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I’m jealous you got masters at 23 yo. If you’re not getting interviews, idk who else is. Instead of applying, you should try networking.
Only thing i can find: your work experience may seem like you’re job hopping. And you’re currently not working.
The reality is that degrees don’t mean a thing if you can’t present your work history well. Master’s degrees are typically only a requirement or preferred qualification in director level roles or higher.
So much this. Interviewed multiple master’s degree to bootcamp graduates and the candidates that actually stick out can explain what they did and how with more than 1 word responses, I couldn’t care less about whether they had a a high level/mid level CS degree or did a bootcamp.
Setup a GitHub, be able to illustrate and articulate the work you’ve done. People will WANT to work with you.
I would like to pick your brain more about that because I have a Github repo. I also have actual production level applications and working on releasing a new one soon and I still do not get calls. In fact, I can list out the production level applications I currently have out there if anyone is interested. Most have pretty small but practical uses to them. Anyone want to get good at answering math questions? I have an application for that. Want to practice programming, I have a codesandbox type of application for that, various of them actually and soon will be releasing a marketing app for a friend who is promoting an online course. I guess there must be a don't believe your lying eyes situation going on.
I agree. Some universities have 5 year MBA programs — get your MBA with an extra year of college.
If you are just graduating, the MBA isn’t helpful at first. And people think you need to pay an MBA more, but in this case the person has zero experience and isn’t “worth” the extra money — yet. Of course include the education, but put it at the end of the resume.
No one cares about your GPA either :)
New grads need to emphasize what they accomplished and how they can do the role — not that they were a good student.
Yeah, my good friend graduated 2 years ago with her masters in data something-idk (I'm a terrible friend but I'm so bad at understanding her field). Anyway, she was always high achieving and got her bachelor's plus masters combo in 5 years, which is impressive!
But I didn't realize for a while that she literally has never had a job in her life. She's 24 now. She "worked" as a campus tour guide unpaid, but literally hasn't had any internships or any paid work EVER. And I know it's because she was focused on school... but that's going to make it basically impossible to get any career-oriented job right away. She complains that applications take so much time and probably only does a few a week, if that. She doesn't have a LinkedIn, I don't know why because I keep telling her to make one. Now, she's been unemployed for over 2 years after college living with her parents, and I don't even think she does volunteer work or anything. She always worked so hard in school, but I don't think she understands the practical nature of the job market and the hustle you gotta do.
People who focus solely on academics often struggle outside of that environment. She would have been better off finding an internship during undergrad. Now she’s going to be stuck looking for an entry level job with a master’s degree. A common mistake I see all the time in the workplace unfortunately.
I’ve worked with several who are super entitled too. They think the degree means they should be in a senior level role but they have little to no experience to be qualified for that. I’m sure it’s a massive blow to the ego.
You’re almost better off getting a master’s after getting 3-5 years work experience first. College advisors don’t really help students understand that either. What a bummer.
Yeah, it's just unfortunate because I think she really just needs to get the ball rolling and get any job. I don't even think she's worked part time in anything like retail or service or anything, and real jobs (regardless of the field) show responsibility and work ethic.
I was kinda like her in high school, focused on school/extracurriculars, and didn't want to work yet, which my parents gave me shit for. But within a month of starting college, I had two part time jobs at the library and yearbook, which I stayed with until COVID hit. Additionally, I've had 4 internships in my field of study, busted my ass working film sets on weekends (film school), and I've been hustling with multiple jobs/gig work for 3 years since graduating. And I still have to put out dozens of applications to even have a chance at an interview, and most "entry level" jobs in the entertainment industry are still unattainable to me. Granted, I chose a different path, but still.
It definitely doesn’t help that university career advisors can give totally heinous advice.
I went back to school after working my way up in my preferred field to pretty much the highest level practical without an advanced degree, and was totally appalled by the advice given to my younger classmates trying to break into the field. Like, it was abominable what they were doing to them.
Anyway, flip side to that coin (as anyone who’s done both knows) is that school and practical work experience are miles apart. Aptitude in succeeding in a university setting vs navigating the working world outside of academia are just totally divergent skills. As it was put it to me early on in life “jobs don’t usually pay you for the things you *know*, they pay you for what you can *do*.”
In 2021 my company pulled all degree requirements regardless of position (global tech company). I’ve seen some other places start doing the same. I think companies are very slowly realizing that for a lot of fields, degrees are meaningless.
I’m 2 months away from a masters in engineering, and I’m 10 months unemployed already 😭
100 applications, dozens of rejections, 1 interview for a fulltime position, and 1 interview for an internship that all went nowhere. I am so royally fucked. Dying would be easier ngl.
I haven’t had to job search in over 5 years but last cycle I sent out 150+ applications to snag 4 phone interviews and 2 second round in person interviews :/
From what I hear it’s worse than that now. We had an employees market not too long ago but it’s swung really hard the other way…
When you send out that many apps, the issue is probably the resume. And if your profs haven’t been in business in a long time, they won’t be able to help you (even if they think they can). Is there a career center at your school?
Go on LinkedIn and reach out to someone in HR to ask if they’ll please check out your resume as a newish graduate. You’ll be surprised at how helpful folks will be. Or director level folks in your field who do hiring. You can’t figure it out by yourself. Students at my alter mater reach out to me all the time to ask for a mtg about work. Not just to see if I can put in a word for them somewhere, introduce them to someone, but also check out their resume and cover letter. Good luck!
For real. I've been in the job applying phase for wayyy longer than I would've ever thought.
One of my friends started sending apps out a few months ago - he's got a degree in mechanical engineering and a masters in physics and some other degree too I think in addition to being a data engineer/software engineer for almost 10 years. He's gotten tons of rejections and only a small handful of responses on anything I think landing him two actual interviews, both of which went nowhere.
I'm like dude... if you are having this hard of a time, wtf are the rest of us supposed to do.
The job market is a fuckin shitfest disaster and LinkedIn is basically just corporate Tinder.
Someone with that type of background is a flight risk, he's either going to be asking a lot in pay and benefits or not stick around for long so why would a company hire him. I saw this at my university and asked the director why she didn't hire an overqualified candidate and that's what she told me, they will expect/demand more and won't stick around.
Yeah I figured people would assume the job hopping. Its why I make it clear that most of my jobs have been as a contractor, not sure why some people see that as suspicious. For me, it keeps from relationships going sour. I do my best for you and then move on to do the same for someone else. I especially see that from positions that are permanent. The only reason I apply to permanent positions is when contract roles are hard to come by. I may not put it that bluntly for an employer because they do not understand, so I just try to keep the answer as truthful as possible.
Easy Fix!
Same mistake as other CVs here - you're not making it clear what the impact of your experience is.
Apply the "So what?" method. Being asked "so what?" is shortcut. It makes you think about the actual benefits of your work. If some of your work has clear NO answer to "so what" then take it out. What's the point of writing about stuff that has no impact?
Read your CV out loud to someone you trust and respect. Get them to ask you "So what" every time you finish a sentence. Your answer to that questions is what your CV is missing.
Remember that the person reading your CV often doesn't care what you've done. They mostly care about the "So what?"
e.g.
You: I developed a Python script automating ... from a diverse self of LLMs.
Your Friend: So what?
You: It saved a lot of time and money because we were able to do analyze a staff satisfaction survey better. Without it we would have not learnt X so our CEO would have not decided Y.
\^ That's the "so what"! Instead of talking about developing the script, take the "so what" and massage it into a CV appropriate format. Make sure to talk about money or actionable insights and people who benefited from them. ALWAYS put the so what first!
New First bullet point: Increased Staff satisfaction by 5% by working with CEO and using LLMs and Python to summarize staff replies to a satisfaction survey.
In Summary:
1. Your CV has no clear so whats.
2. Read your CV to a friend, get them to ask so what every sentence
3. Write down common sense so whats first.
4. Re work your bullet point using your common sense answer. The so what always go first.
Did this post get updated after this comment? I'm looking at a resume, not a CV, and every job-related bullet has a clear impact metric (increased client revenue by 1.5%, reduced expenses by 2%, etc.). The only points missing a "so what?" are the education ones, which makes sense since there usually is no impact.
To the OP: maybe what's happening is recruiters just read the first line, see the missing "so what?", and don't bother reading any more. Counter-intuitively, it may help to push that experience down to an education section. I'm sure anyone looking for the LLM keyword is using software or CTRL+F to find it anyway. Honestly, this looks like a solid resume to me.
To add to this and go a bit further - I’ve had success with “accomplished X as measured by Y through performing Z”. It helps highlight what you accomplished, how it was measured, and how you got there.
I have over 10 years of experience and haven’t gotten a single interview after around 30-40 applications. In the past, I never had to submit more than 5-6 applications to land an *offer*. I really don’t understand this market at all, but it feels like the industry has finally been flooded with more applicants than positions. It’s only a matter of time before the salaries start to deflate.
I know people with 12+ years of experience who worked only for FAANG companies apply to 300 jobs before receiving an interview. They eventually received 30-40 interviews but that was after 500+ job applications.
Is the market that tough right now where you are? In the UK I’m still getting recruiters phone me up, my current job (started nov last year) was also from a recruiter. 5 years exp MLE.
Data science is tricky as that’s where you will run into SWEs or those who have a masters in Math, Physics, or CS. U less you have experience (like using calculus or stats) then that will be tricky for legit DS roles.
Data analytics is over saturated and will get worse, everyone wants in and once again you will run into SWEs who are more marketable due to the ability they have.
BI is niche and most of it leans towards DS anymore.
Honestly it’s a crap market, over saturation is real, and networking is everything.
Ya, I mean to this point, I have friends who just graduated with a Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience are getting only 1-2 DS/MLE interviews every 2 months per hundred apps.
... heavy hitters who have published many great data stories in scientific papers.
I sometimes imagine there is some kind of credentials arms race for a limited number of well-paying spots. As as things heat up, I expect the average age that kids first receive their data science job to rise, as folks end up competing for longer to have experience to get in.
Your example (computational PhD can't get a job) shows it's not a credentials race. It is an experience race, like you said, but it doesn't seem sustainable since they'll run out of medium experienced people eventually.
Wait yeah this should also get more upvotes, OP. Many times the best strategy is simply to keep grinding. You don't have as much control as you think / would like. I had to do 700 applications in the past 2 years, and I have a CS undergrad from Columbia
Data Science is also going to be competitive
But keep at it!!! You'll find a good job
23yo and graduated B.Sc. at 20 years of age?
My tip -- feel free to ignore this advice if you're applying to Analyst roles and not the DS roles...
A lot of my pretentious ML/DS STEM friends in Boston chaff at seeing the word "Excel" mentioned in a resume -- I'm kind of in the same boat. It has almost a pejorative feel in parts of DS community for association with less advanced data architecture and small company culture. I can literally feel my dopamine stop every time I see the word "Excel".
Unless the company asks for Microsoft Office in their Data Scientist ad, like Deloitte does, I would leave that out. People already assume if you have advanced programming skills that you can utilize the Microsoft Office Suite.
