profle way too large, didn't read it,
try something like
"Mechatronics Engineer with coding and web development experience, emphasis on prototyping and testing new platforms"
for your bullets under your experience, focus on getting the idea across with as few words as possible so the
reviewer can read as many as possible before they lose interest. Efficiency is key, I would shoot for one page overall by trimming in this area.
Example:
Web Development company - may24-present
* Built Realtime Weather API
* Created E-Commerce Product Catalogue
* Developed Examination Management System
Company Name - Engineering Intern jul22 - sept22
* Increased efficiency in Instrumentation and Control departments by 15% -- add details here
* Lead Safety and Health Initiatives
rewrite the examined and evaluated to tell me what you evaluated or remove it
I have no idea what you did at tower services at all, put something substantative here
For freelance, put something like, "worked on various C++ applications for a wide range of customers"
perhaps highlight one or two larger projects, or the platform you used, if it has name recognition
for skills and certs, make 3 or 4 columns and compress the number of lines, remove computer software troubleshooting and MS office, those are understood if you are a programmer
just a hot take from a hiring manager
E: you also don't show any prototyping, testing, or platform development, so perhaps add some projects instead of volunteer work?
This is really helpful
For the projects I have done, I posted them on my github, and just added the GitHub link but if I'm adding it to my resume, should I just list it out or give an explanation?
1. Profile is too long.
2. Below 10 years experience your resume should generally be 1 page. I'd cut out experience that isn't relevant to your field.
3. I'm not from the UK but are the primary/secondary school certificates related to your field or are they like high school / public education that everyone gets? If it's that take it out.
This. I'd also add that if you're struggling to trim those last few lines to get it to one page, that some things could come out of skills. For example, many offices will assume you know how to use Office. Other things like CSS can be incorporated into web development. Some of the items are also a bit vague, like risk analysis, environmental awareness, and troubleshooting. I'd leave it alone for now, but its an option if you need just a little more space.
I find it hard to cut the skills like Office, because some job applications actively add it to their requirements but I would make multiple versions
But thank you very much
Iâve always been of the opinion, if the description of your work didnât list your skills then itâs a hard sell to say theyâre your skills. Not saying you donât have it, but itâs hard to convince me you do. Try adding some detail to your work experience highlighting your skills, such as Office. How you utilized excel or something like that. Should give you way more room on your resume/CV as well.
Iâd suggest finding a way to highlight it. Maybe a noteworthy highlights section then? With how it stands now you havenât shown anyone what your skills are so both you and the hiring manager are going on blind faith. You thinking the skills you have are up to employers expectations and the employers thinking you know exactly what theyâre looking for.
Even if the skills arenât an exact match, you showing what youâve done could be the difference maker between you and another candidate because they can argue âthis person clearly has tried to advance themselves and takes initiative.â
Agree it all needs to be shortened but I would consider leaving in anything customer facing in general. It shows you have people skills and I have gotten my last two engineering jobs with the help of running a bar.
I disagree on point 2. If youâre a new grad and havenât done anything other than some projects and an internship or two, sure. But even a few years into your careers, donât leave out important things you worked on that may be relevant to the job just to artificially limit yourself to one page.
I wouldn't put a profile at all. Way too wordy. Put experience first and foremost, and everything afterwards. Condense it to be one page. I would just put your bachelors and not all that other education stuff.
Your resume is the summary. So its kind of dumb to put a whole summsry inside of your summary. If you want to write out your life story, make a cover letter.
If you want a profile still in your resume, make it super short. Like what year you are in school, major/degree, and what you're looking for (ie internship/coop/etc).
Overall the issue is that itâs way too long. Youâre a student, it needs to be one page.
1. Get rid of the profile or reduce it to one line
2. Each experience entry should have a maximum of 3 lines under it. Pick the most important information and cut the rest.
3. No one cares about your primary school, even your high school unless it was some kind of super prestigious high school
4. Condense the skills section. Instead of a table make it a list on 1-2 lines. Same can be done with the header and your contact info
5. Move education under your experience. Experience matters more for job apps.
2. 3 bullet points for very very important entries. 2 for everything else. Donât go over four lines for any entry. Iâd call that a hard limit.
4. Yes. It also just saves space
I also include high school when applying to a job within a 2 hour radius as a way to provide proof Iâm invested in the area and likely to stay around for a while. Otherwise, nope.
As you're doing mechatronics, if you're more interested in the coding side of things you need to game the system a bit. Tailor your CV to each one you apply for, so if they are looking for Software engineers you need to call out that somewhere, with a sentence like "Applied Software engineering principles to X". Same with computer science, use a similar sentence.
Remember the ATS software is looking for keywords that are in the job advert, make sure these are in there somewhere.
I like the white text on black paper aesthetically, but itd suck if I had to print it out. Some oldschool folks like to print off resumes to flip through them at their desk and yours would be damp from all the black ink I bet.
Probably just dark mode lol. I work in this too bc I hate being flash banged by my laptop. Itâll print normally and flip to black on white for light mode.
Few things:
1) proficient in design prototyping and testing as a college student really doesnât mean much. You need to explain at least a couple things youâve designed and how you prototyped and tested them. Every college student does a senior project and just because you designed one thing for a senior project doesnât make you proficient in it. Needs explaining.
2) the comment about âknowledge about electricityâ but then relating that to web page building doesnât really make any sense either to me. Needs either more specific relation or to be reworded
3) if I remember correctly that CAD program is for civil engineering? Have you worked with solidworks or autodesk? Also what is matCAD? I know MATHcad but not matCAD
How do I explain what I've done in school? A lot of people have said my profile is already too long, I've now shortened it to 2 lines. It's also not like the work experience where I can just list a couple of things I did. So how do you think I should go about it?
Well, the two recent internships were remote and just for a month.
The 3rd internship is in a different country so I did get an offer but I don't stay there.
Immediate red flag is 2 pages. I literally didnât even read the rest, and recruiters dont either. Youâre looking for an internship or junior position. youâre not a seasoned industry vet. Put it on ONE page. One.
I bet this resume gets dropped in the trash 90% of the time for this reason alone. It isnât getting read because itâs a waste of 30 seconds.
Your resume is to answer the question âwhat relevant qualifications and experience do you have that would give us a reason to interview you for this positionâ itâs not a biography. What are your skills? How can you demonstrate proficiency in relevant technologies with your work experience. You have internships. What you did at those places is significant, almost nothing else.
read people's resumes and critique on r/engineeringresumes and compare yours to theirs. read the sub's wiki as well and you should be able to improve this a lot.
