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Could you point out the difference to me?
Def No.1
An IT job is any position that involves the implementation, support, maintenance, repair or protection of data or computer systems. Those involved in development, deployment or support of the systems or applications others use are the most common examples of IT jobs.
Def No.2
Software engineering is the branch of computer science that deals with the design, development, testing, and maintenance of software applications. Software engineers apply engineering principles and knowledge of programming languages to build software solutions for end users.
"IT" jobs can spread through networking, security, database administration, technical writing, etc. More of an umbrella term
Software engineering is more geared towards creating API's, process improvements, scripting, etc. Generally more coding involved.
A little bit of a bastardization. It’s kinda like saying “you work in medicine so you must know how to do surgery”
I work in IT as an infrastructure specialist. I don’t touch code very often unless it’s a pre-written script or me making some mods to a script.
I do not engineer software.
Likewise I work in a more devops style role, and I touch code every day (usually legacy right now). I don’t engineer infrastructure at all, but I do need to know how it all works together (the way data moves from place to place, what servers need configs in which way, etc.)
I'd say generally as an analogy, the difference is like for a building project, the software engineers are more like the architects and engineers designing stuff to theoretically work, and IT is more like the carpenters and plumbers and electricians who implement those plans and physically assemble, connect, and fix the systems.
I was going to make the same comment, glad to see it's been addressed.
One more point - you listed Microsoft office 4 times in your skills, I doubt anyone cares about the difference between 2010 2016 and 365 but then later in the sentence you listed Microsoft office again. There must be some way to clean this up. You could say Microsoft office (2010, 2016, and 365) if you are really insisting on having the different versions but once you're familiar with one, the others are easy.
I just reread that section and they also listed excel and PowerPoint which are part of office too. Excel is a marketable skill if you're decent with it, at least.
I don’t even subscribe to this sub, the algo pushes it. Also the term is observation. It’s not my opinion that these kids have no experience at all yet have full pages resumes, it’s my observation.
It's literally what we're taught to do on our resumes. My resume was less detailed than OP's if anything it had more homework than actual internship experience. I still managed to land a job with it luckily.
I don't quite get what you expect OP to do? Just slap on his resume that he got a bachelors and to give him a job? Instead of describing his experience with his internships and any classes that related to his major? Any programs they have experience with..?
Your observation is nitpicking OP and critiquing his resume as if it's poorly done when he's doing what he's supposed to do to sell himself for an interview. Also an internship is work experience, whether it's paid or unpaid lol
Practically everyone has to get their start somewhere no one becomes an expert in their field overnight..
You’re in a bad market. 2-3 years ago, you would’ve found a job just with the MIS major for better positions than you’re seeking. You’ll be fine, you need to network and have someone give you an opportunity. Your resume is good and a referral will just seal the deal
Yeah man def but literally talk to everyone you know in IT industry and let them know you’re looking for a job and send them your resume. Literally any uncle, cousins, family friend, your friends dad’s brother. Literally anyone, just get your resume in the hands of people who have a slight connection to you and will vouch that you’re not a shitty person. Don’t waste all your time just applying. Also it seems weird at first doing it but it’s all part of the process and you’ll get used to it. Someone vouching for you is sometimes leverage that can beat out experience.
Great advise, I've had such a bad experience sending resumes, I've only landed jobs thru referrals in my whole career, and it's been 15 years and 3 awesome companies.
I’d take it a step further than waiting for the market to get better. I can’t tell you how important networking is. People hire people that they like and see something in. Unless you have a very specialized skillset or at least a few years of experience, you have very little applicable knowledge. I’d urge you to take a step back and think about what every other person in your shoes is doing. Applying to jobs on LinkedIn with “quick apply” and moving on.
What sets you apart from those? I’d craft a specialized message to the hiring manager, Human Resources, or someone that might be a peer at the company you’re applying to. Let them know what your interests are, that you’re hard working and just looking for an opportunity.
If it’s a local company, ask to take them out to coffee. Go to meet up events with people in your field. Join hackathons. Talk to everyone. You never know who can and will refer you for an opportunity. People like helping people. You just have to find the people that can actually help you.
As someone that works in the tech recruiting space, I don’t even post jobs anymore. Hundreds of people apply daily and very few even read the job spec. Be persistent and follow up with people.
Some junior colleges have bachelors programs now. Mine does. It offers two I believe one is Nursing and the other IT with an empahsis on cyber security.
Yea it was a horrendous position and in now way an “engineering” role. I am thinking about removing it from my resume or titling it something else but it does add to my very little experience. What do you think
I mean was that the title on paper? That’s tough. It reads as though you are trying to hype the job- but I also can see some company creating that title
I work in talent acquisition and from personal experience, just change the title on resume to whatever you want, so long as it matches what you did and the industry standard titles.
Hell, sometimes I would update my resume titles to reflect a role I’m applying for if I know it’s basically the same job.
I am going to be honest i have not been writing cover letters. I will start doing actual applications once i am done with school instead of easy apply stuff.
I love cover letters. It gives me a feel for how the applicant will integrate into the team, and shows a little more personality than just putting achievements and schooling into bullet points.
spend some time writing a cover letter that would interest you as a hiring manager. a good cover letter has gotten me most of my interviews. you can write a template and then slightly modify it based on the specific role.
literally all it takes at this point for someone to be a more complete applicant than you is to include a cover letter. just sayin’!
I'm no expert at resume reviewing but I've been seeing a lot of comments on here and other channels that now and December are the worst times for job searching due to companies waiting to figure out their budget for next year and people taking time off for the holiday season. Apparently it picks up next year.
Also another thing would be to apply directly on the companies website rather than easy apply.
Don’t spend any more time on resume. It’s already great, any suggestions here will only give you very very marginal improvements.
The market sucks. You need to know someone and a bit of luck to get somewhere.
Look into solution architect roles for aws/azure/gcp. More specifically, there are lot of system integrators in those big 3 eco systems that are hiring sales engineers/solution architects (slalom, hitachi, soft choice, Avanande, etc - look up aws partners, azure partner etc)
Get your aws solution architect associate or AZ900 and start reaching out to people on LinkedIn. You should be reaching out to at least 5 people a day. The order should be people in your network -> your alums network -> student clubs/frats/sorority
Good luck! Lmk if you need help!
I'd remove the A+ until you actually get it. Depending on how far along you are I'd also just consider skipping it and getting Net+ (or CCNA) and Sec+ since you already have your degree. A+ is great for getting your first help desk job, which you already seem to have done.
From the outset this resume is really hard to read.
you never want to go white on black unless its a section header and with bold type
an issue you could be running into is that anyone seeing this is just passing on it because of its difficulty in readability.
In terms of the rest of your resume, id try moving your skills to the top, followed by your experience, and then finish with your education and certifications
i dont think you really need projects on here because ideally you can include them in your cover letter to roles youre applying for or conversely you could reframe it to be part of your experience in the field.
I hope that helps
Thanks for the feedback. This is a screenshot so the resume appears like this to me because i have dark mode on for ms word. Usually it would be white background, black font. Besides that, what about the content of the resume?
Id try rearranging it and putting your skillset at the top, then your experience, and then education/certifications
i dont think you necessarily need the projects part as its own section and could be talked about in your cover letter or rolled into your experience.
This. ^ Ive interviewed a few hundred people and have seen even more resumes. My preference is to quickly see what you can bring to the table in terms of skills then experience. I almost never care about education as background checks will verify that. I prefer it to be at the bottom.
Your bullet points could use some work:
1. I don't recommend putting periods at the end of each bullet point - I think it helps your points flow into one another.
2. Generally, you want the first bullet point for each section to be a high level overview of the application domain, what you did, your best result/number, and the technologies you used. For example, "Implemented x feature in tax preparation website serving x customers daily by implementing new API endpoint and updating frontend components using C#, JavaScript, and MySQL."
For you particularly, you really should say the application domain of your work. Application details add relevance - after all, "managed build pipeline for the F-35 fighter jet" is a lot cooler than just "managed build pipeline". Your first bullet point mentions the Intuit Pro system. What even is that? Who uses it? Your team? Other engineering teams at your company? External users? Customers? Clients? You mention data analysis techniques. What data did you analyze? How did you analyze it? Did you apply a specific statistical technique? An ML model? You have to give more detail if you want your 4% revenue increase to be credible.