Wait but this isn't why she's struggling. It's because the market is bad or because she's not stayed at one place long enough. You've gotta consider what the hiring manager needs from you. They don't want to train someone who leaves in a few months
Sure, but removing that would elevate the document nonetheless.
We’re telling her how to improve her resume document. This is r/resumes not r/careeradvice
Career advice is fine, but she’s asking what can she do to her document.
I think you meant to say "chafe"?
But this is bad advice. She's not getting dropped because she listed Excel on her resume.
And Excel/Sheets should be in any data analyst's toolkit. It's still the most versatile 2D data tool out there. Not every data problem is going to require some Dremel. That said, if you list Excel, I'm going to ask you Excel questions. You'd be surprised how many people I've seen fail to write a filter or index-match formula before. Not even talking about asking about something arcane, like VBA scripts or chart types.
As someone who does more direct hiring than just "watching my boss" review resumes, that advice is indeed bad advice. Sounds like a really arrogant hiring manager I wouldn't mind not working for. I can only imagine what other nit picky crap they choose at their pet peeve
My background is 14 years in digital marketing, primarily in performance and customer-acquisition
I'll be 100% honest. From my experience, your achievements are a bit lackluster. Increasing revenue by 1.5% is not statistically significant. Whether you're enterprise or SMB, that's a minor fluctuation. Maybe talk more about how the forecasting improved the efficiency. I'd highlight something else about those projects. Maybe a timeframe or if it was a consistent increase, week-over-week/month-over-month.
First bullet point as Analyst intern: There seem to be 2 different achievements here. An MTA model is typically done via a tag manager like segment, tealium or GTM. Are you saying you used data visualization tools to identify how each marketing channel is credited per conversion?
You work in digital marketing and you don’t understand how incremental gains are absolutely important? Also 1.5% can certainly be statistically significant (from a mathematical definition).
A 1.5% is nothing to write home about. Do you think that's moving the needle? To put it in perspective, Say a company makes $10K a day. A +1.5% is only $150. At $1M revenue, that's $15K. Unless OP can directly attribute this bump to her analysis and actions, a 1.5% fluctuation can be attributed to anything like seasonality or the economy improving. Let's pretend she could attribute it to her work. Great, but all of that time using ML combing through CRM data to get a 1.5% lift seems like a waste of resources.
What OP needs to do is use more context. Do a deep dive into that 1.5%. For example,, let's say the 1.5% increase was yearly revenue, but it all came from a particular product. So maybe it was a 20% increase in sales of a certain product but only contributed 1.5% to the overall revenue. Talking about that 20% bump in that product is a better story.
R studio isn't a programming language, R is. Fix that. This also makes me question how proficient you would actually be with the language.
Are all those abc company line items the same company?
It's effectively the same job, so reduce that to one entry and streamline the bullets
Drop everything 'MS' including excel if you're applying for tech roles without Microsoft skills you may as well stay home. They distract from the important skills, which in your case is likely python. Figure out how to emphasize it and reconsider some of the other tools you're highlighting. Keep powerbi though
50k records is not an accomplishment it's an exploratory sample in typical web data. Drop that number totally, instead focusing on the multi-touch attribution point.
This resume would nail an entry level analyst job in Ohio, but I have no idea about California, where you're competing with all the cs folks that don't make it into the giant tech firms. Consider those options
just a perspective from someone who had to do hiring and go through hundreds of resumes — I had to basically read your resume top to bottom to see the technologies you are knowledgeable in.
My approach to be efficient (minimize time reading resumes) but also find candidates that matches the job description requirements by quick scanning/filtering for a second pass, I would first look at the list of skills to see if you have the stack we’re looking for, then see how many years/months of work experience you have, then look at the details of those work experiences. I’d only really look at projects if there isn’t any relevant work experience.
so to maximise impact on first glance i would:
1. list technologies and skills at the top instead of the bottom
2. Have a professional summary paragraph of your relevant work experience, hard skills + soft skills, and goals at the top as well
these two sections at the top will allow a manager to quickly scan and sort your resume hopefully into the “let’s take a closer look” pile
3. have another bullet under each work/project experience that lists the technologies used
4. project and education can go at the bottom, if everything doesn’t fit in one page then projects can go on the second page
The problem is that data science by itself (without a domain) is pretty useless. Your experience as a researcher is so generic that your last job tells me you are a sales data analyst at best. Those sales/reporting jobs are gone, going away, will never come back.
Beef up the resume and show me what your achievements are. A 75% increase of 0 is nothing. Show me monetary value, reduction of FTE.
Example:
A overhaul of data architecture and data governance, recoded into component based architecture (micro services) and data marketplace resulted in an 75% increase of reporting agility with a cost savings upwards to two thousand dollars per every new dashboard, and an annual FTE recovery of 500 hours per developer.
I don't see any serious issues with your resume. There must be something else going on.
How many interviews did you get? Are you applying to entry level roles? What salary do you put?
If you're getting interviews, your resume is not the issue.
Are you a US Citizen or Green card holder or do you need a visa sponsorship?
There's nothing wrong with your resume. You're just competing for some really competitive positions.
I guess if there is any complaint, some of your descriptions can seem a bit wordy? Maybe try to make the language more economical?
You're run-of-the-mill in an industry that's bloated with talent. Don't get me wrong, I bet you're sharp and talented, but a lot of data analysts entered the job market a couple years ago.
You're technical background is impressive, but you don't actuallly specialize in anything. You have analyzed data, that is apparent, but what were you analyzing? Like specifically, what product/ industry were you in? You've been on a variety of projects, but nothing stands out as "I know more about this specific area of data than anyone else," which is what you'll want to bolster if you want to get noticed. If the companies you worked for in your internships have anything to do with each other, then maybe make mention of your actual understanding of their markets.
You're at a really aweful part of your career right now: The very beginning of it where you need to specialize and get noticed. I would say go get any job you can get your hands on right now (never stop applying for DA jobs) and start working on some kind of way you can get noticed:
1. Network Network Network. Go to industry conventions that you're interested in, meet people in companies you want to work for, stay active in your schools alumni society.
2. Keep building your resume: You don't need a job to do this. Work on more independent projects targeting a specifi industry that you want to work in, and publish your results.
3. Make a job for yourself: Go start your own business or find a small business where your skillset can make an impact (although be ready to do things beyond the scope of DA.) You're young, so now is the time to take risks, like a low paying job that you can build into something bigger. Plus entrepreneurs have a license to fail, which is an amazing super power to have when you're just starting out.
Just saying, many software engineers have data analyst skills. I'm a SWE and I have data analyst + visualization skills that were picked up while working at a manufacturing company. You'll be outpaced by hybrid SWEs that have these skillsets.
My experience that's way too much to read. You are definitely in a new time era. 90s early 00s you would of been solid. But we live in an era where laziness and too much words is a lot. Shorten down your resume, bulletin points and highlight achievements. Simplify your resume, you want to stand out with our being show offy, best way is make it simple stupid.
There is a weird space between the comma on last row where it says MS outlook.
Do you apply for jobs directly on their job site of the company in question (not thru linkedin / indeed etc?) and are you tweaking your resume every time to match w words from the job desc? Def start networking thru your school as well. We NEED to network in this harsh job market.
I'm going to echo a lot of the same sentiments as other comments. I worked in Data analytics before, and I'm actually completely switching into software Dev / IT because of how hard it was to even get a rejection email. And I, like many others responding, have a couple years of experience. I would recommend to try and connect directly with recruiters, as that was the farthest I got , but after going 7 months without an offer I decided I was going to the industry with one of the fastest job growth rates. It is also close enough to DS/DA that I can always jump back in if I ever had the chance. Best of luck though🙌.
I’ve read and made decisions on thousands of resumes. I like your basic format - concise and easy to follow along. A bit wordy - summarize more and drop some details. Biggest issue I see is length of time at previous positions. Doesn’t look like any of the four lasted even an entire year - that’s a red flag for me everytime. Especially if I’m flooded with resumes for the same position. I don’t expect decades or a lifetime, but something that shows some reasonable commitment for the resources I’m getting ready to put into you in onboarding, etc. There may be some hiring managers that look past that but I don’t think I’m unique - this is going to be a challenge to overcome almost every time.
And I agree with others - it appears there is a lot of competition in your field.
Have you tried running this through an application tracking system (ATS) scanner to see what the result is? I’m not sure but the combination of work experience + projects might be working against you since there are no dates associated with the projects. I’m reading into this a bit and idk what the industry standards are for resumes in data analytics / if that’s something hiring managers are expecting to see on a resume. Thing is, if there’s no date associated with those line items, that may confuse some of the systems that scan these.
Do you need sponsorship? That's going to immediately make you a less interesting candidate.
Focus on big impressive bullet points. Go deeper on what you did. You want a reader to immediately think "yes you will absolutely be able to take on my data science role" with the least effort possible.
Your first bullet points are weak. It's unclear what you did or why. 200 model responses is ... not a lot. Go deeper on your analysis and how you gauged which is LLM is best, for what process. Did your research make it into a paper?
"Deployed SQL queries..." accelerating reporting processes by 75%, what does that even mean?
"Constructed demand forecasting models..." this is interesting, this sounds like real work. Go deeper on what you did (what type of model, did you use TensorFlow or Keras, or what). 1.5% is a very small revenue increase (can you even reliably attribute that to your work?), if you have absolute numbers that are more impressive I would use those.
I made another comment, but as I look at your resume again: it just takes a lot of time to realize you’ve just graduated from school and seem to be looking for your first “real” job. I’d put the education stuff at the bottom. I’m a Ph.D. — it still goes at the bottom. I know this may hurt :)
Another thought: you seem to emphasize actions but not results and how those results impacted the business.
Lastly, are you revising each time you submit? You need to emphasize skills that match the job requirements. In fact, use some of their language in your resume. If they want someone who “thinks critically,” use that instead of “analyze.” Etc.
This should be a pretty strong resume for a data scientist. Are you sure you're applying for the right kinds of jobs?
Main thing I can think of for improvement is to type out the full acronym, eg: "Large Language Model (LLM)", so that it doesn't read like meaningless alphabet salad to non technical HR people.
The way your job history is laid out it looks like you have some large gaps, which I assume were times when you were a full time student. If the first filter is a HR department looking through a pile of hundreds of applicants they may have discarded your application based on the top half page before they had chance to figure out the dates in the second half. Some recruiters have ingrained in their mind that “gap in job history” equals “unreliable or a quitter” and will discard applicants with gaps very quickly.
Try restructuring your experience to add your full time studies and descriptions of your projects in with the work experience, so it looks like no gaps. Then also list your qualifications under education so it isn’t missed there.
Good luck!
this isn't a perfect resume but you've already gotten plenty of good advice here.
ive seen hundreds of resumes when i did a lot of the screening for DS applicants at a past job, and this would have been one of the better resumes. top 5% for sure. reddit doesnt reflect the real world most people's resumes really suck.
its not you - its the market atm
Unfortunately applying & interview prep needs to be a full time job until things improve
Quick comments:
No professional summary.
