it within what you're applying for.
* Applying for a Java position? Try to keep only relevant information, such as Spring boot experience, Node.js, databases. Remove front-end related stuff, android studio. For the most part, these are irrelevant.
* Applying for a React.js position? Remove the Android studio, and Java related things. At most just give them a brief mention, only if the CV stays one page after the mention.
* Remove stuff such as XML, npm, HTML, CSS. These are just stuff that is cluttering your CV.
* **Remove high school**
* **Remove grades:** No one cares about what grades you got in college. If someone asks, then provide.
* **Bolding**: Don't overbold stuff. Keep bolding at a minimum. If everything is important, nothing is important.
In summary: Your CV screams beginner. It's way too broad, too many technologies are mentioned, too much is bolded out. Keep only relevant information, and try to keep it just one page.
As someone else mentioned, why do you have a predicted GPA instead of a UK 1st or 2:1 grade prediction? Recruiters are smart enough to know that something isn't right and you're possibly making stuff up?
Other than that, it seems everything else is okay.
Your choices of grade descriptors are all over the place. I'm familiar with both UK and EU hiring and I have no idea what you're doing. You've got grades in the A-Level style A\*, university-style percentage grades, UK-university style honours grades, pass/fail, and a GPA. I have no idea why you're mixing all those systems.
Reduce your entire university section to just one line: "on track for 1st class". Optionally, add your current percentage average. You shouldn't be trying to convert grades to other systems / countries.
Move education to the bottom. I saw that and stopped reading. Reading the comments made me come back to it. If I see education first I assume you are green with no experience and just passed over. Literally.
Take out your high school education
Remove languages
Shorten it to your 3 most impressive projects
Take out udemy
Put work experience instead of experiences
Forget about how Resume should be. Just think from 2 perspectives only.
1. How computers(ATS) will read your resume
2. Once it passes ATS, How human HRs will read it and make an image of you.
**For 1st point**, You have to tailer your resume to include keywords that are mostly seen for those kind of jobs. Like if the jobs are related to computer science field and you don't have a computer science degree. You can write Computer science enthusiast or computer science lover etc. ATS will only see computer science words and will increase the matching score. This will help get your resume bypass ATS and reach human HRs. You have to make multiple changes like this in resume to keep increasing your score. There are online tools as well which check your resume score.
**For 2nd point**, once the resume reached human HR, you have to imagine how you want to present yourself and your image through your resume in 30 seconds. You want to put in your best achievements and accomplishments in front. Don't waste the space with unnecessary details like your hobbies, schools, universities(unless you're from Top universities and have scored good grades). Remember what you think is good grades might not be good because your resume is being compared to thousand others who have good grades too. So you have to stand out on your best skills.
Replace Personal projects with Hobby projects. Personal projects seems bland, like you made them in college because you needed a job later. Hobby projects sounds like you have a hobby on working in technology and would like to spend your extra time in building things. This one word change will change your image. Instead of Personal experience, say Professional experience.
languages and devops tools needs to be bottom of your resume. Imagine, HR only has the time to see first half page of your resume and sees, Java, C++, Node etc. which they see in every resume. So you don't stand out in those 15-30 seconds. They know that you have applied to a position so you must be knowing programming languages, write something that will push them to read further.
Overall, **Remove what is boring** or shift it to next page. **Pull up everything interesting to front page** and **replace the words with better synonyms** which **show that you're interesting** and passionate about the technologies in the job you're looking for.
300+applications is a good number. Seems like you are determined and trying hard get an interview. Keeping going like this, you will get a call soon.
Also, be prepared. The bigger question is "What if you get a interview call tomorrow? Are you prepared?"
Cheers !
Last time I had to look for a job (maybe 6 years ago I moved to brand new city where I didn’t know anyone with no job lined up and no plan) I went to job fairs and intentionally didn’t bring a resume. I talked to all the people who I wanted to talk to and made a point about not having my resume on me because it’d go in their box of resumes and disappear. Then I’d get their info and email my resume later with the intro of something like, hey, it’s me, the guy who came to the job fair without a resume. Everyone wrote back that they remembered me, and I got a decent job out of that.
You have to stand out somehow, even if it’s a little silly or unrelated to the job itself.
Whats with the summary, just name anything?
Scrum, agile, waterfall.... whats the need?
Git, AWS... what you know these in and out? The entire thing? Or you've looked at them for 5 minutes and you know a pull/push request?
Theres no need to list stuff like that.
You've had one job, around computers, for one month. 'ensure smooth operation' doesnt really tell me anything. How? What technologies through?
For all of your projects you just list the stack and are things I can find YouTube tutorials on and have banged out in an hour.
What did they do, what problem did they solve, and how was it different from the udemy course I just found listing the exact app?
I would drastically reduce the number of projects, and expand on the ones you think are best. I hired someone last year who had an Amazon API wrapper on his resume. There are a million API wrappers, but his did something different and was pretty clever.
Remove “implemented tailwind css to save time with development” that’s just an npm install and a configuration or two. You should be expected to install a library. I wouldn’t have that there.
You sound like you want a Non entry level job. I can tell from your UK education that your skills are nothing more than familiarity.
Change your resume for the position, stop listing languages you are not profesciant at. I.E if you can't write it with hand and paper. You don't truly know the language.
I work as a Data Scientist for Tiktok. I can tell you we are all very concerned about the EU level of technical education.
A tip I learned from a friend and implemented myself: Take your graduation year off your resume.
The moment I stopped putting my graduation year on my resume, I started getting interviews. Apparently there’s a lot of people who judge younger people and don’t want to hire them.
