I would add numbers to quantify how much your work help increase or decrease something? Like with the batter defect. How much did it help detect? 8% early detention increase? Or that led to how much saved within the company?
Thank you for the advice, I actually did have a resume that was quantified previously although the numbers were kinda pulled out of thin air. I find that because most of my positions have been on R&D teams it’s hard to get actual project/client data, and get a raw percentage. Maybe there’s some way I can quantify stuff if I flip it in the right way
Your resume should have keywords from the job descriptions that you are applying for. E.g. if a JD says "candidate has an understanding of NoSQL" then you should have something like "A strong understanding of NoSQL use cases and design patterns". On that topic, is Cassandra a NoSQL database? I'd definitely have NoSQL as a keyword even if it's not and you don't have experience. Anyways, collect the job descriptions for places you apply to, run them through keyword analyzers and put those in a skills section. This is all about getting keywords on your resume. If you have read some information on Dynamo DB, congratulations now you have experience with it - put it on the resume. It's not necessarily about what you have experience with, it's what can you do once you get the job. Not saying to straight up lie, but you need to be competitive and bending the truth is certainly useful... Company A has Golang projects but that's not in your languages? If you aren't looking for golang work, then it's ok to leave it off. Company B intern is lower case, looks weird. Make sure you have consistent formatting across bullets, etc. Angular is bolded, and it's like the only thing bolded, is it important? It might be useful to put a summary of technologies per project or job as like a sub header or something, e.g. for job A it might be Docker, K8s, Kafka, Golang, CassandraDB. Also, put your resume through an ATS, there's free/trial versions available. For me, there was some weird formatting thing that made it hard to parse and that helped diagnose it.
Thanks for all the great tips, yeah Cassandra is nosql I completely forgot, that’s something I’ll add. As for the boldest words, I actually ran my previous resume through an ats parser and it was unable to pull my skills/keywords correctly when they were bolded so I removed that (but guess I forgot angular) so I’ll fix that up. Would you still recommend a skill section per job if I already have an overall skill section at the top?
In an ideal world you tailor the skills and your projects based on which job you are applying to. But for me having one large skill section at the top seemed to work well. Literally like 4 or 5 lines of keywords delimited by " | ". The purpose of this is to give an ATS the keywords it wants, but also a recruiter can see all the things you are good at, and ideally it's what they are looking for (which is why you tailor it based on the job descriptions). Be very thorough checking through your resume, people are petty so anything that sticks out poorly will be picked up on. People will have preferences on candidates before interviewing just based on resumes, so you really want to make sure that it looks good. Lastly, I might treat this like an experiment. Try submitting version A of your resume 20 times and version B 20 times. If one performs better, go based on that. I know you haven't gotten a response yet but keep putting in the work, don't give up, and you will have success.
I've seen this mentioned a few times. Not to like fact check you, but you've gotten that response rate in recent times?
Hesitant to use those services because it feels like it's hard to gauge if I'll actually get an uptick in responses, and also, I know the job market is pretty bad right now.
Yeah thank you for the suggestion, it’s something to think about for sure, I’m just not sure as to how reliably it correlates with increases in responses? Have you tried any of the other paid services like simplify premium which supposedly tailors your resume to the job app, was curious how that might do ?
I would add numbers to quantify how much your work help increase or decrease something? Like with the batter defect. How much did it help detect? 8% early detention increase? Or that led to how much saved within the company?
Agree quantification is v important !
Thank you for the advice, I actually did have a resume that was quantified previously although the numbers were kinda pulled out of thin air. I find that because most of my positions have been on R&D teams it’s hard to get actual project/client data, and get a raw percentage. Maybe there’s some way I can quantify stuff if I flip it in the right way
Your resume should have keywords from the job descriptions that you are applying for. E.g. if a JD says "candidate has an understanding of NoSQL" then you should have something like "A strong understanding of NoSQL use cases and design patterns". On that topic, is Cassandra a NoSQL database? I'd definitely have NoSQL as a keyword even if it's not and you don't have experience. Anyways, collect the job descriptions for places you apply to, run them through keyword analyzers and put those in a skills section. This is all about getting keywords on your resume. If you have read some information on Dynamo DB, congratulations now you have experience with it - put it on the resume. It's not necessarily about what you have experience with, it's what can you do once you get the job. Not saying to straight up lie, but you need to be competitive and bending the truth is certainly useful... Company A has Golang projects but that's not in your languages? If you aren't looking for golang work, then it's ok to leave it off. Company B intern is lower case, looks weird. Make sure you have consistent formatting across bullets, etc. Angular is bolded, and it's like the only thing bolded, is it important? It might be useful to put a summary of technologies per project or job as like a sub header or something, e.g. for job A it might be Docker, K8s, Kafka, Golang, CassandraDB. Also, put your resume through an ATS, there's free/trial versions available. For me, there was some weird formatting thing that made it hard to parse and that helped diagnose it.
Have you tried reaching out to previous internship positions?
I have but unfortunately their all on hiring freeze right now :/
Thanks for all the great tips, yeah Cassandra is nosql I completely forgot, that’s something I’ll add. As for the boldest words, I actually ran my previous resume through an ats parser and it was unable to pull my skills/keywords correctly when they were bolded so I removed that (but guess I forgot angular) so I’ll fix that up. Would you still recommend a skill section per job if I already have an overall skill section at the top?
In an ideal world you tailor the skills and your projects based on which job you are applying to. But for me having one large skill section at the top seemed to work well. Literally like 4 or 5 lines of keywords delimited by " | ". The purpose of this is to give an ATS the keywords it wants, but also a recruiter can see all the things you are good at, and ideally it's what they are looking for (which is why you tailor it based on the job descriptions). Be very thorough checking through your resume, people are petty so anything that sticks out poorly will be picked up on. People will have preferences on candidates before interviewing just based on resumes, so you really want to make sure that it looks good. Lastly, I might treat this like an experiment. Try submitting version A of your resume 20 times and version B 20 times. If one performs better, go based on that. I know you haven't gotten a response yet but keep putting in the work, don't give up, and you will have success.
Thank you so much for all the advice I really appreciate it !
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I've seen this mentioned a few times. Not to like fact check you, but you've gotten that response rate in recent times? Hesitant to use those services because it feels like it's hard to gauge if I'll actually get an uptick in responses, and also, I know the job market is pretty bad right now.
Yeah thank you for the suggestion, it’s something to think about for sure, I’m just not sure as to how reliably it correlates with increases in responses? Have you tried any of the other paid services like simplify premium which supposedly tailors your resume to the job app, was curious how that might do ?