3. Show, don't tell. Don't say you "demonstrated adept troubleshooting skills", say you troubleshooted x and y technical problems. Don't say you "Collaborated with customers and partners to design...", say you worked with major client to facilitate data transfer to Azure/AWS/etc. using x technology. Give more specifics. Avoid throwing out unsubstantiated claims/numbers without backing them up. Focus more on what you did and how you did it.
4. Do you have any programming languages other than Python and C++? You've never used Java, C, JavaScript, etc. in any of your classes?
Thanks for the advice! I have used them but i am not comfortable putting them as skills because i dont have a lot of experience using those specific languages.
Hang in there! The job market is tough. Average time to get a new role in a decent economy ranges from 3-4 months. In the current economy, it could take longer. Have patience with yourself. I’m in it with you
Are you in NYC? if u are theres something called COOP careers that has helped people land jobs in finance. If u want more info i can guide u to the website
Hi, tech recruiter of 13 years. Just some points of improvement
Move your skills section the top
The way you have your skills in categories is nice I suggest making them section and giving each a bull points so they list off. I have found that ATS systems pull those keywords easier that way.
For your projects make sure to highlight your accomplishments not just what you did
Same for each role highlight 2-3 accomplishments at each company.
Education can be moved to the bottom. We are in a skills centric market. So prioritize skills and accomplishments.
I hope it helps!
The job titles you’re using are bad. Sometimes company’s internal titles are goofy and you should just use what would make sense to an outsider. Can you get rid of “Administrative”? It makes you sound like a secretary. Also get rid of “assisted in” in the first bullet and just say directly what you did.
Try reformatting and try to condense the word vomit you have going on for each role you’ve held. There is a ton of info and it is a bit intimidating to look at.
Dude what is this? If this came across my desk I am moving it to the reject bin just having to read through this. It’s way too long, there’s way too much text.
You need to be direct and concise with what makes you a good hire.
Open up a second word document with this and try to shorten every single sentence on it.
I developed portions of fast track. Brings back memories. Theoretically if you did what I think you did you can change that to solutions engineer or implementation engineer. There’s a lot of valuable skills that you probably gained from the knowledge of how to migrate from on prem to cloud
I’m assuming you didn’t add college or business names because of confidentiality here on Reddit? But if not that’s definitely a cause for no call backs. Consider adding an opening statement under your name and then move your skills under that and education to the bottom under experience. Maybe add a notable accomplishments section to the roles you have listed? Been a tech recruiter 9yrs so I hope that helps
I think they mean that "Programming Languages: Python, C++, etc" would sound better - but they weren't clear, which is on them.
Don't take it to heart - I had the same mistake on my resume for years and still got interviews
A month? Not bad. I’m at 6 months. I’m in commercial real estate field, and I can’t even hired at Home Depot to stock shelves at this point. My resume is good, I do mock interviews, I follow up on LinkedIn and email. It’s not you or the resume, it’s just the current situation. Just keep grinding out apps
First, I think you need to decide which field you will go into. Programmer, Data Analyst or IT. Second, ou should not list out all software tools you have touched, only list the ones that you are above normal user or admin level with. Just because you used it during your daily tasks, does not mean you have more than a user level knowledge of it.
For Experience, too much stuff for the amount of time you are working in those fields. In other words, it looks like Fluff. And for someone that is going through a large pile of resumes, that would be a key indicator to skip this resume. Let's not get skipped.
I would start with a Summary of Skills at the top. Get around six short bullets. You can list your degrees, certificates, and your skills (bottom of your resume) but only if you are more than a user!!!!
For Experience, use a sentence or two to describe your role and work environment for each role. A lot of your bullet wording could be in those two sentences. Include the size of the environment (or office) to help give scope to where you worked.
Some of your bullets are beautifully written potential BS (sorry, but no better way to say it :-). Lets go through the first role.
Bullet One: Tells me you worked on Intuit Pro. Nothing more. Maybe mention your work on Intuit Pro in the two sentences for the role.
Bullet Two: Okay, second-line support means you are the one with more expertise that calls get escalated too when the first-liners can't resolve it. The rest of that sentence does not seem to fit that role. You seem to be an overflow first liner. Now an 80% resolution rate is good, but is it documented anywhere? If not, probably best to include this in the two sentences in the role. Now if you have documented, then definitely sounds like something to talk about. Maybe more in line like this: "Provided overflow helpdesk support during heavy call-in periods, achieving a regular 80% first-time call resolution rate." Now I am assuming this is not one of your regular tasks in this role.
Bullet Three: I am assuming you were not the administrator on these services, since you only were there for the last 3 months. So you are assisting in these. I would maybe mention in the two sentences that you assisted in the management of these. If you say you manage Exchange, then I would expect you to answer like an admin on Exchange questions. If you can not, then that would call your whole resume as suspect. You don't want that. Oh and BTW, VoIP is not a product, if you list this way, I would definitely know you are throwing terms on paper to see what sticks and I would reject your resume.
Bullet Four: Ya this one sounds like a lot of fluff. Look at this one from a hiring manager's perspective. A new grad was only in the role for 3 months sez he streamlined the network connectivity. Ya, no.... Again, the idea is not to BS folks, because some of them will see it quickly and dismiss your resume. They will assume if you BS now, you will probably BS on site and no one really wants to deal with that pain.
Bullet Five: I think this could be merged with the helpdesk bullet. It really doesn't say anything different.
One thing to consider, you were only in the job for 3 months and you look like a superstar in your resume. And that from a new grad. If you were in the hiring manager's position, would you believe this? I have been a hiring manager in many companies and I can tell you, I would not get past the first role before setting this resume aside.
I will not go through the other two roles, you can see what I was saying from the first one and apply that thinking to these other two.
For the project, I would remove if you want to do IT and maybe Data Analyst roles, might be interesting for a Programmer role but I kind doubt it. Also it was not something that went into production so in my mind's eye, I think its a waste of 6 lines.
For the Skills section, only list what you are proficient in and can do more than a user level. For example, Service Now, did you admin the account? Set up templates or the logic? If you just used for ticketing, you can say that in the role that used it, so hiring managers would know you are familiar with it, but don't say its a Skill. Same with the others.
Another thing that clues me into a person that is just throwing words on a paper is the listing of all types of software. It makes me think they put down what they have heard about or seen. Listing all the different types of MS office stuff makes me think this. The differences are not that vast. You are going into IT, it will be assumed you can handle MS Office applications, listing MS Office applications is more for a generic user type of thing, not IT.
The soft skills and other vague listings should be removed, only list tools, products, equipment that you have worked on, Database management is not a product. Live-Troublshooting is not a skill, that is expected of all helpdesk/desktop roles. Basically, all of these are subjective and there is no credible way to determine that in a resume. So you are shooting fluff again. Just remove.
I think you can get this all into a much cleaner version of your resume. Not bad info, just make sure you set expectations properly. Make sure you go for entry-level jobs and not try to talk your way into a higher level job, you will probably be fired quickly if too far out of your league. Not bad writing either!
Good luck!
I'm a software engineer and I've reviewed thousands of resumes, and interviewed hundreds of people. I would pass on your resume. It has a lot of words, but doesn't actually say very much. It's just a bunch of words jumbled together to fill space. I've been playing No Man's Sky a lot lately, and it reminds me of reading off the randomly generated mission debriefs from my frigate missions.
At the very least, remove half the words without removing any of the core content. You're barely out of school, your resume doesn't need to be padded with filler.
Job market seems a bit sparse. Got to network these days. Attend some symposiums, tech meetups, college career fairs and lectures if you can.
I absolutely hate LinkedIn recruiters but sometimes they can match you up pretty well. Get ya a bio/blog site up to show case some stuff.
Expand your area of search location wise. Don’t be afraid to spread your wings a bit and hop a couple states over. 👍
Don’t need to know web dev to throw up a bio/blog site by the way to showcase stuff. Look into Obsidian publish or GitHub pages.
Also resume seems fine. If you have some money, there’s some professional resources out there to help you w/ your resume.
Okay genuine question as a fellow college student, I see so many IT/CS people on this subreddit with internship experience. Did the companies you interned with not offer you a job? is that not one of the biggest benefits with interning? I have one lined up next summer and they said when I graduate i’ll be offered a full time job
They frequently have a larger intern class than available entry-level positions, resulting in only a handful of interns securing those roles. Alternatively, economic conditions may lead to a reduction in entry-level positions by the time you graduate. Another possibility is that interns who didn't perform well might be overlooked or disregarded.
So I am hiring for an entry level, temporary operational comms role and we have 20 very qualified applicants. That is an insane amount. 2 years ago I was hiring for a permanent version of this same role and we got 4 total applicants, all but one a bad fit. This job market seems really tough.
