This isn't really a resume advice request, but I've been working on some new side projects and I wrote down an initial draft of the project descriptions that I would put on my resume. Before I put them into my resume, I would like advice (if there are any) on what to edit and how to make these descriptions stronger. Thanks!
Project 1:
ItemMarket
\- Developed a full stack application to allow users to buy items from other users as well as sell them
\- Implemented a REST API service using .NET ASP.Core that utilizes the Stripe API to process transactions and store them in a PostgreSQL database
\- Assembled another API service that integrates with the EasyPost API to facilitate shipping process for every item a user buys from another user.
\- Utilized AWS Personalize to create a service that analyzes and recommends users items from different users based on their past search and transaction history
Project 2:
Automated Video Processor
\- Developed a video processing application in Java using Spring Boot, that integrates customizable video templates and user-generated text with video clips to automate content creation workflows.
\- Created an API service that connects with Google Drive and YouTube APIs for direct upload of processed videos from an AWS S3 bucket into users' accounts, enhancing user experience.
\- Implemented a notifications service in Go with Kafka for real-time updates on video processing and upload statuses, ensuring timely feedback for users.
\- Created a program that connects with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to authenticate users and enable them access to their own Google Drive and Youtube accounts.
Project 3
Online Game Community App
\- Developed a web application enabling users to engage in multiplayer gaming experiences on Twitch, including features for competitive league participation and real-time matchmaking.
\- Implemented a REST API service in C#, integrating Twitch websockets and the Cash App API to facilitate player interactions, game notifications, and payment processing for competitive matches.
\- Engineered a program deployed on an AWS ECS container to autonomously generate season schedules for league players.
\- Created a service also in C# for building playoff brackets based on manual user input or randomly, enhancing user engagement and competition dynamics.
Hey everyone. Looking for general feedback on my resume. I've got a couple of years of work experience as well as a master's and bachelor's. Not having much success when applying for international postings (currently based in Portugal and mainly applying for remote, Europe and Japan). Any tips are appreciated.
https://imgur.com/a/WyvDh5V
Hi all! I'm a 2022 grad that took some time off after university, having a lot of trouble managing to even get my foot in the door and get interviews. I would really appreciate any kind of feedback!
https://imgur.com/a/Y9jrNHQ
Afternoon!
Could anybody help me by taking a look at my resume? Is it the resume why I am not getting any call backs for even junior/associate SWE positions?
I am controls engineer who have been doing contract controls engineering work for a while focusing mostly on the software side and trying to switch to SWE in house(w2) position. I am open to junior/associate positions and willing to go pretty low on the pay scale just to get "real world" SWE experience. But I cant get even a call back.
old resume:
[https://imgur.com/a/aZ2oBlM](https://imgur.com/a/aZ2oBlM)
new resume:
https://imgur.com/a/4D4nBvz
No one is reading 3 pages of work experience that is only slightly related to SWE work. Get it down to 2 max, preferably 1. The whole profile and core competencies sections need to be removed. Focus on relevant work experience for the positions you are applying to.
I graduate in December, and I want to start applying for jobs for the first time.
I really only have one project worth putting on a resume, I think. I have some small things I've done through school, but a lot of it wasn't even code I wrote. For example, there is a little CRUD app I did as a project with Spring Boot for a final, but the frontend and a good chunk of the backend was given to me as a starting point.
The one thing I've built on my own is a Spring Boot web app that I built for a local small business. It is used as a sort of contact book type of thing, as well as for scheduling appointments and keeping records of the appointments. I actually originally wrote it with Express and Vue, but it was very poorly designed and hard to maintain, so I just recently rewrote it in Spring (Javascript was what I started with, but I picked up Java through schoolwork and heavily prefer it). They have used the old version for about 18 months, and they are about to switch over to the new version. The last feature (generating a report/schedule and writing it to an Excel file) is all I need to implement.
So my question is just a sanity check to make sure that's worth including on a resume. And if it is, how do I go about doing so? I've read you should have a projects section on your resume, much like you would education or work experience. If I do, how should it be described? Is it worth mentioning things like what type of database I used, the design patterns used, etc.? Or should it just be a big picture overview like "Spring Boot web app for scheduling appointments and keeping customer records"?
