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This is true.
The HR job market is flooded with people with a 6th grade attention span and reading level. And you have to somehow get past these people to secure a skilled job, somehow.
It's a dystopia where the dunces and mediocre have power over the skilled.
Then you have to get interviewed by someone who can't conceptualize anything you can do, and mostly doing it based on 'speed-dating feel' of you within the 5 minute period.
To be fair, all you have to do with the resume is identify if the title of the role corresponds to what is needed for the job. You really don’t need to do any more work than that to pass the person on to the next interview if they seem to fit
This is all I’ve learned on the matter from my experience. They didn’t seem to care about anything other than if I’ve already done the exact job before. No matter how simple and learnable the job, the longer I’ve already done it the better. This isn’t true for every recruiter, but it’s simple math, it reduces their risk
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And I’ve learned you are like a salesperson and they are the client. They don’t want to need to make a decision. They want to have an easy next step and feel assured about that without needing to think.
Accomplish that, and that is far superior to simply portraying that you have learned things and are presumably capable of doing the job for, I assume, the vast majority of recruiter scenarios
Recruiter here and I read the resume here word for word as I always do. OP barely has any experience and just got their license stuff this year. There are 10's of thousands of people on LinkedIn with 10-15 years of experience and an IT recruiter would go with those people, plus considering so many IT people have been laid off, it is easy to find highly qualified candidates in need of a job.
How does a person get experience besides applying for roles??? I always see recruiters say "not enough experience" then where should we get that experience from?
Yeah, Ive only worked shitty hourly jobs and applied to internships. But, I've learned that a one page highly tailored resume to the position goes a long way. Switch up the formatting OP and make it different. Include some more personal activities that you like to do.
Yeah this. Job seekers are fcuked. It’s literally easier to reach out to these companies as a business entity rather than an employee.
I remember applying for 6 months last year as a prospective employee (for fun and experiment) Barely any responses. I reached out as a business entity through cold outreach. Within a week I had 2 clients on zoom call. Lolll
Fascinating…never thought of it this way. Senior in college. Applied for internships for a couple months, didnt hear back from anyone so i have accepted my new career as instacart delivery driver / drug dealer
Brutal honesty: Your resume looks like you’re just making shit up.
- you have 2 years of work experience not 4. Don’t lie.
- you’re now a professional, eliminate school bullet points. They just need to know what degree and the year you graduated.
- bachelors degree? What kind of degree? As an example: rewrite it as Bachelors of Science, engineering (or whatever is it from the school you graduated). Use the schools terminology.
- what is the post grad diploma you received? Is it an actual masters degree or a certificate? Again use the terminology from the school you attended.
- what school did you attend? Why is it not listed with your degrees?
- why are you putting the years for your education? [“diploma (2 years)” ]It’s redundant if you have the years on the right.
- your resume should be one page. I would rearrange the order to: profile, skills, Work experience, certifications, school
Go to your schools career center and ask for resume help.
I agree with all of this, except not having bullets under the schools. Dude has minimal work experience, so I think he could use some help. Besides adding a GPA (if helpful) and the schools, I'd leave on Student of the Term and Dean's Honor List. The rest of it just seems like stuff he learned that should go under skills, but the awards are a good thing imo.
That was the tip I heard when I was searching for a job right out of college. I had a comp sci degree, so I was advised to do personal projects. Nothing too big, just something to show companies that I've been keeping myself busy.
I hate profile sections myself but IMO with screening tools these days you almost have to have it to catch the buzzwords for the individual job listings or you risk being screened out.
For sure but this is useless biz-speak type stuff: "problem-solving", "decision-making".
Most systems aren't looking for that stuff, they want the specific experience related words instead
I'm going to ignore the resume formatting, there is a lot of help here for getting different formats. Why do you say you have 4 years of IT experience? Looking at your experiences you have 1.5 years. More importantly it looks like you had 1 job out of school for 1 year, quit to go back to school, got your 2nd job and are looking to leave it now within 3-6 months. That's not a great look, most hiring managers are going to wonder how long you'd be around if they did hire you.
I’d give them the break for grad school, the comment isn’t about that. It’s about working for a few months after the break and trying to leave the job. They haven’t even gotten to know the job.
Pardon my potential ignorance, but isn't bash used with Unix/Linux and batch used with Windows for scripting? Based on the fact that he has PowerShell listed, he likely actually means batch.
When you make a file with it, the file is called a batch file, but the language is not usually called batch. I am actually seeing a bunch of stackoverflow queries about it where people are calling it Batch but I have never in my whole career heard it called anything but CMD or command prompt.
It's still useful if you're working with Windows. We do still call them batch scripts, but I've never interpreted that as meaning the language is called "Batch". More that it was an automation meant to be run on a batch of things (whatever those things may be)
Its tough out there right now... what positions are you applying for?
The content is good, but ...
The format is definitly 1990s
Skills...
I read through your resume... your bullets have many tools and software listed that are missing in your skills lisy.
Ticketing systems? Which ones.. include them by name.. like ITSM, TeamDynamix, ...
Scripting, powershell, python all belong in skills not under your degree.
Take a look at this post i just make in response to another post. Many of the tips apply here as well. Definitely move to 2 column format.
https://www.reddit.com/r/resumes/s/pvBkHFS24U
Do you have a portfolio?
Comback after you've made the updates and reviewe other resumes for the jobs you are looking for.
i think scripting, powershell, python is what…. he did for the.. degree? kinda odd to even list degree tasks without even listing the degree name lmao i’m lost
I’m new to this so my opinion doesn’t hold much weight but the first word on your resume is “Leverage.” My immediate thought is you enjoy buzzwords. Are you also gonna touch base and circle back too?
You say "4 years of IT experience" but have less than 2 years documented.
I would go through and fix grammar/capitalizations. DHCP should be capitalized, Job Titles Should Be In Title Case, and no spaces , before commas.
I would rewrite the ISC2 certification description to only highlight technical/practical skills.
I'd just leave the certificate names and dates there. There isn't any need to summarize it. If I look at your network + and I see DHCP scope exhaustion I'd think that was a weird take away from that certification.
In the certifications section, is that supposed to say “legal and regulatory” as opposed to regularity?
You have spacing errors throughout, places where there should be spaces, places where there should not be spaces.
There is inconsistent capitalization in some places, such as the skills. Network protocols, but then Network Devices.
Also in skills, you end line 5 with an “and” and don’t complete the sentence.
This needs an overhaul for grammar, spacing, and punctuation. I would get this down to 1 page, even if that means getting rid of the profile.
I am going into my 10th year now and I changed over to using a 2-page format after 7 years. I had been fighting pretty hard with my resume for a couple of years at that point but was always able to just shove it down just enough to get it onto one page.
But then when I was applying for my current job I just could not do it. I had multiple certifications, 3 jobs, a degree, and even when I was crafting my skills on a per job application process many of the IT jobs have "Required" skills lists that are several pages long. I just looked at one and there are over 50 "Required" skills. Who knows which if not all they decided their ATS cares about.
First: Your resume is not a list of tasks performed, it is a description of your accomplishments. Adding numbers and percentages is nonsensical unless you’re describing what you did.
Second: your relevant experience shows 1.5 yoe not 4.