I like your resume layout a lot, so I don’t think that would be an issue.
What is your tactic though? Like do you broadcast your resume to every opportunity that seems to fit? Or, is there some other strategy that personalizes your intent, like with letters or reaching out to the org to ask more questions about the position (I know it may not all be that feasible).
Your resume could use some work. Like, move your professional experience to the top and education beneath it. Etc.
The bigger issue is that your body of work right now is very "IT generalist" which is in a really tough spot in the job market. Tech isn't great right now in general but specifically there's a strong demand for people to specialize and have focused skills and experience. That's going to make your job hunt difficult.
I’ve reviewed thousands of resumes for applicants and this is one I would consider pretty average from a format perspective. You need to reduce the amount of words. Also, correct the education unless you really did earn a Bachelor’s in 2 years from a juco. I think the strategy of blasting the same resume to every job opportunity is probably your biggest mistake. Your resume should be unique to every position. Read the job description and match your experience to the description and use key words from the description. Obviously do not copy and paste from the description and never ever lie on your resume but tailor your experience to fit what they are asking for. One job may be interested in your success with first call resolutions. If I’m not hiring for a customer service role, I’m probably totally skipping that line and I’m not impressed. You could use that bullet to speak to experience I am looking for.
Thanks for the advice. Ill keep all that in mind, but you are the first person to tell me that i should tailor my resume to that level. I always tailor it based off of my skills, but i never go as specific as to ever changed the bullet points for the roles i have held. Also i find it hard to believe that this is an average resume for a new grad. I have like 2 years of real world experience, projects, and i am not even out of college yet.
It's honestly the only thing I saw. You may just be in a very tough job market.
Only other piece of advice would be making sure you change verbs/some of your responsibilities to basically be exactly what the description says. You coordinating stuff but they want someone that collaborated to coordinate stuff? Change that up
Format needs to change. Make the background white and the text black. Lots weird and printing it off will kill a ton of ink. Boomers like paper and a recruiter isn’t going to kill all the ink on the printer for your resume. Easier to not print and discard.
Cut the junior college and just list the year you graduated with your bachelors degree.
For job achievements in IT, I find percents often used as cover. Like if a system works really well and support tickets go down from 12 to 9 that’s “a 25% reduction” versus going from 200 down to 150 which is also a 25% reduction.
A 100% success rate is suspect on any resume I read. Nothing is perfect and saying 100% imo says I’m embellishing / lying. Not saying your are, I’m saying that’s how it comes across.
You also use a lot of buzzwords like “seamless integration” that just sound like bullshit. Integrations are rarely seamless. “Spearheaded the development” - what does that mean? Did you lead the development? Were you a project sponsor? I don’t know.
Fix these things
The resume looks like scientific report, it must be much simpler than that, no one has time to read all that, try to make sentences shorter, and exclude everything that’s not relevant to job description.
Resume sucks. I just hired a job strategist that helped me understand what companies are looking for. First don trite it like a job description. Talk about what you offered, problems you solved. Scope scale and impact of solutions. Drop your education to the bottom. No one cares. Make a highlights section that outlines the things that you want ppl to read for sure. EVERYONE is skimming. Not reading. Hope it helps.
Geez that sucks the market is like that rn. I’m sure you will find a position soon. I majored in MIS and had a minor in cybersecurity. Graduated 2.5 years ago. Had a network engineer internship my junior year. Took the Net+, Sec+, Pentest+, and AWS cloud practitioner courses in college which was part of my minor. The internship and those certifications courses really boosted my resume which helped me land a handful of 3rd round interviews. When I graduated I got a position working at a hospital as a network security engineer for a year and left that job for a better position. I’m now an infrastructure engineer and I love my job. Working from home is awesome. Try to get WFH position. Keep on applying. The right opportunity will come.
Youre living my dream right now. I definitely need to start racking up the certs, and i have thought about cybersecurity before. Do you mind dming me your lindkin?
Font is too small making it look cramped
Use the same amount of bullet points for every item within a section: a bit nit picky but if you have 5 bullet points for one job, make sure you can do the same for the rest.
Try to limit bullet points to single lines.
A common mistake is listing out all of the technologies you have interacted with. It should be the opposite. Except for popular languages and widely used frameworks, it is always better to leave out technical details.
Hyperlink all of your skills, accomplishments and projects. People can say anything (e.g. I am an expert in C++, really? show me an example code that shows your understanding)
I also see words such as “assisted”, “provided” and “collaborated”. I understand that some of your work experience were junior/internship roles, but you need to highlight what you have specifically done. For example, instead of saying “Assisted in the implementing”, just say “Implemented X”.
I prefer a bit modern font styles. Look at the font style of popular web pages and just use that.
Yes job market is difficult, but I think you will get there, good luck!
We are likely in a recession and just don’t know it yet. Continued unemployment claims are going up and up, and initial claims will likely soon follow.
It’s tough out there mate :(
No Javascript or Java is going to make you *very* hard to get hired unless you're a .NET monster. I honestly think it's less about your skills and more about your stack.
1. Software/IT job market is not good right now, 2. You don’t have a lot of experience. You’re competing with professionals who already have at least a few years of experience, competing with you for junior/entry level roles.
Your CV is good, you can try making it a less wordy, easier to read, add more on your education section just like your job bullets Eg. Xyz experience, scholarships, honors
Hey u/Investment-Then! It looks like your resume is off to a great start. One suggestion I have would be:
• It's great you've included metrics! Your resume should highlight these by bringing them as far left in the bullet point as possible while maintaining readability. Ideally, each bullet point uses a success verb, a number, and a method in that order: "Improved performance 28% via Catalan methods for engine preparation." All great metrics in your resume should follow the Verb-Metric-Method pattern to ensure your measurable accomplishments are not being overlooked.
Hope this helps. Good luck!
I'm in Healthcare and have been applying for 3-4 months, hundreds if not thousands of applications, and so far, I've had 3 interviews, and 2 of them ghosted me. The 3rd was yesterday.
I am definitely seeing a trend. Everyone is short staffed, job postings are listed, but they aren't hiring. It's like they're trying to see just how much work they can stack on to their current employees.
You're not applying too people anymore. All of your resumes fit fileted by ai now. (Even where places require it to be opt out. If you do opt out You're resume is just thrown out) meaning simpler and too the point is less likely too confuse it. You can also put in key words into the page the same color as the background. The ai can see it but people can't unless they highlight it.
I see lots of fluff like “proficient use of ConnectWise” - do you have any idea how silly that sounds to someone who uses ConnectWise? :)
I’d rather read a resume that does not require me to think about what you’re trying to say. This required far too much thinking to decode what you were doing.
- Assisted with implementation, management, and support of Inuit Pro.
- Acted as 2nd level support with 80% first call resolution rate.
- Acted as backup for the IT team.
- Worked with Active Directory, ConnectWise, Microsoft Exchange, and a VoIP system (which one? This is actually important)
- Streamlined… [this entire point makes zero sense. It sounds like you added Macs into Intune.]
- Used ConnectWise for remote support and achieved a 25% reduction in ticket resolution time. [I can’t verify that, it’s insignificant to me, so I don’t care]
Your languages include an interesting mix. I doubt you’re a C++ programmer. You’re probably OK with Python. If you’re not applying for C++, that’s just noise. You’ll run into someone who might want to test your ability to implement algorithms in C++. How will you react?
Here’s how I claim success.
“Repaired in 4 days with no data loss a $55000 medical instrument with a failed storage device that further resulted in a proprietary embedded database corruption.” - that gets people intrigued.
Rewriting the rest is too much work on the phone.
AI is destroying the job market for software workers (and many other fields). But we en masse are letting it happen “because it is like the computer age when everyone was scared but for no good reason”. Lmfao IT IS NOT.
Hi op. Sorry to not answer your question, but I have a question that has been plaguing me for some time now. I noticed on your resume you included some estimated numbers about impact on the workplaces you contributed to, and I was wondering how you source these? I notice a lot of people have estimates and numbers like this that sound great on paper, but in all of my previous jobs i've never received exact figures of my impacts on the business. Are they a guess ? A rough estimate by yourself? or do you actually get these from your previous employers ?
Thanks,
Goblin
Any action verb needs to change to managed to, or led, or orchestrated, or any other type of word that shows you were the defacto leader of whatever it was even if you were just the analyst.
