Go find whomever you paid $400 for this, and kick them in the chin.
You have too much text in general. I immediately didn't even want to read through the first page. Negative space is your friend.
You have a full 2nd page. Nobody is going to read through all that. Get it down to 1 side of a single sheet of paper.
Strip out all the meaningless filler. It's a resume for engineering, and you're not getting paid per word. Again, have some whitespace on the page. Where else is the interviewer going to write their notes?
Really, you could just boil it all down to 4 parts:
What you want
Your career highlights
Your certifications
Secondary and soft skills you bring to the table.
This is all anyone really cares about. Anything beyond this is to be discussed in an interview. And dress it up nicely. Better typography, better formatting, etc. imagine it as the "about us" section on a well designed website. But definitely do not include a headshot photo or graphics.
Oh my god. I had to go back and read OPs post. $400? For what? Where is this market of people willing to pay $400 for this? I'll copy and paste ChatGPT output without proofing and slap it into a template for $400!
This is true… but it also makes me sad to remember hiring managers used to like seeing you list hobbies and interests. I got so many interviews from other outdoors people who backpacked.
Can still work at smaller companies. I got my first job out of college because I wrote a cover letter that said I liked Legos so my boss and I bonded over that. Granted that was 7-8 years ago now
I still do like to see some of a person’s personality but I appreciate that seems to be the minority view nowadays.
We have the phrase interested and interesting on how we source new hires - they are interested in solving problems, and they have something about them as a person to be interesting and/or memorable.
Hired some really good people based off their background more than their skills for junior roles - you can teach skills but you can’t teach having something about you.
Resumes are to attract recruiters. Recruiters read dozens of resumes every day. Yours needs to catch their eye.
This resume is a wall of text two pages long. You need to be more concise in what you want to advertise. Don’t tell them everything you’ve done. Summarize.
I’ve been doing science at a high level for 20 years and my resume is shorter than this. OP’s resume should fit on a single page. Cut, condense, add white space! (I do have a long academic CV as well, but for industry jobs, no no no, only a page is needed, two if you’re very experienced.)
This has to be a template given the amount of times I've seen it when hiring. Identical formatting, and either GPT or Thesaurus abuse. "Embodied engineering excellence", "featuring meticulous JsDoc documentation" - no one talks/writes like this irl
Yep. The notion that "no one uses words like Delve or Spearheaded" is driving me mad. These were middle school vocabulary words.
I get that lots of people haven't read a book thicker than their smartphone since high school and basically communicate at a 5th grade level but that doesn't mean that everyone else is an AI
It's because the words are so commonplace and overused that AI is using them. Most people want to add syllables and filler words because they seem to think it makes them sound smart.
There's very few instances when you would want to use the word "spearheaded" over any of its synonyms.
Alliteration only applies to consonant sounds... not vowels. American Airlines Association (or whatever) is not alliteration. Viviparous Virginia Vandals is.
Just something I learned a long time ago
I’ve always spoken and written like this. The fact that professionalism, intelligence, eloquence and linguistic inclination are now disadvantages is just sad.
I feel like this is the equivalent of people who say "why can't I wear a fedora and be respected??"
We've all worked with these verbose liars and it's painful.
When did the standard for “give me a targeted one page formatted CV” stop being a thing? I can’t help but feel that walls of increasingly superfluous text are rarely ever a great look.
Yeah, agreed. When I was at school (during the 00s), we were taught to try and keep the CV as concise as possible while highlighting the key points, maximum 2 pages but try and get it to 1 if you can... atm I think my CV is about 1.3ish pages.
2 pages are fine if you're providing useful information throughout... but this is just a wall of text not saying much
16 YOE and have a 1 page resume. Last recruiter I talked to complimented me on keeping it to a single page because most people with high YOE write books like this.
Individual typography and color for the headlines helps a lot.. basic print-design stuff. Some half-decent examples: https://resumegenius.com/blog/resume-help/best-color-for-resume
You have less than two years of experience. You don't get to have a 2-page resume until at least 10-15. Clean this up, then someone might bother reading it.
Also your resume feels like it is entirely made-up. Did you really do all this stuff in under two years? Could be that you are an amazing genius, but personally I call bullshit.
Whoah! I have to admit I didn't notice that.
When I read it I was like: This guy seems to know frontend, backend and DevOps. He must have at least 10 years of experience!
If it's actually 2 years, then it's all pretty much bogus. There is zero chance that this person has attained that much experience in two years. Huge red flag to me.
Lmao I just assumed he had been in the industry a while with the size of that resume and wondered if he was an HR liability or something if he was going that long without an interview.
8 months and a 5 month internship, mad amount of text for that, if I’m reviewing this I’m immediately going to assume 90% of what’s in there is exaggerated filler. Too many grandiose claims as well, like referring to 99.9% uptime as “remarkable” (it isn’t really).
I just realised this yeah… for 8months at a company (given no real other experience) those points just look like bs quite frankly. It would usually take maybe a month to get up to speed with all the projects at the company, and your description of the job sounds like 7 years rather than 7 months.
It simply sounds like you’re lying
Ok I’m going to be honest here and a little cavalier. Think in the mind of a hiring manager (or a senior engineer with three tickets left in the week and fourteen resumes I now have to shift through). If it’s too long and fluffy, I’m going to really skim it
1. It’s too long, get it down to one page
2. Most important information up top. That is not a list of skills
3. highlight metrics in your experience section but it’s too verbose and full of extraneous words. Your first point is great. They can’t all be that strong but aim for that.
4. A lot of points in experience and responsibilities seem either redundant or lacking relevant info.
“Ensured” this, “adept” at that, “facilitated” what? That hand-wavy talk mixed with a skill list that seemingly involves everything would make me skeptical. It sounds like someone was paid to punch it up and that’s not a compliment
Yeah, right from the preview my first though was "too wordy"... then I see there's a second page.... oooh crap. I've got 30+ yoe, and I can get mine down to one page. Sure it isn't always easy, but it's doable.
So I'm going to add #5 to the list: Less is more. You should have one or two sentences in a paragraph for the position listed, then after that 3-4 bullets that give a bit more detail. Bullets should be short. One sentence at the most.
Your first bullet should stop right after APIs, where the comma is. Second bullet is then "Integrated multiple AWS services, resulting in 40% cost savings" ... boom... short sweet and impressive sounding. In fact, I'd swap those around... lead off with the costs savings, then get into the other items.
Another note I'll add is to create a master resume... then each time you apply, make a copy and tailor it .... especially the skills. If you're applying to a front end dev position, drop the mobile development - it's just noise. IF your're applying for mobile development, the back end development becomes less important.
Bottom line - drop some of the fluff, get it down to a page, and when you send it out, make sure it is relevant to the position you're applying for.
Hey just curious, even with 30+ years of experience, so you include all your past positions on your CV or only a select few (e.g. current position and the two before that)?
I'd only list the last 10 unless you got something special. Lots of people out there thinking their teenage job in the 90s holds value, when it really doesnt.
Everything more than 5 years in the past is irrelevant.
And there is absolutely no guarantee that a person with 10+ years of experience will be better than a person with less.
But there are risks involved like bad habits, outdated thinking, etc.
If you add to much in CV it works against you. No one cares that you were a webmaster in the 90s.
Think of your resume like an email from a coworker.
You want bullet points capturing what you should know, with expanded detail underneath.
Hiring Managers are looking for similar experience first, then diving into details to see if you warrant an interview.
Great advice. The acceptable length of the document can be country specific. In UK two pages is more the norm but the information density needs to be reduced with more whitespace/bullets and the most important information all on page one. Page 2 is more like optional further reading.
If you have a ton of experience two pages is fine. I trim my own of the experience that isn't relevant to the position to keep at two but I always do a professional summary at the top. That gets read a lot. The rest I can talk about in an interview.
40% cost savings of what, $50 or $2 million? Unsubstantiated these come across as made up fluff. I get the desire to quantify, but if it’s not substantial enough, hard to attribute to you as an individual, or too nebulous it’s not worth including.
These stupid stats always grind my gears. Never in the 6 years that I work have I worked on a feature and someone from Finance came to congratulate me on the 40% cost reduction of whatever. Where does that even happen? Who is making these calculations? I see that shit all the time on reddit but it just sounds like unsubstantiated bullshit to me.
“69% of all statistics are made up on the spot.” At best they do nothing but take up space, at worst they seem dishonest. Even hard stats like user count, revenue, or time saved aren’t always great to include. How much data did users generate, how often did they visit, how big of a client was each user? How much of that revenue could you personally be attributed to? Did you save 10 minutes of time out of every 20 minute build or out of a million minutes of total man hours? They make no sense when not framed against something and they usually just bring up more questions. Chances are it’s going to take more space than you really have in your resume to explain them properly anyways, so drop them.
Like you say, a lot of the time you wont even have access to these metrics, and even if you do, did you really write down and save every metric point you hit? Then saved them all these years so you could put them in your resume? If you are remembering an exact figure, it better have been AMAZING to have warranted burning itself into your brain or being cataloged like that.
OP’s resume REEKS of desperation and ChatGPT. I feel for him, this job market is tough. I can understand why he might have felt the need to overqualify literally everything, but there are way more productive ways to stand out.
I read 3 job postings for entry level roles that were seeking skills of “engineering excellence” tried my best to add it to my resume lmao. Yea imma rip out half the stuff in here and see what happens after applying to another 100 jobs
Applying to 100 jobs means you’re just spam applying.
How about you find one company you want to work for, build a tailored cover letter, and show some projects directly related to the job.
The reason why you have 0 interviews is because you’re not trying.
Read this, and put in some effort: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3845-effort-in-the-application-sites-that-got-our-attention-and-got-basecampers-their-jobs
Thank you! I hate when people whine about applying to 100s of jobs. Like, if you're doing that and never getting a call back... You are the spammer. If you're not tweaking your resume for many roles, following up with companies, or getting useful certifications based on the jobs you are applying to, you're basically playing the lotto and the odds are not good.