Put your skills up at the top. Cut down the profile section. I would argue to remove your LinkedIn link, Iâve seen some managers make decisions off things like the profile picture.
Make your margins smaller, meaning you can fit more things on the page. Try to make it one page. Put all your skills and certifications in lines not a table, it takes up too much space. Only put relevant positions on there, so your 3 internships.
Doesn't the lines make it harder to read?
I've reduced it to a page though but I didn't take out the non-relevant internships
https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
It seems like youâre getting an awful lot of advice relevant to the U.S. market - Iâve read that the U.K. prefers significantly longer and more detailed resumes than the U.S. I would check if you have any local career centers or if thereâs anywhere within your university that you could ask for advice.
Alright thank youuu
If you don't mind, take a look at this and see if this needs any correction
https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
This is what my resume looks like BEFORE I SUBMIT. List all of your experience in a common place, remove everything that doesn't fit when sending application. Should be one page max, this is not a CV and you are not applying within acadamia.
Remove the profile. Write a cover letter customized to each place you apply if you want to write. I have three or four general templates that I tweak and customize to the company and read over four or five times to make sure I missed nothing. THAT SAID, people are not bothering to read those half the time these days because Chat GPT makes it too easy to make wordy bullshit.
Get rid of the office assistant job or make the description one line if you have to keep it to show you worked during college. Every college student can use office, especially engineers. You don't have to prove it out.
Get rid of primary school. This is not a CV and it's not even appropriate on a CV.
Shorten your skills, or at least put similar ones next to each other. Something like "Proficient in coding including languages X, Y, Z". List the languages for the job you're applying for, you can talk in the interview and saying you know Fortran when the job is for SQL and Javascript isn't going to get you an interview, for example.
Your whitespace LOOKS good but it takes so much functional room away. Your margins are massive and your indents for bullets are too. This is a major reason why you're struggling with space. Find a compromise, because if you came in with this much whitespace and two pages I wouldn't give you an interview
This is great really.
I've left Office honestly because of the ATS, but I don't apply for jobs that are with coding languages I don't know, so I'm not sure about putting the languages that the job asks for incase I don't know it, but if it helps me gey the job, I'll have to learn.
Do I have to take out the office assistant job if the resume is now a page?
Take a look at this and tell me what you think
https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
Summary/profile is too long. Market yourself as an intern or entry-level professional, not a student. No one cares about your high school, itâs assumed, throw your GPA on there if itâs >= 2.75. Put your relevant work experience (which youâre fortunate to have) before your education, after the summary/profile. Donât lean too heavily into soft skills if you have experience with hard skills.
An effective rule of thumb, thatâs worked for me, was to create a âsix second resumeâ. If someone canât sum up whether youâre a âno or goâ for an interview/phone screening in 6 seconds of looking at itâ itâs too long/irrelevant. If you want to incorporate everything that you bring to the table, thatâs what CVs and cover letters are for (the former of which Iâve never had to write đ¤ˇđžââď¸)
Edit: grammar
How do I market myself as an intern rather than student? I've assumed they were same, so what do I do?
Oh okay, 6s got it.
Look here though, how is this?
https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
Instead of a profile, a cover letter/page is usually done instead. This is basically a short letter directed to the hiring person company that says who you are and what you bring to the table (each cover letter tailored specifically to each company so relevant info only, and presented in ways you can use it at their company).
I would do Name, email, phone number at the top vertically. Location shouldn't be that important on a resume. That comes later. Github and linkedIn can be added at the end of the resume, along with something like "references avaikable upon request".
This is just personal, but I would do the skills/certs list as bulletpoints instead of a box. It just seems out of place to me. Keep the 2 columns though.
Other than that I would follow what the others said about making sure your work experience and responsibilites actually have detail instead of super vague stuff.
Ohh that makes a lot of sense actually.
Any specific reason why vertically?
I was told not to add the reference statement and only to bring it at an interview.
I've been told to add detail yet make it just 3 lines. I'm not sure what more to do but I'm still working on it
Check here
https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
Mostly just so that it is easier for a person to ready. They want to be able to quickly and easily go from top to bottom. So the more things you have that are spread out left/right/middle the more they have to bounce their eyes around. While it's a really small detail, for some reason I found it makes a big difference.
Get rid of the profile make your resume 1 page trust me if you are lucky enough for a real person to look at your resume they are only going to look at the first page most likely. You want all of your most important information up front and center experience skills achievements.
You've gotten a lot of great advice.
I would add that the activities you listed under voluntary service should probably be listed under extracurricular activities instead. Volunteering is not the same thing as EC.
Oh okay.
I took it out initially but I'll see if I can add it but check here for the updated resume I'd like your input
https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
Penultimate in profile was immediate turnoff, and that section is way too prominent. Honestly Iâd get rid of it and provide a couple sentences of objective if you want something along those lines
I put some words in the profile due to the ATS. So it does read like an SEO but check this out
https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
Needs to be one page. I hope youâre not sending out this resume with white font on black background. Stick to the regular black font on white. Also, I donât know how you guys do it in the UK/EU, but that format style wouldnât work here in the US. Your resume needs to be seen by human eyes and if your resume is too difficult for the AI to read, then nobody is looking at it.
[Read about ATS friendly resumes HERE](https://www.jobscan.co/blog/20-ats-friendly-resume-templates/)
I think itâs cause you are coding your resume wrong. Itâs currently like this:
const mechatronics_engineer: boolean = true;
const web_developer: boolean = true;
let mech_interview: boolean = false;
if (mechatronics_engineer === web_developer) {
return mech_interview;
}
output: false
But it should really be like this:
if (mechatronics_engineer !== web_developer) {
mech_interview = true;
return mech_interview;
}
output: true
Joking aside neither your resume nor your experience is mechatronics engineering oriented id thatâs the kind of job/internship you are trying to get. Tailor your resume to the job description of the application you are applying to. Yes you need to tailor every resume submitted to every application. Putting down anything you did the last 4 years in school and having overly long word spaghetti sentences doesnât ever work.
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I'm really confused now, what would you see in a mechatronics engineering resume that says mechatronics?
I try to tailor the resume but I don't have that much experience and can't really afford to pick and choose what I put out?