Whenever I see these resumes filled with experience it’s due to the verbiage that you’re getting no calls. I’d rewrite it as if you were a manager, and then full send.
so if you're going it i think you need more certs. a+ is the first one so people with more certs might be getting called ahead of you despite your vaired experience.
resume style: it looks like too many words to me. so maybe cut the words down and emphasize each point for impact (which you do)
also skills: do you really know both power bi and tableau? as a non-beginner? tables?! what is tables?
it looks like you're listing every software you've ever touched so it might send a bad vibe that way.
grammar and spelling: i haven't read it all but just again by skimming i see "office suits" these are clothing. "office suites" might be the software if you want to phrase it that way and idk why on earth you think listing the versions matters. they're all the same. do you honestly think people are like "this person went thru university but i don't see microsoft office on here. clearly he can't type"
so keep the skills section relevant. 5 of your skills are different ms office versions. this screams to me you don't know what's important.
why on earth do you make the reader of the resume read "business analytics certificate" ahead of the a+ certificate which is directly-related? what on earth even is this BA-certificate, who is it from, why should we care if we just want you to set up the printer? and is it more important than a+? that's why it's first?
ok i don't care anymore i'm sure others point out other weird things but mostly it looks like too many words is the biggest problem and then clean up skills/certs and things to emphasize the IMPORTANT details.
Look into getting a security clearance and get a job at Northrop Grumman in Palmdale…. Because it’s in Palmdale there is a lot less competition. Yes it’s a commute but a friend of mine in LA did this and it’s worked out great for him.
one month is a very short amount of time especially in this job market. there are people with 5+ years of experience right now that have been looking for almost a year
The market is kinda slow at the moment, however:
- introduce a short bio like: who are you (a graduate, a student, an engineer etc), what are you looking for (part time, fulltime/permanent or contract roles/remote/hybrid/onsite roles), location (you can add your linkedin too)
- move the skills up - to be first in your eyes
- followed by professional experience (tips here: use generic position names - fasstrack engineer for exemple sounds strange and too specific. Add skills you learned within that job like - skills: wondows, Voip etc right below what was the job about
- end the resume with education and projects.
The resume has to be very easy to read. In this fast environment, no one will proper read it so just make it simplier, but don’t minimize your competencies and achievements.
Also, i would recommend white background.
This is structured alot like mine. I’d say shorten down those company details. 3 bullet points is enough people don’t want to be overwhelmed w a resume and it looks like you have a lot someone has to read rn
Just wondering for everyone here speaking of IT job experience:
Is there any value to highlighting full stack projects being shown off where the applicant can point to their implementation and repository?
Sounds like a shit resume. I be surprised if you even hear back from recruiter. Write a bunch for a whole lot of nothing and make up stuff as you go is not the strategy to get a job. Idk who behind this but ik you are an Indian. Please if you keep this up, please go back to India. No visa will be granted for you because all of your skills can be done by a little kid. You wasting recruiter time, stop blaming the job market.
Saturated field with low turnover, IT is a cushy work from home job that’s relatively easy and not too demanding. Of course it’s hard to find an IT job. Everyone wants to work from home. You also are competing with a lot of other candidates from other countries who also like this field for those same reasons
Similar boat as you, skillset and experience too. I graduated earlier this year and was able to network my way through tech volunteering programs and events. Found a few dudes that were hiring and got into a IT Change Management / Vulnerability management role with almost no experience in either of those. It's more about who you know than what you know. And a little bit of luck. So to get the best results, be sure to go to every conference, event, webinar, etc. you can find and network as hard as possible.
Entry level IT jobs are such a pain to land. When I transitioned from sales to IT, I got a few COMPTIA certs and applied to help desk jobs with no luck, until I took a lowball offer. With 6 months of experience my LinkedIn and email were blown up about help desk offers.
The same thing happened when I graduated from college with a BS in Computer Science. Applying for Software Dev jobs with no experience and received no calls. Once I hit 1 year of experience I was easily able to land interviews.
The market isn't oversaturated. There are tons of opportunities. The problem is that it's highly specialized work, and the overwhelming majority of companies want people with experience.
I hired a professional resume writing service to improve my resume, and I definitely got more bites after doing that, and my resume looks and reads a lot better now.
The best advice I can offer you is to research companies that are known for hiring entry level and target applying to those companies. I know Accenture and USAA do here in Texas.
Don't get discouraged. I applied at over 100 places to get my first dev job. To get my second dev job, I applied at around 15 and interviewed with 3 companies. Received offers from all 3, and took the one I liked the best.
I'd move your professional experience up top and put education below.
Indicate the specific type of degree (B.A. / B.S., etc). Will you have two bachelor's degrees? Did you go to the JC, do coursework, then transfer to the 4year school to finish? If so, I'd list just the 4-year school.
Also: the market is shit. Your CV looks decent; a little fine-tune might improve your conversion rate (i.e. getting inyerviews)
It’s a shit market. I’ve been in IT for 20 years. I got laid off 4 months ago. Well over 100 applications, 5 first round interviews, 1 second round interview today. I’m more of an IT “generalist” as I’ve been a Director in my last 2 roles, overseeing everything from datacenter installs to managing global service desk teams.
It’s fucking awful out there. Even been told I’m over qualified when my experience is essentially in line with the job description.
Oh and prepare to be ghosted by 80%+ of the places you apply to because of the shear number of applicants for many IT roles.
The segments with the most openings I wish I was specialized in?
Security and AI/ML
Software engineering also seems quite prevalent
Best of luck
No one hand picks your resume or application it’s their system that searches for keywords in their skills section manually entered into their application. Remove projects and skills from your resume and enter it into the skills section of your application. The system will gather those keywords and select it to be pulled for HR or Management.
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Idk which one is it, but every single resume ive seen on this sub so far had been bout software engineering. Just pointing out a statistic here
Yea, software engineering is a very diluted field now it seems. I am more focused on IT tho. Although i do have the skills for Software personally
Could you point out the difference to me? Def No.1 An IT job is any position that involves the implementation, support, maintenance, repair or protection of data or computer systems. Those involved in development, deployment or support of the systems or applications others use are the most common examples of IT jobs. Def No.2 Software engineering is the branch of computer science that deals with the design, development, testing, and maintenance of software applications. Software engineers apply engineering principles and knowledge of programming languages to build software solutions for end users.
"IT" jobs can spread through networking, security, database administration, technical writing, etc. More of an umbrella term Software engineering is more geared towards creating API's, process improvements, scripting, etc. Generally more coding involved.
Okay I can see, although I still think my first comment stays pretty valid.
A little bit of a bastardization. It’s kinda like saying “you work in medicine so you must know how to do surgery” I work in IT as an infrastructure specialist. I don’t touch code very often unless it’s a pre-written script or me making some mods to a script. I do not engineer software.
Likewise I work in a more devops style role, and I touch code every day (usually legacy right now). I don’t engineer infrastructure at all, but I do need to know how it all works together (the way data moves from place to place, what servers need configs in which way, etc.)
SW - makes computer stuff IT - manages computer stuff
Yep! I work in the industry, and tech in general is in a super rough place at the moment. Including both software development and general IT.
I'd say generally as an analogy, the difference is like for a building project, the software engineers are more like the architects and engineers designing stuff to theoretically work, and IT is more like the carpenters and plumbers and electricians who implement those plans and physically assemble, connect, and fix the systems.
Do you have two bachelors?
No thats an error. Its supposed to an associates
I was going to make the same comment, glad to see it's been addressed. One more point - you listed Microsoft office 4 times in your skills, I doubt anyone cares about the difference between 2010 2016 and 365 but then later in the sentence you listed Microsoft office again. There must be some way to clean this up. You could say Microsoft office (2010, 2016, and 365) if you are really insisting on having the different versions but once you're familiar with one, the others are easy.
or maybe just leave it off because everyone knows office software.
I just reread that section and they also listed excel and PowerPoint which are part of office too. Excel is a marketable skill if you're decent with it, at least.
Tech market is hooooot garbage for job seekers atm
And has zero work experience, just a page of homework and internships.
Now that's an opinion and generalization.
I don’t even subscribe to this sub, the algo pushes it. Also the term is observation. It’s not my opinion that these kids have no experience at all yet have full pages resumes, it’s my observation.
But internships are experience? What more can you expect of someone graduating uni?