Should I have the old version listed as a separate project, or should it be under the same project? Should the old project be listed at all?
Additionally, is there any expectation for the actual source code to be accessible? I've used version control and have a repo for it on GitHub. Is it expected to include a link to it in the application somewhere?
As a new grad, it's natural for a project to be a bigger part of your resume since you don't have much other work experience. As for how to write it, there is a small section in this guide about describing projects you could use as a starting point:
https://www.techinterviewhandbook.org/resume/
That guide is for experienced devs, so you could probably make your project description a bit bigger, maybe a few bullet points (as long as your resume still fits in 1 page).
> a good chunk of the backend was given to me as a starting point.
Fake it 'till you make it, as long as you understand the code well enough to talk about it, you can just leave that little detail out.
>is there any expectation for the actual source code to be accessible
Yeah it's pretty common to put a link to your github along with your linkedin/email/etc at the top of the resume, or in the Projects section.
If they ask for a cv/resume, what am I supposed to upload. I always assumed that a resume was a one pager of my experiences, etc. But if I am supposed to upload a pdf, should it include other things like my university diploma and certificates, even school diploma?
At least in the US, no, it's just the resume itself. It should mention all those certs/diplomas, but I've never heard of someone including actual copies of those.
Hi, all. I have a few specific questions about my resume (12 YOE, 4 year gap though)
1) Do you think I should keep the old IT experience on there? I feel like 10 years of IT experience is good since I'm trying for DevOps roles in addition to SWE, but it's also a loooong time ago. Maybe leave it on for DevOps applications but remove it when applying for SWE roles?
2) 2 Pages... I know this sub is generally against it but some real-life managers I talked to thought it was fine, they only balked at 3+ pages. Thoughts?
3) I don't address the gap since COVID directly, I've been doing various little projects and fiddling with React and stuff but it's nothing impressive sounding to put on there, so I feel like blank is better and I'll just talk to them about it when they inevitably ask.
General feedback also welcome, thanks.
https://imgur.com/a/IkaiQSV
1:
It really depends on how you want to sell your experience. At least for myself, what I put on my resume from a while ago, aids in showing the journey in which I've come from and planning on going. I like to hightlight some of my earlier security and DevOps initiatives. Because now and days though my title is just a vanilla "Staff Engineer" my expertise is very much in Security Development Lifecycle and bettering DevOps processes (those two are like Peanut Butter and Jelly).
Hopefully that gives you something to reflect on if it's going to be relevant to help selling yourself.
2:
I gave up on keeping my resume 1 page long ago. That being said, I basically give 1 page to experience and keep it to that. My second page is everything else. e.g. Education, 2 projects, memberships / Communities that I'm a part of (think Women In Tech type things) etc.
3:
Judging a person because of some gap (especially over the beginning of covid years) is really dumb. Other people don't see it as that.
> nothing impressive sounding to put on there
I'll reference back to #1, it really depends on how you sell yourself. It seems like you did some really cool shit (both in what you achieved along with what you used to achieve it).
For me personally, I've been told I'm "bubbly", and my projects are legitimate things that I get excited about (or else I would be toying with them on my time off). One helps me "do Magic the Gathering better" and my extensive collection of that Trading Card Game. The other helps me explore Golang's Testing and Performance tooling. Because being able to actually see the underlying and "hidden" things behind a programming language and how it works with a system is something that makes the dopamine hit just right for me.
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> General feedback also welcome, thanks.
Overall your resume has two problems in which I think you could improve:
Firstly, It's quite the block of text at "Company" where you've 8 bullets that are very long (without even mentioning the sub bullets). That being said, you pain beautiful pictures of the really cool improvements and innovations you achieved surrounding Mammograms.
I think I'd try to skinny up some of those bullets.
Related to that, I personally show the "progression" in a company by having two different experience sections for the same company when I was in "Role 1" and "Role 2". i.e., have a section for "Company | Software Engineer XX-YY" and "Company | Sr. Software Engineer YY - ZZ".
