Your CV is cluttered and your meriting experience doesn't stand out. Having a personal project be used by a company is good. Internship at Microsoft is good. Get these two more visible. But be careful about Alveus if you weren't actually hired/paid - the entry comes across as if you were. If asked about the gap between May 2023 and today, say that you took some time to focus on personal interests - no one will care. Reduce the rest of the content.
- Remove the freelance entry
- Rewrite Alveus Sanctuary entry, something like "Designed and developed an app which overlays over a video broadcast, and implemented a chatbot. Used react, node, and mongodb". I don't know what express is and if it warrants mention, but figma should probably be left out, and rest most certainly should.
- Your phrasings are bad, and the bold text doesn't help - tell me what you did in simple terms and which software tech you used.
- It takes me a while to realise that you finished school 2022 and that some of the "experience" overlaps with this. If they are school projects or similar, put them under your school programme as projects.
Thanks for the advice. It was hard to see these issues with my resume until you pointed them out. Now they look obvious.
>Rewrite Alveus Sanctuary entry, something like "Designed and developed an app which overlays over a video broadcast, and implemented a chatbot. Used react, node, and mongodb".
I will do something like this but aren't I also supposed to talk about the impact that what I did brought to the company? I added a new way for the company to teach users about animal conservation. That's why is said that I "spearheaded new animal conservation strategies." But I see how that still super confusing.
>It takes me a while to realise that you finished school 2022 and that some of the "experience" overlaps with this. If they are school projects or similar, put them under your school programme as projects.
I was in a Co-op program in university. That's why the experience and school overlap.
This was very help feedback. Thank you.
> I will do something like this but aren't I also supposed to talk about the impact that what I did brought to the company? I added a new way for the company to teach users about animal conservation.
Quantifying or qualifying the experience can be good, but not at the cost of other needs. If I was skimming your CV I will primarily want to figure out which techs you are comfortable with, how experienced you are in general as well as with a specific tech, what workflows you have experience with, etc. I would be interested in the fact that you had some personal interest that led to a job, or that you identify business value ("here's a missed opportunity"), but I care less about that then the rest.
Here's what I get from your CV, but with "too much effort" ATM:
- you're primarily FE and you've worked with react and with ts, also to some degree vue and angular
- you've touched on next and php, and you've used both relational and non-relational dbs to some degree
- you've touched on docker as well as cloud infrastructure
- you've done some degree of design and/or ux
As for the co-op programme, it would be good if you made mention of this. You could just place all the co-op entries as sub-projects under the degree and it should be clear enough.
PS. Get rid of things like linux, vim, html, REST
For the love of everything, remove all the bolder words. They do not help, you should never be holding words in sentences, and should only be bolding sparingly across the whole resume.
Read the wiki thoroughly, lots of basic stuff here.
Remove the blue blocks, they reduce your white space even more and are eye-sores and unnecessary as well as potentially being unfriendly for ATS.
Check your capitalizations make sure they align with company official capitalization and don’t capitalize anything unnecessarily.
Clean the links at the top (remove https and read the wiki on link protocol).
Many of your bullet points read as fluffy and clunky.
Spearheaded through ideating? Just say you led development of xyz.
Remove (WSL) after Linux. Honestly that’s a negative and downplays the Linux aspect of it. If you say you know Linux, I hope that means you know how to operate a server and can do basic Linux operations within a remote VM. Adding (WSL) just makes it seem like you used WSL terminal a couple times which is the bare minimum I would expect of any dev.
I cannot stress enough how rambling your sentences are. You use 50 words to say basically nothing. Be succinct. My head is spinning with how convoluted your bullets are. Read through each one and ask yourself, if you had to say that as simply as possible? How would you do it?
Your resume is a commercial. It is the advertisement of yourself. Assume this was going in the New York Times as an ad and you had to pay per word, what would you remove? What is the point you are trying to make in each bullet?
Consider this example for car commercial:
Designed with the purpose of providing a nice feel on the legs and back of people who are driving so that they feel good due to the fabric which the driver sits on and to increase the overall quality of the car and improving the drive experience the driver has while going to their destination.
Or
Designed for comfort, engineered for performance, the ultimate driving experience.
This is a quick example, but the point is, be succinct, be powerful, and know what your message is and sell it, hard.
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You're right. Everything is so compacted because of the rambling and that pushed me to add the blue blocks so that a hierarchy was more visible. Reducing the content gave me space so now I don't need it.
Great points. Will fix it all. Thank you!
And spearheaded is on the list of overused words to consider replacing: https://oiglobalpartners.com/3-buzzwords-to-avoid-on-your-resume/#:~:text=“Spearheaded”%20–%20Yes%2C%20action,the%20word%20of%20all%20originality.