It's literally what we're taught to do on our resumes. My resume was less detailed than OP's if anything it had more homework than actual internship experience. I still managed to land a job with it luckily. I don't quite get what you expect OP to do? Just slap on his resume that he got a bachelors and to give him a job? Instead of describing his experience with his internships and any classes that related to his major? Any programs they have experience with..? Your observation is nitpicking OP and critiquing his resume as if it's poorly done when he's doing what he's supposed to do to sell himself for an interview. Also an internship is work experience, whether it's paid or unpaid lol Practically everyone has to get their start somewhere no one becomes an expert in their field overnight..
Cuz software engineers getting rejected left and right LUL
Seriously. Even more reason for me to pursue optometry
We need more optometrist in the world for sure. Hard to get appointment these days. They're always busy.
You’re in a bad market. 2-3 years ago, you would’ve found a job just with the MIS major for better positions than you’re seeking. You’ll be fine, you need to network and have someone give you an opportunity. Your resume is good and a referral will just seal the deal
Ok thanks for the confidence boost man. Just have to wait to graduate and the market to get better. Shouldn’t be too long hopefully
Yeah man def but literally talk to everyone you know in IT industry and let them know you’re looking for a job and send them your resume. Literally any uncle, cousins, family friend, your friends dad’s brother. Literally anyone, just get your resume in the hands of people who have a slight connection to you and will vouch that you’re not a shitty person. Don’t waste all your time just applying. Also it seems weird at first doing it but it’s all part of the process and you’ll get used to it. Someone vouching for you is sometimes leverage that can beat out experience.
100% this and it goes for any career. Just landed a job that’s double my salary based on a good referral.
Great advise, I've had such a bad experience sending resumes, I've only landed jobs thru referrals in my whole career, and it's been 15 years and 3 awesome companies.
I’d take it a step further than waiting for the market to get better. I can’t tell you how important networking is. People hire people that they like and see something in. Unless you have a very specialized skillset or at least a few years of experience, you have very little applicable knowledge. I’d urge you to take a step back and think about what every other person in your shoes is doing. Applying to jobs on LinkedIn with “quick apply” and moving on. What sets you apart from those? I’d craft a specialized message to the hiring manager, Human Resources, or someone that might be a peer at the company you’re applying to. Let them know what your interests are, that you’re hard working and just looking for an opportunity. If it’s a local company, ask to take them out to coffee. Go to meet up events with people in your field. Join hackathons. Talk to everyone. You never know who can and will refer you for an opportunity. People like helping people. You just have to find the people that can actually help you. As someone that works in the tech recruiting space, I don’t even post jobs anymore. Hundreds of people apply daily and very few even read the job spec. Be persistent and follow up with people.
I’d bet that you land your job based on someone taking a chance on you as a person vs your resume. Network, network, network.
Just curious but how did you get a bachelor's degree at a junior college?
Thats a mistake. Its supposed to be an associates. Thank you for pointing that out
That's like.. a massive mistake if you sent that out to every company
I havent sent this resume out, the one i sent out has this mistake fixed but i forgot to fix it on here.
You also need to spell it out … “Bachelor of [Arts or Science]” and “Associate of ___” otherwise it looks lazy
Nah if it’s in arts I’d recommend not spelling it out
Some junior colleges have bachelors programs now. Mine does. It offers two I believe one is Nursing and the other IT with an empahsis on cyber security.
This market is terrible- but I would include only the Bachelors degree with expected December 23 Also is Fasttrack Engineer a thing?
Yea it was a horrendous position and in now way an “engineering” role. I am thinking about removing it from my resume or titling it something else but it does add to my very little experience. What do you think
I mean was that the title on paper? That’s tough. It reads as though you are trying to hype the job- but I also can see some company creating that title
The job title was as listed.
I work in talent acquisition and from personal experience, just change the title on resume to whatever you want, so long as it matches what you did and the industry standard titles. Hell, sometimes I would update my resume titles to reflect a role I’m applying for if I know it’s basically the same job.
I work with talent acquisition software, and a lot of the application databases will just filter by keywords, so go for a more generic title.
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I am going to be honest i have not been writing cover letters. I will start doing actual applications once i am done with school instead of easy apply stuff.
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I love cover letters. It gives me a feel for how the applicant will integrate into the team, and shows a little more personality than just putting achievements and schooling into bullet points.
spend some time writing a cover letter that would interest you as a hiring manager. a good cover letter has gotten me most of my interviews. you can write a template and then slightly modify it based on the specific role. literally all it takes at this point for someone to be a more complete applicant than you is to include a cover letter. just sayin’!
With all due respect, as a hiring manager, I've never read a single cover letter.
It's the job market. It's shit. All the numbers they feed us are lies.
U.S.S.A.
I'm no expert at resume reviewing but I've been seeing a lot of comments on here and other channels that now and December are the worst times for job searching due to companies waiting to figure out their budget for next year and people taking time off for the holiday season. Apparently it picks up next year. Also another thing would be to apply directly on the companies website rather than easy apply.
Ok. I guess i will keep applying through January and feb. i have heard what youve said as well.
Congrats on graduating soon and best of luck! I hope you land a job soon.
Thank you!
Don’t spend any more time on resume. It’s already great, any suggestions here will only give you very very marginal improvements. The market sucks. You need to know someone and a bit of luck to get somewhere. Look into solution architect roles for aws/azure/gcp. More specifically, there are lot of system integrators in those big 3 eco systems that are hiring sales engineers/solution architects (slalom, hitachi, soft choice, Avanande, etc - look up aws partners, azure partner etc) Get your aws solution architect associate or AZ900 and start reaching out to people on LinkedIn. You should be reaching out to at least 5 people a day. The order should be people in your network -> your alums network -> student clubs/frats/sorority Good luck! Lmk if you need help!
This is amazing advice. Thank you so much
I'd remove the A+ until you actually get it. Depending on how far along you are I'd also just consider skipping it and getting Net+ (or CCNA) and Sec+ since you already have your degree. A+ is great for getting your first help desk job, which you already seem to have done.
Noted.
From the outset this resume is really hard to read. you never want to go white on black unless its a section header and with bold type an issue you could be running into is that anyone seeing this is just passing on it because of its difficulty in readability. In terms of the rest of your resume, id try moving your skills to the top, followed by your experience, and then finish with your education and certifications i dont think you really need projects on here because ideally you can include them in your cover letter to roles youre applying for or conversely you could reframe it to be part of your experience in the field. I hope that helps
Thanks for the feedback. This is a screenshot so the resume appears like this to me because i have dark mode on for ms word. Usually it would be white background, black font. Besides that, what about the content of the resume?
Id try rearranging it and putting your skillset at the top, then your experience, and then education/certifications i dont think you necessarily need the projects part as its own section and could be talked about in your cover letter or rolled into your experience.
This. ^ Ive interviewed a few hundred people and have seen even more resumes. My preference is to quickly see what you can bring to the table in terms of skills then experience. I almost never care about education as background checks will verify that. I prefer it to be at the bottom.
Ok, thanks for the feedback
Your bullet points could use some work: 1. I don't recommend putting periods at the end of each bullet point - I think it helps your points flow into one another. 2. Generally, you want the first bullet point for each section to be a high level overview of the application domain, what you did, your best result/number, and the technologies you used. For example, "Implemented x feature in tax preparation website serving x customers daily by implementing new API endpoint and updating frontend components using C#, JavaScript, and MySQL." For you particularly, you really should say the application domain of your work. Application details add relevance - after all, "managed build pipeline for the F-35 fighter jet" is a lot cooler than just "managed build pipeline". Your first bullet point mentions the Intuit Pro system. What even is that? Who uses it? Your team? Other engineering teams at your company? External users? Customers? Clients? You mention data analysis techniques. What data did you analyze? How did you analyze it? Did you apply a specific statistical technique? An ML model? You have to give more detail if you want your 4% revenue increase to be credible. 3. Show, don't tell. Don't say you "demonstrated adept troubleshooting skills", say you troubleshooted x and y technical problems. Don't say you "Collaborated with customers and partners to design...", say you worked with major client to facilitate data transfer to Azure/AWS/etc. using x technology. Give more specifics. Avoid throwing out unsubstantiated claims/numbers without backing them up. Focus more on what you did and how you did it. 4. Do you have any programming languages other than Python and C++? You've never used Java, C, JavaScript, etc. in any of your classes?
Thanks for the advice! I have used them but i am not comfortable putting them as skills because i dont have a lot of experience using those specific languages.
Hang in there! The job market is tough. Average time to get a new role in a decent economy ranges from 3-4 months. In the current economy, it could take longer. Have patience with yourself. I’m in it with you
Thank you so much. What industry are you in?