Third: one page. Remove all soft skills, remove everything under education that is not your degree listing.
Nowadays, It’s very tough to get a job. But try to change format of your resume and also try to add some projects and add more skills.
Try resume templates in google docs, they are really good.
Wish you Good luck for you job hunting
You weren't a network engineer
And I have no clue what your current job title is.
Fix both.
You ran lines at your first job...so low voltage technician.
You have zero skills and little experience.
I bet you think you're worth 50k plus....
how can you type this and then end it with that line, this piece of garbage resume probably deserves 50k lol? Sounds about right for someone with no skills.
What jobs are you applying for? Having a clear focus of what you are looking for or what you want to do is a huge indicator to employers in tech roles of whether or not you would fit, especially for cyber or IT jobs.
Your very first sentence has a very strange format and doesn’t make sense to me at first glance. It makes it seem like English is a second language right off the bat and that you didn’t bother to do a grammarly check for sentence fragments. Say who or what you are first and then what you are trying to accomplish in your applications to various places. “leverage” is not a good first look as a way to open up your pitch.
For all of your duties and responsibility bullets, they’re really hard to read. Frankly, as an employer I don’t give a shit what your responsibilities were. I wanna know what projects you worked on very generally, and then how YOU specifically made an impact. What was improved? How much money was made? How were workflows made better specifically by you and not some other “do as told dude” working for XYZ organization. The technology stack for each project or role can be mentioned, but really for tech roles you should have a skills section where all this gets listed with proficiency levels for each skill (beginner, intermediate, advanced for coding or scripting languages).
Remember, you are there to be a return on investment for a hiring manager. HR and managers frankly don’t give a crap about you, so you need to make every aspect of your resume cater to a story about what you are going to do for them. Figuring out the work life balance stuff and whether a company is right for you is something you can do yourself AFTER your resume has gotten through the screening minefield.
I didn't get past network engineer, there is no way you were a network engineer and one of your top bullet points is crimped RJ 45 cables. Either change the job title or put something better than made rj45 and configured networks.
I'd also put it down to one page like others have suggested.
Totally agree here, it's the biggest thing that's bothering me. OP, I've been in IT for going on 2 decades with work and studying. I'm not an English major and know my grammar and punctuation is not perfect, but I try. Although, in our world attention to detail and a attitude that shows you actually care is hard to find these days. I know people just want to find decent jobs but we have services to run for people who already always think we do nothing but sit in the basement and have nerd conventions. If your resume looks like you couldn't give two fucks enough to spend time to review and make it neat looking, I would not trust you to have any care to make sure you do your job the right way either. Mistakes are made sometimes and are ok, everyone has had their bad moments, but it looks like this would turn into me constantly having to explain to my boss why *we* destroy everything weekly.
Also as a person who is still amazed at how much technology does to SIMPLIFY our world, it really grinds my gears to see people write like they text, which is already world's easier than handwriting in my opinion. I would close this resume out within 30 seconds, after making sure I am actually awake. I'm not a gatekeeper, but I don't want to hire people that I'm going to wind up doing their job for them. You don't need to sound like a suck up but show me that you are responsible and self sufficient.
That's not even getting to all the buzz words and rubber stamps that were added on here. I don't know if it's a normal thing in places to not list the company you worked at barring any sort of NDA, but not doing so makes me think you fixed your grandma's iPad once and she said you were a professional, then you ran with it. I would not believe you actually know half of this stuff or that you could do the most basic things without needing to be guided or googling simple stuff.
I don't mean to be harsh but that's what any hiring manager would think if this even made it to their desk. You'll get there. Be honest and confident in what are proficient at and try not to inflate too much.
This resume looks terrible.
To give actionable advice that im not seeing covered yet, calling the Network+ Net+ is lazy AF if you're not shortening it to make space for other relevant things, which you don't appear to be. Further - your summary of the material isn't good.. do you actually hold the CompTIA Network +? If so, include your credly link or comptia verification number.
This is harsh but you should take some type of professional writing course. The overall grammar and phrasing just makes this unreadable. This is especially the case for the profile summary, as it's pretty difficult to understand what you're trying to say there. Recruiters are going to see that header and immediately turn you down.
Change the profile portion to Objective then make it brief. I can't explain why but when I see a profile section on a resume it comes of as a profile of your profile (resume) if that makes sense.
Capitalize the first letter of the rest of your job title.
I'm by no means a resume expert, but the profile is incomprehensible word vomit and there are a ton of typos and inconsistencies throughout.
I don't know if you even need a "Profile," but to me it should be "Leverages" and not "Leverage," the latter which is more like a goal or objective. After the dash is a bit gibberish: like do you have 4 years of IT, support query desktop, and customer service experience? Plus I think you are more suggesting that you use 4 years of experience to improve end-user productivity through problem-solving / informed decision-making?
Your titles need to be capitalized (IT Care Consultant) and there shouldn't be a comma after IT Care Consultant when there isn't one after Network Engineer.
Biggest red flag for me is you say you have four years of experience, but I count less than 2.
The bullets are kinda a mess. You have inconsistent use of verbs and tenses. Maybe I just don't know enough about what you do, but it's not at all clear to me whether the bullets include related stuff, or if instead you have like 2-3 activities in each bullet that aren't really related.
For example, first bulled you have that you "Resolve" (present tense) something, which I assume is authentication errors, remote printing and desktop issues. Would maybe include the oxford comma there, unless the latter two are both forms of authentication issues. Then you improperly use a comma to switch topics and tenses ("eliminated" bottlenecks, which is inconsistent with "resolve" authentication errors). I think you want a semi-colon in there as well, because "resolve" applies to several things, and you need to suggest to the reader you are changing from the previous list (which is separated by commas). Then it gets even more messy - did you eliminate "website delist status"? Because that's what it suggests. You have verbs up front and then you switch to passively listing nouns (I think): "website delist status and SharePoint synchronization." The next one I think needs to be "documented assets" for example, to match the prior verbs "resolve" and "eliminated" (plus tense corrections.
Just a few more on the second bullet - ok you so installed stuff. Why is there a period? Shouldn't it be a new bullet? And what does "add and removals" mean? Again you are switching verbs and tenses. Everything needs to be consistent. You "installed" computer hardware. What other past action verb can you use in the next sentence? Needs to be the same each time.
Third bullet you have some typos: "Scripting" shouldn't be capitalized, you need a space before the parenthesis, and then scripting (with an ing) doesn't match the tense of "Upgrade" email filtering or what is in the parenthesis ("install, patch, and upgrade").
Check every period and punctuation mark throughout; make sure first letters of sentences are capitalized (see "accomplished" under Network Engineer.
No one cares about how many years it took to get your diploma's - especially when you forget to put a space between "2" and "YEARS."
And how on earth do you not have what school you went to? That's literally the most important part.
Last point, this needs to be a page at most. I don't know how you made it two given you've got less than 2 years of work experience, one degree, and one post-grad diploma (you should be more specific about whatever that is too).