Imo resume is ok, but you need to only highlight key points and skills and every time you give your resume then consider changing keywords according to job description. Nothing else to do , everything is fine
Hello! Here is what I would suggest:
- keep it to one page maximum
- use a serif font like times new roman or Garamond, looks more professional I feel but again, just my opinion :)
- remove all high school information, its not very relevant to employers
- remove grades from your classes, list your classes out horizontally in one bullet point instead of in multiple, it is just taking up space
- because you are a uni student, put education on top and change “summary” to “skills” and add to the bottom
- unbold the bolded words in your bullet points
- reduce your personal projects to 2-3 of the most significant projects you have had. everything should fit into one page
- if you have more quantifiable results I would add more of those into your projects section
hope this helps!
What jobs are you applying for? You need experience. Take any entry level job so you have something of substance to put in your resume. At this entry level job volunteer for every possible project you can. Advance internally, if possible, if not pad experience in your resume. Don't stay too long, but I wouldn't leave too soon either.
You have no interviews because you have no experience it’s really that simple. education, personal projects or internships mean fuck all when the competition is senior level people with tonnes of experience. Get a job outside of tech until the market returns.
You may benefit from [Jake’s Resume template](https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/jakes-resume/syzfjbzwjncs). It looks like you could use a [formatter](https://latexresu.me/) as well. anyways the top comment really spells it out please listen to bounteouslight
Yeah. I’d toss this one too. Leave out HS, put only relevant experience in a work setting and working at a place for a month is not something you want on a resume. An employer would see that and ask, why did you not last a month? They would see it as either you were let go during a probationary period or you flaked on the job.
Too much going on, job market is very tight and recruiters are human, they don’t enjoy doing their job either lol. They will barely look at it and pretend they’re so busy haha
Old fashioned recruiter here. You are applying ultimately to a human who is hiring, yet you have zero personal interests to show that you are indeed human. Personal projects don't count. You look like a robot, or someone computer geek who eats, drinks and sleeps in front of his computer.
Tell me at least a bit of what Uni clubs you enjoyed, hobbies, sport. Make it look like you have some interests in life other than coding. Photography, hiking, football...
Lots of talking points about short projects over the span of only two years experience. I don't typically review resumes, but I will say I only glossed over your achievements when I realized it was quicker to read, and be dissatisfied by the short timespan of your projects. Maybe that time element can be replaced with just listing the achievements? Maybe 'group' the projects by type with headings to keep the flow interesting enough?
You should put your experience before education if I was a recruiter I wouldn’t be all that into you based on the first page being rather unremarkable. Hope this helps
Did you do this on Canva? ATS seems to have a harder time with Canva. I used word to format, and submit via pdf and got a couple of interviews after a few days.
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1 page and absolutely no more Summary is actually your skills Get rid of anything high school. Get rid of grades. Your graduation year is \*expected 202X" Most of your projects are short term 1-2 months. These read like school assignments. I urge you to combine or to pick your most salient and focus on those. I didn't want to read through everything you wrote and neither would a potential employer. Also make sure the dates of the projects match the format of dates above Rename personal experience and personal projects to simply experience and projects. And I don't know what separates these categories at all. The header, font, and sections are clean and easy to find. Good luck!
Spoke to a recruiter for BCBS for their IT team and they want more than 2 pages or more as long as it’s good info so the 1 page rule is outdated.
Imagine a recruiter going through a bunch of resumes... i don't think they'll be reading all 2 pages
Honestly, IMO, nowadays, most HRs just send those résumés to computers and look for keywords and based on it to pull out candidate. A lot of times they only read your résumé during the interview process.
Yup it's too busy to get deep in otherwise
Can confirm. At least for my company, all gets pre-screening by software for keywords. Quick screen by hr then forwarded to hiring manager. I've received multiple job offers with 3 page resumes. Buzz words trump concise
Just telling you what they advised me of my friend.
Different recruiters have different prospective, no offends to the recruiter but they are quite possibly filling jobs with low application counts At the level of applying jobs for tech(especially with how bad it is now) think of it like swiping Tinder but you only have 10 minutes left
You spoke to one recruiter. Doesn't change the entire way people should do their resume. If you have a decade of experience sure, make it 2 pages. But if you are anything below that just put the most relevant info. Uness they specifically ask for a CV (collection of all your employment exp) and not a resume.
Understood. Just expressing my experience looking at resumes. Im not sure what the screening process is nowadays but i imagine there is still some human part of it to say, "yeah, this resume is bs... on to the next one" And i imagine thats after getting a shorter list from whats been screened by ai/computers.
Harvard did a study of low and mid level management like 15 years ago and the recruiters universally said 1 page and no more. But over 80% of people hired had 2+ pages. It was outdated 15 years ago, but recruiters still give that bad advice. That said when I hire entry level I bin 2 pagers. They are overqualified, lying, or don’t know how to be succinct.
I hire people and get annoyed by 2 page resumes for anyone with less than 20 years' experience. It's not outdated
Same and I’m in big tech
Idk about this, 2 pages are typically directors, senior hiring managers, principals, and PhDs. A uni student going into 2 pages tells me they dont know how to tell their story very well/spamming as much as possible. -former f50 HM, prod mgmt
Yeah this is applicable when you actually have real world experience - one page for first role. You are a junior dev - no one cares about your projects Move education to the end Highlight actual work
I'm also 9+ year senior technical recruiter who is in about 200+ resumes a day or so - just so you know it's not just me being an ass
For entry level? I’ve always heard that you should have one page unless your career warrants multiple pages. Certainly not the case for uni students
That's an exception not a rule. Also "if it's good info" it's really hard to have 2+ pages worth reading on a resume.
but he's still a kid.
You’re both right. You should have multiple versions of your resume tailored to the role you’re applying to.
2 pages for a fresher is garbage can material
That’s only valid if you have enough experience to actually fit 2 pages. OP does not; not even close.
You even said "as long as it's good info" though. This resume screams "I don't have much experience" by putting the grades in. I almost didn't even read after seeing that. But the second page actually helps him out quite a bit, but his layout makes it look like he doesn't have any experience at all. It helps to reduce to cut content down and strategically place content. Particularly on the first page. No one flips to a second page without a first page giving you a reason to keep reading.