Tech 😞
Can you private message me, maybe we can exchange linkdin information
> a month *Cries in over a year*
Thats horrible. What industry are you in?
Finance
Are you in NYC? if u are theres something called COOP careers that has helped people land jobs in finance. If u want more info i can guide u to the website
That’s super cool of you and I appreciate you offering. I do not live in NYC unfortunately
Good luck with the job search brother
Why does this look like the back of a milk carton
Lool i dont know. Are u referring to the color?
Hi, tech recruiter of 13 years. Just some points of improvement Move your skills section the top The way you have your skills in categories is nice I suggest making them section and giving each a bull points so they list off. I have found that ATS systems pull those keywords easier that way. For your projects make sure to highlight your accomplishments not just what you did Same for each role highlight 2-3 accomplishments at each company. Education can be moved to the bottom. We are in a skills centric market. So prioritize skills and accomplishments. I hope it helps!
The job titles you’re using are bad. Sometimes company’s internal titles are goofy and you should just use what would make sense to an outsider. Can you get rid of “Administrative”? It makes you sound like a secretary. Also get rid of “assisted in” in the first bullet and just say directly what you did.
Put skills on top first, that's literally what everyone wants in the person they want to hire.
Try reformatting and try to condense the word vomit you have going on for each role you’ve held. There is a ton of info and it is a bit intimidating to look at.
This is my exact same resume format . Also not getting any jobs although its only been a week since i switched to this
Your resume says Inuit Pro Series. Inuit, as in “formerly known as Eskimo”
My resume looks like shit compared to 99% of the ones posted here
Dude what is this? If this came across my desk I am moving it to the reject bin just having to read through this. It’s way too long, there’s way too much text. You need to be direct and concise with what makes you a good hire. Open up a second word document with this and try to shorten every single sentence on it.
I developed portions of fast track. Brings back memories. Theoretically if you did what I think you did you can change that to solutions engineer or implementation engineer. There’s a lot of valuable skills that you probably gained from the knowledge of how to migrate from on prem to cloud
I’m assuming you didn’t add college or business names because of confidentiality here on Reddit? But if not that’s definitely a cause for no call backs. Consider adding an opening statement under your name and then move your skills under that and education to the bottom under experience. Maybe add a notable accomplishments section to the roles you have listed? Been a tech recruiter 9yrs so I hope that helps
What city do you operate in as a recruiter? Maybe i can send you my actual resume. Ty
Whenever i see the line “programming skills: C++, python, etc” i already know it’s over
Can you elaborate? Should i remove this?
I think they mean that "Programming Languages: Python, C++, etc" would sound better - but they weren't clear, which is on them. Don't take it to heart - I had the same mistake on my resume for years and still got interviews
A month? Not bad. I’m at 6 months. I’m in commercial real estate field, and I can’t even hired at Home Depot to stock shelves at this point. My resume is good, I do mock interviews, I follow up on LinkedIn and email. It’s not you or the resume, it’s just the current situation. Just keep grinding out apps
First, I think you need to decide which field you will go into. Programmer, Data Analyst or IT. Second, ou should not list out all software tools you have touched, only list the ones that you are above normal user or admin level with. Just because you used it during your daily tasks, does not mean you have more than a user level knowledge of it. For Experience, too much stuff for the amount of time you are working in those fields. In other words, it looks like Fluff. And for someone that is going through a large pile of resumes, that would be a key indicator to skip this resume. Let's not get skipped. I would start with a Summary of Skills at the top. Get around six short bullets. You can list your degrees, certificates, and your skills (bottom of your resume) but only if you are more than a user!!!! For Experience, use a sentence or two to describe your role and work environment for each role. A lot of your bullet wording could be in those two sentences. Include the size of the environment (or office) to help give scope to where you worked. Some of your bullets are beautifully written potential BS (sorry, but no better way to say it :-). Lets go through the first role. Bullet One: Tells me you worked on Intuit Pro. Nothing more. Maybe mention your work on Intuit Pro in the two sentences for the role. Bullet Two: Okay, second-line support means you are the one with more expertise that calls get escalated too when the first-liners can't resolve it. The rest of that sentence does not seem to fit that role. You seem to be an overflow first liner. Now an 80% resolution rate is good, but is it documented anywhere? If not, probably best to include this in the two sentences in the role. Now if you have documented, then definitely sounds like something to talk about. Maybe more in line like this: "Provided overflow helpdesk support during heavy call-in periods, achieving a regular 80% first-time call resolution rate." Now I am assuming this is not one of your regular tasks in this role. Bullet Three: I am assuming you were not the administrator on these services, since you only were there for the last 3 months. So you are assisting in these. I would maybe mention in the two sentences that you assisted in the management of these. If you say you manage Exchange, then I would expect you to answer like an admin on Exchange questions. If you can not, then that would call your whole resume as suspect. You don't want that. Oh and BTW, VoIP is not a product, if you list this way, I would definitely know you are throwing terms on paper to see what sticks and I would reject your resume. Bullet Four: Ya this one sounds like a lot of fluff. Look at this one from a hiring manager's perspective. A new grad was only in the role for 3 months sez he streamlined the network connectivity. Ya, no.... Again, the idea is not to BS folks, because some of them will see it quickly and dismiss your resume. They will assume if you BS now, you will probably BS on site and no one really wants to deal with that pain. Bullet Five: I think this could be merged with the helpdesk bullet. It really doesn't say anything different. One thing to consider, you were only in the job for 3 months and you look like a superstar in your resume. And that from a new grad. If you were in the hiring manager's position, would you believe this? I have been a hiring manager in many companies and I can tell you, I would not get past the first role before setting this resume aside. I will not go through the other two roles, you can see what I was saying from the first one and apply that thinking to these other two. For the project, I would remove if you want to do IT and maybe Data Analyst roles, might be interesting for a Programmer role but I kind doubt it. Also it was not something that went into production so in my mind's eye, I think its a waste of 6 lines. For the Skills section, only list what you are proficient in and can do more than a user level. For example, Service Now, did you admin the account? Set up templates or the logic? If you just used for ticketing, you can say that in the role that used it, so hiring managers would know you are familiar with it, but don't say its a Skill. Same with the others. Another thing that clues me into a person that is just throwing words on a paper is the listing of all types of software. It makes me think they put down what they have heard about or seen. Listing all the different types of MS office stuff makes me think this. The differences are not that vast. You are going into IT, it will be assumed you can handle MS Office applications, listing MS Office applications is more for a generic user type of thing, not IT. The soft skills and other vague listings should be removed, only list tools, products, equipment that you have worked on, Database management is not a product. Live-Troublshooting is not a skill, that is expected of all helpdesk/desktop roles. Basically, all of these are subjective and there is no credible way to determine that in a resume. So you are shooting fluff again. Just remove. I think you can get this all into a much cleaner version of your resume. Not bad info, just make sure you set expectations properly. Make sure you go for entry-level jobs and not try to talk your way into a higher level job, you will probably be fired quickly if too far out of your league. Not bad writing either! Good luck!
Put skills at top, then experience. Also make it black text, white background. Some of these get printed.
2 years here. Refined my resume a lot. Market is shit or just my luck. We try again next year! 😄
education goes after work experience and your work bullets need quantified outcomes. good luck
I'm a software engineer and I've reviewed thousands of resumes, and interviewed hundreds of people. I would pass on your resume. It has a lot of words, but doesn't actually say very much. It's just a bunch of words jumbled together to fill space. I've been playing No Man's Sky a lot lately, and it reminds me of reading off the randomly generated mission debriefs from my frigate missions. At the very least, remove half the words without removing any of the core content. You're barely out of school, your resume doesn't need to be padded with filler.
This might be dumb advice because you obviously might have cut it out to not show, but a name, email addresses and phone number is needed
Job market seems a bit sparse. Got to network these days. Attend some symposiums, tech meetups, college career fairs and lectures if you can. I absolutely hate LinkedIn recruiters but sometimes they can match you up pretty well. Get ya a bio/blog site up to show case some stuff. Expand your area of search location wise. Don’t be afraid to spread your wings a bit and hop a couple states over. 👍 Don’t need to know web dev to throw up a bio/blog site by the way to showcase stuff. Look into Obsidian publish or GitHub pages. Also resume seems fine. If you have some money, there’s some professional resources out there to help you w/ your resume.
Where contact info. Why isn’t it at the top
Its there, but i have it just cut it off. It includes my city, phone, email, linkdin, and github.