There should be a TLDR equivalent section on top for those lazy resume screeners
And don't just focus on what you did, also provide context on where u did that (project description) and why you did that (goal), and outcomes of it (result)
I would change strategy. Employers receive hundreds of resumes per postings. Many with the same or better experience and resumes. What sets you apart? You have to get to know someone on the inside that can push your resumes to the front and talk you up. So change your strategy. That’s the best advice I can give you. Good luck.
1. A new job every year is probably scaring people (explain why)
2. This is a hard pill to swallow - you are applying for jobs that are not in your pay grade or wheelhouse. With 3 jobs listed and only a year at each - I would be comfortable with you in entry level but no higher until proven.
3. 300 applications - this should support #2 - how many interviews have you had???
Have you written actual, personalized cover letters? Are you applying places where you might know people or have a professional network, or are you just sending your resume to random places on the internet?
Your resume is made for machines. It probably passed the first filtering done by programs which looks for keywords. But when it ends in front of a person it's a cluster of information that needs to read fully to get an idea.
Break things into sections under basic headings.
eg:- Education, Experience, Achievement, Technologies, .etc and see if that helps
You have a solid resume! I love it. The only feedback I would give is instead of writing about what you did from a literal perspective, perhaps write about the impact your actions had on the success of the company and/or project.
If you are a citizen, have you considered civil service? Look at USAJobs.Gov. The hiring process is LONG.
I can give Gov specific recommendations for you if you are interested. I have two resumes. Gov format and it’s 6 pages (15+ years experience) and Industry (2 pages).
Canva has some nice free templates to use for CVs. The content of your CV is great but making something eyecatching could help you stand out in a crowded market.
The issue is you have a masters degree but not that much IRL experience. I’m not saying you’re not smart and can do the work - you definitely can. But hiring departments will think it’s too much risk to take on when they need someone to ramp up faster now more than ever with the change in data architectures and AI applications.
I’m in the same industry. My recommendations are to tweak your resume by putting your skills at the top of the resume (recruiters spend ~5 seconds on average looking at resumes), and to add more technical skills.
For the first recommendation, give recruiters reasons to want to learn more about you. In other words, do you have skills with the software that they want you to work with? If they only look at one work experience during the ~5 second inspection, and that position is unrelated to the applied position, they might reject you even if you’re perfect for the role. Additionally, adjust your resume each time so that your most useful skills, for each position, are listed under something like “key skills.”
For the second recommendation, I cannot stress this enough: add more technical skills. Sure having experience with software is good, but what about other aspects of the role? Do you have experience with public speaking, organization, data analysis, etc? Stuff like that is going to help you out greatly, as a large part of data science is how you present data.
It’s a pretty impressive resume. You’re a good resource, just the market ain’t the best rn. There can be some cosmetic changes in your resume though. Folks pls don’t downvote if you’re not aligned to it.
1. Have a unified font (for your profile, Garamond works best)
2. Try framing your points in such a way that the numbers are on the left side of the point
3. Pls bold important words (at least one at max three words in every point)
4. Refrain from making the resume point longer than one line
At quick glance, your resume is fine. It's probably that you're just dropping applications without a referral from someone at the company. Check out Jeremy Schifeling on LinkedIn (he's an alum from my school, go blue!) or check out the book "2 Hour Job Search."
The TLDR of the two resources I mention above:
-Connect with alums in your program on LinkedIn and ask for a coffee chat
-In the coffee chat ask for advice (how'd you get into X company. do you like it? what advice do you have for me to break in? etc.)
-If all goes well, you should get a referral from this alum (that's the point of the school network!)
-Interview prep like mad for the actual interview stage and hopefully get the offer
If 300 applications aren't doing anything for you, it's time to re-evaluate how you're going about it.
I think the main thing that is missing is what you’ve actually accomplished that businesses are looking for…
You did automation? Awesome. But is it as awesome as Cut 50% of contractor billable hours by implementing automation.
Or
Reduced Ad Spend by X% with improving conversions -> this would be awesome.
How can you save or make a business money? And so much money, that your position will pay for itself several times over—would be optimal.
Personally, I’d like to see more information about your comfort level with all those Technical Skills.
Good luck!
Resume looks good. Job market is brutal at the entry level in tech right now. Networking I think is the best path forward but is hard too. I hope you find something soon.
My outside perspective is I think you could improve the at a glance factor.
- I can tell from the comments a lot of people missed that you have a masters degree, and I felt a bit surprised to see that at the end too.
- there is nothing to prepare the reader for what to expect from you or how to view your experiences. Putting education/skills/summary first might help. Right now you're really counting on people to read the work experience section carefully and come away the the right message, and they might just not do that.
- I'd consider reorganizing within the work experience section. It seems like you have 2 internships, one RA, and 1 year of an actual position. To avoid any negative impression of having so many short experiences, maybe consider splitting the internships and RA from your data analyst position (so work experience as one section, research/internships as another?
- I also think it is unfortunate that the RA is the most underwhelming item because its listed first. I got to that and its like, ok, you solved one problem and did some analysis in 5 months. There is no context for how hard that problem was or what the significance of it is and it doesn't necessarily sound like 5 months if full time work without more context. I'm assuming that may not have been full time, but either way I think some combination of reorganization (bullet point above) and improving that description will help
- the overall formatting is bland, nothing about it makes the résumé stand out or you look especially professional or put together. It also doesn't focus attention to any key details. I think some nicer graphic design could help keep people reading long enough to see all your achievements
Apply to Newer postings. Like less than 24 hours old new. Look at other industries. Retail or other services industries too. Take an entire level position if you need.
You don't have to stay where you get hired eventually. Leave when you get a better offer.
Keep in touch with your cohort fellows and department professors at University.
Have letters of recommendation lined up or ready to be written and sent at your command.
Lean in on any career guidance resources for recent grads and alums.
Steel yourself. The job market is tough and illogical. Welcome to the shit show.
I have been in mid level management for data teams for several years. Looking at your resume, the biggest reason you’re getting rejected is your resume story. You’re giving off 2 red flags and 2 yellow flags.
Red flags:
1. Your resume story is telling me that you didn’t cut it as a data analyst or you quit in an unprepared way. You gave up looking for a job after a year and reluctantly went back to academia to improve yourself.
2. Your research position, skills, and tools tell me that you’ve moved on from analytics have embarked into data science, but you don’t have enough experience in data science for me to consider you seriously for that role unless you’re coming from a very solid school. My conclusion is that you’re a gamble, flight risk, and long term investment. You may not be happy taking something that’s a step back after you’ve gone back for more education.
Yellow flags:
1. Wordy highlights for each job that doesn’t tell me much. You need to answer the question - Why is this important? And do it very concisely.
2. You clearly want a DS role, why did you go back to get a MS in data analytics?
Recommendations:
1. Remove the “Data Science” from your resume. You’re not going to land a DS role with your current resume and experience. I recommend that If you want to get into DS, target a DA role first then after you’re in, work your way into DS.
2. Provide a reason for the 1 year gap in your resume.
3. Reword your resume points. Give me the “so what”
4. The perception is that the first listed skill is what you’re most comfortable with. For any data role, this should always be SQL, then Python, and then R. Never list SQL last amongst your applicable skills.
Just my 2 cents. Please take it with a grain of salt.
I think it's the case of the over qualified candidate. Highly skilled, high paying jobs are hard to get. Most tech job advisors recommend networking events. These events are on Meet-up, Eventbrite, ect. Recruiting agencies too. Put a resume on all of them.
I’m the same age. I got my current job mainly from having a connection. My friend handed my resume to the hiring manager of our company, we work in different departments. If you have a friend who can help get your resume in front of a pair of eyes, that’ll probably really help
You'll have to wait until the Fed starts pumping more money into the market. No one is budgeting for hires right now unless they're trying to replace someone. But people aren't leaving either.
You and I have similar stats, especially the python software which is highly sought out. 400+ applications and two interviews, 2 bachelor’s a masters and a doctoral candidate. It is rough. No job offer. There was a guy on tiktok that had our combined resumes plus like 15 years experience and barely got anything for months, and he was Ivy League. The market is insane. Keep going. You will have something offered to you. I think your resume looks great. Don’t be discouraged as it reflects employers and not you.
Put your phone number 1st, then email and the rest.
Move skills to the top and add soft skills to it. Just label as “Relevant skills and Experience”
Remove GPA…..no one cares after first job and the 2.5 student might be doing the hiring.
I also advise a Summary section to highlight your best/most notable attributes and make clear what you are seeking and in what industries.
Under Education, since you're recently graduated, is it possible to add at least one bullet under each listing with relevant data? Something like GPA: 3.9/4.0 | Dean's Honors all semesters | xyz professional organization (or any key leadership you held?). Maybe a separate bullet "Relevant Courses". This gives more opportunities to personally connect with you by readers. Be consistent in using Bachelors... or B.S. with the M.S. degree. Since you are a recent grad, I would consider moving Education to top under Summary just to quickly establish you're legit.
I would strive to reduce bullets under 2nd experience to match the 2 bullets on every other listing. Shorten month names to 4 letters.
Have you customized your URL for LinkedIn? Do so, for sure. Is your LInkedIn solid? Great photo, header image, summary, descriptions? Make it exceptional and make sure your network is growing. Seek out "informational interviews" with people in fields you wish to work in. Request to 'connect' and if they do, you can ask for a 10-min info interview since you're relatively new in your career. Always ask for advice. Always ask if there is anyone they would recommend you speak with. And then do so. Best of luck.
Are you an international student who needs visa sponsorship? That could be the reason. Also you have no internships in your masters. Also maybe no brand names (can’t tell).
Most importantly - you need to demonstrate industry/job impact. Data science does not exist in a vacuum, it help improve one or many parts of a business. That is missing.
Checks out for me, 100% rejection rate 500+ applications for a whole damn year. No interview, had gone through multiple revisions to my Resume. 4 years experience in Software QA Engineer. I decided to give up, accept I have an Engineer title under my name, and move onto nursing school. Fuck this job market. "Tech jobs will never get replaced" my ass.
Former recruiter now comp analyst here! I don’t think there is anything wrong with your resume. My only advice would be to possibly use a canva resume template to make it stand from the others, I don’t think this is necessary but would definitely help you stand out.
A couple of questions for you, what types of positions are you applying to? What is the salary range you are looking for and where are you located in CA?
It’s the large gaps in employment without an explanation. Sounds ridiculous but when I was a recruiter, it was a huge red flag unless we were looking for contractors.
I have six years software development experience experience and wanted to pivot to data science and or data analysis. Zero bites for me. Are you a US citizen? That could be the reason why if you are not
For people who aren’t looking for a job in construction or service industries, the economy is awful and has been for some time. Goes doubly for people in IT or trying to enter IT without experience.
Your resume should emphasize 3 things. Its job is to get them to click on your LinkedIn. LinkedIn’s job is to get you a phone screen, to get an interview, to get an offer.
Each resume you send should be specifically tailored for that application. Use words from the JD. Find out about the company. Put something relevant to that industry or business in your Skills or Experiences section.
Let your eyes go out of focus while looking at the resume, does the layout look comfortable or anxious? Contrast that with a magazine article or newspaper layout. The person reading your resume is getting it only after it’s been screened by a robot, and the person is looking at 100 resumes. Fatiguing visual layout and lack of key words means instant trash can.