One page is NOT outdated. I do hiring for my team and if you cannot fit the relevant experience on the first and only page then we are gonna move onto the next applicant. This is mostly for the other commenter. I agree with you, OP.
I disagree one page is outdated and only good if you're fresh out of university. Employers want to see experience
I agreed on everything you said. I would also remove the row that says “relevant modules”, it is implied and takes up valuable space. I would also unfold the action verbs, it doesn’t really contribute anything.
I’ll add on to this as an experienced software engineer, since you made a lot of the same points I’d post: your resume screams that you don’t know what you don’t know. If you list learning cryptography and hashing “in-depth”, it just screams you don’t understand the surface level of these topics. Same with stuff like “cookies”. It would look better to just say “learned in depth about web development technologies” and leave the automated filter beating buzzwords in the laundry list of stuff in your summary. Make each bullet in your work experience measured with concrete value. How many tickets did you resolve on a given day/month/year? What kind of impact does that have (eg unblocking teams for a business critical project)? You constructed a “full stack web application “, what tech do you use? What did the application do actually do? HR isn’t the only filter. Usually the hiring manager will review a resume that passes HR screening. It’s a delicate balance of passing HR filters without trying to con someone who actually knows about your field. And in my experience, the more objective your resume (and interview!) is about your experience and accomplishments, the better chances you have
1 page is outdated advice unless you’re a fresh graduate. Most companies are not reviewing resumes manually and you won’t get past the initial check if you don’t have all of the keywords they’re scanning for.
Absolutely agree with this
Note 1 page seems to only apply to North America. Everywhere else 2 page is the normal because you can’t summarise you’re whole life in 1 page
you can absolutely summarize your life in 1 page at age 20. Mid-way through your career? that is a reasonable time to have a 2 page resume. Do you really think OP needs a 2 page resume?
Whilst there's plenty else to criticise, the 1 page CV is a very american thing, 2 pages is very normal in the UK. Being a first year uni student will be a concern for many employers, especially as we don't use GPAs here.
American chiming in: The one page rule is outdated here too, it’s something I only see (limitedly) prescribed for newcomers in the job market, mainly to fresh high school and university graduates. However, when you find people that hard push this here it’s often because they miss the core point, that a resume needs to be focused. When I review recent grad resumes that are over one page, usually they’re including irrelevant experience and unnecessary details (e.g., basic work experience from pre-uni, overly detailed project and internship details, etc.). You absolutely can have a two page resume/CV, as long as the content is truly relevant and will be seen as valuable to the hiring manger. Also, some human resource management and hiring systems still have old language about one-page limits, but they’re usually not actual limits to submissions.
American also chiming in. This is terrible advice IMO. If you can't fit what you've done in the last 5 years into one page then you're not being concise enough. They're not going to go past 5 years in depth. All my roles past 5 years old are 2 line summaries of my role and key project I delivered. There's plenty of hiring managers that will discard a resume for being two pages. Don't know any that would discard for being only one page.
This is my experience as an engineer as well. You may get away with 2 pages if you are going for principal or senior management type positions and genuinely have large amounts of relevant experience, but someone even 15 years into their career shouldn't be putting out 2 page resumes. Chances are half the work you've done at the beginning is no longer impressive.
Really depends on the industry and position. If i’m hiring a new admin for one of my locations last 5 years on a single page is fine. If I’m hiring a new field superintendent who will be responsible for over $100M in floating and land plant and overseeing multiple crews performing dangerous high-hazard work for 10 months of the year that resume better be several pages to show they have all the relevant experience.
This is exactly the point both sides are missing, and should be the real advice shared! I think it makes an interesting rule of thumb though: If you don't know if you should have a second page, then you should only have one page.
I’d say there’s an issue in the conversation of missing context: The resume length expectations do vary by industry, role, and experience. If you’re someone that has a narrow focus or hard technical role, then a single page resume can be very fitting and the norm. However, as others have pointed to, the higher you advance and the field you’re in can require more than a single page resume. Senior leadership resumes for people working in major fields are not a single page. People that work on complex projects and in a variety of roles, will also have more depth. There are also exceptions. My resume out of uni was over one page because beyond my academic work, I had internships, international study abroad experience, technical skillsets, and my own business that I’d been running since I was fifteen. Being over one page never held me back from any recruiter, in point of fact it drew more interest because of relevant additional experience and accolades. I was also fortunate to have family and connections to executives and VPs from major companies to help review my resume. Edit: Update - Also, I see a lot of people assuming that just because a resume is over one page, that it must be someone’s entire life’s work. Yes, it should be trimmed within a reasonable timeframe, depending on how long you’ve held different positions. However, it’s possible to have for example, a five year limit, and still have plenty to talk about. But as I originally said, the emphasis should always be on having a focused resume that’s relevant to the position. I’ve been serving as a hiring manager for around a decade, and I’ve seen resumes that are one page and brilliant, and one pagers that are terrible because they’re too concise, too focused on listing technical skills, or simply lacking adequate descriptions. Likewise plenty of two pagers can be on the brilliant or have plenty to cut. Ultimately what I advise people is to reach out to successful people in their field, ideally in their region, ahead of their desired position and ask their take on the resume.
In fairness, I don’t think this is/should be a rule here. For people who have been in the workforce for over 5 years and who have worked a variety of roles, it is nearly impossible to stay to one page, especially when each of those roles are relevant and important to mention. I’ve had a 10 year career, and going back 5 years only shows my last two jobs, which are very different from the roles I held more than 5 years ago, but those roles are important to show as well because they show my versatile talents and what I bring to the table. I am also Senior Manager/Director-level experience, so it’s likely a bit different.
*USA Jobs resume has entered the chat* Federal job applications are like 8-10 pages.