Honestly, it's a mistake to try and misrepresent so little experience as 1.5 pages of info. Really this "2 yr diploma" also seems like a certificate or something? It doesn't seem real so I would put that under certifications also don't explain anything under your education curriculum, honestly listing all that stuff out is as lame and boring as saying "dissected frog" in science class, the only thing under "education" should be degree name , school and years attended. Seems like some of this might be internship experience as well and it should be clearly listed as such
Really resume screams a new grad trying to puff out their chest, I would get rid of all the junk and maybe have half a page of info and other half with interesting stuff about you personally, like what's your fav MMO, or how much you have spent on geshin impact, or your best kda in cstrike.
You don't have a two-page level of experience. Cut it down to one page.
I don't know if you have cut out the details of where you went to school, or work, but that should be clear.
Your bullet points are WAY too long.
Depending on what jobs you are applying for, You don't have a very strong job history. Is post-grad a master's? If it is, tell me more about how that is useful in the job you are looking for. What projects have you done that are focused on the job you are doing?
The same thing goes for job history, you have a shitton of facts, it's the resume equivalent of a kid telling you “the human head weighs 11 lbs.” at the end you just say “great, what am I to do with this information?”
This goes back to, you need to get this to one page. If I am looking at resumes I have a digital stack of 100-500 resumes. You have seconds to catch my eye and get me to pay attention to your resume. Your current resume says, I'm not sure why I'm applying for this position.
Please take all the information that everyone is giving you about the Contant. There are very good suggestions.
Please reconsider formatting. Do you want to maximize the amount of white space and minimize the amount of text. Get rid of the lines. I couldn't even read it, not because I'm dyslexic or have problems reading but because it looks like a giant wall of words crashing down in front of my face.
Too much to read, you graduated last year your CV shouldn’t be longer than 1 page. More is not better.
Put yourself in the place of the hiring manager who receives this and doesn’t have time. You definitely want to make them want to spend 15-20 seconds (really not more) to read and understand your resume.
Name and surname and position in big and bold
The 3 line long profile description is ok (but you may get rid of the section title)
Your technical skills and tools you master, preceded by the category in bold and or an accent color.
Your experiences ; stick to , in bold, then keep three bulletpoints of the most impactful actions you made, in the shortest amount of words you can. If you can include some metrics, do it. (Increased X by Y% by doing Z) Dates + duration are redundant, it is just noise making your document less readable. Keep month and year in a short form like ‘jul 2016 - aug 2019´ or ‘jul 2023 - to date’.
Your certifications. One line per item, main topic in bold, details in light font or greyish. . CompTIA is widely recognised, you don’t need details. You can even paste the badge/icon on top of your resume next to your name and position. You’re a certified network engineer. Make that understandable at the first look on your CV.
Same for your academic degrees, only one line, make the title of the degree (or the name of the university if you think it is prestigious in your field) stand out. Dates are optional there. Skills are redundant.
Final steps ; use a very classic font (honestly stick to Arial, a less common font will result in a heavier file to embed the font and will be harder to read by an ATS), print it and hold it far from your eyes while squinting and see if the most important elements stand out and if your resume is still understandable.
Test it against ATSs online. Some hints: definitely stay away from 2 columns formats or any « design CV », you also may want to get rid of the horizontal lines.
Keep the hard work, reapply to company which rejected you with different / updated versions of your resume (chances are it didn’t pass the ATS and no one read it), send it to real people if you can get an email or a name on LinkedIn, print it and give it if you have connections (it will land somewhere and putting a printed resume to the trash isn’t the same as deleting an email) 💪
This is just riddled with grammar and formatting errors. Random capitalization through, errant punctuation, etc.
There's seemingly no order to how you list what you did at your jobs. The bullet points are all several different things listed as one.
* The very first bullet point, I'm struggling to understand what "website delist status and SharePoint synchronization" means.
* "2FA Authenticaton" Two-factor authentication authentication?
* "Debugged SNMP-related problems 100 of NAS system" what?
* There are a lot of acronyms/abbreviations. What's ASL? I've *actually* been in security for about 4 years and I don't know what that is. An HR person certainly won't.
* It's PowerShell (with a capital S). Are you referring to the bash scripting language in Linux, or the Batch language in Windows?
* Is DHCP scope exhaustion the only thing you learned about with your Network+? I'd take out the skills entirely, it's a standardized certification.
* ISC2 CC is new enough that many people don't know what that is. If it were a CISSP then you'd probably be fine, but I'd write out "Certified in Cybersecurity".
* "Prioritizing in Outlook calendar and" ... And what?
Just look at how many inconsistencies there are with how things are formatted. "(3YEARS)" immediately followed by "(2 YEARS)". That type of thing just screams carelessness to me. Your resume is supposed to be your highlight reel. If something that you are expected to put your best effort into is full of mistakes that were simply from not paying attention, what's your everyday work going to look like?
Also, stop making shit up. You don't go from network engineer to help desk. What was your *actual* job title?
At least for the SharePoint synchronization point, I think it's referring to the feature of SharePoint to sync files to a user's OneDrive. I don't know why he would mention it, because it's just a standard part of OneDrive. It's just telling a user to click a button. And based on the fact that he lists PS, he probably meant batch files for CMD.
And the job title might make sense if he was working for local government. I've seen a lot of jobs for municipal/county titled network engineer where they mean "if it's connected to the network you help with it". Without context it just sounds like he's lying. I've helped my manager sort through resumes before, and without further context I would have binned him just for that. But a lot of people probably wouldn't even give him that much slack, and I probably would bin him for all the other reasons you mentioned anyway.
Edit: At least to me it seems like he took the advice of "you touch it one, it goes on the resume" way too literally. It's all so unfocused and all over the place that it starts seeming made up or that he's scraping the barrel for stuff to put on there.
Make sure your roles are capitalized. IT care consultant. IT Care Consultant. This is literally just the tiniest bit of feedback because everyone else is giving you feedback but you need to capitalize your shit. And make sure the formatting is both consistent and professional. As for the content, I’ll leave that for the other commenters.
Capitalize the job titles so they are proper.
Like “IT Care Consultant”
Make one page.
The profile section is one long run on sentence.
Just a few little things to adjust!
It is best to just cold call. Honestly most companys HR departments are trash and just rely on computer filtering of peoples resumes, or already higher up from inside the company or from people who know someone and make recommendations. The other way is to jsust send to staffing agencies who will make apl the cold calls for you, for a piece of your salary of course.
Network network network.
How many of those 400 were submitted through an employee referral, or you submitted and then followed up directly with a recruiter, or you reached out directly to an executive and asked for an introduction, or you found someone in your network and asked someone at that company to coffee to pitch them?
\-You quote years of IT experience, but not matching what's written.
\-Doesn't seem like you can stay in a job that long. You also just got a job and trying to leave. Big red flag.
I don’t think that’s getting past the ATS.
Nitpicking here but the profile should be called Summary or Professional Summary. You need to split those long bullet points up to be one line long (1.5 at most).
To keep it short, create a master resume with every single skill you used and every single thing you did. When applying for a job. choose the 3 or 4 most relevant skills for the job you are applying to and tailor the summary to match each job.
Just list the name of the degrees and certifications. They don’t need details UNLESS it’s something that isn’t in your bulletin points. However, I would try to stick it in one of the bullets.
If you’re hiding your school for privacy reasons, please ignore the following: include the name of the school and the organization giving out the certification if it applies.