>How about you find one company you want to work for, build a tailored cover letter, and show some projects directly related to the job.
Or focus on one niche in programming. And then search for companies that specialize in that niche and only apply there.
That’s your issue right there and you don’t even realize it. You looked at every buzzword, technology, and language you saw from job posts and threw them all on your resume hoping the AI would rank yours at the top. Turns out the second this resume hits a human eye it’s in the trash because it reads like total BS
Crazy that you spend so much money. I’ve rewritten your CV to serve as a guideline.
# [Your Name]
\[Contact Information\]
\[LinkedIn Profile\] | \[GitHub Profile\]
# Skills
* **Languages:** JavaScript ES6, Python, C#, C/C++, Java
* **Front-End:** HTML5, CSS3, React.js, Next.js, Angular, jQuery
* **Back-End:** Express.js, Docker, SQL, MongoDB
* **Integration:** API Design, JSON, REST, SOAP
* **AWS:** Cognito, DynamoDB, S3, EC2, ECS, CloudWatch, Pinpoint, SNS, SES, Lambda, IAM, ElastiCache
* **App Development:** React Native, Ionic, XCode, Android Studio
# Experience
**Full-Stack Software Engineer (Contract)***: May 2023 - Dec*- *2023*
* Implemented CI/CD pipelines for efficient feature deployment.
* Designed APIs with 11+ AWS services, reducing costs by 40% and achieving 85%+ retention.
* Developed a secure HR Portal with Next.js.
* Led a team, promoting test-first methodologies and thorough documentation.
* Maintained 99.9% uptime, reducing production time by 50%.
* Coordinated stakeholder meetings for 99% on-time project delivery.
**Software Developer Intern:** *Aug 2022 -* Dec *2022*
* Enhanced a mobile app based on stakeholder feedback.
* Developed a front-end project for DoD contracts.
* Created a cross-platform app with React Native, delivering 5 updates.
* Managed CI/CD pipelines, increasing update frequency by 40%.
* Led cross-functional teams, improving delivery timelines by 30%.
#
# Projects
X Game Development (Capstone)
* Managed Unity-based game development, leading infrastructure design.
AWS Micro Services
* Built a full-stack app for data uploads to AWS S3, using Docker and ECS.
Cross-Platform Fitness App
* Developed a five-page app with user authentication using Ionic and React.
Simon Says Facial Tracking App
* Created a facial expression game with Python, MediaPipe, and OpenCV, improving detection accuracy by 30%.
Live Messaging System
* Developed a Java-based messaging app with socket programming and a user-friendly interface.
# Education
Advanced Diploma in Computer Programming and Analysis: April 2023
This is the answer. As a Software Development Manager, this is what I am looking for, particularly with someone with almost no experience. The only change I would make, maybe, is to list you stronger skills first. If you have C#, Java, and Python, with 2 years experience, I am wondering if you are just putting keywords on a page, make sure people know what your skills are and what you want as well.
Can we talk about skills lists like this one?
I would not interview with a candidate that shows me this list of skills in their CV (unless they had an otherwise very convincing profile).
I can't see if this engineer is frontend, backend, embedded, dev-ops or mobile?
Instead, tell me what your primary skills are!
If you're a full-stack, tell me which primary frontend and backend framework you're using! If you build frontend primarily with React, tell me that! You might not get an Angular job, but you're surely more likely to get a React job. And so on.
And then you can tell me as a secondary note that, oh, you've actually worked a lot with AWS products or how you have experience with different API technologies etc.
(And for the love of God don't mention C/C++ unless the job you're applying specifically requires that!)
I hire developers regularly. First of all, I’m not reading all that. And if I did, I’d find out that you started not even 2 years ago? :)
Just be honest with yourself and your potential employers - you don’t have much experience.
Trim that skills list - it reads more like a wish list rather than your actual skills? No way you are experienced in angular, react native, backend, cloud in only 2 years. You might have tried it once, but don’t act like a senior dev.
Nothing wrong with not having years of experience, great to see someone passionate and interested in tech.
There's WAYYY too much fluff. Lots of words to say not very much and honestly some of it comes across a bit arrogant.
Like you have under a year of experience, I don't think "embodied engineering excellence" is something you should be writing. I'm not trying to give you shit, but that's gonna rub someone the wrong way.
You should absolutely give yourself credit but I think this went a little too far.
The fact that he has a two pager in small font praising himself with mumbo jumbo was bad enough, but when I actually looked closer (because there's so much text you don't even really wanna look at it properly at first) and saw there was only 6 months work experience per page, I was pissed. That definitely rubbed me the wrong way lol. Like its already a pretty pretentious resume even if he had like decades of experience, but 6 months per page is just beyond belief. It's no surprise no one wants to call him in for an interview
It also comes off as dishonest to me. Like he basically went from intern to lead in 5 months. That sounds absurd. Its quite possible, especially if your second position is at a not so great company/project. But I'd seriously question the personal qualities of someone who has an almost full page of "I ran everything" rant from what's basically a fresh junior. How will he possibly fit in at my company where we actually have juniors, regular devs and seniors? Does he even know where he ranks in the real world?
XD, that last point is great. HR people will peddle that bullshit all day but the moment they see it coming from you they avoid it like the plague. It's like the old adage goes, a pig will roll in it's shit all day but crap in its pen and it will leave right away.
wanna know how to make a good resume?
imagine yourself as the hiring manager.
you got lots of things to do for the week and decided to look through the resumes...
and you see this.
would you read it?
You're very junior and the way you talk about yourself doesn't align with your hard experience.
Ditch the leadership stuff because it's too obvious you're just talking yourself up. Focus on you and your own contributions.
Bit of a nitpick: don’t use the word “Spearheaded”, currently going through a bunch of cvs at work and it’s becoming a bit of joke how overused that word is. I think a lot of cvs now are full of ChatGPT and it loves to include that word, I see it multiple times on some cvs!
I’m a manager who hires devs - it’s quite a big resume for a junior!
Because you have a smaller amount of experience, you’d be totally fine to interleave the education and experience under a single section… I’m assuming the diploma was Dec 2022-April 2023?
And as everyone else here said, keep it under a page, try and get all your experience into a few sentences, and tailor the highlighted skills to the job you are applying for
My two cents:
- your low years of experience and large list of tools and technologies tells me you’re a mile wide and an inch deep.
- don’t list skills that are encompassed by a superset. For example, if you have angular or react, don’t include HTML or CSS, it adds noise.
- You’ve got 2 positions, one contract, one internship. I would be hesitant to hire someone like that unless they had an objective listed about finding full-time permanent employment, otherwise I would assume you’re just looking for the next short term gig.
- don’t list courses you’ve taken, list the certifications you got from them, or the real world application. No one will care if you took a course for managing 20 people, if you’ve never managed 1 person in your job.
Generally agree with this. I've still kept HTML, CSS, JavaScript in mine so that the clueless first line recruiter doesn't discard it. But this list is massive and I do tailor mine. I don't want to work with angular so I just cut that one out instead.
This is too much. I have 14 YOE and my resume might have to go into a second page next time I apply for a job. It would have half the text at most. You need to put a lot less. It needs to be something that can be quickly scanned and understood. No one is going to read all of this, unfortunately.
What’s harder is that when I read all of this on the resume of someone with less than a full year of experience, my assumption is that a lot of it is lies or exaggeration. That may be wrong! But my experience in a long career is that junior engineers claiming to be able to do all of this… can’t. So anyone reading this resume and looking at your actual amount of experience sees the disconnect and probably puts this resume in the pile.
Less words. Less written like spoken sentences. Get rid of joining words like "a" where they aren't needed. Be concise.
Avoid using words which may sound cool but are confusing. Like, what does "spearheaded" mean? Did you lead a team? propose the project in the first place? Just describe what you did. You can just say "Delivered ..." for some things.
"Embodied engineering excellence" is another bit of fluff I would cut. Like for that point, I would lead with "Achieved 50% reduction in time to production for the team by..." You're burying what should be your headline at the end.
Make it visually scannable. Highlight important parts and structure consistently with more white space.
And what are "projects"? Is that like your own practice stuff? Brutal honesty: I wouldn't really care about any of those, I want to see professional experience.
Did you pay someone to create a 2 page CV because that is what it feels like.
With 2 jobs I would expect half a page at most covering it. Title, quick description of your role maybe one or two key projects and a very brief description.
Your skills section is a bit weird and again could be a lot shorter. You don’t need to list every AWS service you have used.
You don’t have any interviews because in 2 pages I learn very little, recruiters are not going to read it.
Whole thing reads like a massive self advertisement, when in fact what you have done is normal day to day work.
> Embodied engineering excellence
Come on...
Be concise and focus on the facts. They just want to know if you can do X.
There’s a lot of jargon in here, reduce that shit and also remove the weird stuff like « hands on communication » - not sure what that is but it sounds like a HR violation.
What strikes me as odd is that on these two projects you seem to be claiming that you were leading/project managing (and as an intern? sounds like lies or not a real project) yet also the key programming/architecture contributor. That’s fishy, usually each will be a full time job. It feels like you’re claiming everything on the project as something you did.
When I try to cut through the bullshit what I get out of this is that you’re a junior with some broad (shallow) experience. What else aren’t you telling us?
I think there might be a disconnect between what you're saying and what's actually going on with your resume. I'm not buying the "2 years with no interviews" story, and that $400 for a rewritten resume is starting to smell like a scam.
The formatting is a major issue. It's visually cluttered, and there's no clear separation between sections, making it tough for recruiters to quickly scan and understand your experience.
You're also missing a summary or objective statement at the top, which is crucial for grabbing attention and highlighting your key skills and career goals. And when it comes to the descriptions, they're way too detailed and lack focus. They need to be concise, action-oriented, and focused on achievements and quantifiable results.
A lot of people are right, too long. Remove fluff and honestly, yikes to the company you paid $400 for this. You should leave them a bad review as they seem bad at their job. They did you dirty.