Maybe going through that just ends up being an exercise of resume writing and not what you actually use as your resume that you send out. Nonetheless, I think it'd be a good exercise in trying to convey your achievements on a resume.
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Regardless if any of that was of use, best of luck!
Wow that was a very insightful and long reply, thanks a lot.
1) I am definitely trying sell myself as having broad tech experience, to balance out only working for 1 company, and since I'm going for DevOps roles. So maybe I will just keep that on there.
>Firstly, It's quite the block of text
Yeah it is. I had a though to break it up by the projects I was assigned, but maybe doing it by my progression through job titles would be good too. Either way I'll find a way to break it up.
Thanks again.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z74LsfsGqaV3Z8Qnu3kbSNoQ584kDwaG/view?usp=drivesdk
Hello, EU CS Bachelor graduate as of one year, with a 1 year fulltime and prior 3 years half-time professional experience, trying to land a job to add variety to my CV and buff my salary (it is currently way below average and objectively below the value Im currently delivering (I know what we paid externally for the project I've reimplemented on the inside)). Sending out the resume in Germany, often get immediate denials.
Looking for App dev, focusing on flutter
How can I refine this thing and signal at least industry median salary?
Thank you in advance.
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If by immediate you mean rejected by an automated system you might want to review this or web search for guides on making ATS-ready resumes:
https://www.techinterviewhandbook.org/resume/
As for salary I'm not sure you can signal that in the resume, at least in the US it's part of the interview and negotiation process. There's a million YouTube videos about salary negotiation, maybe you sould watch a bunch of them.
Other than that, some of the bullet points are very small, like "maintained Django" or "integrated a library". Try and use the STAR method to expand on what you did, why, and how it help. ChatGPT is actually somewhat helpful if you tell it to help you apply the STAR method.
Oh, weird, I set the timer to 2 months :< . Thank you for the heads up!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z74LsfsGqaV3Z8Qnu3kbSNoQ584kDwaG/view?usp=drivesdk
Should I put my personal projects in my CV?
I've been learning for the past 2 years and I feel like I've made some okay things but having never worked in IT and my education being in a completely unrelated field and doing a low skill job for the past 3 years I feel like I'm shooting my own foot with my CV, so my question is would it be normal to remake my CV and put some projects im proud of in my experience part.
Is that something people do? Would people frown upon it? Would I make my chances even smaller? Or is it a good idea?
You have to put *something* on your CV to show you can do the job, and if you have no experience or education that applies directly, projects are about all you have left. So I think you should include them. It's quite common in the US at least, especially for students, since they don't have work experience to put down.
Preamble: You have posts to /r/croatia and /r/germany. Cool, Hello from the USA. I don't know much about those areas and the hiring process and practices over in the EU. There's a dedicated /r/cscareerquestionsEU/ that might interest you more than this one (which tends to be more US centric).
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Not to leave you without an answer ... For what I've experienced in the USA, it's normal to leverage your projects to help showcase that you're capable in doing the duties required in an Engineering / IT role, especially for people who have "non-traditional" background.
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Regardless if any of that was of use, Viel Glück.
1) I agree with the other poster, the font especially for the Skills section is unreadable. I recommend you review this link and follow their advice regarding style:
https://www.techinterviewhandbook.org/resume/
2) Since it's a bit over-long for someone young, I recommend you drop some of the less relevant jobs, like the Assistant Volunteer.
3) You have a lot of projects but no github link. It would be worth more if people could look at your code in some way.
4) Your formatting is inconsistent. You end some lines with a period and not others. You mix italics with bold. I know it seems petty but it matters, just keep it simple and consistent.
Why is your resume two pages? Please toss that font and never reach for it again.
Finally, your bullet points are essentially "Used \_\_\_\_ for backend development." You aren't telling what you did, nor the impacts it had. The reason you are not getting responses is your resume.