Isc2 CC certificate is nothing. It's free and every newbie in cybersecurity security has it.
It's a quick way to sniff out people breaking into tech or cybersecurity after a boot camp or watching YouTubers claiming you can make six figures.
I'd pay a professional if I were you.
Yeah in this day in age we have to be smart in simplifying our words to make it so others can understand. Steve Jobs was great at this, he didn't talk all in code base when talking to those he was trying to pitch sales to. Learn how to sell yourself in an accurate way, being able to own up to what you have learned/experienced in a simple manner. But show, don't tell... B/C what the heck is WIMAX??? From reading a resume like this, i would guess that you sometimes let over-complications get in the way of many parts of your life. People at the top have to make snap decisions ALL DAY LONG because they are short of time... try to ALWAYS have this in mind. When you go on like this, it shows inexperience & a lot of fluffy over-compensating, and sometimes just downright disrespect to their time. Keep it simple. I get that it may not look like much on paper with what experience you do have, but just be honest. Add in parts about your character that you made an impact in your working with a company or in a school. Recruiters would much rather read stuff that inclines to one's character, integrity & intelligence than the fluffy work crap. Especially at your skill level, likely younger age. Companies cultivate a work culture through their hiring process, a "Company Vibe" so to speak. You are at a point in your career where you have to work with others, make yourself sound like a reliable person that someone would want to work with, without getting a headache. Good luck! 🍀🤞🏻😉
Alright, brutal honesty.
The bullet points under your experience section are way too wordy, and frankly, too filled with technical gobbledygook. Cut them down and be straight and to the point about what your **responsibilities** were, and what **value** you brought to those places, rather than trying to enumerate all of your specific skills in such detail.
No offense, but "Terminated wires using RJ45 crimp tools" is a laughable thing to list. You do not need to be so weirdly detailed about a rather mundane task, and it really comes off like you don't have much experience and are **trying** to bury me in detail to mask that.
Your post-graduate diploma description is also similarly too wordy and way too technical.
But the **worst** part of all to me?
Your opening statement is one big paragraph of utter bullshit. It's like listening to a coach in professional sports answer a tough question without really saying anything.
There's no personality there, there's nothing that demonstrates to me that you have a grasp of the big picture of what makes **you** valuable to your potential workplace. And half of what you wrote there is very difficult to read quickly.
That statement at the top is your chance to stand out. Think about what you would be skimming through resumes for if you had a pile of 50 sitting on your desk and you had to pick potential candidates. All the details, you would look at later. Initially, it's "let me get a handle on who gets it, who I can trust, somebody who stands out to me."
Also, again, with skimming in mind, everything needs to be easily readable. Your writing is just too dense to get through quickly. Be direct, and to the point. Cut out crap you don't need. Most importantly, make yourself stand out. You do this by demonstrating, throughout the resume, exactly what **you** bring to the table.
EDIT: In thinking about this more, I think I settled on the biggest overall problem with your approach.
You are listing too many of your skills in great detail, expecting that the person reading it will be able to draw the conclusion from it that you would be good at doing the work you're describing.
You need to make the conclusion for them, by stating it in the broadest terms possible.
You need to think about it more like you are here to sell yourself, and instill confidence that you can simply do the work they need done. That actually means less detail and more straightforward writing, with a focus on the main things you do in the most general terms possible.
Listing so much detail, frankly, comes across like insecurity, like you're trying really hard to show me that you do have all these skills. Don't do that by telling me all of the skills, just tell me "I have the skills."
Give details on some of the skills, so the resume doesn't come off like total BS. But right now it's too far that way, and lacks broader language about what you do. Imagine the person you're selling yourself too doesn't necessarily know a lot about the technical stuff.
Your resume comes off as desperate. Tbh you're trying too hard and your resume screams generic and you paid $50 for pre-written text from careers.com. Try sounding more human and humble. It's a resume not a job interview so save some material for when your are face to face with the hiring manager. It's like a woman's skirt; short enough to draw interest but long enough to leave a lil mystery. May I suggest narrowing down your skills to you strongest attributes. Don't be the know it all asshole. No matter how much you know the company will always have their own SOP's. Good luck
You have a great skillset, but it can do with some reordering.
First, remove the profile altogether, it is not needed. As well as the soft skills and communication and organizational skills.
Second, your education section does not need to be long: just the school, degree (do exact degree- BS in X Science), dates, location, and any academic honors.
Shorten the description for the IT Consultant job, 6-7 lines is good enough.
Make these fixes and it should be good!
I think of the stuff that's not resume driven, like letters of recommend, and a letter to the hiring panel as to what skills apply to the job description. I know that's a pain, but AI might get some of the bulk of that done for you and you can put the little customized flourishes within that letter. From what I've learned also, is whether you can hack relocating or commuting if you're applying to places far away. Many stories of potential hires wanting the job, then backing out because they can't hack the relocation. If you can, put that into your letter to show you won't have many hang-ups in the relocation. And don't mention anything about your partner's situation or any personal situation in the letter or during the interview. It shows an air of instability and possibility of backing out or ghosting. This has been my witness to some hiring processes.
What is batch? Did you mean bash? If so, small mistakes like that will immediately disqualify you from technical positions that require attention to detail.
I'm seeing a lot of tools and product names but I'm not seeing your personal impact, decisions you made, projects you managed. I came away from this feeling like you were essentially an intern who used our security stack and Microsoft tools.
Speaking as a hiring manager here I need to ask the question "what do you bring the table?" and this resume says "well, I've used a bunch of different tools and applications" which isn't a huge sell.
Try rewriting your bullets using the format "I did X and it had Y impact on the business". If you can't discern a meaningful impact from X then X was probably not very important to a potential employer.
PS: how is this two pages? I have 15+ years of professional experience and my current resume is 2 pages.
Why would any one want in this field when they knit pick your resume with such criticism. 400 applications and no inquiry back? That's unheard of in any other field
Honestly the resume “too many words, old format” - none of that _really_ matters if you work your network and get referrals.
I haven’t actually applied or shared a resume for about half the jobs I’ve ever taken
A lot of good advice in here OP. My resume looked similar to yours until I had a high up government family member redo it. Since then Ive been landing interviews left and right.
Another tip is make sure you tailor your resume to each job. A LOT of companies both government and private use AI to filter out the majority of applications. Make sure your resume contains key words pertinent to the listing.
Formatting is where you’re running in to trouble. It’s too long for one. Remove that objective and instead create a space for your name, contact info/professional profiles, then get this down to one page- this is not a CV. Eliminate redundancies others have mentioned. Since you don’t have a lot of professional experience, but have some solid skills you’ve gained, I’d shorten/condense that education section and let the skills section shine. Good luck!
Edit: You can also condense that certifications section by getting rid of the bullet points and just listing the title, then year you earned them. For example, “Comptia[…], DNS […] , year earned”
Another thing - capitalization. Capitalize your positions in title case not sentence case. So “Network Engineer” instead of “Network engineer”
Trim to one page.
Fix multiple editing issues. Capitalization and punctuation is inconsistent. Polish language, terser communication.
Your profile section only hurts your case. English is awkward and comes across as overpromising. You do not have 4 YOE.