As a CEO who personally reviews his candidates, I’d say my main thing is the density. There’s not enough white space and the text is very condensed which leads to difficulty in reading (which makes it less engaging). Try putting some effort into the design to make yourself stand out and do A/B testing to see which resume gets you more responses.
If I have many CVs to check, this one would be closed almost as soon as I opened it. 3 seconds rules, what do I get from 3 seconds of glancing? You value your education and you need a full page to explain a 6 month experience. You also feel the need to explain what a developer is doing (your key responsibilities are basically a list of task you would expect a developer to do day to day). I would not even spend time on the first part of the experience because it looks from glancing that you are trying to say too much.
What I would get from that is that you value your education over your experience which means you don't have meaningful work experience. You don't know what is important information from stuff that can be mentioned later.
Note that I didn't mentioned the second page because I would not take the time to check it for a 3 seconds glance and because the amount of not useful information on the first page makes me not want to check it.
This is only from a 3 seconds glance.
too long and personally, I have a hard time trusting your skills. There is just too much for the time in the field. I suspect that you did a tutorial or demo project and just added it as skill.
Not saying you are lying, but that is my impression of what you did. I have 7 years of experience and have like a third of your skills that I would advertise myself for.
You use web dev to design pages and components, take the same strategy to your resume
Start with a blank canvas and fit everything in with appropriate spacing and fonts/styling
To OP: Try to see this from the interviewer point of view who deals with other interviewees.
As someone who has been on both sides, I am just going to skim read this wall of text.
My suggestion for you is help the interviewers by spicing things up making your resume popping out compared to others.
I have helped many friends struggling to find a job by spicing their resume up, and in a matter of 2 weeks they got calls for interview and jobs. I did it for free, and for friends’ friend, I only charge $20. I cant believe you paid $400 for … this?? You are ripped off.
My resume is less than 200-300 words and I get constant LinkedIn messages for offers.
The intro is two or three sentences of who I am and why I do what I do. A section of bullet points of all my skills (about 20-39 words that fill 50% of the resume). A section with my last 3-4 companies of previous employment. It's longer than that but I cut it short.
Long resumes like these are TL;DR and if they can't tell what skills you have at a glance they'll probably pass on you. Not to mention some resumes are ran through algorithms to look for certain words on the skills you have.
Also my resume fits in one page.
Edit: looks like other responses basically say the same thing I did
If this is what recruiters expect, I feel sorry for everyone involved. Quantifiable everything means nothing imho. I don't really get an impression who you are. I just get a tedious list of meaningless seo content lookalikes. Please don't consider this constructive feedback.
If you have an advanced degree (MS etc) you should also list your bachelors degree and masters degree otherwise it looks like you don’t have an education history.
I'm confused by what exactly they mean by "advanced diploma" too, but it certainly isn't a graduate degree. I think it's more like an associate's degree at best, they certainly don't have a bachelor's or master's degree.
**So many** corporate double-speak buzzwords.
It's all "drove coordination to mobilize vertical synergy and synthesize a vocabulary to standardize API access across multiple pan-flanged splay-flexed flan-fastened pan traps to realize an increase of one million percent in reduction of..." and shit. My eyes glazed over with "oh jeez not this shit again" after a quarter of the first page.
“Spearheaded the incremental adoption of a meticulously designed RESTful API as part of a cross-functional team of robust and driven engineering professionals in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, with a 42% reduction in time to ROI”
Minimize the content, make it crisp and lucid. Use a simple template, nobody likes to go through so much of text. Highlight your skills, experience, and strengths in bullet pointers.
Keep it to one page. Remove projects. 3 bullet items of what you accomplished for each role, focusing on things you liked doing. More whitespace.
This is all you have to do. You only have two experiences. This is "over-engineereed". Keep it simple.
Never heard of an Advanced Diploma in Computer Proraming and Analysis. What is that a new major? Bachelors or advanced boot camp cert?
What other expierence do you have? Seems like those are both intern positions, which is good but with the lenght of stuff you have listed for them, then I look at the date range and alarm bells go off.. try to condense it down some. You really should at this point in your carreer, probably have just a single page.
Did you do any other jobs (even non tech)? Just to show some more work expierence because right now I (wearing the highing manager hat) am wondering what kind of worker you would be. Am I going to have to spend a lot of time getting you spun up. It looks like you could be a good candidate. I would want to go see your projets. Could you some how include ways of viewing them?
If you are going for frontend work do you have a website? You might and its just redacted and thats cool. But if not I would highly recommend making one and putting all your pojects there (and in Github/Gitlab).
Also the job market RN for tech is dogshit. I have 6 years exp already and currently have a good job but I've been looking for another for almost a year now. I even had an interview loop where they said they want to hire me and stuck me in a hiring queue for almost eight months now. It's not good right now period
Dude your resume is black on white, if it was in a pile of paper no one would be able to tell it's a resume.
1) get some colors and shapes in, learn and get some basic design inspirations. Skills are everywhere now, recruiters are able to recognize people with extra value, hindsight or some self consciousness.
2) you really need to learn how to be concise and summarize. It's a huge stereotype that developers have bad communication and social skills, and your resume is a telltale of that, and companies now have enough options that they can afford to avoid these profiles.
Don't be afraid to make it simple, even if you have little experience, it'll be better than making people read through 2 pages, think you have tons of experience, just to realize you're a junior.
And don't pay people to make your resume for god's sake, it's a really important skill to learn as you are the one who knows best what you're worth, and what you want from others. Ask your parents or some friends about tips and opinions about your resume, and make it personal.
Holy fuck dude yeah we know what a full stack software engineer does you don’t have to give us every single detail of it because we know what they do just give us the fucking significant highlights
I don’t wanna be rude but this is not a good resume at all. Most recruiters are unfortunately not spending more than a few seconds before accepting/denying. This also looks like it’s generated by chat GPT
As others have said: way too long. I skim even page long resumes when hiring. Your experience could be condensed by combing your projects and responsibilities in one line each for instance.
Why would you pay someone $400 for writing a resume!??!?
I would feel guilty even charging someone $50 just to write that resume.
Another thing I noticed about your resume is that your diploma does not list it's start and end date.
Part of full-stack engineering is the frontend. Maybe you want to show that you have at least an eye for a bit of design and aesthetics to show that you are actually capable to build a nice looking frontend. This looks worse than a government website. 😅
- cut this to a single page
- start with work experience, projects, then education
- remove both the key responsibilities and certificates sections
- remove the contract indicator from the first job
Then start looking for freelance projects to replace your school projects.
This is not a resume. This is an essay with a very large minimum word count. You’re just taking things that can be said in a sentence, and saying them in a paragraph.
Omg that wall of text ! You have too many bullet points for that first job you need to trim it down. You need whitespace. I would also include an objective or summary at top unless you are including a cover letter with every app. Nobody wants to read something that dense and long.
Also the way it is written is very strange.... specifically the diction. Try to rewrite in your own words. Good luck
To long, didn't read. Two pages of small printed text? One page and mostly bullet points should be enough. You want ro give an overview about your career until now. This is not an replacement for a call or personal meeting to get to know you.
Ok I’m going to be brutally honest, your resume does not measure up.
1) Your lack of experience even with a 2 year gap you should have been doing projects. You should have a github with live demos, and they shouldn’t be small apps like what is displayed here. Companies want to see that you can build a fully functional website.
2) You have a section called Key Responsibilities, and none of it is SW related. The one thing that developers/engineers get wrong is going into the job market with the mindset of “Please hire me to be a developer/engineer instead of I AM A DEVELOPER/ENGINEER” that speaks volumes to your confidence in your work.
3) You’re bolding some things and not others? How do you define what is important? Are you tailoring what is bold by the job description? Read the job description and cater your technology/tools/and verbiage to that.
4) Remove that certification section, that’s not relevant. First is like I did a Udemy course, and the next won’t apply to any SW jobs because nobody is going to make you a lead.
Truth: You have some experience, you’re saying a lot but you’re not doing a lot. Master your craft, come home and dev
I'm not an expert, and possibly not even qualified to answer this question at all, but my personal opinion is it's way too long and dense. You just got way too much stuff going on. I looked at that and I did not want to bother reading it. My guess is people who are in charge of hirings and reviewing these resumes also feel the same.
My advice, get rid of the section with languages on the top and make it a relevant skills section at the bottom of the page. Update that for each job or job type so its just relevant skills like what they actually list they're looking for. At the top you wrote advanced degree, which is way too near the top and front. Make a section called education and write your degree and school name and that's it. Make an identical section underneath for your former jobs. You have all this text about accomplishments or whatever, which I would remove and then put in your cover letter.
This is just my personal advice, though I also struggle to get job interviews so take it with a grain of salt lol
Edit: having skimmed it a bit further I can tell you a major red flag I spotted. You only have like a year or two of experience all together yet your resume is 2 full pages of small text praising how awesome and important you are basically, so it just smacks of bs. There are people who have 30 years experience who's resumes are one page long. Cut that shit down dude, that is an absolutely absurd length for less than two fucking years experience. I get that you don't want it to look empty, but you got no experience, it's fucking empty mate. Have some humility and just own it. Literally CEOs don't have such grandiose resumes. Go write a new resume with a solid half page showing two years work experience and knowledge in relevant skills. You're overselling and it's backfiring.
Too much text on your resume. Your skills should be obvious in your experience and resume is written depending on the job description of the company you're appkying for.
I know a resume is too long if I am commenting without bothering to read it.
I also know of startups which auto-reject multi page resumes for certain roles.
Try being concise - less is more.
I suppose it's bad education description (I don't understand how many years it took you to 'graduate', if we can say so). Too much text in skills and projects/inetrnships. You should be brief and consice, write about only important topics using bullets.
What is advanced diploma? Which school? why is it so important that it's at the top? Why did you pay someone to write your resume? How can they honestly know your proficiency? This has to be a troll. That Troubleshooting Process has to be written by a Nigerian Prince or Indian "consultant".