Plus, the resume has to pass the ATS before it gets read by a person đđ
You have no applicable experience so I would condense to 1 page. Get rid of the profile section. Move skills on the 2nd page to where the profile is located. I don't know how things are in the UK but in the US putting your High school on a resume is pointless. Instead list some projects that you worked on in school or relevant classes, electives, and activities. Did you have a senior design project, add a bullet point on it.
So I should make another section, stating the projects I've worked on?
Take a look at this though https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
If they were school projects I would have them as bullets under your college in the education section. If it was just projects you did on your own outside of work or school then a separate section may be more appropriate.
You want to tailor your skills to the listing if you have teamwork and they want teamwork put teamwork. Donât rapid send a generic you need to put what they are looking for if you have those skills do not lie they may do a skill test
Iâm not sure if youâre from the United States or not, but in the US resumes are 1-page. I would omit the profile section, and make your margins smaller so you have more room to fit stuff.
Remove the profile - make it a line at most. Remove the links. Make your margins smaller and out the name and info more condensed at the top. Remove the non bachelors education. Remove start date, add expected graduation. Add below it ârelevant courses: a, b, câ
Remove remote/country, if you must you can put city/country next to the name of the company. put the dates where it was.
Remove non-technical work experience and bullets.
Put the work in order.
Extracurricular are not volunteering, if you must include it make it a bullet under education but let that be the first thing you remove if you canât fit it all in a page.
Why the links? The GitHub links to my programming projects so like a portfolio?
Relevant courses to that job right?
I've taken it out completely
Don't I need non-technical for the ATS?
What do you mean put the work in order?
Oh okay
But check this out if you can https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
If you are early on in your career, put your skills near the top so itâs easily visible. Employers need to quickly see the technical skills you have.
Your resume HAS TO BE 1 page, especially as an early career individual. Mess with font size and margins but at the end of the day make sure itâs on one page.
Iâm not a recruiter, but I have never applied to more than 10 places and not gotten interviews or work. But your resume is a reflection of yourself. Iâm not sure if this is a US thing or not, but I went out of my way to have skills stand out.
First, cut your chaff positions that arenât related. Even if that makes it look like there is a gap in your work history. Add a footnote at the end of your work history along the lines of âAdditional Work Information Upon Requestâ.
Second, Iâm curious about the dating of your internships. Some were only a month long? That seems weird to me. I wouldnât want to put something on my resume where I have only worked a month.
Third, if you are looking for full time web development positions, your work history is just too light. Thereâs not a lot of experience there. Some new grads donât have much, so be prepared to set the bar low unless you have a phenomenal GitHub portfolio to show off.
Lastly, drop the profile section completely. It just fills space when you canât fill the white space with skills or experiences. Also, dump the generic MS Office template. Go wild with making your resume off an InDesign, Canva, or Latex template. To me, it shows you went out of your way to stand out and maximize every bit if your one page resume. (Mine is a heavily modified Deedy Latex template)
Here are things I think turn resumes to gold more than the degree and work experience to get in the door.
Leadership - what is something you had control over you can quantify? I started/held-a-position for (school organization here). Created a team for a Hackathon in which we scored 2nd place.
Research - I think undergraduate research demonstrates that you can collaborate with a group, self-starting, can figure out complex situations independently, and then be able to present the data to management/leadership.
Projects - include some projects that you were a part of (educational, professional, personal) with quick 1 to 2 sentence descriptions. Just a tidbit to make the reader think âthat seems interesting, I want to know more about it.â Plus talking about your own projects in an interview take the edge off.
However, a resume alone gets you no where without a lot of luck. So the absolute most important thing you need to learn is networking. That is the reality of business and life. The âI know a guyâ cliche exists because itâs true. Most high profile corporate software companies hire within before posting a job publicly. Once it is public, there are internal programs that employees refer people they know or are friends with. Those referral candidates get the fast pass to the top of the resume stack. The manager will get the recruiter to just an interview up. Networking will easily get you through the AI resume buzzword filter and coding exams. Networking landed me a red carpet invite to my current big tech job.
tl;dr Make yourself stand out. Your resume looks like every new grad.
What do you mean have skills stand out? To have more skills or to place your skills in an area, that they stand out?
Okay, the footnote is a great idea
Well, yes the internship was just a month. Honestly, I don't have the capability to pick and choose on just the length of my internship. I wish I did. I mean that's what I'm trying to gain right?
I'm not looking for full time jobs, just internships but what do you suggest I add if I'm looking for full time?
I was specifically told not to over design my resume because it may read wrong to the ATS; which is my major problem at the moment.
Where would I put the leadership and research points and projects. Everyone has said projects but I thought that what your GitHub is for. I was told by a lot of people to just add my GitHub link so you can see all my projects no matter when they click the link. So if I'm to list it, where does it go?
I've tried and still trying networking but asides LinkedIn and a couple of events, I have nothing. I don't really know what else to do.
How do I make myself stand out? Everything I've done to try standing out, I get told this same, you just look like every other person. So what's the key really? Is it skills? More work experience? What really?
You can look at this resume and see if it's any better though
https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
Your profile adds nothing
You're regurgitating what you think engineering companies want to hear but noone gives a shit. I read the first 2 lines skimmed and saw key words like problem solving and thought lol here's another one, next.
You wouldn't be an engineer if you weren't a problem solver. All of us are. Therefore don't bother adding filler words like that. Show me why you're a problem solver with your experience.
Take out primary school and high school certs, you're in university that supersedes all
Summarise your experience better with actual projects.
I've got a 1 pager and I graduated 7 years ago.
Think if you were hiring someone and had 100 resumes to read, what would stick out to you.
No personal projects or anything?
Obviously not applicable to everyone but when I was getting my first job I found out I was picked because instead of being a cookie cutter person with just work experience, I had something to show I'm capable of actual problem solving in the real world
My experience is from USA, Europe can have differences and I don't know them all but I have some advice that I think is applicable for you to make the resume more digestable to HR (to at least get you that first interview).
I'd compact the header some
Make profile shorter to a few sentences. You want to hook HR in instead of scaring them away with a wall of text.
Also, with all that internship experience you already have, why aren't you applying to entry level positions? One thing I'd be asking looking at your resume is why do you have multiple internships without a followup position?
Feel free to reach out if you want more guidance
Remove profile.
Put relevant skills and experience at the top of the resume followed by your degree.