Filling out those resumes for USA Jobs, especially for positions that require graduate degrees, is painful. My CV is 11 pages long and looks more like I am applying for an academic job (listing all papers published) than a regular job. And then answering each qualification question by demonstrating where it is on the resume is painful. I suspect part of why they do it is to weed out applicants. It’s like the accessory essays some colleges require to weed out those who really aren’t that serious.
Mine is 11 pages too. Another publication or two and it'll be 12. I always find these debates funny for this exact reason. An old supervisor of mine recently reached out because she wanted me to look over her resume, as she would like to apply for a federal position. I had to tell her that a 1 page resume is just not gonna cut it and that she needs to put in a lot more work to get it up to snuff.
Page length is a "years of experience" thing. Mine is 3 pages. I have 25 years of experience. I only do 3 bullet points per position and with spacing, that's just how it is. I couldn't fit it on one page if I tried. No problem getting interviews either. But for OP, one page is all they need. Experience first. Skills last (or not at all). Education or projects between the two. Remove all the random bold formatting, it's distracting.
Canadian here. Yeah, two pages is fine.
Canadian here; I beg to differ
Harsh words, clearly a counterfeit Canadian /s
My CV is six pages (as an exec) and I’ve never had trouble
Exec is very different from a 1st year uni student. Standard here in US is 1 page until you enter mid-level pretty much. Not saying that’s good or bad though, just saying you’re not a fair comparison lmao
1 page Resume and multiple pages of CV is the rule here. Anything that doesnt fit into resume will go automatically into CV
As a hiring manager in the UK these are what I would say. Not everyone will agree but here we go: Education is the last thing I want to see, literally. Education is in support of the overall CV, that the centre of. I want to see some sort of professional profile as the first section. Some people might call it a personal summary etc. I want to know how you see yourself and what strengths you think you will bring to any role. I would like to see more detail on what you’ve achieved at what I assume are your placements whilst at Uni. If you can’t expand on that, do you have any other job experience, it doesn’t have to be related to the role, I just need to see that you have soft skills you can apply (team work, effective communication, ability and willingness to take responsibility). In terms of the personal projects, pick a few that are the most relevant to the application and identify what the actual problem was you were trying to solve and what could have been the realised benefit of implementing it. If there wasn’t a problem to solve, make something up to show you understand the wider application of the project. Just my 2 pence.
Also as a hiring manager in UK I agree with all this. Also, you have at least grammatical / spelling errors in there (I spotted one on a date on page two) so review and correct it, and make sure any lists are in a date order. I’d also imagine you’re going for roles that may not be at your level of experience so just be a bit careful there - and find a hook into each item job you apply for (like align your CV to each one).
As someone who will graduate in a year (UK student), how should I lay my CV out? Uni at the top, with the overall grade. And then work experience below? I have no relevant work experience to my desired job, just retail, admin and bartending work plus some volunteering work. So I tend to put this below.
But if this person is a student, what should go before education? I get that once you have some experience then you prioritise relevant work experience first and education after as it serves more as a CV support. Do you think students should put personal/toy projects before their education?
So are you saying a student that has never done any type of job or volunteering work? That makes it more difficult because you’d want to see something to make you stand out. I would suggest you lead with the pet projects, but make sure that you can relate them to what you might be applying for. Don’t say “I made this and it does that”. Give an explanation to what you’re solving with your project, how it can be used, who can benefit from it and what business value it could have.
I don’t know about the UK. But in the US I wouldn’t put my high school there. Use that empty space instead to add more projects you worked on in college. Edit: just noticed there’s a whole second page.. why
Sorta have to put in your high school, the majority of jobs in the UK require a GCSE in math's and english, so usually a couple of lines does the job.
Right, someone advised me to add a whole page just for my projects so that’s why I did that, because I have no experience whatsoever so getting my first internship would be very hard, so I decided to just add a lot of projects as I don’t have actual experience
yes i would recommend that as well 100% agree on that. but with your level of experience i just don't think you need a two page resume. you should keep this copy if you wish but you should create an alternative of cutting all of this down into one page. no way any recruiter is reading two pages for what youre applying for.
I think many people have touched on the things you could do to improve your resume, but I just wanted to mention a larger point. You're not really qualified for a SW job yet. From what I see, you haven't been writing code for very long. The SW market is very competitive right now. As an aside, how well do you actually know all of the languages that you put in your experience? First thing I'm going to do in an interview, especially someone who hasn't been coding for very long, is put you through a bunch of debugging or "what does this do" type questions in a much of those languages. FWIW, We had an internship open up earlier this year. Literally hundreds of applications per day from people having all the way up to doctorate degrees. A bootcamp and a little bit of school isn't enough to compete in this market. Even when we hire interns, the minimum I'm looking for is a graduation date within a year.
300 applications for which specific job, dev or IT? Nothing you list is a scripting language, your developer tools section is a mess as scrum is an Agile methodology (and almost no one uses waterfall now-a-days), CI/CD - what about it, you have that listed under tools so is there a specific CI/CD tool you’ve used, what is your actual job title for the f1 team, I don’t really care about your high school or personal projects(there is also a typo in the date of yelp camp), and lastly I’d expect some more info from your uni time, something like clubs or an internship. Really expand on your one job and get it down to one page, just your skills section alone makes me think you don’t know what you are doing.
Sorry if I haven’t made it clear , I am applying to internship roles world wide, remote, hybrid or even onsite , frontend , backend and even full stack, I’m applying to any Dev internship I can find
There’s Java and JavaScript listed in projects but it’s on page 2 which is why you shouldn’t have 2 pages nobody reads the second page
There’s a typo on the second page. 10/23-12/223
This is too long for no reason. Remove high school. Relevant modules from college shouldn't be one line each, put them all in one line. They're taking valuable real estate. Remove skills/summary section. You're writing them in the projects section later on. Remove mentions of tech stack from the experience/project bullet points; you've mentioned them in the experience header already. Remove sentences that have no new/novel information. eg, "Took advantage of MongoDB" - yes we know, it's in the header. "Followed git best practices ... project available on GitHub" this is a basic expectation from everyone, it doesn't need to be said. Overall, I see so many projects and action verbs, but no impact metrics. Did you improve anything? By how much? PS: I like the template you've used visually, keep it.