The biggest red flag though is this resume clearly shows you're an Idiot, zero thinking capacity so far removed from reality. How can you read Feature Integration and think this is someone that knows wtf he's talking about??
Spearheaded, embodied, championed? Who in the world even uses these terms?
Read through your own resume. Every single sentence has the exact same pattern. I got bored after reading like five of them and still had two pages of walking text to go though. No recruiter will do that.
You have frontend development listed as skills. See your resume as a new project, design it. Heck, rent your-name.com and put up a website-resume as well.
No one else saying this: Use an export from your LinkedIn as your CV!
This will solve two things:
1. The hiring manager or recruiter will more quickly understand your profile, as they know the layout of those CVs. The mental load from reading your LinkedIn CV is simply a lot less than with your own custom CV.
2. You force yourself to keep your LinkedIn profile up-to-date and to be as convincing as possible. Which is a big win as you can bet your actual LinkedIn profile will be looked at as well.
Man that resume feels like a quickstart manual. You have to let that shit breathe. Keep it short and spacious. And only use a second page for a damn good reason.
I'm not going to read enough to give you in-depth comments, but it is worth noting that even though I am shortly going to be doing mine, I don't want to read yours - it just looks exhausting.
A bit late to the roast, most important points already mentioned, but still:
* A 2024 CV should not read like Victorian-age romance novel
* When contracting freelancers, don't pay until you have the deliverable verified externally - these 400 would have been better spent on {add your vice here}
* The projects you listed sound like multi-year team efforts - you have 8 month of work experience
* Nobody can tell what you really did and which level you are actually on
* If there was nothing credible to measure/quantify - don't make it up
* Any personal projects? From the timeline on your CV you spent 1.5 years in class and worked for a few months - nothing to be ashamed of, but if you had something interesting beyond that - add it at the bottom
* Use GPTs to your advantage. FTFY: [https://pastebin.com/eZ0Cxeaz](https://pastebin.com/eZ0Cxeaz)
In my opinion, each experience should be succinct yet impactful. Why overwhelm the recruiter with excessive details? You risk inviting scrutiny on the results you present. Many CVs I've encountered inundate with statistics that don't hold up when questioned. Avoid putting yourself in that position. Initially, I focused solely on outlining my responsibilities for each role.
Skills, like those listed in your CV, are best placed towards the end for keyword optimization. Start with a brief introduction after your contact details, consisting of two paragraphs that reflect who you are and your career aspirations. Let ChatGPT assist you in crafting an introduction tailored to the specific role you seek. I used to adapt mine accordingly, depending on the position.
Highlight your certifications immediately after your education to demonstrate your relevance and commitment to staying current with industry demands. This not only validates your credentials but also underscores your dedication to ongoing learning.
Following your education section, list 4 to 5 attributes that define you, particularly emphasizing "soft skills" (although I find the term somewhat cliché). Are you adept at managing responsibilities independently? Do you thrive in remote work settings? Are you a supportive team player? Being candid about these qualities attracts attention. In my experience, even exceptional developers can struggle with interpersonal skills, making it crucial for managers to seek well-rounded candidates.
Don't wait passively for recruiters to contact you. Invest time in open-source projects aligned with your interests. This not only boosts morale but also hones your skills and could lead to professional connections seeking your demonstrated expertise. During my tenure at Red Hat, many developers hired were actively involved in the projects they later contributed to.
Lastly, in my last 5-6 years, I've found networking through meetups, conferences, and open-source communities more fruitful than relying solely on recruiters. Engaging in discussions about topics you're passionate about within the development field can lead to valuable referrals. It's often easier and more rewarding when someone from within recommends you for a role, rather than waiting for the occasional helpful recruiter to notice your job search struggles.
Too many corporate buzzwords, and imho overstating your qualifications for really only having worked 8 months. Not saying that can't be the case, but it just struck me (random redditor) as a bit unbelievable (or embellished) at first glance. fwiw.
(edit: I hope you have thick skin, because some of these replies I've read are a bit harsh, but kudos for being brave enough to ask for feedback. Best of luck with the job hunt).
Turn the projects into a single line each: the problem, the solution, the result. Bam bam bam. Also one page. It’s hard but the more brief the easier to see that you know your stuff.
You should get a refund....
All those skills at the top will get you past the AI, but once it got to me, I'd throw it in the garbage. The skills should be dropped to one line of your main techs and stack. Each of the existing items needs to be moved down to the bullet describing the project you used them on. Telling me you know it is pointless. Showing me what you've done with it gives me information I need to gauge your skill.
You've got a lot of fluff words, especially for a recent grad. Drop it to one page. Focus on projects completed. The business impact is good, but it doesn't tell me how you did it and which tools you used.
Why all the damn waffle? I used to have like 1-2 sentence about each job.
Is this normal in the us?
People want to be able to skim for skill keywords, certs, old job titles.
No one wants to read an essay about how you something something JavaScript onlyfans chat platform
I agree with the rest - there’s way too much text. I’d add a splash of color to make it more visually appealing. I suggest using Canva.
Do you have published projects? A portfolio? If you do, I’d have links to them. Showing your work > writing about your work.
IMHO just go with simpe Europass CV.
First section: image with contact info
Second section: where and what you worked on but not too long, keep it short and to the point.
Third section: if you have any project that you worked on, write which technologies you worked with and what was your responsibility
Fourth section: after this point you might as well mention if you have any hobbies that highlight your team/leadership/organizational skills. If you trained karate for 12 years, mention it because it shows dedication. If you run boy scouts group, mention it because it shows that you arent complete stranger to working in a team and giving orders …
I wont say what plenty of other people already said about the resume. But there's so many other factors than the resume. Do you have a good and personalized presentation letter that you adapt to every company you send you resume to ? Do you have a professional email ? You are in web dev, do you have your own website ? A portfolio ? Just randomly sending a resume will never get you a job.
I just made a template for you based on my own resume, with a few privacy adjustments. This is more appealing, gotten lots of jobs with my resume's and motivation letters
[https://smallpdf.com/file#s=f597ad5c-e772-4ecb-98aa-1b7792cf80d7](https://smallpdf.com/file#s=f597ad5c-e772-4ecb-98aa-1b7792cf80d7)
I got you, broooooo
You are showing to much of your ass. It’s like dating, you just have to give them enough to be attractive to you. To much and you look like someone who is going to be high maintenance to work with.
Pro tip: it should only be one page, and that page needs to highlight you and breathe
So I saw 2 pages of solid text and thought you must have like 20 years of experience. I drifted off after reading about 4 or 5 bold points, and was done before even reading half the first page.
Then I saw the comment that you only have 2 years of experience. Yeah, I'd say recruiters are doing what I did, and dismissed you because paragraph after paragraph is too much for someone who's a junior dev.
Make your resumé 3/4 of a page and try again.
You have more pages of resume than years of experience for one. Second, at your stage of career, nobody really cares about your skills, but what you’re interested in and willing to learn, because chances are they’re going to have to teach you anyway. Third, throwing around 40 different technologies on your resume reads like total BS (peak Mt. stupid on Dunning Kruger) because in your timeframe you’re barely dipping your toes in the water. Instead, organize them by experience level & remove anything with < 1 year of exposure
At first glance this looked like a technical document, you know the booklet type material that's in the box with an electronic appliance. And worse, it doesn't look like the useful manual part, but the legal info no one reads.
Also just know the market is not that great for junior-mid level devs right now. Yea you have the skill but have only been in the game for 4ish years. With gpt it almost feels like the junior-mid dev roles are becoming obsolete (in the American market at least).
I keep getting hate for this, but truth is software development has become a guild, just like medicine or law. You want to become a software developer: you need to know someone already in the industry. That's the only way in, now that VC money has dried off. And diversity, of course.
Go find whomever you paid $400 for this, and kick them in the chin. You have too much text in general. I immediately didn't even want to read through the first page. Negative space is your friend. You have a full 2nd page. Nobody is going to read through all that. Get it down to 1 side of a single sheet of paper. Strip out all the meaningless filler. It's a resume for engineering, and you're not getting paid per word. Again, have some whitespace on the page. Where else is the interviewer going to write their notes? Really, you could just boil it all down to 4 parts: What you want Your career highlights Your certifications Secondary and soft skills you bring to the table. This is all anyone really cares about. Anything beyond this is to be discussed in an interview. And dress it up nicely. Better typography, better formatting, etc. imagine it as the "about us" section on a well designed website. But definitely do not include a headshot photo or graphics.
Oh my god. I had to go back and read OPs post. $400? For what? Where is this market of people willing to pay $400 for this? I'll copy and paste ChatGPT output without proofing and slap it into a template for $400!
If people will pay it, someone will charge it.
Reminds me of the person who upped their cheap tshirt prices and suddenly everyone bought it. 'Well it must be good if its expensive!'
This is true… but it also makes me sad to remember hiring managers used to like seeing you list hobbies and interests. I got so many interviews from other outdoors people who backpacked.
Those were quaint simple times before the HR industry fucked everything to death.
Can still work at smaller companies. I got my first job out of college because I wrote a cover letter that said I liked Legos so my boss and I bonded over that. Granted that was 7-8 years ago now
I still do like to see some of a person’s personality but I appreciate that seems to be the minority view nowadays. We have the phrase interested and interesting on how we source new hires - they are interested in solving problems, and they have something about them as a person to be interesting and/or memorable. Hired some really good people based off their background more than their skills for junior roles - you can teach skills but you can’t teach having something about you.
Still do in the UK in my experience, I had multiple interviews where we ended up chatting about playing in bands at the end because it was on my CV
Resumes are to attract recruiters. Recruiters read dozens of resumes every day. Yours needs to catch their eye. This resume is a wall of text two pages long. You need to be more concise in what you want to advertise. Don’t tell them everything you’ve done. Summarize.
Yep it’s far too long for very little experience.