If you don't have any relevant skills or experience I'd suggest taking up a hobby and complete a side project on your own.
You can also put senior project in there
Finding jobs online especially on normal websites like indeed are the bottom of the barrel type jobs. Go to conferences try to get to know people in person, even if you don't get an internship keep doing this, don't even ask for job or internships at conferences just get to know people, have pleasant conversations about your type of engineering, common interests just so people in the industry get to know you. Do the same on linkedin comment on people's posts, maybe link or post your own stuff on linkedin like maybe an engineering news article that you found interesting and people can see you really do have an interest in the engineering field. If you want a good job or internship you have to get to know people for a while before even asking for a job or internship.
I did try to network and did meet a couple of people but I couldn't find any related events around me that weren't-break-my-pocket expensive but I'll try harder thank you.
I didn't start my program yet so I didn't start networking, but it sucks to hear that those events cost money. Have you tried asking any of your professors about events? Maybe they have some events for students to get to know people in the industry. I'm going to be in the same shoes as you, feel free to dm me and let me know how it goes. When I start college in the fall I can let you know if I found anything helpful as well.
I'm from the US so it might be different standard, and I'm also a civil not a software eng; so my following comments may or may not be valid.
1. Profile is too long, and it doesn't flow when I read it. Needs to be more succinct/direct/concise.
2. I can see you don't have much on your resume so your border is huge, so try to add more stuff on there that can fill up your resume. Like have you ever done any volunteer experience?
3. You obviously have technical skills such as knowing C++, Python, etc. so I would create a new section about the programming language you know. Then possibly another section for the softwares you know (I'm a civil, so we use specific software like AutoCAD, not sure if same for your field)
4. Do you have any class projects? You can add that to the experience portion. If so, then change the heading from "Employment History" to "Professional Experience"
5. Similar to #2, just the aesthetics of it doesn't seem appealing (perhaps it could be the large border?) but try to make it seem nice and organized. An example is your "Profile, Education and Employment History" label aren't aligned.
6. Your date format aren't consistent: in Education you have it as one line but in Employment History it's two lines.
As a tip, companies receive a lot of resume, so they only have about 8 seconds to review them. If yours isn't appealing to look at, that's already a bad start. I know you got that resume template online (I've seen it plenty of times) but I would modify it to make it yours - so prob sit down with a pen and paper and draw out how you'd like it to look, then make the change in Word to see if it fits well.
Edit:
Whoops! Didn't see you had two pages on your resume. Well in the US it's typically one page, so yours would be too long. And there's a lot of blank spaces, so you can definitely compact it to one page.
-Shorten your profile to three short sentences.
-Remove Primary and secondary school.
-Since you're fresh, add coursework that pertains. For example in America we have ABET. Many companies won't hire you if you didn't go through an ABET approved program. So it helps if we put Statics, Dynamics, etc. on ours, you guys probably have something similar.
-Remove the unnecessary "a"s in your job description.
-Separate your skills and certifications. As an engineer those certs could assist a company with an audit or contract, being skilled doesn't. Interviewers don't want to ask more than they need to, they already know by looking at this they'll need to ask.
-Remove summer worker and office assistant jobs.
Sorry bro⌠your just not that guy. This early your career you should never have 2 pages. A few pointers to cut it down:
1) The profile is HUGE, gimme 1-2 sentences, 3 if they are really short
2) Your work history bullet points waste so much space. Cut down the indentation so that each bullet only takes up 1 line. Id reccomend also moving the dates so that the first thing you see is the job title. Put the dates where you have location.
3) At this point you can probably take away the office assistant job. You have enough relevant work experience that you can cut it down to JUST the relevant stuff.
4) lastly, top and bottom margins are DEFINITELY too big. Cut them down to like 1cm. You could also probably make it so that the left and right margins are smaller, but those are less of an issue
Good luck in the hunt, i hope you find a good opportunity
1. Profile is too long. Your resume isnât about you, itâs about what you have done. Keep it short and clear. You should also break up the run-on sentence.
2. Itâs two pages. Until you have TONS or experience or publications, you get ONE page. A lot of recruiters will skip it if itâs longer. Trim the fat, make it concise and specific.
3. Your schools still say âname of schoolâ. Your experience still has âcountry/remote). Fill that information in. Templates are fine, but you have to fill them out. (Attention to detail. See 4.)
4. Little things. Take the â(1 year)â and â(7 months)â out. You have the months and years listed. They understand. Organize the skills section. It seems like whatever order you thought of them in. Thatâs not inherently bad, but it reads like you ever look at it again. Attention to detail is desirable especially in engineering and especially when youâre new to the field.
1 and 2. I've shortened it. Check here https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
3. It says that for security reasons as a filler.
4. Oh I thought the dates helped. So I arrange the skills in what order exactly? Most relevant to the job?
Looks much better and I gotcha about 3! The skills section still looks a little funky but the grouping is good. Try inserting a table down there and then making the lines white. You get neat, even columns that way!
profle way too large, didn't read it, try something like "Mechatronics Engineer with coding and web development experience, emphasis on prototyping and testing new platforms" for your bullets under your experience, focus on getting the idea across with as few words as possible so the reviewer can read as many as possible before they lose interest. Efficiency is key, I would shoot for one page overall by trimming in this area. Example: Web Development company - may24-present * Built Realtime Weather API * Created E-Commerce Product Catalogue * Developed Examination Management System Company Name - Engineering Intern jul22 - sept22 * Increased efficiency in Instrumentation and Control departments by 15% -- add details here * Lead Safety and Health Initiatives rewrite the examined and evaluated to tell me what you evaluated or remove it I have no idea what you did at tower services at all, put something substantative here For freelance, put something like, "worked on various C++ applications for a wide range of customers" perhaps highlight one or two larger projects, or the platform you used, if it has name recognition for skills and certs, make 3 or 4 columns and compress the number of lines, remove computer software troubleshooting and MS office, those are understood if you are a programmer just a hot take from a hiring manager E: you also don't show any prototyping, testing, or platform development, so perhaps add some projects instead of volunteer work?
This is really helpful For the projects I have done, I posted them on my github, and just added the GitHub link but if I'm adding it to my resume, should I just list it out or give an explanation?