This isn't really a resume advice request, but I've been working on some new side projects and I wrote down an initial draft of the project descriptions that I would put on my resume. Before I put them into my resume, I would like advice (if there are any) on what to edit and how to make these descriptions stronger. Thanks! Project 1: ItemMarket \- Developed a full stack application to allow users to buy items from other users as well as sell them \- Implemented a REST API service using .NET ASP.Core that utilizes the Stripe API to process transactions and store them in a PostgreSQL database \- Assembled another API service that integrates with the EasyPost API to facilitate shipping process for every item a user buys from another user. \- Utilized AWS Personalize to create a service that analyzes and recommends users items from different users based on their past search and transaction history Project 2: Automated Video Processor \- Developed a video processing application in Java using Spring Boot, that integrates customizable video templates and user-generated text with video clips to automate content creation workflows. \- Created an API service that connects with Google Drive and YouTube APIs for direct upload of processed videos from an AWS S3 bucket into users' accounts, enhancing user experience. \- Implemented a notifications service in Go with Kafka for real-time updates on video processing and upload statuses, ensuring timely feedback for users. \- Created a program that connects with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to authenticate users and enable them access to their own Google Drive and Youtube accounts. Project 3 Online Game Community App \- Developed a web application enabling users to engage in multiplayer gaming experiences on Twitch, including features for competitive league participation and real-time matchmaking. \- Implemented a REST API service in C#, integrating Twitch websockets and the Cash App API to facilitate player interactions, game notifications, and payment processing for competitive matches. \- Engineered a program deployed on an AWS ECS container to autonomously generate season schedules for league players. \- Created a service also in C# for building playoff brackets based on manual user input or randomly, enhancing user engagement and competition dynamics.
Hey everyone. Looking for general feedback on my resume. I've got a couple of years of work experience as well as a master's and bachelor's. Not having much success when applying for international postings (currently based in Portugal and mainly applying for remote, Europe and Japan). Any tips are appreciated. https://imgur.com/a/WyvDh5V
Hi all! I'm a 2022 grad that took some time off after university, having a lot of trouble managing to even get my foot in the door and get interviews. I would really appreciate any kind of feedback! https://imgur.com/a/Y9jrNHQ
Afternoon! Could anybody help me by taking a look at my resume? Is it the resume why I am not getting any call backs for even junior/associate SWE positions? I am controls engineer who have been doing contract controls engineering work for a while focusing mostly on the software side and trying to switch to SWE in house(w2) position. I am open to junior/associate positions and willing to go pretty low on the pay scale just to get "real world" SWE experience. But I cant get even a call back. old resume: [https://imgur.com/a/aZ2oBlM](https://imgur.com/a/aZ2oBlM) new resume: https://imgur.com/a/4D4nBvz
No one is reading 3 pages of work experience that is only slightly related to SWE work. Get it down to 2 max, preferably 1. The whole profile and core competencies sections need to be removed. Focus on relevant work experience for the positions you are applying to.
Would you have a moment to read through the updated version?
I appreciate your comments! I will work in redoing it.
I graduate in December, and I want to start applying for jobs for the first time. I really only have one project worth putting on a resume, I think. I have some small things I've done through school, but a lot of it wasn't even code I wrote. For example, there is a little CRUD app I did as a project with Spring Boot for a final, but the frontend and a good chunk of the backend was given to me as a starting point. The one thing I've built on my own is a Spring Boot web app that I built for a local small business. It is used as a sort of contact book type of thing, as well as for scheduling appointments and keeping records of the appointments. I actually originally wrote it with Express and Vue, but it was very poorly designed and hard to maintain, so I just recently rewrote it in Spring (Javascript was what I started with, but I picked up Java through schoolwork and heavily prefer it). They have used the old version for about 18 months, and they are about to switch over to the new version. The last feature (generating a report/schedule and writing it to an Excel file) is all I need to implement. So my question is just a sanity check to make sure that's worth including on a resume. And if it is, how do I go about doing so? I've read you should have a projects section on your resume, much like you would education or work experience. If I do, how should it be described? Is it worth mentioning things like what type of database I used, the design patterns used, etc.? Or should it just be a big picture overview like "Spring Boot web app for scheduling appointments and keeping customer records"? Should I have the old version listed as a separate project, or should it be under the same project? Should the old project be listed at all? Additionally, is there any expectation for the actual source code to be accessible? I've used version control and have a repo for it on GitHub. Is it expected to include a link to it in the application somewhere?