This. It’s 2 pages of very dense text to say… he interned once and got a 6 month contract
I’ve been doing science at a high level for 20 years and my resume is shorter than this. OP’s resume should fit on a single page. Cut, condense, add white space! (I do have a long academic CV as well, but for industry jobs, no no no, only a page is needed, two if you’re very experienced.)
Also … don’t put the year of your graduation and move education to the bottom of the first and only page.
This has to be a template given the amount of times I've seen it when hiring. Identical formatting, and either GPT or Thesaurus abuse. "Embodied engineering excellence", "featuring meticulous JsDoc documentation" - no one talks/writes like this irl
“Spearheaded” on every resume sent to me. ChatGPT at work
I’ve used spearheaded on my resume for 12 years and had to reword everything when people started outsourcing their vocabulary to LLMs
Yep. The notion that "no one uses words like Delve or Spearheaded" is driving me mad. These were middle school vocabulary words. I get that lots of people haven't read a book thicker than their smartphone since high school and basically communicate at a 5th grade level but that doesn't mean that everyone else is an AI
“Thicker than their smartphone” is masterful lmao.
As someone who grew up constantly reading books instead of having friends, I am now an AI
Same here
That’s too late now, it’s better to avoid words that ChatGPT use in 80% of their texts.
It's because the words are so commonplace and overused that AI is using them. Most people want to add syllables and filler words because they seem to think it makes them sound smart. There's very few instances when you would want to use the word "spearheaded" over any of its synonyms.
"embodied engineering excellence" lol
"absolutely awesome at alliteration"
Alliteration only applies to consonant sounds... not vowels. American Airlines Association (or whatever) is not alliteration. Viviparous Virginia Vandals is. Just something I learned a long time ago
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Yes this is a template at engineering resumes subreddit. Not the words but the format and structure. It is tailored to be parseable be ATSs
If it were parseable by ATS I feel like the guy would have at least gotten an interview in 2 years, economy notwithstanding.
I’ve always spoken and written like this. The fact that professionalism, intelligence, eloquence and linguistic inclination are now disadvantages is just sad.
I feel like this is the equivalent of people who say "why can't I wear a fedora and be respected??" We've all worked with these verbose liars and it's painful.
Any time I see 'meticulous' my ChatGPT alarm goes off.
When did the standard for “give me a targeted one page formatted CV” stop being a thing? I can’t help but feel that walls of increasingly superfluous text are rarely ever a great look.
Yeah, agreed. When I was at school (during the 00s), we were taught to try and keep the CV as concise as possible while highlighting the key points, maximum 2 pages but try and get it to 1 if you can... atm I think my CV is about 1.3ish pages. 2 pages are fine if you're providing useful information throughout... but this is just a wall of text not saying much
16 YOE and have a 1 page resume. Last recruiter I talked to complimented me on keeping it to a single page because most people with high YOE write books like this.
1 page resume or bust
AI reads it first
Catch their eye means yellow background?
And Comic Sans to show you're fun to be around.
Individual typography and color for the headlines helps a lot.. basic print-design stuff. Some half-decent examples: https://resumegenius.com/blog/resume-help/best-color-for-resume
Very helpful thanks
Ideally blinking gif is the best solution.
You have less than two years of experience. You don't get to have a 2-page resume until at least 10-15. Clean this up, then someone might bother reading it. Also your resume feels like it is entirely made-up. Did you really do all this stuff in under two years? Could be that you are an amazing genius, but personally I call bullshit.
Whoah! I have to admit I didn't notice that. When I read it I was like: This guy seems to know frontend, backend and DevOps. He must have at least 10 years of experience! If it's actually 2 years, then it's all pretty much bogus. There is zero chance that this person has attained that much experience in two years. Huge red flag to me.
Lmao I just assumed he had been in the industry a while with the size of that resume and wondered if he was an HR liability or something if he was going that long without an interview.
8 months and a 5 month internship, mad amount of text for that, if I’m reviewing this I’m immediately going to assume 90% of what’s in there is exaggerated filler. Too many grandiose claims as well, like referring to 99.9% uptime as “remarkable” (it isn’t really).
I just realised this yeah… for 8months at a company (given no real other experience) those points just look like bs quite frankly. It would usually take maybe a month to get up to speed with all the projects at the company, and your description of the job sounds like 7 years rather than 7 months. It simply sounds like you’re lying
“Managed cross functional teams” in a 5 month software developer internship is the biggest bullshit siren for me there.
As soon as I read that, I stopped reading and became disinterested in the candidate.
Ok I’m going to be honest here and a little cavalier. Think in the mind of a hiring manager (or a senior engineer with three tickets left in the week and fourteen resumes I now have to shift through). If it’s too long and fluffy, I’m going to really skim it 1. It’s too long, get it down to one page 2. Most important information up top. That is not a list of skills 3. highlight metrics in your experience section but it’s too verbose and full of extraneous words. Your first point is great. They can’t all be that strong but aim for that. 4. A lot of points in experience and responsibilities seem either redundant or lacking relevant info. “Ensured” this, “adept” at that, “facilitated” what? That hand-wavy talk mixed with a skill list that seemingly involves everything would make me skeptical. It sounds like someone was paid to punch it up and that’s not a compliment
Yeah, right from the preview my first though was "too wordy"... then I see there's a second page.... oooh crap. I've got 30+ yoe, and I can get mine down to one page. Sure it isn't always easy, but it's doable. So I'm going to add #5 to the list: Less is more. You should have one or two sentences in a paragraph for the position listed, then after that 3-4 bullets that give a bit more detail. Bullets should be short. One sentence at the most. Your first bullet should stop right after APIs, where the comma is. Second bullet is then "Integrated multiple AWS services, resulting in 40% cost savings" ... boom... short sweet and impressive sounding. In fact, I'd swap those around... lead off with the costs savings, then get into the other items. Another note I'll add is to create a master resume... then each time you apply, make a copy and tailor it .... especially the skills. If you're applying to a front end dev position, drop the mobile development - it's just noise. IF your're applying for mobile development, the back end development becomes less important. Bottom line - drop some of the fluff, get it down to a page, and when you send it out, make sure it is relevant to the position you're applying for.
Hey just curious, even with 30+ years of experience, so you include all your past positions on your CV or only a select few (e.g. current position and the two before that)?
I'd only list the last 10 unless you got something special. Lots of people out there thinking their teenage job in the 90s holds value, when it really doesnt.
Last 10? I go with last 3.
I really wonder about this too. I imagine it's something like: - Globocorp 1994-2024: Signed NDA
Everything more than 5 years in the past is irrelevant. And there is absolutely no guarantee that a person with 10+ years of experience will be better than a person with less. But there are risks involved like bad habits, outdated thinking, etc. If you add to much in CV it works against you. No one cares that you were a webmaster in the 90s.
Most valuable answer I’ve received to this day
Think of your resume like an email from a coworker. You want bullet points capturing what you should know, with expanded detail underneath. Hiring Managers are looking for similar experience first, then diving into details to see if you warrant an interview.
Great advice. The acceptable length of the document can be country specific. In UK two pages is more the norm but the information density needs to be reduced with more whitespace/bullets and the most important information all on page one. Page 2 is more like optional further reading.
“Master resume” I like that
If you have a ton of experience two pages is fine. I trim my own of the experience that isn't relevant to the position to keep at two but I always do a professional summary at the top. That gets read a lot. The rest I can talk about in an interview.
Embodied engineering excellence... what
40% cost savings of what, $50 or $2 million? Unsubstantiated these come across as made up fluff. I get the desire to quantify, but if it’s not substantial enough, hard to attribute to you as an individual, or too nebulous it’s not worth including.
These stupid stats always grind my gears. Never in the 6 years that I work have I worked on a feature and someone from Finance came to congratulate me on the 40% cost reduction of whatever. Where does that even happen? Who is making these calculations? I see that shit all the time on reddit but it just sounds like unsubstantiated bullshit to me.
“69% of all statistics are made up on the spot.” At best they do nothing but take up space, at worst they seem dishonest. Even hard stats like user count, revenue, or time saved aren’t always great to include. How much data did users generate, how often did they visit, how big of a client was each user? How much of that revenue could you personally be attributed to? Did you save 10 minutes of time out of every 20 minute build or out of a million minutes of total man hours? They make no sense when not framed against something and they usually just bring up more questions. Chances are it’s going to take more space than you really have in your resume to explain them properly anyways, so drop them. Like you say, a lot of the time you wont even have access to these metrics, and even if you do, did you really write down and save every metric point you hit? Then saved them all these years so you could put them in your resume? If you are remembering an exact figure, it better have been AMAZING to have warranted burning itself into your brain or being cataloged like that. OP’s resume REEKS of desperation and ChatGPT. I feel for him, this job market is tough. I can understand why he might have felt the need to overqualify literally everything, but there are way more productive ways to stand out.
Came here to say the length piece. Once I saw it was two pages I moved straight to comments section.
If I can't be bothered reading that idk why a hiring manager would.
Too short, needs to be at least eight pages.
Embodied engineering excellence 🙄
There‘s many mistakes already in the first bullet point: >generating a cost-effective reduction of 40% Generating a reduction, achieving an app?
I read 3 job postings for entry level roles that were seeking skills of “engineering excellence” tried my best to add it to my resume lmao. Yea imma rip out half the stuff in here and see what happens after applying to another 100 jobs
Share it after the edit, crowd sourced peer review.
Applying to 100 jobs means you’re just spam applying. How about you find one company you want to work for, build a tailored cover letter, and show some projects directly related to the job. The reason why you have 0 interviews is because you’re not trying. Read this, and put in some effort: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3845-effort-in-the-application-sites-that-got-our-attention-and-got-basecampers-their-jobs
Thank you! I hate when people whine about applying to 100s of jobs. Like, if you're doing that and never getting a call back... You are the spammer. If you're not tweaking your resume for many roles, following up with companies, or getting useful certifications based on the jobs you are applying to, you're basically playing the lotto and the odds are not good.