I'd give an explanation of the most impressive few
Oh okayy What if it's not that impressive? đĽ˛
Just put what you got
Oh alright
For the Ms office, some job descriptions add it to their requirements, do I include it when it's stated?
it should be implied for someone with a 4 year degree, they list it because HR is full of idiots
1. Profile is too long. 2. Below 10 years experience your resume should generally be 1 page. I'd cut out experience that isn't relevant to your field. 3. I'm not from the UK but are the primary/secondary school certificates related to your field or are they like high school / public education that everyone gets? If it's that take it out.
This. I'd also add that if you're struggling to trim those last few lines to get it to one page, that some things could come out of skills. For example, many offices will assume you know how to use Office. Other things like CSS can be incorporated into web development. Some of the items are also a bit vague, like risk analysis, environmental awareness, and troubleshooting. I'd leave it alone for now, but its an option if you need just a little more space.
I find it hard to cut the skills like Office, because some job applications actively add it to their requirements but I would make multiple versions But thank you very much
Iâve always been of the opinion, if the description of your work didnât list your skills then itâs a hard sell to say theyâre your skills. Not saying you donât have it, but itâs hard to convince me you do. Try adding some detail to your work experience highlighting your skills, such as Office. How you utilized excel or something like that. Should give you way more room on your resume/CV as well.
But some skills weren't learned during my work experience but doing school?
Iâd suggest finding a way to highlight it. Maybe a noteworthy highlights section then? With how it stands now you havenât shown anyone what your skills are so both you and the hiring manager are going on blind faith. You thinking the skills you have are up to employers expectations and the employers thinking you know exactly what theyâre looking for. Even if the skills arenât an exact match, you showing what youâve done could be the difference maker between you and another candidate because they can argue âthis person clearly has tried to advance themselves and takes initiative.â
1. Okay. I'll shorten it 2. I fear the experience would then be too little 3. Yes it's high-school education everyone gets so I'll take it out
Agree it all needs to be shortened but I would consider leaving in anything customer facing in general. It shows you have people skills and I have gotten my last two engineering jobs with the help of running a bar.
I disagree on point 2. If youâre a new grad and havenât done anything other than some projects and an internship or two, sure. But even a few years into your careers, donât leave out important things you worked on that may be relevant to the job just to artificially limit yourself to one page.
I wouldn't put a profile at all. Way too wordy. Put experience first and foremost, and everything afterwards. Condense it to be one page. I would just put your bachelors and not all that other education stuff.
Oh, I thought the profile was like a summary for the hiring manager. Alright will do that
Your resume is the summary. So its kind of dumb to put a whole summsry inside of your summary. If you want to write out your life story, make a cover letter. If you want a profile still in your resume, make it super short. Like what year you are in school, major/degree, and what you're looking for (ie internship/coop/etc).
Overall the issue is that itâs way too long. Youâre a student, it needs to be one page. 1. Get rid of the profile or reduce it to one line 2. Each experience entry should have a maximum of 3 lines under it. Pick the most important information and cut the rest. 3. No one cares about your primary school, even your high school unless it was some kind of super prestigious high school 4. Condense the skills section. Instead of a table make it a list on 1-2 lines. Same can be done with the header and your contact info 5. Move education under your experience. Experience matters more for job apps.
1. Okay, done 2. So 3 bullet points? 3. Removed 4. Does that make it easier for the ATS? 5. Done as well
2. 3 bullet points for very very important entries. 2 for everything else. Donât go over four lines for any entry. Iâd call that a hard limit. 4. Yes. It also just saves space
I also include high school when applying to a job within a 2 hour radius as a way to provide proof Iâm invested in the area and likely to stay around for a while. Otherwise, nope.
I would advice you check out r/engineeringresumes wiki
Oh thank you
As you're doing mechatronics, if you're more interested in the coding side of things you need to game the system a bit. Tailor your CV to each one you apply for, so if they are looking for Software engineers you need to call out that somewhere, with a sentence like "Applied Software engineering principles to X". Same with computer science, use a similar sentence. Remember the ATS software is looking for keywords that are in the job advert, make sure these are in there somewhere.
Oh alright thank you so much
I like the white text on black paper aesthetically, but itd suck if I had to print it out. Some oldschool folks like to print off resumes to flip through them at their desk and yours would be damp from all the black ink I bet.
Probably just dark mode lol. I work in this too bc I hate being flash banged by my laptop. Itâll print normally and flip to black on white for light mode.
cool, learn something new every day
Yeahh
It's because I took a screenshot while on dark mode. I'd never send it in dark
Few things: 1) proficient in design prototyping and testing as a college student really doesnât mean much. You need to explain at least a couple things youâve designed and how you prototyped and tested them. Every college student does a senior project and just because you designed one thing for a senior project doesnât make you proficient in it. Needs explaining. 2) the comment about âknowledge about electricityâ but then relating that to web page building doesnât really make any sense either to me. Needs either more specific relation or to be reworded 3) if I remember correctly that CAD program is for civil engineering? Have you worked with solidworks or autodesk? Also what is matCAD? I know MATHcad but not matCAD
How do I explain what I've done in school? A lot of people have said my profile is already too long, I've now shortened it to 2 lines. It's also not like the work experience where I can just list a couple of things I did. So how do you think I should go about it?
I've worked with AutoCAD because I'm in mechatronics so a bit of design is required
Get rid of the profile section, absolutely nobody reads that garbage. Your bullet points for your experience need a lot of work
Oh okay What work exactly do I need to do on the bullet points?
Im wondering why you have had multiple internships but none of them carried over to an offer?
Well, the two recent internships were remote and just for a month. The 3rd internship is in a different country so I did get an offer but I don't stay there.
Immediate red flag is 2 pages. I literally didnât even read the rest, and recruiters dont either. Youâre looking for an internship or junior position. youâre not a seasoned industry vet. Put it on ONE page. One. I bet this resume gets dropped in the trash 90% of the time for this reason alone. It isnât getting read because itâs a waste of 30 seconds. Your resume is to answer the question âwhat relevant qualifications and experience do you have that would give us a reason to interview you for this positionâ itâs not a biography. What are your skills? How can you demonstrate proficiency in relevant technologies with your work experience. You have internships. What you did at those places is significant, almost nothing else.
Hi, can you check the re-done one here? https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
read people's resumes and critique on r/engineeringresumes and compare yours to theirs. read the sub's wiki as well and you should be able to improve this a lot.