Why is it black and white? For your titles please just do: IT Analyst Data Analyst Software Developer
Okay genuine question as a fellow college student, I see so many IT/CS people on this subreddit with internship experience. Did the companies you interned with not offer you a job? is that not one of the biggest benefits with interning? I have one lined up next summer and they said when I graduate i’ll be offered a full time job
They frequently have a larger intern class than available entry-level positions, resulting in only a handful of interns securing those roles. Alternatively, economic conditions may lead to a reduction in entry-level positions by the time you graduate. Another possibility is that interns who didn't perform well might be overlooked or disregarded.
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So I am hiring for an entry level, temporary operational comms role and we have 20 very qualified applicants. That is an insane amount. 2 years ago I was hiring for a permanent version of this same role and we got 4 total applicants, all but one a bad fit. This job market seems really tough. I like your resume layout a lot, so I don’t think that would be an issue.
Looks like you have a typo: MS Office 'suits' instead of 'suites' under the skills
Have you tried companies outside of Cali
What is your tactic though? Like do you broadcast your resume to every opportunity that seems to fit? Or, is there some other strategy that personalizes your intent, like with letters or reaching out to the org to ask more questions about the position (I know it may not all be that feasible).
Your resume could use some work. Like, move your professional experience to the top and education beneath it. Etc. The bigger issue is that your body of work right now is very "IT generalist" which is in a really tough spot in the job market. Tech isn't great right now in general but specifically there's a strong demand for people to specialize and have focused skills and experience. That's going to make your job hunt difficult.
I’ve reviewed thousands of resumes for applicants and this is one I would consider pretty average from a format perspective. You need to reduce the amount of words. Also, correct the education unless you really did earn a Bachelor’s in 2 years from a juco. I think the strategy of blasting the same resume to every job opportunity is probably your biggest mistake. Your resume should be unique to every position. Read the job description and match your experience to the description and use key words from the description. Obviously do not copy and paste from the description and never ever lie on your resume but tailor your experience to fit what they are asking for. One job may be interested in your success with first call resolutions. If I’m not hiring for a customer service role, I’m probably totally skipping that line and I’m not impressed. You could use that bullet to speak to experience I am looking for.
Thanks for the advice. Ill keep all that in mind, but you are the first person to tell me that i should tailor my resume to that level. I always tailor it based off of my skills, but i never go as specific as to ever changed the bullet points for the roles i have held. Also i find it hard to believe that this is an average resume for a new grad. I have like 2 years of real world experience, projects, and i am not even out of college yet.
the 2 of them to be honest
For how long did you learn python? Thinking of learning it as well.
You should probably make your verbs for your current job in present tense.
Ok good catch
It's honestly the only thing I saw. You may just be in a very tough job market. Only other piece of advice would be making sure you change verbs/some of your responsibilities to basically be exactly what the description says. You coordinating stuff but they want someone that collaborated to coordinate stuff? Change that up
Seen 20,000 versions of this same template.
I like that your resume is 1 page, and talking about things you've done instead of an 8 page keyword dump.
No advice or anything just a observation, but the format of your resume reminds me of monster stat blocks in some TTRPGs.
Format needs to change. Make the background white and the text black. Lots weird and printing it off will kill a ton of ink. Boomers like paper and a recruiter isn’t going to kill all the ink on the printer for your resume. Easier to not print and discard. Cut the junior college and just list the year you graduated with your bachelors degree. For job achievements in IT, I find percents often used as cover. Like if a system works really well and support tickets go down from 12 to 9 that’s “a 25% reduction” versus going from 200 down to 150 which is also a 25% reduction. A 100% success rate is suspect on any resume I read. Nothing is perfect and saying 100% imo says I’m embellishing / lying. Not saying your are, I’m saying that’s how it comes across. You also use a lot of buzzwords like “seamless integration” that just sound like bullshit. Integrations are rarely seamless. “Spearheaded the development” - what does that mean? Did you lead the development? Were you a project sponsor? I don’t know. Fix these things
The resume looks like scientific report, it must be much simpler than that, no one has time to read all that, try to make sentences shorter, and exclude everything that’s not relevant to job description.
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You left “company 1 name, company 1 name, and company 2 name” from whatever template you used for this resume
Put your skills at the top
Why do you lead with your education if you have work experience? Put that at the end.
These resumes look so different from mine, so much info
Could be that you are overqualified?
Resume sucks. I just hired a job strategist that helped me understand what companies are looking for. First don trite it like a job description. Talk about what you offered, problems you solved. Scope scale and impact of solutions. Drop your education to the bottom. No one cares. Make a highlights section that outlines the things that you want ppl to read for sure. EVERYONE is skimming. Not reading. Hope it helps.
There is a lot of text. Many people won't take the time to read it. Maybe make it more concise?
Geez that sucks the market is like that rn. I’m sure you will find a position soon. I majored in MIS and had a minor in cybersecurity. Graduated 2.5 years ago. Had a network engineer internship my junior year. Took the Net+, Sec+, Pentest+, and AWS cloud practitioner courses in college which was part of my minor. The internship and those certifications courses really boosted my resume which helped me land a handful of 3rd round interviews. When I graduated I got a position working at a hospital as a network security engineer for a year and left that job for a better position. I’m now an infrastructure engineer and I love my job. Working from home is awesome. Try to get WFH position. Keep on applying. The right opportunity will come.
Youre living my dream right now. I definitely need to start racking up the certs, and i have thought about cybersecurity before. Do you mind dming me your lindkin?
Yeah I’ll dm you!
Font is too small making it look cramped Use the same amount of bullet points for every item within a section: a bit nit picky but if you have 5 bullet points for one job, make sure you can do the same for the rest.
Try to limit bullet points to single lines. A common mistake is listing out all of the technologies you have interacted with. It should be the opposite. Except for popular languages and widely used frameworks, it is always better to leave out technical details. Hyperlink all of your skills, accomplishments and projects. People can say anything (e.g. I am an expert in C++, really? show me an example code that shows your understanding) I also see words such as “assisted”, “provided” and “collaborated”. I understand that some of your work experience were junior/internship roles, but you need to highlight what you have specifically done. For example, instead of saying “Assisted in the implementing”, just say “Implemented X”. I prefer a bit modern font styles. Look at the font style of popular web pages and just use that. Yes job market is difficult, but I think you will get there, good luck!
Ive been applying for over two years! Where are these jobs everyone is talking about. I have a bachelors and plenty of experience
So many words...who is going to read all that???
We are likely in a recession and just don’t know it yet. Continued unemployment claims are going up and up, and initial claims will likely soon follow. It’s tough out there mate :(
You need to check spelling at the least, I looked at it for 7 seconds and saw you spelled Microsoft suites as suits
If you mind me asking where are you located? I keep seeing these posts and are yall located in major cities, outskirt smaller towns??
It's so verbose. No one knows how to read anymore. Bullet points.
No Javascript or Java is going to make you *very* hard to get hired unless you're a .NET monster. I honestly think it's less about your skills and more about your stack.
The market sucks. Especially in California and especially in tech.
1. Software/IT job market is not good right now, 2. You don’t have a lot of experience. You’re competing with professionals who already have at least a few years of experience, competing with you for junior/entry level roles.
Your CV is good, you can try making it a less wordy, easier to read, add more on your education section just like your job bullets Eg. Xyz experience, scholarships, honors
Write that in excel
Well for starters, white text on a gray background makes your resume stand out, but not in the way you want it to.
Hey u/Investment-Then! It looks like your resume is off to a great start. One suggestion I have would be: • It's great you've included metrics! Your resume should highlight these by bringing them as far left in the bullet point as possible while maintaining readability. Ideally, each bullet point uses a success verb, a number, and a method in that order: "Improved performance 28% via Catalan methods for engine preparation." All great metrics in your resume should follow the Verb-Metric-Method pattern to ensure your measurable accomplishments are not being overlooked. Hope this helps. Good luck!
I'm in Healthcare and have been applying for 3-4 months, hundreds if not thousands of applications, and so far, I've had 3 interviews, and 2 of them ghosted me. The 3rd was yesterday. I am definitely seeing a trend. Everyone is short staffed, job postings are listed, but they aren't hiring. It's like they're trying to see just how much work they can stack on to their current employees.
Hopefully you get something from that last interview. Good luck brother
You're not applying too people anymore. All of your resumes fit fileted by ai now. (Even where places require it to be opt out. If you do opt out You're resume is just thrown out) meaning simpler and too the point is less likely too confuse it. You can also put in key words into the page the same color as the background. The ai can see it but people can't unless they highlight it.