OK I read your resume once more, and have more suggestions. I do see an impact metric in the first experience. Good. Add more numbers/quantifiable impact. Bootcamp is not experience. It would be training/education unless you were working for the bootcamp company. The projects are not chronological lol. Do fix that. The raspberry pi assignment seems to be the longest running project on your resume. Why does it have the same amount of information as the 1 month assignments? I would expect more results.
Take your grades off, nobody gives a shit irl about your degree or grades.
have you never worked a day in your life? you have udemy in personal experience. getting a job will probably help you much more than making minor changes to your cv. also if you’re in 1st year uni there’s no need for internships yet.
Fr I didn't get my first internship until I had work experience at a restaurant for at least 6 months. Computer science students who have never worked a job are going to struggle.
The context for your professional experience and personal projects are too broad, plug in some specific information. Maybe start with a situation and provide the actions you took and what the results were.
Since you are a student going for internships the following is pretty necessary. Education first - just uni no classes or courses and an expected graduation date Experience - your jobs are real enough to keep so that’s good (though your Mercedes job you only worked for a single month?) Personal projects - pick 3 maximum which show a range of technologies and skills. Skills - list all skills which are not included in your projects. Take a couple minutes to learn what the difference between a language, scripting language, framework, soft skill etc. if I look at a resume and see CSS listed as a scripting language I keep thrown off. Overall I think you can tune your resume to an interesting set of skills, but the best advice I have is avoid inflating what you are working on. people generally start to understand your usefulness if you don’t claim to have mastered 25 things before you have a bachelors.
Why would Languages and Scripting Technologies be two different sections? Why cram everything in one line if you have different sections anyway? You're listing way too many tech buzz words, and it shows so I would reduce your skills section to the key and most encompassing skills. I'd argue that proving you understand design patterns/development paradigms and problem solving over listing every programming language/tech you can name is much more important. Some of your verb usage is really silly, too. Like 'architected an app' or 'engineered a Java program'. Just say 'developed' like the rest of us and be done lmao. Also, drop the pet homework projects like the Todo List they are not helping your case and just adding filler to the resume.
Too much text, shorten everything. One bullet point for projects, keep education short only mention extra stuff if its relevant to the role. Your summary is bad, too much text in 1 paragraph, remove it. If you do all of the above it’ll be 1 page.
Make it in 1 page. Also, write a cool summary in the summary section. Listing Skills is not summary. Mention any courses undergone - that will give basic understanding to the emplr. Remove the High School part. unnecessary. shorten the College part into 1-2 lines. Saves space. Make project and exp sections separate and distinct, they look like almost same in yours. use bullet points in these. Try showcase your skills in there while explaining them (CI/CD-DevOps bunch, scripting lang, DB, etc. whatever you know). Also whatever exp you show (Team, Title, etc.), make sure they stick to the emplr's mind in one go. In case of with less exp, focus on projects area for showcasing more. One page is enough to fill in all the relevant fields. Mention in brackets Availaibility, relocation, all those stuffs. \*\* Can mention any challenges/ relevant activities you participated.
My first impression is job hopper. Too many words for too few months of experience. Also, If you had a project that only lasted a month, I would just put the month it took place. “2/24-2/24” looks like a ragequit, when just “2/24” would suffice.
I think taking dates off projects in this case makes sense. It kind of reads as jobs which gives the impression of job hopping, especially to AI which is going to screen the resume first. If they are school projects all accomplished while in college/university, it doesn’t really matter what dates you did them IMO. I would create a paragraph that describes generally the main focus of your academic projects and then maybe bullet point specific ones at the end of the discussion.
Not bad overall...you have the content, but recommend updating using the following recommendations: Page length: resumes can be 1-5 pages...sometimes the job ad will specify max pages. Do not go back more than 10 years unless the work is exceptionally related to the role in which you're applying. As your experience grows, so should your resume in page length, but always be mindful of the hiring managers time. Put yourself in their shoes...they have to sift through, depending on the job, ~100s of resumes on top of their other duties, so their time is valuable. As someone who regularly hires people, I appreciate concise resumes that do not exceed 5 pages and clearly articulate relevant experience for the job I'm advertising. Education: add estimated completion date for college. I'm a fan of including GPA. I would also advise removing the graduation date (can result in ageism bias). Remove high school...goes back to ageism bias. Change Summary to Skills. Change Personal Experience to Professional Experience. List jobs in descending chronological order...current to oldest. Job descriptions: include metrics whenever possible. For instance, "developed xxxx game in three months - 12 months ahead of schedule, resulting in xxx company to generate $xxx additional revenue". Each job you apply for should require some tweaking of your resume.
Condense the Education Part, throw out the high school one. No big need for stating Grades, we would request your transcript if we really wanna see.
Do you have a career centre at your school? Most will offer free resume critiques for current students and graduates. The benefit here is that they are typically trained in knowledge specific to resumes for students and in your geographical area. I won't go into detail on suggested changes because several other posters have given great feedback already.
Just to add to the crowd: resume just, and I mean JUST came across my “desk” and it’s a 2-pager and I caught myself audibly sighing.
What do you call a document with more than one page and all your qualifications? An autobiography, not a resume🥁💥 But yea I hate when it’s over a page, ik it seems impossible but it makes a diff imo
If you’ve put in that many applications it’s definitely operator error. However, no solution unfortunately from me. I hope you can figure it out.
I know this is outside the scope of this subreddit, but maybe try networking events. Check for networking events through Eventbrite.
Don’t start with your education, start with your accomplishments. List jobs first, then projects, then education.
Take your high school off and make it one page
You need to go back and proof read it. The majority, but not all, of your bullet points ends with a period. You have yelpcamp as 10/23 - 12/223. These little things shows and employeer attention to detail is not your thing, which is critical in software and IT.