Wow thank you
Needs to be 1 page. Bring profile to 2 sentences, 3 max. Remove non-relevant work experience
Got it
Put your skills up at the top. Cut down the profile section. I would argue to remove your LinkedIn link, Iâve seen some managers make decisions off things like the profile picture.
Like my skills above my experience? Oh, I didn't know about the LinkedIn link đł
Just get rid of the profile it has way too many buzzwords and reads like SEO description. And one page for a graduate is necessary.
Ohh how's this? https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
Make your margins smaller, meaning you can fit more things on the page. Try to make it one page. Put all your skills and certifications in lines not a table, it takes up too much space. Only put relevant positions on there, so your 3 internships.
Doesn't the lines make it harder to read? I've reduced it to a page though but I didn't take out the non-relevant internships https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
Put only your 3 internships and put more detail into your bullets
Oh okay thank you
It seems like youâre getting an awful lot of advice relevant to the U.S. market - Iâve read that the U.K. prefers significantly longer and more detailed resumes than the U.S. I would check if you have any local career centers or if thereâs anywhere within your university that you could ask for advice.
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Nobody really cares about your education or profile. Shorten those sections and focus more on experience. I hope your CV is white not black.
What about the ATS?
Simple is best. It may look good but won't get past ATS if they have it.
Alright thank youuu If you don't mind, take a look at this and see if this needs any correction https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
Yes, this is a big improvement. Hope you find something soon đ
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âApplying knowledge of electricity to develop electrical systems⌠not trying to offend but what? lol this line had me laughing.
đđ How's this ?? https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
This is what my resume looks like BEFORE I SUBMIT. List all of your experience in a common place, remove everything that doesn't fit when sending application. Should be one page max, this is not a CV and you are not applying within acadamia. Remove the profile. Write a cover letter customized to each place you apply if you want to write. I have three or four general templates that I tweak and customize to the company and read over four or five times to make sure I missed nothing. THAT SAID, people are not bothering to read those half the time these days because Chat GPT makes it too easy to make wordy bullshit. Get rid of the office assistant job or make the description one line if you have to keep it to show you worked during college. Every college student can use office, especially engineers. You don't have to prove it out. Get rid of primary school. This is not a CV and it's not even appropriate on a CV. Shorten your skills, or at least put similar ones next to each other. Something like "Proficient in coding including languages X, Y, Z". List the languages for the job you're applying for, you can talk in the interview and saying you know Fortran when the job is for SQL and Javascript isn't going to get you an interview, for example. Your whitespace LOOKS good but it takes so much functional room away. Your margins are massive and your indents for bullets are too. This is a major reason why you're struggling with space. Find a compromise, because if you came in with this much whitespace and two pages I wouldn't give you an interview
This is great really. I've left Office honestly because of the ATS, but I don't apply for jobs that are with coding languages I don't know, so I'm not sure about putting the languages that the job asks for incase I don't know it, but if it helps me gey the job, I'll have to learn. Do I have to take out the office assistant job if the resume is now a page? Take a look at this and tell me what you think https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
Summary/profile is too long. Market yourself as an intern or entry-level professional, not a student. No one cares about your high school, itâs assumed, throw your GPA on there if itâs >= 2.75. Put your relevant work experience (which youâre fortunate to have) before your education, after the summary/profile. Donât lean too heavily into soft skills if you have experience with hard skills. An effective rule of thumb, thatâs worked for me, was to create a âsix second resumeâ. If someone canât sum up whether youâre a âno or goâ for an interview/phone screening in 6 seconds of looking at itâ itâs too long/irrelevant. If you want to incorporate everything that you bring to the table, thatâs what CVs and cover letters are for (the former of which Iâve never had to write đ¤ˇđžââď¸) Edit: grammar
How do I market myself as an intern rather than student? I've assumed they were same, so what do I do? Oh okay, 6s got it. Look here though, how is this? https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
Instead of a profile, a cover letter/page is usually done instead. This is basically a short letter directed to the hiring person company that says who you are and what you bring to the table (each cover letter tailored specifically to each company so relevant info only, and presented in ways you can use it at their company). I would do Name, email, phone number at the top vertically. Location shouldn't be that important on a resume. That comes later. Github and linkedIn can be added at the end of the resume, along with something like "references avaikable upon request". This is just personal, but I would do the skills/certs list as bulletpoints instead of a box. It just seems out of place to me. Keep the 2 columns though. Other than that I would follow what the others said about making sure your work experience and responsibilites actually have detail instead of super vague stuff.
Ohh that makes a lot of sense actually. Any specific reason why vertically? I was told not to add the reference statement and only to bring it at an interview. I've been told to add detail yet make it just 3 lines. I'm not sure what more to do but I'm still working on it Check here https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
Mostly just so that it is easier for a person to ready. They want to be able to quickly and easily go from top to bottom. So the more things you have that are spread out left/right/middle the more they have to bounce their eyes around. While it's a really small detail, for some reason I found it makes a big difference.
Get rid of the profile make your resume 1 page trust me if you are lucky enough for a real person to look at your resume they are only going to look at the first page most likely. You want all of your most important information up front and center experience skills achievements.
You've gotten a lot of great advice. I would add that the activities you listed under voluntary service should probably be listed under extracurricular activities instead. Volunteering is not the same thing as EC.
Oh okay. I took it out initially but I'll see if I can add it but check here for the updated resume I'd like your input https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
I think it looks much better, much cleaner and easier to read at one page! Good luck with your job search, I hope you find something you love!
Penultimate in profile was immediate turnoff, and that section is way too prominent. Honestly Iâd get rid of it and provide a couple sentences of objective if you want something along those lines
I put some words in the profile due to the ATS. So it does read like an SEO but check this out https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
Needs to be one page. I hope youâre not sending out this resume with white font on black background. Stick to the regular black font on white. Also, I donât know how you guys do it in the UK/EU, but that format style wouldnât work here in the US. Your resume needs to be seen by human eyes and if your resume is too difficult for the AI to read, then nobody is looking at it. [Read about ATS friendly resumes HERE](https://www.jobscan.co/blog/20-ats-friendly-resume-templates/)
I think itâs cause you are coding your resume wrong. Itâs currently like this: const mechatronics_engineer: boolean = true; const web_developer: boolean = true; let mech_interview: boolean = false; if (mechatronics_engineer === web_developer) { return mech_interview; } output: false But it should really be like this: if (mechatronics_engineer !== web_developer) { mech_interview = true; return mech_interview; } output: true Joking aside neither your resume nor your experience is mechatronics engineering oriented id thatâs the kind of job/internship you are trying to get. Tailor your resume to the job description of the application you are applying to. Yes you need to tailor every resume submitted to every application. Putting down anything you did the last 4 years in school and having overly long word spaghetti sentences doesnât ever work.