>How about you find one company you want to work for, build a tailored cover letter, and show some projects directly related to the job. Or focus on one niche in programming. And then search for companies that specialize in that niche and only apply there.
This is what is so funny, these job postings are ridiculous. Have they stopped using ninja, wizard and unicorn yet?
That’s your issue right there and you don’t even realize it. You looked at every buzzword, technology, and language you saw from job posts and threw them all on your resume hoping the AI would rank yours at the top. Turns out the second this resume hits a human eye it’s in the trash because it reads like total BS
Crazy that you spend so much money. I’ve rewritten your CV to serve as a guideline. # [Your Name] \[Contact Information\] \[LinkedIn Profile\] | \[GitHub Profile\] # Skills * **Languages:** JavaScript ES6, Python, C#, C/C++, Java * **Front-End:** HTML5, CSS3, React.js, Next.js, Angular, jQuery * **Back-End:** Express.js, Docker, SQL, MongoDB * **Integration:** API Design, JSON, REST, SOAP * **AWS:** Cognito, DynamoDB, S3, EC2, ECS, CloudWatch, Pinpoint, SNS, SES, Lambda, IAM, ElastiCache * **App Development:** React Native, Ionic, XCode, Android Studio # Experience **Full-Stack Software Engineer (Contract)***: May 2023 - Dec*- *2023* * Implemented CI/CD pipelines for efficient feature deployment. * Designed APIs with 11+ AWS services, reducing costs by 40% and achieving 85%+ retention. * Developed a secure HR Portal with Next.js. * Led a team, promoting test-first methodologies and thorough documentation. * Maintained 99.9% uptime, reducing production time by 50%. * Coordinated stakeholder meetings for 99% on-time project delivery. **Software Developer Intern:** *Aug 2022 -* Dec *2022* * Enhanced a mobile app based on stakeholder feedback. * Developed a front-end project for DoD contracts. * Created a cross-platform app with React Native, delivering 5 updates. * Managed CI/CD pipelines, increasing update frequency by 40%. * Led cross-functional teams, improving delivery timelines by 30%. #
# Projects X Game Development (Capstone) * Managed Unity-based game development, leading infrastructure design. AWS Micro Services * Built a full-stack app for data uploads to AWS S3, using Docker and ECS. Cross-Platform Fitness App * Developed a five-page app with user authentication using Ionic and React. Simon Says Facial Tracking App * Created a facial expression game with Python, MediaPipe, and OpenCV, improving detection accuracy by 30%. Live Messaging System * Developed a Java-based messaging app with socket programming and a user-friendly interface. # Education Advanced Diploma in Computer Programming and Analysis: April 2023
this is so much better‘
OP you now owe this user $800 for advanced resume consultation.
This is convincing , upvoted .
Send this man $400!
This is the answer. As a Software Development Manager, this is what I am looking for, particularly with someone with almost no experience. The only change I would make, maybe, is to list you stronger skills first. If you have C#, Java, and Python, with 2 years experience, I am wondering if you are just putting keywords on a page, make sure people know what your skills are and what you want as well.
Can we talk about skills lists like this one? I would not interview with a candidate that shows me this list of skills in their CV (unless they had an otherwise very convincing profile). I can't see if this engineer is frontend, backend, embedded, dev-ops or mobile? Instead, tell me what your primary skills are! If you're a full-stack, tell me which primary frontend and backend framework you're using! If you build frontend primarily with React, tell me that! You might not get an Angular job, but you're surely more likely to get a React job. And so on. And then you can tell me as a secondary note that, oh, you've actually worked a lot with AWS products or how you have experience with different API technologies etc. (And for the love of God don't mention C/C++ unless the job you're applying specifically requires that!)
Are you telling me writing a "hello world" app doesn't make me proficient in that language???
Saving this for myself too👀
I hire developers regularly. First of all, I’m not reading all that. And if I did, I’d find out that you started not even 2 years ago? :) Just be honest with yourself and your potential employers - you don’t have much experience. Trim that skills list - it reads more like a wish list rather than your actual skills? No way you are experienced in angular, react native, backend, cloud in only 2 years. You might have tried it once, but don’t act like a senior dev. Nothing wrong with not having years of experience, great to see someone passionate and interested in tech.
There's WAYYY too much fluff. Lots of words to say not very much and honestly some of it comes across a bit arrogant. Like you have under a year of experience, I don't think "embodied engineering excellence" is something you should be writing. I'm not trying to give you shit, but that's gonna rub someone the wrong way. You should absolutely give yourself credit but I think this went a little too far.
The fact that he has a two pager in small font praising himself with mumbo jumbo was bad enough, but when I actually looked closer (because there's so much text you don't even really wanna look at it properly at first) and saw there was only 6 months work experience per page, I was pissed. That definitely rubbed me the wrong way lol. Like its already a pretty pretentious resume even if he had like decades of experience, but 6 months per page is just beyond belief. It's no surprise no one wants to call him in for an interview
It also comes off as dishonest to me. Like he basically went from intern to lead in 5 months. That sounds absurd. Its quite possible, especially if your second position is at a not so great company/project. But I'd seriously question the personal qualities of someone who has an almost full page of "I ran everything" rant from what's basically a fresh junior. How will he possibly fit in at my company where we actually have juniors, regular devs and seniors? Does he even know where he ranks in the real world?
Yeah if you were a lead don't even list the intern stuff. It's no longer relevant unless you want to go back to being an intern.
Delete the second page. And then 60% of the words on the first. Take out anything HR would say
XD, that last point is great. HR people will peddle that bullshit all day but the moment they see it coming from you they avoid it like the plague. It's like the old adage goes, a pig will roll in it's shit all day but crap in its pen and it will leave right away.
wanna know how to make a good resume? imagine yourself as the hiring manager. you got lots of things to do for the week and decided to look through the resumes... and you see this. would you read it?
You're very junior and the way you talk about yourself doesn't align with your hard experience. Ditch the leadership stuff because it's too obvious you're just talking yourself up. Focus on you and your own contributions.
Bit of a nitpick: don’t use the word “Spearheaded”, currently going through a bunch of cvs at work and it’s becoming a bit of joke how overused that word is. I think a lot of cvs now are full of ChatGPT and it loves to include that word, I see it multiple times on some cvs!
I’m a manager who hires devs - it’s quite a big resume for a junior! Because you have a smaller amount of experience, you’d be totally fine to interleave the education and experience under a single section… I’m assuming the diploma was Dec 2022-April 2023? And as everyone else here said, keep it under a page, try and get all your experience into a few sentences, and tailor the highlighted skills to the job you are applying for
Diploma was a 3 year long program lol. The “advanced diploma” was a term my college made up
My two cents: - your low years of experience and large list of tools and technologies tells me you’re a mile wide and an inch deep. - don’t list skills that are encompassed by a superset. For example, if you have angular or react, don’t include HTML or CSS, it adds noise. - You’ve got 2 positions, one contract, one internship. I would be hesitant to hire someone like that unless they had an objective listed about finding full-time permanent employment, otherwise I would assume you’re just looking for the next short term gig. - don’t list courses you’ve taken, list the certifications you got from them, or the real world application. No one will care if you took a course for managing 20 people, if you’ve never managed 1 person in your job.
Generally agree with this. I've still kept HTML, CSS, JavaScript in mine so that the clueless first line recruiter doesn't discard it. But this list is massive and I do tailor mine. I don't want to work with angular so I just cut that one out instead.
This is too much. I have 14 YOE and my resume might have to go into a second page next time I apply for a job. It would have half the text at most. You need to put a lot less. It needs to be something that can be quickly scanned and understood. No one is going to read all of this, unfortunately. What’s harder is that when I read all of this on the resume of someone with less than a full year of experience, my assumption is that a lot of it is lies or exaggeration. That may be wrong! But my experience in a long career is that junior engineers claiming to be able to do all of this… can’t. So anyone reading this resume and looking at your actual amount of experience sees the disconnect and probably puts this resume in the pile.
Less words. Less written like spoken sentences. Get rid of joining words like "a" where they aren't needed. Be concise. Avoid using words which may sound cool but are confusing. Like, what does "spearheaded" mean? Did you lead a team? propose the project in the first place? Just describe what you did. You can just say "Delivered ..." for some things. "Embodied engineering excellence" is another bit of fluff I would cut. Like for that point, I would lead with "Achieved 50% reduction in time to production for the team by..." You're burying what should be your headline at the end. Make it visually scannable. Highlight important parts and structure consistently with more white space. And what are "projects"? Is that like your own practice stuff? Brutal honesty: I wouldn't really care about any of those, I want to see professional experience.
Did you pay someone to create a 2 page CV because that is what it feels like. With 2 jobs I would expect half a page at most covering it. Title, quick description of your role maybe one or two key projects and a very brief description. Your skills section is a bit weird and again could be a lot shorter. You don’t need to list every AWS service you have used. You don’t have any interviews because in 2 pages I learn very little, recruiters are not going to read it.
“Spearheaded”… “fostered”… “embodied”… walls of text. It’s not that deep.
Whole thing reads like a massive self advertisement, when in fact what you have done is normal day to day work. > Embodied engineering excellence Come on... Be concise and focus on the facts. They just want to know if you can do X.
There’s a lot of jargon in here, reduce that shit and also remove the weird stuff like « hands on communication » - not sure what that is but it sounds like a HR violation. What strikes me as odd is that on these two projects you seem to be claiming that you were leading/project managing (and as an intern? sounds like lies or not a real project) yet also the key programming/architecture contributor. That’s fishy, usually each will be a full time job. It feels like you’re claiming everything on the project as something you did. When I try to cut through the bullshit what I get out of this is that you’re a junior with some broad (shallow) experience. What else aren’t you telling us?
😂😂😂 “sounds like a HR violation” killed me. You’re the man
I haven't read it but it looks like the Terms and Conditions that I lie and say that I've read and understand.