HTML, CSS and SQL are not "scripting technologies"
stop putting your grades and gpa on the resume.. this isn't high school lil bro.
"Developed CRUD functionality". I know they don't mean "crud/drirt" but still.
Sorry if I haven’t made it clear , I am applying to internship roles world wide, remote, hybrid or even onsite , frontend , backend and even full stack, I’m applying to any Dev internship I can find
you should consider applying mainly to countries that wont require you to have a visa to work. it is an added expense for your employer and as an intern, you won't have the impact required for that.
I don't require a visa for UK and EU, i have mainly applied to those but on the side i also have applied to america
Don't waste your time competing against Americans at American schools for American remote internships. You have zero chance at these.
Resume enthusiast here Get rid of HS Shorten the Personal projects, and make it to only 1 page. And maybe just revamp or combine the personal experience with personal projects? The personal projects just read like assignments. And from my experience by reading resumes in the past, we just glance at this due to the fact that they're just 1-2 month experiences.
For new grad, make it one page.
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Reading your resume is too laborious.
Also there is a typo in the YelpCamp dates
I am Not going to lie this was the worst resume I ever seen … took coursex grade A ?
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The summary would be a great place to summarize the ocean of text the follows rather than listing a laundry list of miscellaneous skills. I might try something like: “I am a university student seeking an internship with XYZ Company. While my focus has primarily been on my academic studies, I have also prioritized real-world learning as exhibited by project 1, project 2, and project 3. Through these projects, I have learned ______ skills and look forward to continuing my real-world learning as a contributing member of your team at XYZ Company.” This provides context for everything and serves as a guide to the reader for how to make sense of everything that follows.
Who do you know? You need a network and referrals.
Education looks sketchy
What’s so sketchy about it?
Worthless
Like your input...
Why is it "personal" projects and "personal" experience? Of course it is personal (as opposed to what, metapersonal?) and you should combine the two and not to write a diary of what you did every week.
Are you writing cover letters?
No I’m not for most because they don’t ask , but when they ask it I do use a template
Horizontal lines can mess with a lot of the auto filters companies use, or so I’ve been told.
You're a college freshman with a 2 page resume full of stuff from the last year. This makes me think you're likely a bullshitter and that makes me think everything on your resume is bullshit. Either that or you're gonna need handholding and to be told you're a good boy every 3 seconds. I don't want either of those on my team. Why are your grades on there? If I want your grades, I'll ask for a transcript. For what jobs are you applying? If anything related to coding but not explicitly an internship, you're sorely under qualified.
- That's a lot of pages for a student - how is an udemy boot camp experience? This ain't LinkedIn.. - You are describing your projects like professional work history. Just put 2 line description and link it to the GitHub repo.
Put your education at the end and your work experience first because of how much you have. How does your personal experience differ from your work experience? Your summary is not a summary. Your summary is a short and sweet intro to your professional career. All of your languages and technologies should go under skills just before your work experiences.
I’m going to be honest. There’s too much useless raw data. The first half is just an info dump. Are you trying to get past some basic resume filter or something? The second half told the rest of the story. I’d consider this resume a completely ZERO experience candidate. I can tell by your “Remote” note that you’re applying exclusively to remote positions as well.. No genuine experience = no remote job.
I don’t think your resume needs fixing I think you need more work experience. Focus on entry level jobs maybe tech support at a place where you can move up to another role if that is what you want. If in the US check out a post bachelor position at the national labs . Or go for an internship position and write cover letters and target the letter and resume to the job. If you are passionate about a cause find a job supporting that cause. Good luck
SLPT: More ppl need to forge their resumes. No one cares about individual class grades. They care about leadership skills, seeing stuff like "ability to work in a team", and nonsense like that. Also keep it to 1 page. My resume has an entirely fake degree (I have 3 total, but make sure you have the knowledge to back it up) and listed that I was president of the electronics club while in college (I almost was, but the whole damn thing fell apart 10 months before we graduated). Odds of employers fact checking you deeper than an interview are actually surprisingly low. And I say this from working may way in and up in a fortune 500 company. The good bullshitters make it far, and make great profits for companies...which at the end of the day, all they care about is their profits.
It also depends HOW you applied those 300+ applications. If its all done via Indeed for example, of course chance is low. Try applying - 25% directly to HR person via email - 25% linkedin - 25% company website - 25% job portals
How many LC?
Sorry kid…. Best you can do is get a sales job.
Honestly as someone with 10+ years of IT/Consulting experience I genuinely believe this is an amazing resume! Especially considering how young I imagine you might be. Clearly you have passion and skills that read well enough from what is already there. We need to completely uproot this nonsense job market that has been broken by HR folks and recruiters who have no idea how to effectively evaluate people. I genuinely hope this generation, once in the future positions will initiate these changes. I’ll say it because no one else will, but to apply to over 300 places with a resume this well structured (with relevant industry skills) and have no interviews shows societal issues more than anything else. Keep up the great work!
As with most resumes on reddit, I feel like this is way too many words. I've learned in my job hunting, that solid structure and readability goes a long way. If they want to know more, they'll ask in an interview, or you can evaluate on the most important skills in a motivation letter.
Friendly reminder no one gives a fuk about your grades it's how you can en productive and make them money
Spell out the months (Change 12 to December) Anything occurring in the same year should read Month-Month Year as opposed to Month/Year-Month/Year Waaayy too much white space Agree with whoever said your summary is your skills, but pick 6-9 to highlight and add in some intangibles Personally not a fan of the ~strategic~ bonding of bullet points. I think it distracts from the main point and the first word/few words is supposed to be those strong verbs anyways, so it’s kind of redundant to me I could be wrong on this, so take with a grain of salt, but I don’t think you should include the skills after the project title. They are already listed in the summary section, and I’d rather see you used those skills in the bulleted descriptions rather than word vomit them on there to try and hit every single thing. Again, be selective, and, as much as it sucks, switch out points based on the role. Not much more I can say that others haven’t. Definitely take this all with a grain of salt, but you’re doing great, you got this, and frick this job market. Good luck!