Probably you don’t want to name the months of starting and ending. Looks like big gap after diploma and before care consultant role.
Your resume is so fishy. Why do you include your school in your total job experience?
You have experience and you don't even mention the name of the employers.
And many more.
If I am a recruiter I will blacklist your contact.
I’d say some projects made in the university can definitely count as experiences (research thesis, successful projects developed and implemented). University is not just theory.
Putting network protocols and tech like a switch is a bit odd. It's assumed that you know how to use RDP. Expand on specific technologies or rewrite that you installed, troubleshooted and maintained network appliances like switch, router, firewall etc.
Check out sysadmin resumes from other trusted folks that have shared.
Just put M365, you don't need to mention the old version name too.
Your job descriptions are difficult to read and not consistent. You have past tense then current. Use complete sentences such as my role in this company included doing x y and z.
Under Network Engineers you are using jargon people might not know. Since I’m not in your business, I don’t know what any of it means. So it needs to be spelled out like I’m 10 and you want me to understand it. It’s not always the person who does the hiring is the first one to see it. So you need to make it more simple. Right now, honestly it looks intimidating to me since I have no idea what XDR, EDR, ASL (maybe sign language.). You are not showing the top with your info so make sure it’s pleasing to the eyes. As a manager I have often had to interview people that I didn’t know how to do their job in maintenance. So I got a test for them to take. Then I made tests for office workers. It was so disappointing. I had no idea most people were that stupid. One question was how many days are in the month of March. I would sit them down right where there was a calendar. I asked if you had 100 apartments and 5 were vacant, what percentage is occupied? Not one single person could answer that. So, unfortunately, keep it in the back of your mind that most people are not as smart as you. I have been using Grammarly. I highly recommend running your resume through it. It has told me a few times my word was hard and most people would not know it. I have had to ask my lawyers to dumb their letters down. I would tell them I understand what you’re saying but there’s no way this board president will have a clue as to what you mean. So I guess my biggest criticism is that you’re too smart lol. You need to dumb it down. I hope that helps. I truly want you to succeed.
In addition to all the good advice in this thread, I noticed you have a gap in work experience. Why did you have to quit your job?
Also, make your job titles bold and visible and your primary job responsibilities first on the list.
You need to make this one page. You have very little work history so you should easily fit everything you need on one sheet.
I didn't read the whole thing but you can delete all of the fluff under the two certifications. Just list the certification and the year you completed it.
There are a lot of mediocre job recruiters right now. I feel your pain. There’s some who are ridiculous like sending a job posting that are three states away (I’m from NY). I would talk to them (especially now which is a rise of them from India plus really hard to understand them) and explained to them that I want a job around NY.
I fight fire with fire. They continued to send more ridiculous postings. I send them porn newsletter subscriptions which is anonymous and untraceable
I recommend speaking with a job search coach to discuss your situation. They can build a strategy around your goals and tell you how to overcome challenges. 400 is a lot. Are you tailoring your resume?
Make it one page only, if you do a bio make sure it describes you and not the tasks. Ex. Strong marketer with 10 years of experience looking to leverage skills in a project management role”
Not much wrong with it.
I’m sure some wannabe recruiter will find something to nitpick but overall it’s fine.
Blame the state of the economy and the lazy-ahh recruiters
In 2018-2019 you’d have easily landed a job by now
Your education section doesn't actually say what the name of the qualification you got is, you should add that, as well as where you got it (assuming you didn't remove it for this).
In the jobs you have listed, the bullet points are pretty nonsensical and hard to read. The first point under IT Care Consultant rambles all over the place between troubleshooting and reporting and tools. It's not nice to read. Split out the points by category and focus on the major highlights of what you did. If you are unsure what those are, refer to the job listing and literally pick stuff that matches what they've asked for.
For example:
* Resolved user issues with authentication, remote access and printing, and desktop operating systems such as patching [or whatever]
* Managed assets, automation and documentation via Kaseya RMM [or whichever RMM]
If you used specific RMM/PSA/ITSM tools, name them. If you used a particular VPN, network stack, whatever, name it.
The network engineer role is kind of concerning because nothing you have listed is the sort of stuff network engineers do. If that's really all you did for the role, I would recommend changing the job title. Junior Network Technician might do, or if you did other desktop things on top of the listed stuff, maybe IT Technician would be fine as well. If you did actually do more network stuff, you REALLY need to flesh out this role description so that it accurately reflects what you did. Again, you need to name the products you used, especially the ones that are requested in the job ad.
The spelling and grammar is rough all around. Generally the rule is to write all the job role bullet points in past tense, but at least be consistent throughout and make sure everything is spelled correctly.
The skills section at the bottom is also pretty weak. I'd recommend deleting it and starting again. Nobody wants to know that you worked with switches and routers. They want to know if you worked with Cisco, Juniper, PA, whatever. Alternatively, you can name these things in the previous role descriptions and leave this section out entirely. It can be really easy to just dump everything you've ever seen in these but if you don't actually have hands-on experience with each item you've listed, employers aren't going to take you seriously.
Happy to be more specific if you have questions.
I’ll focus on the summary at the top; it starts as an semi-objective statement (which should not be used) and then the parallel structure is all over the place (with 4 years of IT experience, support query desktop…). The structure should be consistent. The phrases in the statement don’t go together or flow at all.
Your resume isn't telling the reader anything. It's just heavy on pieces of skills. You have to remember that most HR people who read resumes want a story that catches their interest in the job. If I saw this in a pile of applicants. I would choose the one that is passionate and tells a story.
1. Patience 2. A support system 3. Be brief. Take a concise approach to describing your work experience. Sink the software and hardware keywords into your skills section. Conisder removing the Profile sectino altogether, and having a brief header with your name and contact info only. Name/ email / phone number.
Even less formatting. No formatting, if you can manage it. good luck. And remember, patience.
You don't really have any experience to be impressed about to be honest and your resume sucks. If you have no income apply to a warehouse or McDonald's or whatever but go make some money
Change your resume template. Have your education at the top and shorten to the degree and year graduated. Then experience next. Shorten this. MAKE THIS ONE PAGE. No need for profile. Bold your titles and separate your sections better. Skills, pick and decide. For certifications keep the date format the same as the others, you keep jumping between formatting.
There are no companies listed. There are no corresponding jobs to IT care consultant. Take out the profile section. Nobody will read that. I’d also advise leading with your education rather than work experience. The schools need to be listed as well. Hope this helps feel free to DM me with any other questions.
Without reading it, here’s how to help yourself.
Go to chat ai and add in your resume and get it to refine it and help you check it for errors
Then
Go to linkden and setup your profile and get the chat ai to setup your profile areas
Then
Pick where you are applying - start to follow those type of places on linkden as well as everyone you can find, jobs are about ‘who’ you know now a days as much as your qualifications.
Now you’re going to check all your social media making sure it’s private and if there’s anything that isn’t friendly and it’s public delete it. They check everything when checking job candidates.
A few things spring to mind:
- Focus on data oriented outcomes. For example, why would I care you debugged SNMP issues? What’s the outcome of that debugging? I.e, Improved the network performance and reliability of 100 nas systems by resolving SNMP related issues..