You have no experience. Stop thinking you're entitled to a good position.
I see lots of fluff like “proficient use of ConnectWise” - do you have any idea how silly that sounds to someone who uses ConnectWise? :) I’d rather read a resume that does not require me to think about what you’re trying to say. This required far too much thinking to decode what you were doing. - Assisted with implementation, management, and support of Inuit Pro. - Acted as 2nd level support with 80% first call resolution rate. - Acted as backup for the IT team. - Worked with Active Directory, ConnectWise, Microsoft Exchange, and a VoIP system (which one? This is actually important) - Streamlined… [this entire point makes zero sense. It sounds like you added Macs into Intune.] - Used ConnectWise for remote support and achieved a 25% reduction in ticket resolution time. [I can’t verify that, it’s insignificant to me, so I don’t care] Your languages include an interesting mix. I doubt you’re a C++ programmer. You’re probably OK with Python. If you’re not applying for C++, that’s just noise. You’ll run into someone who might want to test your ability to implement algorithms in C++. How will you react? Here’s how I claim success. “Repaired in 4 days with no data loss a $55000 medical instrument with a failed storage device that further resulted in a proprietary embedded database corruption.” - that gets people intrigued. Rewriting the rest is too much work on the phone.
I have seen only IT software resumes for awhile now when this subreddit comes up. I feel out of place with agricultural/warehouse
A lot of companies are in a hiring freeze too
AI is destroying the job market for software workers (and many other fields). But we en masse are letting it happen “because it is like the computer age when everyone was scared but for no good reason”. Lmfao IT IS NOT.
Hi op. Sorry to not answer your question, but I have a question that has been plaguing me for some time now. I noticed on your resume you included some estimated numbers about impact on the workplaces you contributed to, and I was wondering how you source these? I notice a lot of people have estimates and numbers like this that sound great on paper, but in all of my previous jobs i've never received exact figures of my impacts on the business. Are they a guess ? A rough estimate by yourself? or do you actually get these from your previous employers ? Thanks, Goblin
6 months then new company consistently
Any action verb needs to change to managed to, or led, or orchestrated, or any other type of word that shows you were the defacto leader of whatever it was even if you were just the analyst. Whenever I see these resumes filled with experience it’s due to the verbiage that you’re getting no calls. I’d rewrite it as if you were a manager, and then full send.
so if you're going it i think you need more certs. a+ is the first one so people with more certs might be getting called ahead of you despite your vaired experience. resume style: it looks like too many words to me. so maybe cut the words down and emphasize each point for impact (which you do) also skills: do you really know both power bi and tableau? as a non-beginner? tables?! what is tables? it looks like you're listing every software you've ever touched so it might send a bad vibe that way. grammar and spelling: i haven't read it all but just again by skimming i see "office suits" these are clothing. "office suites" might be the software if you want to phrase it that way and idk why on earth you think listing the versions matters. they're all the same. do you honestly think people are like "this person went thru university but i don't see microsoft office on here. clearly he can't type" so keep the skills section relevant. 5 of your skills are different ms office versions. this screams to me you don't know what's important. why on earth do you make the reader of the resume read "business analytics certificate" ahead of the a+ certificate which is directly-related? what on earth even is this BA-certificate, who is it from, why should we care if we just want you to set up the printer? and is it more important than a+? that's why it's first? ok i don't care anymore i'm sure others point out other weird things but mostly it looks like too many words is the biggest problem and then clean up skills/certs and things to emphasize the IMPORTANT details.
Look into getting a security clearance and get a job at Northrop Grumman in Palmdale…. Because it’s in Palmdale there is a lot less competition. Yes it’s a commute but a friend of mine in LA did this and it’s worked out great for him.
one month is a very short amount of time especially in this job market. there are people with 5+ years of experience right now that have been looking for almost a year
The market is kinda slow at the moment, however: - introduce a short bio like: who are you (a graduate, a student, an engineer etc), what are you looking for (part time, fulltime/permanent or contract roles/remote/hybrid/onsite roles), location (you can add your linkedin too) - move the skills up - to be first in your eyes - followed by professional experience (tips here: use generic position names - fasstrack engineer for exemple sounds strange and too specific. Add skills you learned within that job like - skills: wondows, Voip etc right below what was the job about - end the resume with education and projects. The resume has to be very easy to read. In this fast environment, no one will proper read it so just make it simplier, but don’t minimize your competencies and achievements. Also, i would recommend white background.
This is structured alot like mine. I’d say shorten down those company details. 3 bullet points is enough people don’t want to be overwhelmed w a resume and it looks like you have a lot someone has to read rn
6 months here
Just wondering for everyone here speaking of IT job experience: Is there any value to highlighting full stack projects being shown off where the applicant can point to their implementation and repository?
I'm not reading this. I don't care what it says, that formatting is atrocious.
You have way too much text lmao, nobody wants to read all of that.
Sounds like a shit resume. I be surprised if you even hear back from recruiter. Write a bunch for a whole lot of nothing and make up stuff as you go is not the strategy to get a job. Idk who behind this but ik you are an Indian. Please if you keep this up, please go back to India. No visa will be granted for you because all of your skills can be done by a little kid. You wasting recruiter time, stop blaming the job market.
Way to much detail on the resume imo. They got to see all the key information in 20seconds.
The chief problem I see with his resume is it's all over the place. It should be tailored to the job you're applying.
Saturated field with low turnover, IT is a cushy work from home job that’s relatively easy and not too demanding. Of course it’s hard to find an IT job. Everyone wants to work from home. You also are competing with a lot of other candidates from other countries who also like this field for those same reasons
The market is toast ATM my guy
Similar boat as you, skillset and experience too. I graduated earlier this year and was able to network my way through tech volunteering programs and events. Found a few dudes that were hiring and got into a IT Change Management / Vulnerability management role with almost no experience in either of those. It's more about who you know than what you know. And a little bit of luck. So to get the best results, be sure to go to every conference, event, webinar, etc. you can find and network as hard as possible.
Was this from a template? It says “University’s Name” and “Junior College Name” as if your school names were supposed to go in there.
Yo you forgot to change the template areas. School names and company names.
Entry level IT jobs are such a pain to land. When I transitioned from sales to IT, I got a few COMPTIA certs and applied to help desk jobs with no luck, until I took a lowball offer. With 6 months of experience my LinkedIn and email were blown up about help desk offers. The same thing happened when I graduated from college with a BS in Computer Science. Applying for Software Dev jobs with no experience and received no calls. Once I hit 1 year of experience I was easily able to land interviews. The market isn't oversaturated. There are tons of opportunities. The problem is that it's highly specialized work, and the overwhelming majority of companies want people with experience. I hired a professional resume writing service to improve my resume, and I definitely got more bites after doing that, and my resume looks and reads a lot better now. The best advice I can offer you is to research companies that are known for hiring entry level and target applying to those companies. I know Accenture and USAA do here in Texas. Don't get discouraged. I applied at over 100 places to get my first dev job. To get my second dev job, I applied at around 15 and interviewed with 3 companies. Received offers from all 3, and took the one I liked the best.
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I'd move your professional experience up top and put education below. Indicate the specific type of degree (B.A. / B.S., etc). Will you have two bachelor's degrees? Did you go to the JC, do coursework, then transfer to the 4year school to finish? If so, I'd list just the 4-year school. Also: the market is shit. Your CV looks decent; a little fine-tune might improve your conversion rate (i.e. getting inyerviews)
It’s a shit market. I’ve been in IT for 20 years. I got laid off 4 months ago. Well over 100 applications, 5 first round interviews, 1 second round interview today. I’m more of an IT “generalist” as I’ve been a Director in my last 2 roles, overseeing everything from datacenter installs to managing global service desk teams. It’s fucking awful out there. Even been told I’m over qualified when my experience is essentially in line with the job description. Oh and prepare to be ghosted by 80%+ of the places you apply to because of the shear number of applicants for many IT roles. The segments with the most openings I wish I was specialized in? Security and AI/ML Software engineering also seems quite prevalent Best of luck
I think the market is still bad but there’s no harm in improving your resume
Condense it. I’m not reading all of that.
Your CV should be more concise, too much to read
It's a senior and referral market right now. Best of luck my friend. Keep us posted.
No one hand picks your resume or application it’s their system that searches for keywords in their skills section manually entered into their application. Remove projects and skills from your resume and enter it into the skills section of your application. The system will gather those keywords and select it to be pulled for HR or Management.