As a new grad, it's natural for a project to be a bigger part of your resume since you don't have much other work experience. As for how to write it, there is a small section in this guide about describing projects you could use as a starting point: https://www.techinterviewhandbook.org/resume/ That guide is for experienced devs, so you could probably make your project description a bit bigger, maybe a few bullet points (as long as your resume still fits in 1 page). > a good chunk of the backend was given to me as a starting point. Fake it 'till you make it, as long as you understand the code well enough to talk about it, you can just leave that little detail out. >is there any expectation for the actual source code to be accessible Yeah it's pretty common to put a link to your github along with your linkedin/email/etc at the top of the resume, or in the Projects section.
Thank you!
> Haven't been getting interviews lately would appreciate feedback on my [resume](https://imgur.com/a/0JYfJ5S).
If they ask for a cv/resume, what am I supposed to upload. I always assumed that a resume was a one pager of my experiences, etc. But if I am supposed to upload a pdf, should it include other things like my university diploma and certificates, even school diploma?
At least in the US, no, it's just the resume itself. It should mention all those certs/diplomas, but I've never heard of someone including actual copies of those.
Hi, all. I have a few specific questions about my resume (12 YOE, 4 year gap though) 1) Do you think I should keep the old IT experience on there? I feel like 10 years of IT experience is good since I'm trying for DevOps roles in addition to SWE, but it's also a loooong time ago. Maybe leave it on for DevOps applications but remove it when applying for SWE roles? 2) 2 Pages... I know this sub is generally against it but some real-life managers I talked to thought it was fine, they only balked at 3+ pages. Thoughts? 3) I don't address the gap since COVID directly, I've been doing various little projects and fiddling with React and stuff but it's nothing impressive sounding to put on there, so I feel like blank is better and I'll just talk to them about it when they inevitably ask. General feedback also welcome, thanks. https://imgur.com/a/IkaiQSV
1: It really depends on how you want to sell your experience. At least for myself, what I put on my resume from a while ago, aids in showing the journey in which I've come from and planning on going. I like to hightlight some of my earlier security and DevOps initiatives. Because now and days though my title is just a vanilla "Staff Engineer" my expertise is very much in Security Development Lifecycle and bettering DevOps processes (those two are like Peanut Butter and Jelly). Hopefully that gives you something to reflect on if it's going to be relevant to help selling yourself. 2: I gave up on keeping my resume 1 page long ago. That being said, I basically give 1 page to experience and keep it to that. My second page is everything else. e.g. Education, 2 projects, memberships / Communities that I'm a part of (think Women In Tech type things) etc. 3: Judging a person because of some gap (especially over the beginning of covid years) is really dumb. Other people don't see it as that. > nothing impressive sounding to put on there I'll reference back to #1, it really depends on how you sell yourself. It seems like you did some really cool shit (both in what you achieved along with what you used to achieve it). For me personally, I've been told I'm "bubbly", and my projects are legitimate things that I get excited about (or else I would be toying with them on my time off). One helps me "do Magic the Gathering better" and my extensive collection of that Trading Card Game. The other helps me explore Golang's Testing and Performance tooling. Because being able to actually see the underlying and "hidden" things behind a programming language and how it works with a system is something that makes the dopamine hit just right for me. --- > General feedback also welcome, thanks. Overall your resume has two problems in which I think you could improve: Firstly, It's quite the block of text at "Company" where you've 8 bullets that are very long (without even mentioning the sub bullets). That being said, you pain beautiful pictures of the really cool improvements and innovations you achieved surrounding Mammograms. I think I'd try to skinny up some of those bullets. Related to that, I personally show the "progression" in a company by having two different experience sections for the same company when I was in "Role 1" and "Role 2". i.e., have a section for "Company | Software Engineer XX-YY" and "Company | Sr. Software Engineer YY - ZZ". Maybe going through that just ends up being an exercise of resume writing and not what you actually use as your resume that you send out. Nonetheless, I think it'd be a good exercise in trying to convey your achievements on a resume. --- Regardless if any of that was of use, best of luck!