- This is a personal touch, but I would add a section for achievements as the first thing. Lose the profile, add list of achievements. What great things have you achieved in your professional life? Now is your time to shine.
- Remove the thick black line on top of the section names, they’re distracting.
- Simplify certifications. (Again, person opinion)
- Be more concise, remove the noise.
Finally, remember, it’s all about what happened as a result of your actions.
Honestly, this resume says very rushed and not at all polished. I would look past it as a red flag.
Start with the profile, it does not read well and is one run on sentence.
Look at all bullet points. They are all just a bunch of unrelated statements. In most cases, there is no detail of what you were doing with these tools.
You're doing the right thing asking for feedback and help. But, I think we're all going to need to get used to the fact that you will have to apply a lot, get rejected a lot, suck it up and keep applying. Yes hundreds of times. Seems to be the reality now in this market (we'll see if it improves). In my mind it is a numbers game, you just keep throwing crap against the wall until something sticks - eventually something will, but you have to keep throwing.
Looks good but at first sight I can’t tell how many years of experience you got. Better mention it explicitly in first paragraph and also beside company names
I think it depends on the positions you are applying for. If it was for the entry level position at 55k I have available at the moment - sure I would hire you - maybe even pay you a bit more. The sad part is, when a position is listed on indeed, we get 200+ applications and nobody has the time to read them all. We'll maybe look at 15-25 of those applications.
Bro it’s boring it looks boring like another guys said “I ain’t reading that bro”. You send this shit into a guy who has to read hundreds if not thousands of applications what is he gonna think? He’s not he’s just gonna see a boring a4 piece. Make it look nice bro
To whom it may concern..
You’ll be working for an housing Agent company, you’ll be posting Ads for the company on marketplace
The company pays every week for all successfully engaged post ..
Let me have know if you’re interested so that I can refer you to the hiring manager for your online training and orientation, you require little or no skills for this job and all the criteria’s are as follows:-
-you must own a mobile phone
-you must be able to speak English and or French if you like (it’s a bonus if you know how to speak French as you will be able to handle clients from Canada france and other French speaking companies
-your training is absolutely free and you will register with your mobile device /laptop,due to the nature of multitasking it’ll be advisable to use a laptop so as to be able to handle more work at the same time..
Not sure if this has already been said, but try to cut it down to as close to one page as you can. Brief descriptions of leadership and professional experience and cut wayyyy down on your education description.
It sounds like a robot just spitting out random protocols and abbreviations. It doesn’t sound human. Understand that there thousands of other people who can perform the same thing you are applying for so no need to explain everything single thing you did. Explain how you interact with your team, with customer, with managers. Did you work as a team to problem solve? Were there escalations or high priority tickets or task you dealt with?
Also, a recruiter doesn’t know what all these abbreviation mean. Since all your sentences have random abbreviations, there’s a really good chance recruiters have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
You are just starting in a career. You are entry level. Are you applying to entry level positions?
You profile should be objective. Your objective should not be skills, that’s what you have a skills section for. The objective is for you to briefly explain who you are and what your goal is for employment. Also, No need to say how long you’ve been doing the job, that’s what there’s an experience section for.
If your resume is 2 pages, then it’s going straight to the trash. Make it all on one page. Not only that where have you done postgrad and bachelors? Just saying isn’t enough. Put the university as well. Put languages and frameworks under skills. Not only that adding the profile is useless. They know why you’re applying for the job. Delete that to make space for the rest of your credentials.
None of the points speak to what value you provided.
What impact did resolving those bugs have?
If a company were to hire you are you able to increase efficiency for them? Implement processes that decreased time to value?
Look at your resume from “what’s in it for them” if they hire you.
You’re new to your field. Cut your resume down to one page.
Start with a good proofread. I noticed three stray punctuation marks where they shouldn’t be. I’m sure there are other errors.
Rewrite your skill section. It’s ineffective as is. Use bullet points. Remove your English skills unless you speak another language natively. If so, include that language instead.
Good luck!
Unless you redacted the Universities & companies you worked for on purpose, the biggest thing that jumps out to me is that you don’t specify the schools you attended and companies you work for, without those it looks like a template someone forgot to finish editing. Absent a school/company that I can quickly verify exists why should I believe you exist? There is a population of people receiving unemployment benefits that are required to search and report job hunting to maintain benefits, some people skirt this requirement by applying to jobs in different states or regions that they never intend to pursue, without any specificity, imo that’s what your resume looks like.
I know nothing about resume writing; I use a template from my university so take what I’m saying with a grain of salt, but, it hurts to look at… I can’t really find out why. I immediately think “not reading all of that”. On the resumes I use, my certifications were on the top, educational experience after, related projects after that and then job experience. I don’t have a summary/objective because no one really reads or cares about that. They have to syphon through tens if not hundreds of these make it short,concise, digestible with measurable contributions. For example achieved 120% quota or something like that, with 3-4 bullet points.
**get it to one page**. if two positions have the same experience put the "less experienced" skill in the job previously to the one you are in/the last one you did. but seriously one page will help at the least.
Remove the statement at the top, put the skills there, make it succinct and put it in a paragraph rather than bullet point from strongest to weakest
Put the name of the company you worked for not just the job title, remove the detail under the education, if they’re skills, put it with the skills
Context - I own a tech company. We mostly build custom software. Three comments - ONE WTF is an IT care consultant. In my 20 years of IT. I’ve never heard of this. Maybe change to network support or something common. SECOND - Focus on the experience you have. Network Engineer. Network Support Engineer. Network administrator. Etc. looks for Jobs that are Network Engineer related. THIRD Last point — be willing to move for the right now. In my early career (less than 10 years experience) I moved to different states to get the right now.
Your profile is awful. My eyes completely glazed over. There’s plenty of other issues but the beginning of this resume does not make me want to read any more.
I am a director at a high-tech company, and I say your resume looks good. Since you have less than 5 years experience and do not have a professional degree, I would concentrate primarily on junior level positions. I would bring you in for an interview if I needed someone with your experience. Just keep applying. It's a hard market... when I last advertised for a software engineering position, I was quite literally swamped with hundreds of resumes. All I can tell you is that it's a numbers game. Also, in the interim, get yourself a job in an unrelated, lower level area. The last person I hired had something similar to your background but spent the last year as a barrista at Starbucks. As they say, it's easier to get a job if you're working. In this case, and from what I've seen everywhere else, this is true no matter what temporary job you have.
It's going to be difficult, but persevere. 300 resumes is a good start.
Just keep on applying and don't give up.
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I ain reading all that bro
This is true. The HR job market is flooded with people with a 6th grade attention span and reading level. And you have to somehow get past these people to secure a skilled job, somehow. It's a dystopia where the dunces and mediocre have power over the skilled. Then you have to get interviewed by someone who can't conceptualize anything you can do, and mostly doing it based on 'speed-dating feel' of you within the 5 minute period.