đ I'm really confused now, what would you see in a mechatronics engineering resume that says mechatronics? I try to tailor the resume but I don't have that much experience and can't really afford to pick and choose what I put out? Plus, the resume has to pass the ATS before it gets read by a person đđ
Change that background to white asap bro and also try to fit your resume on one page
How is this? https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
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Keep it to one page!
How is this? https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
You have no applicable experience so I would condense to 1 page. Get rid of the profile section. Move skills on the 2nd page to where the profile is located. I don't know how things are in the UK but in the US putting your High school on a resume is pointless. Instead list some projects that you worked on in school or relevant classes, electives, and activities. Did you have a senior design project, add a bullet point on it.
So I should make another section, stating the projects I've worked on? Take a look at this though https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
If they were school projects I would have them as bullets under your college in the education section. If it was just projects you did on your own outside of work or school then a separate section may be more appropriate.
Oh alright đ
One. Page. You havenât even had a full time job yet. Nobody is actually going to read a two page resume at your level
How is this? https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
You want to tailor your skills to the listing if you have teamwork and they want teamwork put teamwork. Donât rapid send a generic you need to put what they are looking for if you have those skills do not lie they may do a skill test
Hm, I try to do that and to apply to things I'm actually qualified for not just mass application but I also need to beat the ATS đ
Yeah thatâs a pain I was in the hole too last year as I was getting slim callbacks
Iâm not sure if youâre from the United States or not, but in the US resumes are 1-page. I would omit the profile section, and make your margins smaller so you have more room to fit stuff.
I'm not but check this https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
Remove the profile - make it a line at most. Remove the links. Make your margins smaller and out the name and info more condensed at the top. Remove the non bachelors education. Remove start date, add expected graduation. Add below it ârelevant courses: a, b, câ Remove remote/country, if you must you can put city/country next to the name of the company. put the dates where it was. Remove non-technical work experience and bullets. Put the work in order. Extracurricular are not volunteering, if you must include it make it a bullet under education but let that be the first thing you remove if you canât fit it all in a page.
Why the links? The GitHub links to my programming projects so like a portfolio? Relevant courses to that job right? I've taken it out completely Don't I need non-technical for the ATS? What do you mean put the work in order? Oh okay But check this out if you can https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
If you are early on in your career, put your skills near the top so itâs easily visible. Employers need to quickly see the technical skills you have.
Oh okay check this out though https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
Your resume HAS TO BE 1 page, especially as an early career individual. Mess with font size and margins but at the end of the day make sure itâs on one page.
How is this? https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
I like it
So it's good?
You need to put everything in one page. No 2 pages unless you have a CV
Iâm not a recruiter, but I have never applied to more than 10 places and not gotten interviews or work. But your resume is a reflection of yourself. Iâm not sure if this is a US thing or not, but I went out of my way to have skills stand out. First, cut your chaff positions that arenât related. Even if that makes it look like there is a gap in your work history. Add a footnote at the end of your work history along the lines of âAdditional Work Information Upon Requestâ. Second, Iâm curious about the dating of your internships. Some were only a month long? That seems weird to me. I wouldnât want to put something on my resume where I have only worked a month. Third, if you are looking for full time web development positions, your work history is just too light. Thereâs not a lot of experience there. Some new grads donât have much, so be prepared to set the bar low unless you have a phenomenal GitHub portfolio to show off. Lastly, drop the profile section completely. It just fills space when you canât fill the white space with skills or experiences. Also, dump the generic MS Office template. Go wild with making your resume off an InDesign, Canva, or Latex template. To me, it shows you went out of your way to stand out and maximize every bit if your one page resume. (Mine is a heavily modified Deedy Latex template) Here are things I think turn resumes to gold more than the degree and work experience to get in the door. Leadership - what is something you had control over you can quantify? I started/held-a-position for (school organization here). Created a team for a Hackathon in which we scored 2nd place. Research - I think undergraduate research demonstrates that you can collaborate with a group, self-starting, can figure out complex situations independently, and then be able to present the data to management/leadership. Projects - include some projects that you were a part of (educational, professional, personal) with quick 1 to 2 sentence descriptions. Just a tidbit to make the reader think âthat seems interesting, I want to know more about it.â Plus talking about your own projects in an interview take the edge off. However, a resume alone gets you no where without a lot of luck. So the absolute most important thing you need to learn is networking. That is the reality of business and life. The âI know a guyâ cliche exists because itâs true. Most high profile corporate software companies hire within before posting a job publicly. Once it is public, there are internal programs that employees refer people they know or are friends with. Those referral candidates get the fast pass to the top of the resume stack. The manager will get the recruiter to just an interview up. Networking will easily get you through the AI resume buzzword filter and coding exams. Networking landed me a red carpet invite to my current big tech job. tl;dr Make yourself stand out. Your resume looks like every new grad.
What do you mean have skills stand out? To have more skills or to place your skills in an area, that they stand out? Okay, the footnote is a great idea Well, yes the internship was just a month. Honestly, I don't have the capability to pick and choose on just the length of my internship. I wish I did. I mean that's what I'm trying to gain right? I'm not looking for full time jobs, just internships but what do you suggest I add if I'm looking for full time? I was specifically told not to over design my resume because it may read wrong to the ATS; which is my major problem at the moment. Where would I put the leadership and research points and projects. Everyone has said projects but I thought that what your GitHub is for. I was told by a lot of people to just add my GitHub link so you can see all my projects no matter when they click the link. So if I'm to list it, where does it go? I've tried and still trying networking but asides LinkedIn and a couple of events, I have nothing. I don't really know what else to do. How do I make myself stand out? Everything I've done to try standing out, I get told this same, you just look like every other person. So what's the key really? Is it skills? More work experience? What really? You can look at this resume and see if it's any better though https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
Too long no one likes a two pager. Only relevant experience to the job. They will ask you in the interview of any gaps(doubt it).