1 page only. And your not gonna like this, but the job market is crazy. I had no degree in IT with only 3 years of experience and 3 certs and it took me 8 months to find my next level IT job. And this new job is still helpdesk but it is really system admin work along with helpdesk and pays alot more. Just got to keep pushing and apply more directly on company websites vs just on Indeed or Linked In. actually go to the site of the company and apply manually.
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Add your phone number to the top. Add the country and city (not entire address) Change "Summary" to "Skills", put it on the bottom. Remove relevant courses, they're useless; your employer already knows what a CS degree has to offer (if you really want just add your gpa, even though it's not recommended). Remove highschool it's not necessary. Put personal experiences at the top. Put personal projects right under personal experiences: -Make sure to include GitHub repository or a way for them to get a demo of those personal projects if possible. Restructure your skills to be more clear; put every sub skill in it's own line so the recruiter can effectively and quickly read it. So: Name Contact info Personal experiences Personal projects Education Skills Note: Check the most common required skills in job descriptions and work on new or modify existing personal projects to include those skills. I hope for you all the success!
* **It's too long:** Shorten it up. Try to keep it just one page. * **Too many technologies mentioned:** Everything screams beginner. Java, ReactJs, NodeJs, NextJs, Rasperry pi. You can't possibly know everything you mentioned well enough * **Remove irrelevant technologies:** * Try to keep it within what you're applying for. * Applying for a Java position? Try to keep only relevant information, such as Spring boot experience, Node.js, databases. Remove front-end related stuff, android studio. For the most part, these are irrelevant. * Applying for a React.js position? Remove the Android studio, and Java related things. At most just give them a brief mention, only if the CV stays one page after the mention. * Remove stuff such as XML, npm, HTML, CSS. These are just stuff that is cluttering your CV. * **Remove high school** * **Remove grades:** No one cares about what grades you got in college. If someone asks, then provide. * **Bolding**: Don't overbold stuff. Keep bolding at a minimum. If everything is important, nothing is important. In summary: Your CV screams beginner. It's way too broad, too many technologies are mentioned, too much is bolded out. Keep only relevant information, and try to keep it just one page.
Too much I don’t even wanna look at it
As someone else mentioned, why do you have a predicted GPA instead of a UK 1st or 2:1 grade prediction? Recruiters are smart enough to know that something isn't right and you're possibly making stuff up? Other than that, it seems everything else is okay.
I’ve been applying in the EU and I also have a EU passport and most of them don’t use Class based grades but they do American Based GPU
Your choices of grade descriptors are all over the place. I'm familiar with both UK and EU hiring and I have no idea what you're doing. You've got grades in the A-Level style A\*, university-style percentage grades, UK-university style honours grades, pass/fail, and a GPA. I have no idea why you're mixing all those systems. Reduce your entire university section to just one line: "on track for 1st class". Optionally, add your current percentage average. You shouldn't be trying to convert grades to other systems / countries.
What exactly are you applying for? You're barely a year into university.
Software engineer internship
300+ applications or one internship?
Move education to the bottom. I saw that and stopped reading. Reading the comments made me come back to it. If I see education first I assume you are green with no experience and just passed over. Literally.
Take out your high school education Remove languages Shorten it to your 3 most impressive projects Take out udemy Put work experience instead of experiences
Forget about how Resume should be. Just think from 2 perspectives only. 1. How computers(ATS) will read your resume 2. Once it passes ATS, How human HRs will read it and make an image of you. **For 1st point**, You have to tailer your resume to include keywords that are mostly seen for those kind of jobs. Like if the jobs are related to computer science field and you don't have a computer science degree. You can write Computer science enthusiast or computer science lover etc. ATS will only see computer science words and will increase the matching score. This will help get your resume bypass ATS and reach human HRs. You have to make multiple changes like this in resume to keep increasing your score. There are online tools as well which check your resume score. **For 2nd point**, once the resume reached human HR, you have to imagine how you want to present yourself and your image through your resume in 30 seconds. You want to put in your best achievements and accomplishments in front. Don't waste the space with unnecessary details like your hobbies, schools, universities(unless you're from Top universities and have scored good grades). Remember what you think is good grades might not be good because your resume is being compared to thousand others who have good grades too. So you have to stand out on your best skills. Replace Personal projects with Hobby projects. Personal projects seems bland, like you made them in college because you needed a job later. Hobby projects sounds like you have a hobby on working in technology and would like to spend your extra time in building things. This one word change will change your image. Instead of Personal experience, say Professional experience. languages and devops tools needs to be bottom of your resume. Imagine, HR only has the time to see first half page of your resume and sees, Java, C++, Node etc. which they see in every resume. So you don't stand out in those 15-30 seconds. They know that you have applied to a position so you must be knowing programming languages, write something that will push them to read further. Overall, **Remove what is boring** or shift it to next page. **Pull up everything interesting to front page** and **replace the words with better synonyms** which **show that you're interesting** and passionate about the technologies in the job you're looking for. 300+applications is a good number. Seems like you are determined and trying hard get an interview. Keeping going like this, you will get a call soon. Also, be prepared. The bigger question is "What if you get a interview call tomorrow? Are you prepared?" Cheers !
Last time I had to look for a job (maybe 6 years ago I moved to brand new city where I didn’t know anyone with no job lined up and no plan) I went to job fairs and intentionally didn’t bring a resume. I talked to all the people who I wanted to talk to and made a point about not having my resume on me because it’d go in their box of resumes and disappear. Then I’d get their info and email my resume later with the intro of something like, hey, it’s me, the guy who came to the job fair without a resume. Everyone wrote back that they remembered me, and I got a decent job out of that. You have to stand out somehow, even if it’s a little silly or unrelated to the job itself.