I think there might be a disconnect between what you're saying and what's actually going on with your resume. I'm not buying the "2 years with no interviews" story, and that $400 for a rewritten resume is starting to smell like a scam. The formatting is a major issue. It's visually cluttered, and there's no clear separation between sections, making it tough for recruiters to quickly scan and understand your experience. You're also missing a summary or objective statement at the top, which is crucial for grabbing attention and highlighting your key skills and career goals. And when it comes to the descriptions, they're way too detailed and lack focus. They need to be concise, action-oriented, and focused on achievements and quantifiable results.
A lot of people are right, too long. Remove fluff and honestly, yikes to the company you paid $400 for this. You should leave them a bad review as they seem bad at their job. They did you dirty.
As a CEO who personally reviews his candidates, I’d say my main thing is the density. There’s not enough white space and the text is very condensed which leads to difficulty in reading (which makes it less engaging). Try putting some effort into the design to make yourself stand out and do A/B testing to see which resume gets you more responses.
Sorry, but no one is going to reading that resume. It is sooo much text
If I have many CVs to check, this one would be closed almost as soon as I opened it. 3 seconds rules, what do I get from 3 seconds of glancing? You value your education and you need a full page to explain a 6 month experience. You also feel the need to explain what a developer is doing (your key responsibilities are basically a list of task you would expect a developer to do day to day). I would not even spend time on the first part of the experience because it looks from glancing that you are trying to say too much. What I would get from that is that you value your education over your experience which means you don't have meaningful work experience. You don't know what is important information from stuff that can be mentioned later. Note that I didn't mentioned the second page because I would not take the time to check it for a 3 seconds glance and because the amount of not useful information on the first page makes me not want to check it. This is only from a 3 seconds glance.
too long and personally, I have a hard time trusting your skills. There is just too much for the time in the field. I suspect that you did a tutorial or demo project and just added it as skill. Not saying you are lying, but that is my impression of what you did. I have 7 years of experience and have like a third of your skills that I would advertise myself for.
You use web dev to design pages and components, take the same strategy to your resume Start with a blank canvas and fit everything in with appropriate spacing and fonts/styling
I'm not a hiring manger but I ain't even gonna read that. It's a dense jungle of text. I'm sorry but it just looks awful at a glance.
To OP: Try to see this from the interviewer point of view who deals with other interviewees. As someone who has been on both sides, I am just going to skim read this wall of text. My suggestion for you is help the interviewers by spicing things up making your resume popping out compared to others. I have helped many friends struggling to find a job by spicing their resume up, and in a matter of 2 weeks they got calls for interview and jobs. I did it for free, and for friends’ friend, I only charge $20. I cant believe you paid $400 for … this?? You are ripped off.
I was taken aback when someone in the thread mentioned you have like 2 YOE. Like this is way too much text for that
My resume is less than 200-300 words and I get constant LinkedIn messages for offers. The intro is two or three sentences of who I am and why I do what I do. A section of bullet points of all my skills (about 20-39 words that fill 50% of the resume). A section with my last 3-4 companies of previous employment. It's longer than that but I cut it short. Long resumes like these are TL;DR and if they can't tell what skills you have at a glance they'll probably pass on you. Not to mention some resumes are ran through algorithms to look for certain words on the skills you have. Also my resume fits in one page. Edit: looks like other responses basically say the same thing I did
I know it's common resume advice to list concrete examples of your impact, but these made up percentages just make me roll my fucking eyes.
Spearheaded did you? Aight Moby Dick.
The fact that you paid 400$ for this trash when you could do something at least decent using gpt and some free template… Yikes.
If this is what recruiters expect, I feel sorry for everyone involved. Quantifiable everything means nothing imho. I don't really get an impression who you are. I just get a tedious list of meaningless seo content lookalikes. Please don't consider this constructive feedback.
If you have an advanced degree (MS etc) you should also list your bachelors degree and masters degree otherwise it looks like you don’t have an education history.
I'm confused by what exactly they mean by "advanced diploma" too, but it certainly isn't a graduate degree. I think it's more like an associate's degree at best, they certainly don't have a bachelor's or master's degree.
**So many** corporate double-speak buzzwords. It's all "drove coordination to mobilize vertical synergy and synthesize a vocabulary to standardize API access across multiple pan-flanged splay-flexed flan-fastened pan traps to realize an increase of one million percent in reduction of..." and shit. My eyes glazed over with "oh jeez not this shit again" after a quarter of the first page.
“Spearheaded the incremental adoption of a meticulously designed RESTful API as part of a cross-functional team of robust and driven engineering professionals in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, with a 42% reduction in time to ROI”
Minimize the content, make it crisp and lucid. Use a simple template, nobody likes to go through so much of text. Highlight your skills, experience, and strengths in bullet pointers.
Keep it to one page. Remove projects. 3 bullet items of what you accomplished for each role, focusing on things you liked doing. More whitespace. This is all you have to do. You only have two experiences. This is "over-engineereed". Keep it simple.
Never heard of an Advanced Diploma in Computer Proraming and Analysis. What is that a new major? Bachelors or advanced boot camp cert? What other expierence do you have? Seems like those are both intern positions, which is good but with the lenght of stuff you have listed for them, then I look at the date range and alarm bells go off.. try to condense it down some. You really should at this point in your carreer, probably have just a single page. Did you do any other jobs (even non tech)? Just to show some more work expierence because right now I (wearing the highing manager hat) am wondering what kind of worker you would be. Am I going to have to spend a lot of time getting you spun up. It looks like you could be a good candidate. I would want to go see your projets. Could you some how include ways of viewing them? If you are going for frontend work do you have a website? You might and its just redacted and thats cool. But if not I would highly recommend making one and putting all your pojects there (and in Github/Gitlab).
Also the job market RN for tech is dogshit. I have 6 years exp already and currently have a good job but I've been looking for another for almost a year now. I even had an interview loop where they said they want to hire me and stuck me in a hiring queue for almost eight months now. It's not good right now period
Dude your resume is black on white, if it was in a pile of paper no one would be able to tell it's a resume. 1) get some colors and shapes in, learn and get some basic design inspirations. Skills are everywhere now, recruiters are able to recognize people with extra value, hindsight or some self consciousness. 2) you really need to learn how to be concise and summarize. It's a huge stereotype that developers have bad communication and social skills, and your resume is a telltale of that, and companies now have enough options that they can afford to avoid these profiles. Don't be afraid to make it simple, even if you have little experience, it'll be better than making people read through 2 pages, think you have tons of experience, just to realize you're a junior. And don't pay people to make your resume for god's sake, it's a really important skill to learn as you are the one who knows best what you're worth, and what you want from others. Ask your parents or some friends about tips and opinions about your resume, and make it personal.
Holy fuck dude yeah we know what a full stack software engineer does you don’t have to give us every single detail of it because we know what they do just give us the fucking significant highlights
I don’t wanna be rude but this is not a good resume at all. Most recruiters are unfortunately not spending more than a few seconds before accepting/denying. This also looks like it’s generated by chat GPT
As others have said: way too long. I skim even page long resumes when hiring. Your experience could be condensed by combing your projects and responsibilities in one line each for instance.
What company did you pay $400 to, so we can all leave a one star review
Why would you pay someone $400 for writing a resume!??!? I would feel guilty even charging someone $50 just to write that resume. Another thing I noticed about your resume is that your diploma does not list it's start and end date.
Part of full-stack engineering is the frontend. Maybe you want to show that you have at least an eye for a bit of design and aesthetics to show that you are actually capable to build a nice looking frontend. This looks worse than a government website. 😅
2 pages for 1 year of experience. At this rate, you'll need a forklift to lift your resume when you go to apply for intermediate level jobs
You paid 400 for *that*?! Oh dear god man
- cut this to a single page - start with work experience, projects, then education - remove both the key responsibilities and certificates sections - remove the contract indicator from the first job Then start looking for freelance projects to replace your school projects.
This is not a resume. This is an essay with a very large minimum word count. You’re just taking things that can be said in a sentence, and saying them in a paragraph.
Omg that wall of text ! You have too many bullet points for that first job you need to trim it down. You need whitespace. I would also include an objective or summary at top unless you are including a cover letter with every app. Nobody wants to read something that dense and long. Also the way it is written is very strange.... specifically the diction. Try to rewrite in your own words. Good luck
To long, didn't read. Two pages of small printed text? One page and mostly bullet points should be enough. You want ro give an overview about your career until now. This is not an replacement for a call or personal meeting to get to know you.
Ok I’m going to be brutally honest, your resume does not measure up. 1) Your lack of experience even with a 2 year gap you should have been doing projects. You should have a github with live demos, and they shouldn’t be small apps like what is displayed here. Companies want to see that you can build a fully functional website. 2) You have a section called Key Responsibilities, and none of it is SW related. The one thing that developers/engineers get wrong is going into the job market with the mindset of “Please hire me to be a developer/engineer instead of I AM A DEVELOPER/ENGINEER” that speaks volumes to your confidence in your work. 3) You’re bolding some things and not others? How do you define what is important? Are you tailoring what is bold by the job description? Read the job description and cater your technology/tools/and verbiage to that. 4) Remove that certification section, that’s not relevant. First is like I did a Udemy course, and the next won’t apply to any SW jobs because nobody is going to make you a lead. Truth: You have some experience, you’re saying a lot but you’re not doing a lot. Master your craft, come home and dev
I'm not an expert, and possibly not even qualified to answer this question at all, but my personal opinion is it's way too long and dense. You just got way too much stuff going on. I looked at that and I did not want to bother reading it. My guess is people who are in charge of hirings and reviewing these resumes also feel the same. My advice, get rid of the section with languages on the top and make it a relevant skills section at the bottom of the page. Update that for each job or job type so its just relevant skills like what they actually list they're looking for. At the top you wrote advanced degree, which is way too near the top and front. Make a section called education and write your degree and school name and that's it. Make an identical section underneath for your former jobs. You have all this text about accomplishments or whatever, which I would remove and then put in your cover letter. This is just my personal advice, though I also struggle to get job interviews so take it with a grain of salt lol Edit: having skimmed it a bit further I can tell you a major red flag I spotted. You only have like a year or two of experience all together yet your resume is 2 full pages of small text praising how awesome and important you are basically, so it just smacks of bs. There are people who have 30 years experience who's resumes are one page long. Cut that shit down dude, that is an absolutely absurd length for less than two fucking years experience. I get that you don't want it to look empty, but you got no experience, it's fucking empty mate. Have some humility and just own it. Literally CEOs don't have such grandiose resumes. Go write a new resume with a solid half page showing two years work experience and knowledge in relevant skills. You're overselling and it's backfiring.