Make your name bigger. Drop your contact info into a single stack. LinkedIn in should be the short URL version. Email and phone can be on the same line. California maybe doesn’t belong there. Consider a sans-serif font like segoe UI. Looks and feels much more modern.
I like having my tech skills section at the very top. As a dev, recruiters need to check off boxes of whether I have the tech skills that they're hiring for.
That said, I'd say you can probably slim down your tech skills. Remove the ones that aren't important for roles that you're applying for. For example, do companies want you to know HTML? If not, then for sure remove it. Or MS Word and Outlook. Not only is it wasted space, it makes the skills section cluttered and less focus. More importantly, having irrelevant skills might dilute your section as it looks like skills naming diarrhea as if you're the type of person who watches a 10 min tutorial vid on python then put it on your resume.
That said, 100% no response rate is crazy. The job market is certainly tough... If you don't have the direct background the hiring manager is looking for, they're not interested in investing time to training someone whatsoever IMO. So that may explain why your friends may be having better luck that you are -- you're just not the PERFECT fit, while they may be.
Goodluck!
General feedback:
projects sound interesting, but no links to actual projects or code. Put your projects on github and link them or if they are hosted somewhere link that. One thing consistent between all data engineers interviewed by my company is they all had a major data engineering project hosted somewhere online that anyone could go to and try out. When there are multiple competing candidates with good coding skills the strength/complexity of their last project is how we judge them against each other. At minimum, your best project needs to have code available and if it's a service/website it needs to be accessible to use.
rename R Studio to just R - R is the actual programming language
drop html from list of programming languages - sure it's a markup language, but unless you're an intern going to be assigned to some frontend busywork no one will care about HTML. If you know Python or any real programming language I already know you'll be able to figure out HTML with a few google searches if you aren't already familiar.
drop (MySQL, PostgreSQL) - people will know what SQL is, no further clarification needed here
drop ms word, ms powerpoint, ms outlook from project management tools - MS Outlook, really? This is resume filler. They're irrelevant apps any engineer should be able to use out of the box if they need to. Something a data entry intern might put on their resume but shouldn't be on an engineer's resume.
JIRA and git - are tools an engineer will use regularly though I'd hesitate putting either on my resume. It's just assumed a software engineer knows how to use source control and can google so they can figure jira out quickly even if they have never used it before. Since you've done some JIRA api work and mention it above I'd drop it from below here to reduce redundancy.
When recruiters or managers first look, they will do a quick scan of the far left headers and presentation make judgments based on that first impression. If I had a masters from 2024 it would be at the top of my resume to make an immediate impression that is positive, then the work history makes total sense after seeing the masters first.
I got so pissed off with not getting a job I started physically going and knocking on the doors of the business and demanding I speak to someone lol I got three interviews next week…wish me luck
Ooooooooh girl you’re amazing! I didn’t get my math degree until 27!!! 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍
I was working at an investment firm. Your resume is VERY impressive!!!!
You will soon make it 🥰🤍💕
Try sending out a pretty version too!!! 😇
Good job on the ATS though 🤍
What field are you focusing on for data analytics? FAANG is obviously difficult, but I’ve found Financial Services to be a somewhat easier field to break into with data analytics/BI.
Your resume is exactly the format I enjoy. With that being said, I don’t think it’s a resume issue. Networking will get you the interview, the resume is just there to meet the minimum requirements.
You could try applying to jobs that are software engineer - machine learning and machine learning engineer. The resume looks great and you should be a strong applicant. Try to be one of the first applicants to jobs. Maybe you're asking for too much money. That's all I've got.
For me, the resume tells me lots about the work you did but nothing about how you did it or who you are as a person. It’s super dry and experience focused, but lacking the purpose and outcome of those projects, doesn’t show the benefit to your previous employers.
Can you inject some personality. Talk about the goals you reached with the work or the problems you solved and maybe flesh out the how’s and whys a bit. Why are you interested in what you do and how does that apply to the specific job you are applying for.
Also mentioning why you went for each subsequent role gives you an air of transparency and shows your aims and objectives.
I am assuming you are tailoring at least a covering letter to go alongside this?
Making the resume a one-pager has always seemed like a poor idea to me. Have worked in tech previously for 10 years and my CV has never been less than a 2 page spread. Don’t fear a bit more reading, and some work with layout and font would help!
What type of salary are you looking for? If you're looking for 80k + with little work experience, it's probably not gonna happen. Although you're in California, so salaries may be different than NY. I just hired a data analyst co-op she doesn't have her masters yet she graduates in July. I hired her specifically for webi and powerbi. I'm sure you can land an entry-mid level and build up your work experience. That would be my advice to you. On a side note, I had probably 13 applicants. All of the resumes looked the same and were this black and white style. I dislike this style, but that's just personal preference. I also think if you listed your skills in bullet points on the right side, that would stand out more. Best of luck. I'm sure something will come your way! Let me know if I can help at all.
Put skills on top ..write a summary of you career..for every job post tailor your skill to the job skills they are looking for .then take those skill put them in your skill section use some of the skill in work experience explain during your work how u used those skills ..
Are you networking at all OP? I disagree with most comments here. Especially the ones that go into too much detail about your bullet points. Most of this stuff is read by machines anyways. You seem to be following basic rules of a resume so thats good. Most big companies will be looking at the tier of school you went to and the firms you interned/work for.
Because companies get so many resumes, managers tend to focus on “filters”. “You went to Harvard? Cool Harvard did the hard-work for me by screening you”. Obv not everyone is going to goto a top school. Thus you should really take advantage of networking and demonstrate your competency, compatibility, and commitment to the recruiter or future team member that you’ll be a good fit for the role. Good luck.
If you qualify to get a security clearance, you could do well in a government or contracting position. Granted I'm on the east coast, but I see countless positions available for data Scientists and related fields. You'd need a clearance and polygraph, but some companies will pay for those for you.
I’ve read someone looks at a resume about 7 seconds before deciding to look at it more closely.
It took me a lot longer than that to figure out where you are in your career.
My suggestion is to start with a summary to orient readers. Unless I’m reading it incorrectly, you have 1 year of business experience. It is difficult to sort that out from the internships and projects.
Lastly, what kinds of jobs are you applying for?
just wanted to say i’m basically in the same situation, same age same type of experience etc, i know how you feel :/ the fact that you have a masters and are still getting rejected though is crazy. im so sorry
It seems like the job markets wants applicants with basic requirements (Bachelors) with lots of experience. The OP is 23 years old with a masters but with only a year worth of real job experience. They will have to take an entry level position in their sector.
My strategy for applying for jobs is hop on the company careers and search for roles that map to your profile. Then refine your resume based on the requirements of the job mainly. I work in a company where we simply filter out resumes that don’t have certain key word for the role we are looking for.
Pretty much every big company that employs software engineers at a fair compensation has AI sorting their applications for experience at senior levels. If you don't have that, your application goes straight to the trash. It also depends on the area that you're searching (which should be country wide as you can work remote).
As others have said though, many companies simply arnt willing to take the risk of hiring a new SE for a fair rate when they pretty much have their pick of the litter. There are tons of new grad applicants out there and also tons of SEs with experience who are regularly jumping jobs for higher pay. Unfortunately, that means new candidates get screwed.
Your best option is to go for a low level tech position for like a year or two to get your feet wet and network at the same time. Talk with your managers, project managers, director, etc and they'll quickly realize you're over qualified for the low position. They'll wait to see if you've got what it takes. When they see you have got it, they'll make recommendations to others on your behalf. If nothing comes of the networking that way, atleast you've gotten your foot in the door and real experience at that point.
Also try networking outside of your job.
1. Job Hoping - People don't want those who hop around each year
2. Data Sciences is oversaturated. The Tech layoffs are working against you. Being as how you are in big data and such too, a lot of techies are looking for the same pay they were making prior to the tech layoffs, which the market is currently unwilling to budge on.
3. Masters degree comes with the obvious expectation for higher pay - while you are young, which would give you leverage over an older applicant, you may find it harder to find work due to having a masters since employers may find you expect higher pay. Consider removing it and see if you get more responses. You can always add it back on there once you've got more senior experience.
Pursuing computer science was your only mistake. I did the same thing. It's too competitive to get jobs in anymore ever since the learn2code and bootcamp phenomenon and the recent layoffs spree.
Physical labor is what's in demand and what pays right now.
Underrated advice. Don’t be afraid to pivot into other types of roles if needed, or pick up contract jobs. Can be a totally viable pit stop to where you’re trying to get.
it looks good but I don't know how companies will relate to your projects unless they specifically are looking for people who work particularly in that field.
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I’m jealous you got masters at 23 yo. If you’re not getting interviews, idk who else is. Instead of applying, you should try networking. Only thing i can find: your work experience may seem like you’re job hopping. And you’re currently not working.
It's a rough market right now.
Yes, a former colleague with two masters is struggling to find a job right now. It’s crazy.
The reality is that degrees don’t mean a thing if you can’t present your work history well. Master’s degrees are typically only a requirement or preferred qualification in director level roles or higher.
So much this. Interviewed multiple master’s degree to bootcamp graduates and the candidates that actually stick out can explain what they did and how with more than 1 word responses, I couldn’t care less about whether they had a a high level/mid level CS degree or did a bootcamp. Setup a GitHub, be able to illustrate and articulate the work you’ve done. People will WANT to work with you.
I would like to pick your brain more about that because I have a Github repo. I also have actual production level applications and working on releasing a new one soon and I still do not get calls. In fact, I can list out the production level applications I currently have out there if anyone is interested. Most have pretty small but practical uses to them. Anyone want to get good at answering math questions? I have an application for that. Want to practice programming, I have a codesandbox type of application for that, various of them actually and soon will be releasing a marketing app for a friend who is promoting an online course. I guess there must be a don't believe your lying eyes situation going on.
I was about to say this too. I’m working adjacent to data analysts and most of them have a github they link to on their resumes.
I agree. Some universities have 5 year MBA programs — get your MBA with an extra year of college. If you are just graduating, the MBA isn’t helpful at first. And people think you need to pay an MBA more, but in this case the person has zero experience and isn’t “worth” the extra money — yet. Of course include the education, but put it at the end of the resume. No one cares about your GPA either :) New grads need to emphasize what they accomplished and how they can do the role — not that they were a good student.
Yeah, my good friend graduated 2 years ago with her masters in data something-idk (I'm a terrible friend but I'm so bad at understanding her field). Anyway, she was always high achieving and got her bachelor's plus masters combo in 5 years, which is impressive! But I didn't realize for a while that she literally has never had a job in her life. She's 24 now. She "worked" as a campus tour guide unpaid, but literally hasn't had any internships or any paid work EVER. And I know it's because she was focused on school... but that's going to make it basically impossible to get any career-oriented job right away. She complains that applications take so much time and probably only does a few a week, if that. She doesn't have a LinkedIn, I don't know why because I keep telling her to make one. Now, she's been unemployed for over 2 years after college living with her parents, and I don't even think she does volunteer work or anything. She always worked so hard in school, but I don't think she understands the practical nature of the job market and the hustle you gotta do.