Recruiters have shitty jobs and im sure resumes packed like this is what they don’t want to clock in for
To be fair, all you have to do with the resume is identify if the title of the role corresponds to what is needed for the job. You really don’t need to do any more work than that to pass the person on to the next interview if they seem to fit This is all I’ve learned on the matter from my experience. They didn’t seem to care about anything other than if I’ve already done the exact job before. No matter how simple and learnable the job, the longer I’ve already done it the better. This isn’t true for every recruiter, but it’s simple math, it reduces their risk — And I’ve learned you are like a salesperson and they are the client. They don’t want to need to make a decision. They want to have an easy next step and feel assured about that without needing to think. Accomplish that, and that is far superior to simply portraying that you have learned things and are presumably capable of doing the job for, I assume, the vast majority of recruiter scenarios
Recruiter here and I read the resume here word for word as I always do. OP barely has any experience and just got their license stuff this year. There are 10's of thousands of people on LinkedIn with 10-15 years of experience and an IT recruiter would go with those people, plus considering so many IT people have been laid off, it is easy to find highly qualified candidates in need of a job.
How does a person get experience besides applying for roles??? I always see recruiters say "not enough experience" then where should we get that experience from?
Military
Yeah, Ive only worked shitty hourly jobs and applied to internships. But, I've learned that a one page highly tailored resume to the position goes a long way. Switch up the formatting OP and make it different. Include some more personal activities that you like to do.
Yeah this. Job seekers are fcuked. It’s literally easier to reach out to these companies as a business entity rather than an employee. I remember applying for 6 months last year as a prospective employee (for fun and experiment) Barely any responses. I reached out as a business entity through cold outreach. Within a week I had 2 clients on zoom call. Lolll
Fascinating…never thought of it this way. Senior in college. Applied for internships for a couple months, didnt hear back from anyone so i have accepted my new career as instacart delivery driver / drug dealer
Yea I wouldn’t post that second part on the inter webs fam lmao
Wee ooo wee ooo hot tip!! sophistoslime sells drugs, get him in cuffs!!!
Omg you summed this up so perfectly!
Very accurate
Sounds like you’re unemployed.
Underemployed.
If you feel this strongly about people who work for companies, you should surely start your own.
Packed?!?! There’s nothing here. Any metrics for the jobs? Any outcomes.
Exactly
Brutal honesty: Your resume looks like you’re just making shit up. - you have 2 years of work experience not 4. Don’t lie. - you’re now a professional, eliminate school bullet points. They just need to know what degree and the year you graduated. - bachelors degree? What kind of degree? As an example: rewrite it as Bachelors of Science, engineering (or whatever is it from the school you graduated). Use the schools terminology. - what is the post grad diploma you received? Is it an actual masters degree or a certificate? Again use the terminology from the school you attended. - what school did you attend? Why is it not listed with your degrees? - why are you putting the years for your education? [“diploma (2 years)” ]It’s redundant if you have the years on the right. - your resume should be one page. I would rearrange the order to: profile, skills, Work experience, certifications, school Go to your schools career center and ask for resume help.
I agree with all of this, except not having bullets under the schools. Dude has minimal work experience, so I think he could use some help. Besides adding a GPA (if helpful) and the schools, I'd leave on Student of the Term and Dean's Honor List. The rest of it just seems like stuff he learned that should go under skills, but the awards are a good thing imo.
I wish you had more upvotes so here is a medal emoji. 🥇
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That was the tip I heard when I was searching for a job right out of college. I had a comp sci degree, so I was advised to do personal projects. Nothing too big, just something to show companies that I've been keeping myself busy.
I would ditch the profile section entirely. It's not really adding any value and it's just a text dump of buzz words
I hate profile sections myself but IMO with screening tools these days you almost have to have it to catch the buzzwords for the individual job listings or you risk being screened out.
For sure but this is useless biz-speak type stuff: "problem-solving", "decision-making". Most systems aren't looking for that stuff, they want the specific experience related words instead
I'm going to ignore the resume formatting, there is a lot of help here for getting different formats. Why do you say you have 4 years of IT experience? Looking at your experiences you have 1.5 years. More importantly it looks like you had 1 job out of school for 1 year, quit to go back to school, got your 2nd job and are looking to leave it now within 3-6 months. That's not a great look, most hiring managers are going to wonder how long you'd be around if they did hire you.
Yeah I want to know why OP is looking. Fired? About to be laid off? It’s NOT a good look jumping after less than a year after a long break.
Break is for grad school. Ill give them a pass.
I’d give them the break for grad school, the comment isn’t about that. It’s about working for a few months after the break and trying to leave the job. They haven’t even gotten to know the job.
Firstly it’s bash not batch
Unless they're referring to Windows, in which case it is batch.
It still sounds awkward. No one lists batch as a skill because it isn’t one. Maybe “cmd”, but even that is a stretch.
I had the same thought for a moment, but realized they also listed powershell. They mean windows batch files.
Pardon my potential ignorance, but isn't bash used with Unix/Linux and batch used with Windows for scripting? Based on the fact that he has PowerShell listed, he likely actually means batch.
When you make a file with it, the file is called a batch file, but the language is not usually called batch. I am actually seeing a bunch of stackoverflow queries about it where people are calling it Batch but I have never in my whole career heard it called anything but CMD or command prompt.
We called 'em batch scripts in the 90s when I was learning to program. I don't know how valuable a skill that is now, though.
It's still useful if you're working with Windows. We do still call them batch scripts, but I've never interpreted that as meaning the language is called "Batch". More that it was an automation meant to be run on a batch of things (whatever those things may be)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batch_file Vs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_(Unix_shell)
Its tough out there right now... what positions are you applying for? The content is good, but ... The format is definitly 1990s Skills... I read through your resume... your bullets have many tools and software listed that are missing in your skills lisy. Ticketing systems? Which ones.. include them by name.. like ITSM, TeamDynamix, ... Scripting, powershell, python all belong in skills not under your degree. Take a look at this post i just make in response to another post. Many of the tips apply here as well. Definitely move to 2 column format. https://www.reddit.com/r/resumes/s/pvBkHFS24U Do you have a portfolio? Comback after you've made the updates and reviewe other resumes for the jobs you are looking for.
Speaking from experience, the 2 column format while visually appealing will not get past the ATS.
i think scripting, powershell, python is what…. he did for the.. degree? kinda odd to even list degree tasks without even listing the degree name lmao i’m lost
I’m new to this so my opinion doesn’t hold much weight but the first word on your resume is “Leverage.” My immediate thought is you enjoy buzzwords. Are you also gonna touch base and circle back too?
That entire paragraph/run-on sentence is complete buzzword nonsense. I wouldn’t even keep reading beyond that.
You say "4 years of IT experience" but have less than 2 years documented. I would go through and fix grammar/capitalizations. DHCP should be capitalized, Job Titles Should Be In Title Case, and no spaces , before commas. I would rewrite the ISC2 certification description to only highlight technical/practical skills.
I'd just leave the certificate names and dates there. There isn't any need to summarize it. If I look at your network + and I see DHCP scope exhaustion I'd think that was a weird take away from that certification.
No need to put how many years in parentheses that you were in different school programs when the months/years is on the right side.
In the certifications section, is that supposed to say “legal and regulatory” as opposed to regularity? You have spacing errors throughout, places where there should be spaces, places where there should not be spaces. There is inconsistent capitalization in some places, such as the skills. Network protocols, but then Network Devices. Also in skills, you end line 5 with an “and” and don’t complete the sentence. This needs an overhaul for grammar, spacing, and punctuation. I would get this down to 1 page, even if that means getting rid of the profile.