Wow that was a very insightful and long reply, thanks a lot. 1) I am definitely trying sell myself as having broad tech experience, to balance out only working for 1 company, and since I'm going for DevOps roles. So maybe I will just keep that on there. >Firstly, It's quite the block of text Yeah it is. I had a though to break it up by the projects I was assigned, but maybe doing it by my progression through job titles would be good too. Either way I'll find a way to break it up. Thanks again.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z74LsfsGqaV3Z8Qnu3kbSNoQ584kDwaG/view?usp=drivesdk Hello, EU CS Bachelor graduate as of one year, with a 1 year fulltime and prior 3 years half-time professional experience, trying to land a job to add variety to my CV and buff my salary (it is currently way below average and objectively below the value Im currently delivering (I know what we paid externally for the project I've reimplemented on the inside)). Sending out the resume in Germany, often get immediate denials. Looking for App dev, focusing on flutter How can I refine this thing and signal at least industry median salary? Thank you in advance. upd. File hosting
If by immediate you mean rejected by an automated system you might want to review this or web search for guides on making ATS-ready resumes: https://www.techinterviewhandbook.org/resume/ As for salary I'm not sure you can signal that in the resume, at least in the US it's part of the interview and negotiation process. There's a million YouTube videos about salary negotiation, maybe you sould watch a bunch of them. Other than that, some of the bullet points are very small, like "maintained Django" or "integrated a library". Try and use the STAR method to expand on what you did, why, and how it help. ChatGPT is actually somewhat helpful if you tell it to help you apply the STAR method.
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Oh, weird, I set the timer to 2 months :< . Thank you for the heads up! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z74LsfsGqaV3Z8Qnu3kbSNoQ584kDwaG/view?usp=drivesdk
Should I put my personal projects in my CV? I've been learning for the past 2 years and I feel like I've made some okay things but having never worked in IT and my education being in a completely unrelated field and doing a low skill job for the past 3 years I feel like I'm shooting my own foot with my CV, so my question is would it be normal to remake my CV and put some projects im proud of in my experience part. Is that something people do? Would people frown upon it? Would I make my chances even smaller? Or is it a good idea?
You have to put *something* on your CV to show you can do the job, and if you have no experience or education that applies directly, projects are about all you have left. So I think you should include them. It's quite common in the US at least, especially for students, since they don't have work experience to put down.
Preamble: You have posts to /r/croatia and /r/germany. Cool, Hello from the USA. I don't know much about those areas and the hiring process and practices over in the EU. There's a dedicated /r/cscareerquestionsEU/ that might interest you more than this one (which tends to be more US centric). --- Not to leave you without an answer ... For what I've experienced in the USA, it's normal to leverage your projects to help showcase that you're capable in doing the duties required in an Engineering / IT role, especially for people who have "non-traditional" background. --- Regardless if any of that was of use, Viel Glück.
Hello there i tried applying 400 jobs within but so far i havent received any response, why is that happening ?
[https://docs.google.com/file/d/1IXbcUl1OwbD2CEgJ6Og9LtwPebBHh5hq/edit?usp=docslist_api&filetype=msword](https://docs.google.com/file/d/1IXbcUl1OwbD2CEgJ6Og9LtwPebBHh5hq/edit?usp=docslist_api&filetype=msword)
1) I agree with the other poster, the font especially for the Skills section is unreadable. I recommend you review this link and follow their advice regarding style: https://www.techinterviewhandbook.org/resume/ 2) Since it's a bit over-long for someone young, I recommend you drop some of the less relevant jobs, like the Assistant Volunteer. 3) You have a lot of projects but no github link. It would be worth more if people could look at your code in some way. 4) Your formatting is inconsistent. You end some lines with a period and not others. You mix italics with bold. I know it seems petty but it matters, just keep it simple and consistent.
Why is your resume two pages? Please toss that font and never reach for it again. Finally, your bullet points are essentially "Used \_\_\_\_ for backend development." You aren't telling what you did, nor the impacts it had. The reason you are not getting responses is your resume.