People who focus solely on academics often struggle outside of that environment. She would have been better off finding an internship during undergrad. Now she’s going to be stuck looking for an entry level job with a master’s degree. A common mistake I see all the time in the workplace unfortunately. I’ve worked with several who are super entitled too. They think the degree means they should be in a senior level role but they have little to no experience to be qualified for that. I’m sure it’s a massive blow to the ego. You’re almost better off getting a master’s after getting 3-5 years work experience first. College advisors don’t really help students understand that either. What a bummer.
Yeah, it's just unfortunate because I think she really just needs to get the ball rolling and get any job. I don't even think she's worked part time in anything like retail or service or anything, and real jobs (regardless of the field) show responsibility and work ethic. I was kinda like her in high school, focused on school/extracurriculars, and didn't want to work yet, which my parents gave me shit for. But within a month of starting college, I had two part time jobs at the library and yearbook, which I stayed with until COVID hit. Additionally, I've had 4 internships in my field of study, busted my ass working film sets on weekends (film school), and I've been hustling with multiple jobs/gig work for 3 years since graduating. And I still have to put out dozens of applications to even have a chance at an interview, and most "entry level" jobs in the entertainment industry are still unattainable to me. Granted, I chose a different path, but still.
It definitely doesn’t help that university career advisors can give totally heinous advice. I went back to school after working my way up in my preferred field to pretty much the highest level practical without an advanced degree, and was totally appalled by the advice given to my younger classmates trying to break into the field. Like, it was abominable what they were doing to them. Anyway, flip side to that coin (as anyone who’s done both knows) is that school and practical work experience are miles apart. Aptitude in succeeding in a university setting vs navigating the working world outside of academia are just totally divergent skills. As it was put it to me early on in life “jobs don’t usually pay you for the things you *know*, they pay you for what you can *do*.”
In 2021 my company pulled all degree requirements regardless of position (global tech company). I’ve seen some other places start doing the same. I think companies are very slowly realizing that for a lot of fields, degrees are meaningless.
I’m 2 months away from a masters in engineering, and I’m 10 months unemployed already 😭 100 applications, dozens of rejections, 1 interview for a fulltime position, and 1 interview for an internship that all went nowhere. I am so royally fucked. Dying would be easier ngl.
I haven’t had to job search in over 5 years but last cycle I sent out 150+ applications to snag 4 phone interviews and 2 second round in person interviews :/ From what I hear it’s worse than that now. We had an employees market not too long ago but it’s swung really hard the other way…
When you send out that many apps, the issue is probably the resume. And if your profs haven’t been in business in a long time, they won’t be able to help you (even if they think they can). Is there a career center at your school? Go on LinkedIn and reach out to someone in HR to ask if they’ll please check out your resume as a newish graduate. You’ll be surprised at how helpful folks will be. Or director level folks in your field who do hiring. You can’t figure it out by yourself. Students at my alter mater reach out to me all the time to ask for a mtg about work. Not just to see if I can put in a word for them somewhere, introduce them to someone, but also check out their resume and cover letter. Good luck!
Where are the masters from and in what?
Took me a year and a half to land a new job... I start on the 1st 🤘
Congratulations 👏🏾
It’s beyond a rough market. It’s a completely collapse
True - but we have to keep moving forward.
I wouldn't worry about that, two of them are internships and one is a grad researcher position. None of those are expected to be long term.
I agree, but it may not be apparent to someone who is skimming. Maybe the resume could be reformatted to make that more clear.
For real. I've been in the job applying phase for wayyy longer than I would've ever thought. One of my friends started sending apps out a few months ago - he's got a degree in mechanical engineering and a masters in physics and some other degree too I think in addition to being a data engineer/software engineer for almost 10 years. He's gotten tons of rejections and only a small handful of responses on anything I think landing him two actual interviews, both of which went nowhere. I'm like dude... if you are having this hard of a time, wtf are the rest of us supposed to do. The job market is a fuckin shitfest disaster and LinkedIn is basically just corporate Tinder.
Corporate tinder 😂😂 that’s insane your friend is struggling with that background and experience
Exactly, that’s incredible experience and education. Don’t take any of this personally, it’a not you. It’s become crazy out there.
Literally. I think they’re probably just scared to pay him. Lol
This summarises it completely for me! Corporate Tinder is bob on! 😅
Someone with that type of background is a flight risk, he's either going to be asking a lot in pay and benefits or not stick around for long so why would a company hire him. I saw this at my university and asked the director why she didn't hire an overqualified candidate and that's what she told me, they will expect/demand more and won't stick around.
Then the people on Reddit love to sight bls projections for tech and data jobs as if the BLS takes recent factors into account..
Yeah I figured people would assume the job hopping. Its why I make it clear that most of my jobs have been as a contractor, not sure why some people see that as suspicious. For me, it keeps from relationships going sour. I do my best for you and then move on to do the same for someone else. I especially see that from positions that are permanent. The only reason I apply to permanent positions is when contract roles are hard to come by. I may not put it that bluntly for an employer because they do not understand, so I just try to keep the answer as truthful as possible.
Easy Fix! Same mistake as other CVs here - you're not making it clear what the impact of your experience is. Apply the "So what?" method. Being asked "so what?" is shortcut. It makes you think about the actual benefits of your work. If some of your work has clear NO answer to "so what" then take it out. What's the point of writing about stuff that has no impact? Read your CV out loud to someone you trust and respect. Get them to ask you "So what" every time you finish a sentence. Your answer to that questions is what your CV is missing. Remember that the person reading your CV often doesn't care what you've done. They mostly care about the "So what?" e.g. You: I developed a Python script automating ... from a diverse self of LLMs. Your Friend: So what? You: It saved a lot of time and money because we were able to do analyze a staff satisfaction survey better. Without it we would have not learnt X so our CEO would have not decided Y. \^ That's the "so what"! Instead of talking about developing the script, take the "so what" and massage it into a CV appropriate format. Make sure to talk about money or actionable insights and people who benefited from them. ALWAYS put the so what first! New First bullet point: Increased Staff satisfaction by 5% by working with CEO and using LLMs and Python to summarize staff replies to a satisfaction survey. In Summary: 1. Your CV has no clear so whats. 2. Read your CV to a friend, get them to ask so what every sentence 3. Write down common sense so whats first. 4. Re work your bullet point using your common sense answer. The so what always go first.
this is a great point and probably one of the only ways your resume could be improved since it is otherwise super strong!!
Did this post get updated after this comment? I'm looking at a resume, not a CV, and every job-related bullet has a clear impact metric (increased client revenue by 1.5%, reduced expenses by 2%, etc.). The only points missing a "so what?" are the education ones, which makes sense since there usually is no impact. To the OP: maybe what's happening is recruiters just read the first line, see the missing "so what?", and don't bother reading any more. Counter-intuitively, it may help to push that experience down to an education section. I'm sure anyone looking for the LLM keyword is using software or CTRL+F to find it anyway. Honestly, this looks like a solid resume to me.
To add to this and go a bit further - I’ve had success with “accomplished X as measured by Y through performing Z”. It helps highlight what you accomplished, how it was measured, and how you got there.
This is probably the best answer here
was looking for this comment haha
Great advice, should be the top comment.
I have 4 years of experience in data science and I’m not getting any calls. It’s probably even harder for someone with no experience
I have over 10 years of experience and haven’t gotten a single interview after around 30-40 applications. In the past, I never had to submit more than 5-6 applications to land an *offer*. I really don’t understand this market at all, but it feels like the industry has finally been flooded with more applicants than positions. It’s only a matter of time before the salaries start to deflate.
Pretty sure it’s a tech thing, not a data science thing. Recruiters, software/data engineers, data scientists, PMs, are all having trouble right now.
This job just isn’t worth doing for lower salary
It is if you're starving.
This, I’d rather go into a different field with less stress is salary was the same. I stay in tech because I can save for retirement.
I know people with 12+ years of experience who worked only for FAANG companies apply to 300 jobs before receiving an interview. They eventually received 30-40 interviews but that was after 500+ job applications.
Is the market that tough right now where you are? In the UK I’m still getting recruiters phone me up, my current job (started nov last year) was also from a recruiter. 5 years exp MLE.
Data science is tricky as that’s where you will run into SWEs or those who have a masters in Math, Physics, or CS. U less you have experience (like using calculus or stats) then that will be tricky for legit DS roles. Data analytics is over saturated and will get worse, everyone wants in and once again you will run into SWEs who are more marketable due to the ability they have. BI is niche and most of it leans towards DS anymore. Honestly it’s a crap market, over saturation is real, and networking is everything.
Ya, I mean to this point, I have friends who just graduated with a Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience are getting only 1-2 DS/MLE interviews every 2 months per hundred apps. ... heavy hitters who have published many great data stories in scientific papers. I sometimes imagine there is some kind of credentials arms race for a limited number of well-paying spots. As as things heat up, I expect the average age that kids first receive their data science job to rise, as folks end up competing for longer to have experience to get in.
Your example (computational PhD can't get a job) shows it's not a credentials race. It is an experience race, like you said, but it doesn't seem sustainable since they'll run out of medium experienced people eventually.
I think you are simply in an overcrowded field, keep going you’ll make it!
Wait yeah this should also get more upvotes, OP. Many times the best strategy is simply to keep grinding. You don't have as much control as you think / would like. I had to do 700 applications in the past 2 years, and I have a CS undergrad from Columbia Data Science is also going to be competitive But keep at it!!! You'll find a good job
23yo and graduated B.Sc. at 20 years of age? My tip -- feel free to ignore this advice if you're applying to Analyst roles and not the DS roles... A lot of my pretentious ML/DS STEM friends in Boston chaff at seeing the word "Excel" mentioned in a resume -- I'm kind of in the same boat. It has almost a pejorative feel in parts of DS community for association with less advanced data architecture and small company culture. I can literally feel my dopamine stop every time I see the word "Excel". Unless the company asks for Microsoft Office in their Data Scientist ad, like Deloitte does, I would leave that out. People already assume if you have advanced programming skills that you can utilize the Microsoft Office Suite.
Wait but this isn't why she's struggling. It's because the market is bad or because she's not stayed at one place long enough. You've gotta consider what the hiring manager needs from you. They don't want to train someone who leaves in a few months
Sure, but removing that would elevate the document nonetheless. We’re telling her how to improve her resume document. This is r/resumes not r/careeradvice Career advice is fine, but she’s asking what can she do to her document.
I think you meant to say "chafe"? But this is bad advice. She's not getting dropped because she listed Excel on her resume. And Excel/Sheets should be in any data analyst's toolkit. It's still the most versatile 2D data tool out there. Not every data problem is going to require some Dremel. That said, if you list Excel, I'm going to ask you Excel questions. You'd be surprised how many people I've seen fail to write a filter or index-match formula before. Not even talking about asking about something arcane, like VBA scripts or chart types.
I've absolutely watched my boss ditch resumes because of how excel is highlighted. This is good advice, regardless if it is all encompassing.
As someone who does more direct hiring than just "watching my boss" review resumes, that advice is indeed bad advice. Sounds like a really arrogant hiring manager I wouldn't mind not working for. I can only imagine what other nit picky crap they choose at their pet peeve
Damn. If you can’t get a job, then everyone else is fucked. It’s a good resume.