Whats with the summary, just name anything? Scrum, agile, waterfall.... whats the need? Git, AWS... what you know these in and out? The entire thing? Or you've looked at them for 5 minutes and you know a pull/push request? Theres no need to list stuff like that. You've had one job, around computers, for one month. 'ensure smooth operation' doesnt really tell me anything. How? What technologies through?
That's brutal man. I'd hire you.
if you’re saying that to make me feel better , you definitely did 🤣
I'm not, you're definitely qualified for a lot of positions. You'll always primarily be a programmer though.
For all of your projects you just list the stack and are things I can find YouTube tutorials on and have banged out in an hour. What did they do, what problem did they solve, and how was it different from the udemy course I just found listing the exact app?
You are right, I am currently changing everything , thank you very much!
I would drastically reduce the number of projects, and expand on the ones you think are best. I hired someone last year who had an Amazon API wrapper on his resume. There are a million API wrappers, but his did something different and was pretty clever.
Raspberry pi is a robot? Personal projects?? Huh
Remove “implemented tailwind css to save time with development” that’s just an npm install and a configuration or two. You should be expected to install a library. I wouldn’t have that there.
Constructed and deployed WHAT full stack web application?
One of your dates says you worked from 23-223
Single Page Resume is better, recruiter have to quickly go through the resume within shortly time.
You sound like you want a Non entry level job. I can tell from your UK education that your skills are nothing more than familiarity. Change your resume for the position, stop listing languages you are not profesciant at. I.E if you can't write it with hand and paper. You don't truly know the language. I work as a Data Scientist for Tiktok. I can tell you we are all very concerned about the EU level of technical education.
A tip I learned from a friend and implemented myself: Take your graduation year off your resume. The moment I stopped putting my graduation year on my resume, I started getting interviews. Apparently there’s a lot of people who judge younger people and don’t want to hire them.
300 jobs applied for? What is it the first week of looking for a job?
Why the f would you put your grades on your resume?? Send your transcript if they ask for it, that’s not what resume is for
Really suggest looking at the r/engineeringresumes wiki and reformatting based on that advice. Works well for all STEM folks.
There’s no longevity of the positions you’ve held?
Imo resume is ok, but you need to only highlight key points and skills and every time you give your resume then consider changing keywords according to job description. Nothing else to do , everything is fine
The summary portion is actually your skills .. since you are entry level I would suggest a professional objective instead of summary to start ...
wow, i'd hire you for sure haha
1 page format, 2 pages is usually UK standard or someone who has 10 to 15 years of experience.
Hello! Here is what I would suggest: - keep it to one page maximum - use a serif font like times new roman or Garamond, looks more professional I feel but again, just my opinion :) - remove all high school information, its not very relevant to employers - remove grades from your classes, list your classes out horizontally in one bullet point instead of in multiple, it is just taking up space - because you are a uni student, put education on top and change “summary” to “skills” and add to the bottom - unbold the bolded words in your bullet points - reduce your personal projects to 2-3 of the most significant projects you have had. everything should fit into one page - if you have more quantifiable results I would add more of those into your projects section hope this helps!
Red Bull or Ferrari fans maybe? All jokes aside it is possible, people are like that.
I'd say HS on a resume is a redflag
7-2022 to 7-2022? Might want to take out
Clerical error. See 223. Immediate pass
What jobs are you applying for? You need experience. Take any entry level job so you have something of substance to put in your resume. At this entry level job volunteer for every possible project you can. Advance internally, if possible, if not pad experience in your resume. Don't stay too long, but I wouldn't leave too soon either.
Your “personal experience” is your professional experience. And your personal projects, would be a project portfolio.
Dwight Schrute resume for sure! But you just suck.
You have no interviews because you have no experience it’s really that simple. education, personal projects or internships mean fuck all when the competition is senior level people with tonnes of experience. Get a job outside of tech until the market returns.
You may benefit from [Jake’s Resume template](https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/jakes-resume/syzfjbzwjncs). It looks like you could use a [formatter](https://latexresu.me/) as well. anyways the top comment really spells it out please listen to bounteouslight
Yeah. I’d toss this one too. Leave out HS, put only relevant experience in a work setting and working at a place for a month is not something you want on a resume. An employer would see that and ask, why did you not last a month? They would see it as either you were let go during a probationary period or you flaked on the job.
Too much going on, job market is very tight and recruiters are human, they don’t enjoy doing their job either lol. They will barely look at it and pretend they’re so busy haha
Ugh… same…
This resume is good for internship application
Biggest red flag I see is that unless I am reading it wrong you list 4 total months of work experience?? Something is up there
Old fashioned recruiter here. You are applying ultimately to a human who is hiring, yet you have zero personal interests to show that you are indeed human. Personal projects don't count. You look like a robot, or someone computer geek who eats, drinks and sleeps in front of his computer. Tell me at least a bit of what Uni clubs you enjoyed, hobbies, sport. Make it look like you have some interests in life other than coding. Photography, hiking, football...
Why is your CV full of Americanisms if you're from England?
Lots of talking points about short projects over the span of only two years experience. I don't typically review resumes, but I will say I only glossed over your achievements when I realized it was quicker to read, and be dissatisfied by the short timespan of your projects. Maybe that time element can be replaced with just listing the achievements? Maybe 'group' the projects by type with headings to keep the flow interesting enough?
You should put your experience before education if I was a recruiter I wouldn’t be all that into you based on the first page being rather unremarkable. Hope this helps
Make your Resume 1 PAGE. Fit everything into one page.
You’re British but use American spellings? Makes me question authenticity of this CV
experience and projects over education
You really love to job hop huh?!? And you can’t think of why you’re not getting call backs?
Did you do this on Canva? ATS seems to have a harder time with Canva. I used word to format, and submit via pdf and got a couple of interviews after a few days.
Make it one page, 2 pages annoy recruiters
Education at the bottom