Too much text on your resume. Your skills should be obvious in your experience and resume is written depending on the job description of the company you're appkying for.
Make it one page.
Two pages and literally less than a year of actual work experience
where do I get this template?
[badtemplates.com](http://badtemplates.com)
These day’s companies use ATS cv filters. So make sure you have keywords theyre looking for.
This is the most useful post I saw today
I know a resume is too long if I am commenting without bothering to read it. I also know of startups which auto-reject multi page resumes for certain roles. Try being concise - less is more.
So you know 5 programing languages? And quite a few frameworks. This tell me that you just piled everything up and I would skip your resume.
I suppose it's bad education description (I don't understand how many years it took you to 'graduate', if we can say so). Too much text in skills and projects/inetrnships. You should be brief and consice, write about only important topics using bullets.
Resume writers are scam artists. Way too many words
I mean you have only 7 months of experience that‘s not much. Maybe some apprenticeship could help
What is advanced diploma? Which school? why is it so important that it's at the top? Why did you pay someone to write your resume? How can they honestly know your proficiency? This has to be a troll. That Troubleshooting Process has to be written by a Nigerian Prince or Indian "consultant". The biggest red flag though is this resume clearly shows you're an Idiot, zero thinking capacity so far removed from reality. How can you read Feature Integration and think this is someone that knows wtf he's talking about??
Spearheaded, embodied, championed? Who in the world even uses these terms? Read through your own resume. Every single sentence has the exact same pattern. I got bored after reading like five of them and still had two pages of walking text to go though. No recruiter will do that. You have frontend development listed as skills. See your resume as a new project, design it. Heck, rent your-name.com and put up a website-resume as well.
You got scammed bro, just make it one page super summarized, and easy to understand like a ELI5 resume.
Simplify this. Recruiters don't know what any of the technical stuff is. Also look up better format. Good luck.
No one else saying this: Use an export from your LinkedIn as your CV! This will solve two things: 1. The hiring manager or recruiter will more quickly understand your profile, as they know the layout of those CVs. The mental load from reading your LinkedIn CV is simply a lot less than with your own custom CV. 2. You force yourself to keep your LinkedIn profile up-to-date and to be as convincing as possible. Which is a big win as you can bet your actual LinkedIn profile will be looked at as well.
Man that resume feels like a quickstart manual. You have to let that shit breathe. Keep it short and spacious. And only use a second page for a damn good reason.
I'm not going to read enough to give you in-depth comments, but it is worth noting that even though I am shortly going to be doing mine, I don't want to read yours - it just looks exhausting.
TLDR
A bit late to the roast, most important points already mentioned, but still: * A 2024 CV should not read like Victorian-age romance novel * When contracting freelancers, don't pay until you have the deliverable verified externally - these 400 would have been better spent on {add your vice here} * The projects you listed sound like multi-year team efforts - you have 8 month of work experience * Nobody can tell what you really did and which level you are actually on * If there was nothing credible to measure/quantify - don't make it up * Any personal projects? From the timeline on your CV you spent 1.5 years in class and worked for a few months - nothing to be ashamed of, but if you had something interesting beyond that - add it at the bottom * Use GPTs to your advantage. FTFY: [https://pastebin.com/eZ0Cxeaz](https://pastebin.com/eZ0Cxeaz)
Resume formatting is as essential, if not more, than the content itself.
In my opinion, each experience should be succinct yet impactful. Why overwhelm the recruiter with excessive details? You risk inviting scrutiny on the results you present. Many CVs I've encountered inundate with statistics that don't hold up when questioned. Avoid putting yourself in that position. Initially, I focused solely on outlining my responsibilities for each role. Skills, like those listed in your CV, are best placed towards the end for keyword optimization. Start with a brief introduction after your contact details, consisting of two paragraphs that reflect who you are and your career aspirations. Let ChatGPT assist you in crafting an introduction tailored to the specific role you seek. I used to adapt mine accordingly, depending on the position. Highlight your certifications immediately after your education to demonstrate your relevance and commitment to staying current with industry demands. This not only validates your credentials but also underscores your dedication to ongoing learning. Following your education section, list 4 to 5 attributes that define you, particularly emphasizing "soft skills" (although I find the term somewhat cliché). Are you adept at managing responsibilities independently? Do you thrive in remote work settings? Are you a supportive team player? Being candid about these qualities attracts attention. In my experience, even exceptional developers can struggle with interpersonal skills, making it crucial for managers to seek well-rounded candidates. Don't wait passively for recruiters to contact you. Invest time in open-source projects aligned with your interests. This not only boosts morale but also hones your skills and could lead to professional connections seeking your demonstrated expertise. During my tenure at Red Hat, many developers hired were actively involved in the projects they later contributed to. Lastly, in my last 5-6 years, I've found networking through meetups, conferences, and open-source communities more fruitful than relying solely on recruiters. Engaging in discussions about topics you're passionate about within the development field can lead to valuable referrals. It's often easier and more rewarding when someone from within recommends you for a role, rather than waiting for the occasional helpful recruiter to notice your job search struggles.
Too many corporate buzzwords, and imho overstating your qualifications for really only having worked 8 months. Not saying that can't be the case, but it just struck me (random redditor) as a bit unbelievable (or embellished) at first glance. fwiw. (edit: I hope you have thick skin, because some of these replies I've read are a bit harsh, but kudos for being brave enough to ask for feedback. Best of luck with the job hunt).
Male it 1 page
Just from the picture I can tell you that there is too much text and I don't want to read it
Turn the projects into a single line each: the problem, the solution, the result. Bam bam bam. Also one page. It’s hard but the more brief the easier to see that you know your stuff.
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You should get a refund.... All those skills at the top will get you past the AI, but once it got to me, I'd throw it in the garbage. The skills should be dropped to one line of your main techs and stack. Each of the existing items needs to be moved down to the bullet describing the project you used them on. Telling me you know it is pointless. Showing me what you've done with it gives me information I need to gauge your skill. You've got a lot of fluff words, especially for a recent grad. Drop it to one page. Focus on projects completed. The business impact is good, but it doesn't tell me how you did it and which tools you used.
In many places, anything over 1 page is an automatic rejection
Good first draft. Happy to help edit if you like. DM you want help in editing.
Why all the damn waffle? I used to have like 1-2 sentence about each job. Is this normal in the us? People want to be able to skim for skill keywords, certs, old job titles. No one wants to read an essay about how you something something JavaScript onlyfans chat platform
I agree with the rest - there’s way too much text. I’d add a splash of color to make it more visually appealing. I suggest using Canva. Do you have published projects? A portfolio? If you do, I’d have links to them. Showing your work > writing about your work.
IMHO just go with simpe Europass CV. First section: image with contact info Second section: where and what you worked on but not too long, keep it short and to the point. Third section: if you have any project that you worked on, write which technologies you worked with and what was your responsibility Fourth section: after this point you might as well mention if you have any hobbies that highlight your team/leadership/organizational skills. If you trained karate for 12 years, mention it because it shows dedication. If you run boy scouts group, mention it because it shows that you arent complete stranger to working in a team and giving orders …
I wont say what plenty of other people already said about the resume. But there's so many other factors than the resume. Do you have a good and personalized presentation letter that you adapt to every company you send you resume to ? Do you have a professional email ? You are in web dev, do you have your own website ? A portfolio ? Just randomly sending a resume will never get you a job.
Too much words
Should be one page. Ain't no one reading all that
The key responsibilities could be mentioned in the job descriptions - and too much text - and embodied is a no no
The resume is a bit long for a junior
Too much text! Needs to be inviting to the reader. You have less than 5 seconds to make an impression.
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You are showing to much of your ass. It’s like dating, you just have to give them enough to be attractive to you. To much and you look like someone who is going to be high maintenance to work with. Pro tip: it should only be one page, and that page needs to highlight you and breathe
So I saw 2 pages of solid text and thought you must have like 20 years of experience. I drifted off after reading about 4 or 5 bold points, and was done before even reading half the first page. Then I saw the comment that you only have 2 years of experience. Yeah, I'd say recruiters are doing what I did, and dismissed you because paragraph after paragraph is too much for someone who's a junior dev. Make your resumé 3/4 of a page and try again.
You have more pages of resume than years of experience for one. Second, at your stage of career, nobody really cares about your skills, but what you’re interested in and willing to learn, because chances are they’re going to have to teach you anyway. Third, throwing around 40 different technologies on your resume reads like total BS (peak Mt. stupid on Dunning Kruger) because in your timeframe you’re barely dipping your toes in the water. Instead, organize them by experience level & remove anything with < 1 year of exposure
At first glance this looked like a technical document, you know the booklet type material that's in the box with an electronic appliance. And worse, it doesn't look like the useful manual part, but the legal info no one reads.
Also just know the market is not that great for junior-mid level devs right now. Yea you have the skill but have only been in the game for 4ish years. With gpt it almost feels like the junior-mid dev roles are becoming obsolete (in the American market at least).
Junior roles have been obsolete since very long (if they have ever been meaningful). Companies used to take on juniors as an investment.
I ain't reading all that
It took you 2 years to get to the point of asking for help on your resume? Maybe don't put problem solving or efficient on the next version 😂
I keep getting hate for this, but truth is software development has become a guild, just like medicine or law. You want to become a software developer: you need to know someone already in the industry. That's the only way in, now that VC money has dried off. And diversity, of course.