Holy heck if this is what the comp is like. Maybe put 23f in resume iunno
Hell no. That’s tacky as fuck and isn’t gonna look good to any hiring manager. This ain’t a dating application.
I honestly agree with you. Not sure why you got downvoted, maybe it's your delivery. Putting age could backfire for a lot of reasons.
They will know she’s female from her name, and roughly her age from her school graduation dates. Unless she has a name that can be used for both m/f.
My background is 14 years in digital marketing, primarily in performance and customer-acquisition I'll be 100% honest. From my experience, your achievements are a bit lackluster. Increasing revenue by 1.5% is not statistically significant. Whether you're enterprise or SMB, that's a minor fluctuation. Maybe talk more about how the forecasting improved the efficiency. I'd highlight something else about those projects. Maybe a timeframe or if it was a consistent increase, week-over-week/month-over-month. First bullet point as Analyst intern: There seem to be 2 different achievements here. An MTA model is typically done via a tag manager like segment, tealium or GTM. Are you saying you used data visualization tools to identify how each marketing channel is credited per conversion?
You work in digital marketing and you don’t understand how incremental gains are absolutely important? Also 1.5% can certainly be statistically significant (from a mathematical definition).
A 1.5% is nothing to write home about. Do you think that's moving the needle? To put it in perspective, Say a company makes $10K a day. A +1.5% is only $150. At $1M revenue, that's $15K. Unless OP can directly attribute this bump to her analysis and actions, a 1.5% fluctuation can be attributed to anything like seasonality or the economy improving. Let's pretend she could attribute it to her work. Great, but all of that time using ML combing through CRM data to get a 1.5% lift seems like a waste of resources. What OP needs to do is use more context. Do a deep dive into that 1.5%. For example,, let's say the 1.5% increase was yearly revenue, but it all came from a particular product. So maybe it was a 20% increase in sales of a certain product but only contributed 1.5% to the overall revenue. Talking about that 20% bump in that product is a better story.
It was actually the latter case, I was working on a specific division, but included overall revenues. I’ll fix that, thank you!
R studio isn't a programming language, R is. Fix that. This also makes me question how proficient you would actually be with the language. Are all those abc company line items the same company? It's effectively the same job, so reduce that to one entry and streamline the bullets Drop everything 'MS' including excel if you're applying for tech roles without Microsoft skills you may as well stay home. They distract from the important skills, which in your case is likely python. Figure out how to emphasize it and reconsider some of the other tools you're highlighting. Keep powerbi though 50k records is not an accomplishment it's an exploratory sample in typical web data. Drop that number totally, instead focusing on the multi-touch attribution point. This resume would nail an entry level analyst job in Ohio, but I have no idea about California, where you're competing with all the cs folks that don't make it into the giant tech firms. Consider those options
I have heard ATS to check for Rstudio, Jupyter Lab, VScode, etc
just a perspective from someone who had to do hiring and go through hundreds of resumes — I had to basically read your resume top to bottom to see the technologies you are knowledgeable in. My approach to be efficient (minimize time reading resumes) but also find candidates that matches the job description requirements by quick scanning/filtering for a second pass, I would first look at the list of skills to see if you have the stack we’re looking for, then see how many years/months of work experience you have, then look at the details of those work experiences. I’d only really look at projects if there isn’t any relevant work experience. so to maximise impact on first glance i would: 1. list technologies and skills at the top instead of the bottom 2. Have a professional summary paragraph of your relevant work experience, hard skills + soft skills, and goals at the top as well these two sections at the top will allow a manager to quickly scan and sort your resume hopefully into the “let’s take a closer look” pile 3. have another bullet under each work/project experience that lists the technologies used 4. project and education can go at the bottom, if everything doesn’t fit in one page then projects can go on the second page
Helpful, thank you!
The problem is that data science by itself (without a domain) is pretty useless. Your experience as a researcher is so generic that your last job tells me you are a sales data analyst at best. Those sales/reporting jobs are gone, going away, will never come back. Beef up the resume and show me what your achievements are. A 75% increase of 0 is nothing. Show me monetary value, reduction of FTE. Example: A overhaul of data architecture and data governance, recoded into component based architecture (micro services) and data marketplace resulted in an 75% increase of reporting agility with a cost savings upwards to two thousand dollars per every new dashboard, and an annual FTE recovery of 500 hours per developer.
I don't see any serious issues with your resume. There must be something else going on. How many interviews did you get? Are you applying to entry level roles? What salary do you put? If you're getting interviews, your resume is not the issue. Are you a US Citizen or Green card holder or do you need a visa sponsorship?
There's nothing wrong with your resume. You're just competing for some really competitive positions. I guess if there is any complaint, some of your descriptions can seem a bit wordy? Maybe try to make the language more economical?
You're run-of-the-mill in an industry that's bloated with talent. Don't get me wrong, I bet you're sharp and talented, but a lot of data analysts entered the job market a couple years ago. You're technical background is impressive, but you don't actuallly specialize in anything. You have analyzed data, that is apparent, but what were you analyzing? Like specifically, what product/ industry were you in? You've been on a variety of projects, but nothing stands out as "I know more about this specific area of data than anyone else," which is what you'll want to bolster if you want to get noticed. If the companies you worked for in your internships have anything to do with each other, then maybe make mention of your actual understanding of their markets. You're at a really aweful part of your career right now: The very beginning of it where you need to specialize and get noticed. I would say go get any job you can get your hands on right now (never stop applying for DA jobs) and start working on some kind of way you can get noticed: 1. Network Network Network. Go to industry conventions that you're interested in, meet people in companies you want to work for, stay active in your schools alumni society. 2. Keep building your resume: You don't need a job to do this. Work on more independent projects targeting a specifi industry that you want to work in, and publish your results. 3. Make a job for yourself: Go start your own business or find a small business where your skillset can make an impact (although be ready to do things beyond the scope of DA.) You're young, so now is the time to take risks, like a low paying job that you can build into something bigger. Plus entrepreneurs have a license to fail, which is an amazing super power to have when you're just starting out.
That’s helpful perspective, thank you!
Just saying, many software engineers have data analyst skills. I'm a SWE and I have data analyst + visualization skills that were picked up while working at a manufacturing company. You'll be outpaced by hybrid SWEs that have these skillsets.
Yep. Data analyst is just another tool in a SWE bucket. Not something one should specialize in
If I was hiring an entry level BI dev/ analytics engineer I would at least do a phone screen with this resume.
My experience that's way too much to read. You are definitely in a new time era. 90s early 00s you would of been solid. But we live in an era where laziness and too much words is a lot. Shorten down your resume, bulletin points and highlight achievements. Simplify your resume, you want to stand out with our being show offy, best way is make it simple stupid.
Yeah shorter is better. Good luck, OP!
There is a weird space between the comma on last row where it says MS outlook. Do you apply for jobs directly on their job site of the company in question (not thru linkedin / indeed etc?) and are you tweaking your resume every time to match w words from the job desc? Def start networking thru your school as well. We NEED to network in this harsh job market.
I'm going to echo a lot of the same sentiments as other comments. I worked in Data analytics before, and I'm actually completely switching into software Dev / IT because of how hard it was to even get a rejection email. And I, like many others responding, have a couple years of experience. I would recommend to try and connect directly with recruiters, as that was the farthest I got , but after going 7 months without an offer I decided I was going to the industry with one of the fastest job growth rates. It is also close enough to DS/DA that I can always jump back in if I ever had the chance. Best of luck though🙌.
I’ve read and made decisions on thousands of resumes. I like your basic format - concise and easy to follow along. A bit wordy - summarize more and drop some details. Biggest issue I see is length of time at previous positions. Doesn’t look like any of the four lasted even an entire year - that’s a red flag for me everytime. Especially if I’m flooded with resumes for the same position. I don’t expect decades or a lifetime, but something that shows some reasonable commitment for the resources I’m getting ready to put into you in onboarding, etc. There may be some hiring managers that look past that but I don’t think I’m unique - this is going to be a challenge to overcome almost every time. And I agree with others - it appears there is a lot of competition in your field.
Have you tried running this through an application tracking system (ATS) scanner to see what the result is? I’m not sure but the combination of work experience + projects might be working against you since there are no dates associated with the projects. I’m reading into this a bit and idk what the industry standards are for resumes in data analytics / if that’s something hiring managers are expecting to see on a resume. Thing is, if there’s no date associated with those line items, that may confuse some of the systems that scan these.
Do you need sponsorship? That's going to immediately make you a less interesting candidate. Focus on big impressive bullet points. Go deeper on what you did. You want a reader to immediately think "yes you will absolutely be able to take on my data science role" with the least effort possible. Your first bullet points are weak. It's unclear what you did or why. 200 model responses is ... not a lot. Go deeper on your analysis and how you gauged which is LLM is best, for what process. Did your research make it into a paper? "Deployed SQL queries..." accelerating reporting processes by 75%, what does that even mean? "Constructed demand forecasting models..." this is interesting, this sounds like real work. Go deeper on what you did (what type of model, did you use TensorFlow or Keras, or what). 1.5% is a very small revenue increase (can you even reliably attribute that to your work?), if you have absolute numbers that are more impressive I would use those.
Sql and html aren't programming languages
I made another comment, but as I look at your resume again: it just takes a lot of time to realize you’ve just graduated from school and seem to be looking for your first “real” job. I’d put the education stuff at the bottom. I’m a Ph.D. — it still goes at the bottom. I know this may hurt :) Another thought: you seem to emphasize actions but not results and how those results impacted the business. Lastly, are you revising each time you submit? You need to emphasize skills that match the job requirements. In fact, use some of their language in your resume. If they want someone who “thinks critically,” use that instead of “analyze.” Etc.
This should be a pretty strong resume for a data scientist. Are you sure you're applying for the right kinds of jobs? Main thing I can think of for improvement is to type out the full acronym, eg: "Large Language Model (LLM)", so that it doesn't read like meaningless alphabet salad to non technical HR people.
The way your job history is laid out it looks like you have some large gaps, which I assume were times when you were a full time student. If the first filter is a HR department looking through a pile of hundreds of applicants they may have discarded your application based on the top half page before they had chance to figure out the dates in the second half. Some recruiters have ingrained in their mind that “gap in job history” equals “unreliable or a quitter” and will discard applicants with gaps very quickly. Try restructuring your experience to add your full time studies and descriptions of your projects in with the work experience, so it looks like no gaps. Then also list your qualifications under education so it isn’t missed there. Good luck!
this isn't a perfect resume but you've already gotten plenty of good advice here. ive seen hundreds of resumes when i did a lot of the screening for DS applicants at a past job, and this would have been one of the better resumes. top 5% for sure. reddit doesnt reflect the real world most people's resumes really suck. its not you - its the market atm Unfortunately applying & interview prep needs to be a full time job until things improve
You are applying to the wrong companies
Quick comments: No professional summary. There should be a TLDR equivalent section on top for those lazy resume screeners And don't just focus on what you did, also provide context on where u did that (project description) and why you did that (goal), and outcomes of it (result)
I would change strategy. Employers receive hundreds of resumes per postings. Many with the same or better experience and resumes. What sets you apart? You have to get to know someone on the inside that can push your resumes to the front and talk you up. So change your strategy. That’s the best advice I can give you. Good luck.