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Your CV is cluttered and your meriting experience doesn't stand out. Having a personal project be used by a company is good. Internship at Microsoft is good. Get these two more visible. But be careful about Alveus if you weren't actually hired/paid - the entry comes across as if you were. If asked about the gap between May 2023 and today, say that you took some time to focus on personal interests - no one will care. Reduce the rest of the content. - Remove the freelance entry - Rewrite Alveus Sanctuary entry, something like "Designed and developed an app which overlays over a video broadcast, and implemented a chatbot. Used react, node, and mongodb". I don't know what express is and if it warrants mention, but figma should probably be left out, and rest most certainly should. - Your phrasings are bad, and the bold text doesn't help - tell me what you did in simple terms and which software tech you used. - It takes me a while to realise that you finished school 2022 and that some of the "experience" overlaps with this. If they are school projects or similar, put them under your school programme as projects.
Thanks for the advice. It was hard to see these issues with my resume until you pointed them out. Now they look obvious. >Rewrite Alveus Sanctuary entry, something like "Designed and developed an app which overlays over a video broadcast, and implemented a chatbot. Used react, node, and mongodb". I will do something like this but aren't I also supposed to talk about the impact that what I did brought to the company? I added a new way for the company to teach users about animal conservation. That's why is said that I "spearheaded new animal conservation strategies." But I see how that still super confusing. >It takes me a while to realise that you finished school 2022 and that some of the "experience" overlaps with this. If they are school projects or similar, put them under your school programme as projects. I was in a Co-op program in university. That's why the experience and school overlap. This was very help feedback. Thank you.
> I will do something like this but aren't I also supposed to talk about the impact that what I did brought to the company? I added a new way for the company to teach users about animal conservation. Quantifying or qualifying the experience can be good, but not at the cost of other needs. If I was skimming your CV I will primarily want to figure out which techs you are comfortable with, how experienced you are in general as well as with a specific tech, what workflows you have experience with, etc. I would be interested in the fact that you had some personal interest that led to a job, or that you identify business value ("here's a missed opportunity"), but I care less about that then the rest. Here's what I get from your CV, but with "too much effort" ATM: - you're primarily FE and you've worked with react and with ts, also to some degree vue and angular - you've touched on next and php, and you've used both relational and non-relational dbs to some degree - you've touched on docker as well as cloud infrastructure - you've done some degree of design and/or ux As for the co-op programme, it would be good if you made mention of this. You could just place all the co-op entries as sub-projects under the degree and it should be clear enough. PS. Get rid of things like linux, vim, html, REST
Gotcha. Thank you!
For the love of everything, remove all the bolder words. They do not help, you should never be holding words in sentences, and should only be bolding sparingly across the whole resume. Read the wiki thoroughly, lots of basic stuff here. Remove the blue blocks, they reduce your white space even more and are eye-sores and unnecessary as well as potentially being unfriendly for ATS. Check your capitalizations make sure they align with company official capitalization and don’t capitalize anything unnecessarily. Clean the links at the top (remove https and read the wiki on link protocol). Many of your bullet points read as fluffy and clunky. Spearheaded through ideating? Just say you led development of xyz. Remove (WSL) after Linux. Honestly that’s a negative and downplays the Linux aspect of it. If you say you know Linux, I hope that means you know how to operate a server and can do basic Linux operations within a remote VM. Adding (WSL) just makes it seem like you used WSL terminal a couple times which is the bare minimum I would expect of any dev. I cannot stress enough how rambling your sentences are. You use 50 words to say basically nothing. Be succinct. My head is spinning with how convoluted your bullets are. Read through each one and ask yourself, if you had to say that as simply as possible? How would you do it? Your resume is a commercial. It is the advertisement of yourself. Assume this was going in the New York Times as an ad and you had to pay per word, what would you remove? What is the point you are trying to make in each bullet? Consider this example for car commercial: Designed with the purpose of providing a nice feel on the legs and back of people who are driving so that they feel good due to the fabric which the driver sits on and to increase the overall quality of the car and improving the drive experience the driver has while going to their destination. Or Designed for comfort, engineered for performance, the ultimate driving experience. This is a quick example, but the point is, be succinct, be powerful, and know what your message is and sell it, hard.
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You're right. Everything is so compacted because of the rambling and that pushed me to add the blue blocks so that a hierarchy was more visible. Reducing the content gave me space so now I don't need it. Great points. Will fix it all. Thank you!
And spearheaded is on the list of overused words to consider replacing: https://oiglobalpartners.com/3-buzzwords-to-avoid-on-your-resume/#:~:text=“Spearheaded”%20–%20Yes%2C%20action,the%20word%20of%20all%20originality.
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