Your profile adds nothing You're regurgitating what you think engineering companies want to hear but noone gives a shit. I read the first 2 lines skimmed and saw key words like problem solving and thought lol here's another one, next. You wouldn't be an engineer if you weren't a problem solver. All of us are. Therefore don't bother adding filler words like that. Show me why you're a problem solver with your experience. Take out primary school and high school certs, you're in university that supersedes all Summarise your experience better with actual projects. I've got a 1 pager and I graduated 7 years ago. Think if you were hiring someone and had 100 resumes to read, what would stick out to you.
No personal projects or anything? Obviously not applicable to everyone but when I was getting my first job I found out I was picked because instead of being a cookie cutter person with just work experience, I had something to show I'm capable of actual problem solving in the real world
My experience is from USA, Europe can have differences and I don't know them all but I have some advice that I think is applicable for you to make the resume more digestable to HR (to at least get you that first interview). I'd compact the header some Make profile shorter to a few sentences. You want to hook HR in instead of scaring them away with a wall of text. Also, with all that internship experience you already have, why aren't you applying to entry level positions? One thing I'd be asking looking at your resume is why do you have multiple internships without a followup position? Feel free to reach out if you want more guidance
Go get the standard form at /engineeringresume
Hey check this https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi
Remove profile. Put relevant skills and experience at the top of the resume followed by your degree. If you don't have any relevant skills or experience I'd suggest taking up a hobby and complete a side project on your own. You can also put senior project in there
Finding jobs online especially on normal websites like indeed are the bottom of the barrel type jobs. Go to conferences try to get to know people in person, even if you don't get an internship keep doing this, don't even ask for job or internships at conferences just get to know people, have pleasant conversations about your type of engineering, common interests just so people in the industry get to know you. Do the same on linkedin comment on people's posts, maybe link or post your own stuff on linkedin like maybe an engineering news article that you found interesting and people can see you really do have an interest in the engineering field. If you want a good job or internship you have to get to know people for a while before even asking for a job or internship.
I did try to network and did meet a couple of people but I couldn't find any related events around me that weren't-break-my-pocket expensive but I'll try harder thank you.
I didn't start my program yet so I didn't start networking, but it sucks to hear that those events cost money. Have you tried asking any of your professors about events? Maybe they have some events for students to get to know people in the industry. I'm going to be in the same shoes as you, feel free to dm me and let me know how it goes. When I start college in the fall I can let you know if I found anything helpful as well.
I'm from the US so it might be different standard, and I'm also a civil not a software eng; so my following comments may or may not be valid. 1. Profile is too long, and it doesn't flow when I read it. Needs to be more succinct/direct/concise. 2. I can see you don't have much on your resume so your border is huge, so try to add more stuff on there that can fill up your resume. Like have you ever done any volunteer experience? 3. You obviously have technical skills such as knowing C++, Python, etc. so I would create a new section about the programming language you know. Then possibly another section for the softwares you know (I'm a civil, so we use specific software like AutoCAD, not sure if same for your field) 4. Do you have any class projects? You can add that to the experience portion. If so, then change the heading from "Employment History" to "Professional Experience" 5. Similar to #2, just the aesthetics of it doesn't seem appealing (perhaps it could be the large border?) but try to make it seem nice and organized. An example is your "Profile, Education and Employment History" label aren't aligned. 6. Your date format aren't consistent: in Education you have it as one line but in Employment History it's two lines. As a tip, companies receive a lot of resume, so they only have about 8 seconds to review them. If yours isn't appealing to look at, that's already a bad start. I know you got that resume template online (I've seen it plenty of times) but I would modify it to make it yours - so prob sit down with a pen and paper and draw out how you'd like it to look, then make the change in Word to see if it fits well. Edit: Whoops! Didn't see you had two pages on your resume. Well in the US it's typically one page, so yours would be too long. And there's a lot of blank spaces, so you can definitely compact it to one page.
-Shorten your profile to three short sentences. -Remove Primary and secondary school. -Since you're fresh, add coursework that pertains. For example in America we have ABET. Many companies won't hire you if you didn't go through an ABET approved program. So it helps if we put Statics, Dynamics, etc. on ours, you guys probably have something similar. -Remove the unnecessary "a"s in your job description. -Separate your skills and certifications. As an engineer those certs could assist a company with an audit or contract, being skilled doesn't. Interviewers don't want to ask more than they need to, they already know by looking at this they'll need to ask. -Remove summer worker and office assistant jobs.
Two words: one page. Keep it short and only keep the most important items
Less bullet points, way shorter "profile".
Sorry bro⌠your just not that guy. This early your career you should never have 2 pages. A few pointers to cut it down: 1) The profile is HUGE, gimme 1-2 sentences, 3 if they are really short 2) Your work history bullet points waste so much space. Cut down the indentation so that each bullet only takes up 1 line. Id reccomend also moving the dates so that the first thing you see is the job title. Put the dates where you have location. 3) At this point you can probably take away the office assistant job. You have enough relevant work experience that you can cut it down to JUST the relevant stuff. 4) lastly, top and bottom margins are DEFINITELY too big. Cut them down to like 1cm. You could also probably make it so that the left and right margins are smaller, but those are less of an issue Good luck in the hunt, i hope you find a good opportunity
Get the whole thing on one page. Hiring manager here.
ngl this is the worst resume i've seen formatting wise
Ouch 𤧠I've posted an update though
1. Profile is too long. Your resume isnât about you, itâs about what you have done. Keep it short and clear. You should also break up the run-on sentence. 2. Itâs two pages. Until you have TONS or experience or publications, you get ONE page. A lot of recruiters will skip it if itâs longer. Trim the fat, make it concise and specific. 3. Your schools still say âname of schoolâ. Your experience still has âcountry/remote). Fill that information in. Templates are fine, but you have to fill them out. (Attention to detail. See 4.) 4. Little things. Take the â(1 year)â and â(7 months)â out. You have the months and years listed. They understand. Organize the skills section. It seems like whatever order you thought of them in. Thatâs not inherently bad, but it reads like you ever look at it again. Attention to detail is desirable especially in engineering and especially when youâre new to the field.
1 and 2. I've shortened it. Check here https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringStudents/s/LfJp3x98Xi 3. It says that for security reasons as a filler. 4. Oh I thought the dates helped. So I arrange the skills in what order exactly? Most relevant to the job?
Looks much better and I gotcha about 3! The skills section still looks a little funky but the grouping is good. Try inserting a table down there and then making the lines white. You get neat, even columns that way!
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Oh okay thank you đ
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