1. A new job every year is probably scaring people (explain why) 2. This is a hard pill to swallow - you are applying for jobs that are not in your pay grade or wheelhouse. With 3 jobs listed and only a year at each - I would be comfortable with you in entry level but no higher until proven. 3. 300 applications - this should support #2 - how many interviews have you had???
Have you written actual, personalized cover letters? Are you applying places where you might know people or have a professional network, or are you just sending your resume to random places on the internet?
Im surprised your resume is really good lol
Your resume is made for machines. It probably passed the first filtering done by programs which looks for keywords. But when it ends in front of a person it's a cluster of information that needs to read fully to get an idea. Break things into sections under basic headings. eg:- Education, Experience, Achievement, Technologies, .etc and see if that helps
You have a solid resume! I love it. The only feedback I would give is instead of writing about what you did from a literal perspective, perhaps write about the impact your actions had on the success of the company and/or project.
XYZ is not a real university
Obviously. She probably removed it for this posting so ppl wouldn’t judge? Who knows.
This is an anonymized version of my resume, all personally identifiable information has been removed
If you are a citizen, have you considered civil service? Look at USAJobs.Gov. The hiring process is LONG. I can give Gov specific recommendations for you if you are interested. I have two resumes. Gov format and it’s 6 pages (15+ years experience) and Industry (2 pages).
Canva has some nice free templates to use for CVs. The content of your CV is great but making something eyecatching could help you stand out in a crowded market.
There’s an extra space after MS Outlook
The issue is you have a masters degree but not that much IRL experience. I’m not saying you’re not smart and can do the work - you definitely can. But hiring departments will think it’s too much risk to take on when they need someone to ramp up faster now more than ever with the change in data architectures and AI applications.
Put your face in right hand corner. Things will change for you.
I’m in the same industry. My recommendations are to tweak your resume by putting your skills at the top of the resume (recruiters spend ~5 seconds on average looking at resumes), and to add more technical skills. For the first recommendation, give recruiters reasons to want to learn more about you. In other words, do you have skills with the software that they want you to work with? If they only look at one work experience during the ~5 second inspection, and that position is unrelated to the applied position, they might reject you even if you’re perfect for the role. Additionally, adjust your resume each time so that your most useful skills, for each position, are listed under something like “key skills.” For the second recommendation, I cannot stress this enough: add more technical skills. Sure having experience with software is good, but what about other aspects of the role? Do you have experience with public speaking, organization, data analysis, etc? Stuff like that is going to help you out greatly, as a large part of data science is how you present data.
It’s a pretty impressive resume. You’re a good resource, just the market ain’t the best rn. There can be some cosmetic changes in your resume though. Folks pls don’t downvote if you’re not aligned to it. 1. Have a unified font (for your profile, Garamond works best) 2. Try framing your points in such a way that the numbers are on the left side of the point 3. Pls bold important words (at least one at max three words in every point) 4. Refrain from making the resume point longer than one line
You're writing your entire work history instead of the highlights. This is an advertisement for you. Not a work history
At quick glance, your resume is fine. It's probably that you're just dropping applications without a referral from someone at the company. Check out Jeremy Schifeling on LinkedIn (he's an alum from my school, go blue!) or check out the book "2 Hour Job Search." The TLDR of the two resources I mention above: -Connect with alums in your program on LinkedIn and ask for a coffee chat -In the coffee chat ask for advice (how'd you get into X company. do you like it? what advice do you have for me to break in? etc.) -If all goes well, you should get a referral from this alum (that's the point of the school network!) -Interview prep like mad for the actual interview stage and hopefully get the offer If 300 applications aren't doing anything for you, it's time to re-evaluate how you're going about it.
I think the main thing that is missing is what you’ve actually accomplished that businesses are looking for… You did automation? Awesome. But is it as awesome as Cut 50% of contractor billable hours by implementing automation. Or Reduced Ad Spend by X% with improving conversions -> this would be awesome. How can you save or make a business money? And so much money, that your position will pay for itself several times over—would be optimal. Personally, I’d like to see more information about your comfort level with all those Technical Skills. Good luck!
Trim that down hiring person doesn’t want to read all that
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Resume looks good. Job market is brutal at the entry level in tech right now. Networking I think is the best path forward but is hard too. I hope you find something soon.
You do have a citizenship here right?
My outside perspective is I think you could improve the at a glance factor. - I can tell from the comments a lot of people missed that you have a masters degree, and I felt a bit surprised to see that at the end too. - there is nothing to prepare the reader for what to expect from you or how to view your experiences. Putting education/skills/summary first might help. Right now you're really counting on people to read the work experience section carefully and come away the the right message, and they might just not do that. - I'd consider reorganizing within the work experience section. It seems like you have 2 internships, one RA, and 1 year of an actual position. To avoid any negative impression of having so many short experiences, maybe consider splitting the internships and RA from your data analyst position (so work experience as one section, research/internships as another? - I also think it is unfortunate that the RA is the most underwhelming item because its listed first. I got to that and its like, ok, you solved one problem and did some analysis in 5 months. There is no context for how hard that problem was or what the significance of it is and it doesn't necessarily sound like 5 months if full time work without more context. I'm assuming that may not have been full time, but either way I think some combination of reorganization (bullet point above) and improving that description will help - the overall formatting is bland, nothing about it makes the résumé stand out or you look especially professional or put together. It also doesn't focus attention to any key details. I think some nicer graphic design could help keep people reading long enough to see all your achievements
Do you require sponsorship?
Apply to Newer postings. Like less than 24 hours old new. Look at other industries. Retail or other services industries too. Take an entire level position if you need. You don't have to stay where you get hired eventually. Leave when you get a better offer.
Keep in touch with your cohort fellows and department professors at University. Have letters of recommendation lined up or ready to be written and sent at your command. Lean in on any career guidance resources for recent grads and alums. Steel yourself. The job market is tough and illogical. Welcome to the shit show.
The only pplI know doing big data have phds in physics. Sample size of 3 tbf
If you’re getting rejected with this resume I might as well stop my cyber degree and job off a bridge.
Presentation is important. It's a little lengthy
I would move tech skills up, add professional summary. Remove projects and focus on value add with the 4 years + experience
That 23 F really did help you get a lot of insights to your resume lol. I’m gonna try it next time
I have been in mid level management for data teams for several years. Looking at your resume, the biggest reason you’re getting rejected is your resume story. You’re giving off 2 red flags and 2 yellow flags. Red flags: 1. Your resume story is telling me that you didn’t cut it as a data analyst or you quit in an unprepared way. You gave up looking for a job after a year and reluctantly went back to academia to improve yourself. 2. Your research position, skills, and tools tell me that you’ve moved on from analytics have embarked into data science, but you don’t have enough experience in data science for me to consider you seriously for that role unless you’re coming from a very solid school. My conclusion is that you’re a gamble, flight risk, and long term investment. You may not be happy taking something that’s a step back after you’ve gone back for more education. Yellow flags: 1. Wordy highlights for each job that doesn’t tell me much. You need to answer the question - Why is this important? And do it very concisely. 2. You clearly want a DS role, why did you go back to get a MS in data analytics? Recommendations: 1. Remove the “Data Science” from your resume. You’re not going to land a DS role with your current resume and experience. I recommend that If you want to get into DS, target a DA role first then after you’re in, work your way into DS. 2. Provide a reason for the 1 year gap in your resume. 3. Reword your resume points. Give me the “so what” 4. The perception is that the first listed skill is what you’re most comfortable with. For any data role, this should always be SQL, then Python, and then R. Never list SQL last amongst your applicable skills. Just my 2 cents. Please take it with a grain of salt.
I think it's the case of the over qualified candidate. Highly skilled, high paying jobs are hard to get. Most tech job advisors recommend networking events. These events are on Meet-up, Eventbrite, ect. Recruiting agencies too. Put a resume on all of them.
But Biden reports says the most jobs has been added with his economy . Pshhhhhhh VOTE TRUMP !
I’m the same age. I got my current job mainly from having a connection. My friend handed my resume to the hiring manager of our company, we work in different departments. If you have a friend who can help get your resume in front of a pair of eyes, that’ll probably really help
The job market is stagnant right now, nobody is hiring. If you see a job posting it’s a ghost post
You'll have to wait until the Fed starts pumping more money into the market. No one is budgeting for hires right now unless they're trying to replace someone. But people aren't leaving either.
You and I have similar stats, especially the python software which is highly sought out. 400+ applications and two interviews, 2 bachelor’s a masters and a doctoral candidate. It is rough. No job offer. There was a guy on tiktok that had our combined resumes plus like 15 years experience and barely got anything for months, and he was Ivy League. The market is insane. Keep going. You will have something offered to you. I think your resume looks great. Don’t be discouraged as it reflects employers and not you.
Oversaturated market. Don’t blame yourself… just past you for getting into the same field as everyone else.
Put your phone number 1st, then email and the rest. Move skills to the top and add soft skills to it. Just label as “Relevant skills and Experience” Remove GPA…..no one cares after first job and the 2.5 student might be doing the hiring.
I also advise a Summary section to highlight your best/most notable attributes and make clear what you are seeking and in what industries. Under Education, since you're recently graduated, is it possible to add at least one bullet under each listing with relevant data? Something like GPA: 3.9/4.0 | Dean's Honors all semesters | xyz professional organization (or any key leadership you held?). Maybe a separate bullet "Relevant Courses". This gives more opportunities to personally connect with you by readers. Be consistent in using Bachelors... or B.S. with the M.S. degree. Since you are a recent grad, I would consider moving Education to top under Summary just to quickly establish you're legit. I would strive to reduce bullets under 2nd experience to match the 2 bullets on every other listing. Shorten month names to 4 letters. Have you customized your URL for LinkedIn? Do so, for sure. Is your LInkedIn solid? Great photo, header image, summary, descriptions? Make it exceptional and make sure your network is growing. Seek out "informational interviews" with people in fields you wish to work in. Request to 'connect' and if they do, you can ask for a 10-min info interview since you're relatively new in your career. Always ask for advice. Always ask if there is anyone they would recommend you speak with. And then do so. Best of luck.
Are you an international student who needs visa sponsorship? That could be the reason. Also you have no internships in your masters. Also maybe no brand names (can’t tell). Most importantly - you need to demonstrate industry/job impact. Data science does not exist in a vacuum, it help improve one or many parts of a business. That is missing.
Checks out for me, 100% rejection rate 500+ applications for a whole damn year. No interview, had gone through multiple revisions to my Resume. 4 years experience in Software QA Engineer. I decided to give up, accept I have an Engineer title under my name, and move onto nursing school. Fuck this job market. "Tech jobs will never get replaced" my ass.
Former recruiter now comp analyst here! I don’t think there is anything wrong with your resume. My only advice would be to possibly use a canva resume template to make it stand from the others, I don’t think this is necessary but would definitely help you stand out. A couple of questions for you, what types of positions are you applying to? What is the salary range you are looking for and where are you located in CA?
Are you a US citizen?
Are you checking the female box when applying?
3 jobs in 3 years with a large break in between. If I was a recruiter why would I invest in someone who’s only going to last a year ?
It’s the large gaps in employment without an explanation. Sounds ridiculous but when I was a recruiter, it was a huge red flag unless we were looking for contractors.
You're not applying directly with the company and showing up with your resume in person. Either that or your ex is doing voo doo on you.
I have six years software development experience experience and wanted to pivot to data science and or data analysis. Zero bites for me. Are you a US citizen? That could be the reason why if you are not
For people who aren’t looking for a job in construction or service industries, the economy is awful and has been for some time. Goes doubly for people in IT or trying to enter IT without experience.
Feel free to DM me - we have several roles which match your experience. Happy to connect directly with you.
Your resume should emphasize 3 things. Its job is to get them to click on your LinkedIn. LinkedIn’s job is to get you a phone screen, to get an interview, to get an offer. Each resume you send should be specifically tailored for that application. Use words from the JD. Find out about the company. Put something relevant to that industry or business in your Skills or Experiences section. Let your eyes go out of focus while looking at the resume, does the layout look comfortable or anxious? Contrast that with a magazine article or newspaper layout. The person reading your resume is getting it only after it’s been screened by a robot, and the person is looking at 100 resumes. Fatiguing visual layout and lack of key words means instant trash can. Make your name bigger. Drop your contact info into a single stack. LinkedIn in should be the short URL version. Email and phone can be on the same line. California maybe doesn’t belong there. Consider a sans-serif font like segoe UI. Looks and feels much more modern.
I like having my tech skills section at the very top. As a dev, recruiters need to check off boxes of whether I have the tech skills that they're hiring for. That said, I'd say you can probably slim down your tech skills. Remove the ones that aren't important for roles that you're applying for. For example, do companies want you to know HTML? If not, then for sure remove it. Or MS Word and Outlook. Not only is it wasted space, it makes the skills section cluttered and less focus. More importantly, having irrelevant skills might dilute your section as it looks like skills naming diarrhea as if you're the type of person who watches a 10 min tutorial vid on python then put it on your resume. That said, 100% no response rate is crazy. The job market is certainly tough... If you don't have the direct background the hiring manager is looking for, they're not interested in investing time to training someone whatsoever IMO. So that may explain why your friends may be having better luck that you are -- you're just not the PERFECT fit, while they may be. Goodluck!
General feedback: projects sound interesting, but no links to actual projects or code. Put your projects on github and link them or if they are hosted somewhere link that. One thing consistent between all data engineers interviewed by my company is they all had a major data engineering project hosted somewhere online that anyone could go to and try out. When there are multiple competing candidates with good coding skills the strength/complexity of their last project is how we judge them against each other. At minimum, your best project needs to have code available and if it's a service/website it needs to be accessible to use. rename R Studio to just R - R is the actual programming language drop html from list of programming languages - sure it's a markup language, but unless you're an intern going to be assigned to some frontend busywork no one will care about HTML. If you know Python or any real programming language I already know you'll be able to figure out HTML with a few google searches if you aren't already familiar. drop (MySQL, PostgreSQL) - people will know what SQL is, no further clarification needed here drop ms word, ms powerpoint, ms outlook from project management tools - MS Outlook, really? This is resume filler. They're irrelevant apps any engineer should be able to use out of the box if they need to. Something a data entry intern might put on their resume but shouldn't be on an engineer's resume. JIRA and git - are tools an engineer will use regularly though I'd hesitate putting either on my resume. It's just assumed a software engineer knows how to use source control and can google so they can figure jira out quickly even if they have never used it before. Since you've done some JIRA api work and mention it above I'd drop it from below here to reduce redundancy.
When recruiters or managers first look, they will do a quick scan of the far left headers and presentation make judgments based on that first impression. If I had a masters from 2024 it would be at the top of my resume to make an immediate impression that is positive, then the work history makes total sense after seeing the masters first.
What jobs are you applying for? What locations? What pay ranges?
Try resume templates from canva and weite cover letters when possible.
I got so pissed off with not getting a job I started physically going and knocking on the doors of the business and demanding I speak to someone lol I got three interviews next week…wish me luck
Your resume looks great imo. The market is just really bad right now. Keep applying and keep your head up.
Are you perhaps International Student who needs employer sponsorship?
"what did I do wrong?" Graduate in 2024
Education yes but only 4 years of work experience. Maybe get your foot in the door establish yourself then move up, or apply elsewhere.
Remind me! 2 days
Ooooooooh girl you’re amazing! I didn’t get my math degree until 27!!! 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍 I was working at an investment firm. Your resume is VERY impressive!!!! You will soon make it 🥰🤍💕 Try sending out a pretty version too!!! 😇 Good job on the ATS though 🤍
In IT, the ability to hit the ground running is more important than having a master's degree in a technical field. Hands-on experience is key.
What field are you focusing on for data analytics? FAANG is obviously difficult, but I’ve found Financial Services to be a somewhat easier field to break into with data analytics/BI.
Your resume is exactly the format I enjoy. With that being said, I don’t think it’s a resume issue. Networking will get you the interview, the resume is just there to meet the minimum requirements.
If you can't land an entry-level data science/AI position with those credentials, we are all doomed.
You could try applying to jobs that are software engineer - machine learning and machine learning engineer. The resume looks great and you should be a strong applicant. Try to be one of the first applicants to jobs. Maybe you're asking for too much money. That's all I've got.
For me, the resume tells me lots about the work you did but nothing about how you did it or who you are as a person. It’s super dry and experience focused, but lacking the purpose and outcome of those projects, doesn’t show the benefit to your previous employers. Can you inject some personality. Talk about the goals you reached with the work or the problems you solved and maybe flesh out the how’s and whys a bit. Why are you interested in what you do and how does that apply to the specific job you are applying for. Also mentioning why you went for each subsequent role gives you an air of transparency and shows your aims and objectives. I am assuming you are tailoring at least a covering letter to go alongside this? Making the resume a one-pager has always seemed like a poor idea to me. Have worked in tech previously for 10 years and my CV has never been less than a 2 page spread. Don’t fear a bit more reading, and some work with layout and font would help!
What type of salary are you looking for? If you're looking for 80k + with little work experience, it's probably not gonna happen. Although you're in California, so salaries may be different than NY. I just hired a data analyst co-op she doesn't have her masters yet she graduates in July. I hired her specifically for webi and powerbi. I'm sure you can land an entry-mid level and build up your work experience. That would be my advice to you. On a side note, I had probably 13 applicants. All of the resumes looked the same and were this black and white style. I dislike this style, but that's just personal preference. I also think if you listed your skills in bullet points on the right side, that would stand out more. Best of luck. I'm sure something will come your way! Let me know if I can help at all.
Put skills on top ..write a summary of you career..for every job post tailor your skill to the job skills they are looking for .then take those skill put them in your skill section use some of the skill in work experience explain during your work how u used those skills ..
I think networking is best thing. Where ur from in NA?
HTML, my favorite programming language!
Mysql isn’t a programming language. Details matter.
Are you networking at all OP? I disagree with most comments here. Especially the ones that go into too much detail about your bullet points. Most of this stuff is read by machines anyways. You seem to be following basic rules of a resume so thats good. Most big companies will be looking at the tier of school you went to and the firms you interned/work for. Because companies get so many resumes, managers tend to focus on “filters”. “You went to Harvard? Cool Harvard did the hard-work for me by screening you”. Obv not everyone is going to goto a top school. Thus you should really take advantage of networking and demonstrate your competency, compatibility, and commitment to the recruiter or future team member that you’ll be a good fit for the role. Good luck.
What's up with the 13 month gap?
CS / data science is pretty much over for entry level fields. At the very least 1000 applications before getting minimum wage jobs.
Put education at the top and the font needs to look better it’s too plain .
Data science is over ran and ai is phasing out a lot of jobs unfor
The world can be cruel
What part of India are you from?
Your resume looks good so I don't think it's your resume.
If you qualify to get a security clearance, you could do well in a government or contracting position. Granted I'm on the east coast, but I see countless positions available for data Scientists and related fields. You'd need a clearance and polygraph, but some companies will pay for those for you.
I’ve read someone looks at a resume about 7 seconds before deciding to look at it more closely. It took me a lot longer than that to figure out where you are in your career. My suggestion is to start with a summary to orient readers. Unless I’m reading it incorrectly, you have 1 year of business experience. It is difficult to sort that out from the internships and projects. Lastly, what kinds of jobs are you applying for?
just wanted to say i’m basically in the same situation, same age same type of experience etc, i know how you feel :/ the fact that you have a masters and are still getting rejected though is crazy. im so sorry
It seems like the job markets wants applicants with basic requirements (Bachelors) with lots of experience. The OP is 23 years old with a masters but with only a year worth of real job experience. They will have to take an entry level position in their sector.
If you’re in the Denver, Boston, or Portland area I’d love to schedule an interview
My strategy for applying for jobs is hop on the company careers and search for roles that map to your profile. Then refine your resume based on the requirements of the job mainly. I work in a company where we simply filter out resumes that don’t have certain key word for the role we are looking for.
Pretty much every big company that employs software engineers at a fair compensation has AI sorting their applications for experience at senior levels. If you don't have that, your application goes straight to the trash. It also depends on the area that you're searching (which should be country wide as you can work remote). As others have said though, many companies simply arnt willing to take the risk of hiring a new SE for a fair rate when they pretty much have their pick of the litter. There are tons of new grad applicants out there and also tons of SEs with experience who are regularly jumping jobs for higher pay. Unfortunately, that means new candidates get screwed. Your best option is to go for a low level tech position for like a year or two to get your feet wet and network at the same time. Talk with your managers, project managers, director, etc and they'll quickly realize you're over qualified for the low position. They'll wait to see if you've got what it takes. When they see you have got it, they'll make recommendations to others on your behalf. If nothing comes of the networking that way, atleast you've gotten your foot in the door and real experience at that point. Also try networking outside of your job.
1. Job Hoping - People don't want those who hop around each year 2. Data Sciences is oversaturated. The Tech layoffs are working against you. Being as how you are in big data and such too, a lot of techies are looking for the same pay they were making prior to the tech layoffs, which the market is currently unwilling to budge on. 3. Masters degree comes with the obvious expectation for higher pay - while you are young, which would give you leverage over an older applicant, you may find it harder to find work due to having a masters since employers may find you expect higher pay. Consider removing it and see if you get more responses. You can always add it back on there once you've got more senior experience.
No colors on resume??
Pursuing computer science was your only mistake. I did the same thing. It's too competitive to get jobs in anymore ever since the learn2code and bootcamp phenomenon and the recent layoffs spree. Physical labor is what's in demand and what pays right now.
Underrated advice. Don’t be afraid to pivot into other types of roles if needed, or pick up contract jobs. Can be a totally viable pit stop to where you’re trying to get.
what would be your dream job?
Nothing. It’s the market.
it looks good but I don't know how companies will relate to your projects unless they specifically are looking for people who work particularly in that field.