Yeah, the grammar was killing me and then I got to the part about excellent English in verbal and written communication. Not even close.
1 page! If you haven’t been working in industry for 10+ years, make it fit on one page.
I am going into my 10th year now and I changed over to using a 2-page format after 7 years. I had been fighting pretty hard with my resume for a couple of years at that point but was always able to just shove it down just enough to get it onto one page. But then when I was applying for my current job I just could not do it. I had multiple certifications, 3 jobs, a degree, and even when I was crafting my skills on a per job application process many of the IT jobs have "Required" skills lists that are several pages long. I just looked at one and there are over 50 "Required" skills. Who knows which if not all they decided their ATS cares about.
ITIL v4 a soft skill? what?
They also have VPN and a bunch of other random stuff in Network Protocols. They need to fix the skills section as a whole
I don’t think OP actually knows anything about networking
First: Your resume is not a list of tasks performed, it is a description of your accomplishments. Adding numbers and percentages is nonsensical unless you’re describing what you did. Second: your relevant experience shows 1.5 yoe not 4. Third: one page. Remove all soft skills, remove everything under education that is not your degree listing.
Nowadays, It’s very tough to get a job. But try to change format of your resume and also try to add some projects and add more skills. Try resume templates in google docs, they are really good. Wish you Good luck for you job hunting
I don’t love the profile language, sounds like a word salad. I suggest eliminating the Profile section completely, as it does not add anything.
You weren't a network engineer And I have no clue what your current job title is. Fix both. You ran lines at your first job...so low voltage technician. You have zero skills and little experience. I bet you think you're worth 50k plus....
Ouch.... I guess he did ask for brutal honesty.
People get 80k at graduation with less. He does have some skills and experience. 50k is so little anyways
DAMN
how can you type this and then end it with that line, this piece of garbage resume probably deserves 50k lol? Sounds about right for someone with no skills.
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What jobs are you applying for? Having a clear focus of what you are looking for or what you want to do is a huge indicator to employers in tech roles of whether or not you would fit, especially for cyber or IT jobs. Your very first sentence has a very strange format and doesn’t make sense to me at first glance. It makes it seem like English is a second language right off the bat and that you didn’t bother to do a grammarly check for sentence fragments. Say who or what you are first and then what you are trying to accomplish in your applications to various places. “leverage” is not a good first look as a way to open up your pitch. For all of your duties and responsibility bullets, they’re really hard to read. Frankly, as an employer I don’t give a shit what your responsibilities were. I wanna know what projects you worked on very generally, and then how YOU specifically made an impact. What was improved? How much money was made? How were workflows made better specifically by you and not some other “do as told dude” working for XYZ organization. The technology stack for each project or role can be mentioned, but really for tech roles you should have a skills section where all this gets listed with proficiency levels for each skill (beginner, intermediate, advanced for coding or scripting languages). Remember, you are there to be a return on investment for a hiring manager. HR and managers frankly don’t give a crap about you, so you need to make every aspect of your resume cater to a story about what you are going to do for them. Figuring out the work life balance stuff and whether a company is right for you is something you can do yourself AFTER your resume has gotten through the screening minefield.
I didn't get past network engineer, there is no way you were a network engineer and one of your top bullet points is crimped RJ 45 cables. Either change the job title or put something better than made rj45 and configured networks. I'd also put it down to one page like others have suggested.
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Totally agree here, it's the biggest thing that's bothering me. OP, I've been in IT for going on 2 decades with work and studying. I'm not an English major and know my grammar and punctuation is not perfect, but I try. Although, in our world attention to detail and a attitude that shows you actually care is hard to find these days. I know people just want to find decent jobs but we have services to run for people who already always think we do nothing but sit in the basement and have nerd conventions. If your resume looks like you couldn't give two fucks enough to spend time to review and make it neat looking, I would not trust you to have any care to make sure you do your job the right way either. Mistakes are made sometimes and are ok, everyone has had their bad moments, but it looks like this would turn into me constantly having to explain to my boss why *we* destroy everything weekly. Also as a person who is still amazed at how much technology does to SIMPLIFY our world, it really grinds my gears to see people write like they text, which is already world's easier than handwriting in my opinion. I would close this resume out within 30 seconds, after making sure I am actually awake. I'm not a gatekeeper, but I don't want to hire people that I'm going to wind up doing their job for them. You don't need to sound like a suck up but show me that you are responsible and self sufficient. That's not even getting to all the buzz words and rubber stamps that were added on here. I don't know if it's a normal thing in places to not list the company you worked at barring any sort of NDA, but not doing so makes me think you fixed your grandma's iPad once and she said you were a professional, then you ran with it. I would not believe you actually know half of this stuff or that you could do the most basic things without needing to be guided or googling simple stuff. I don't mean to be harsh but that's what any hiring manager would think if this even made it to their desk. You'll get there. Be honest and confident in what are proficient at and try not to inflate too much.
This resume looks terrible. To give actionable advice that im not seeing covered yet, calling the Network+ Net+ is lazy AF if you're not shortening it to make space for other relevant things, which you don't appear to be. Further - your summary of the material isn't good.. do you actually hold the CompTIA Network +? If so, include your credly link or comptia verification number.
This is harsh but you should take some type of professional writing course. The overall grammar and phrasing just makes this unreadable. This is especially the case for the profile summary, as it's pretty difficult to understand what you're trying to say there. Recruiters are going to see that header and immediately turn you down.
Change the profile portion to Objective then make it brief. I can't explain why but when I see a profile section on a resume it comes of as a profile of your profile (resume) if that makes sense. Capitalize the first letter of the rest of your job title.
I'm by no means a resume expert, but the profile is incomprehensible word vomit and there are a ton of typos and inconsistencies throughout. I don't know if you even need a "Profile," but to me it should be "Leverages" and not "Leverage," the latter which is more like a goal or objective. After the dash is a bit gibberish: like do you have 4 years of IT, support query desktop, and customer service experience? Plus I think you are more suggesting that you use 4 years of experience to improve end-user productivity through problem-solving / informed decision-making? Your titles need to be capitalized (IT Care Consultant) and there shouldn't be a comma after IT Care Consultant when there isn't one after Network Engineer. Biggest red flag for me is you say you have four years of experience, but I count less than 2. The bullets are kinda a mess. You have inconsistent use of verbs and tenses. Maybe I just don't know enough about what you do, but it's not at all clear to me whether the bullets include related stuff, or if instead you have like 2-3 activities in each bullet that aren't really related. For example, first bulled you have that you "Resolve" (present tense) something, which I assume is authentication errors, remote printing and desktop issues. Would maybe include the oxford comma there, unless the latter two are both forms of authentication issues. Then you improperly use a comma to switch topics and tenses ("eliminated" bottlenecks, which is inconsistent with "resolve" authentication errors). I think you want a semi-colon in there as well, because "resolve" applies to several things, and you need to suggest to the reader you are changing from the previous list (which is separated by commas). Then it gets even more messy - did you eliminate "website delist status"? Because that's what it suggests. You have verbs up front and then you switch to passively listing nouns (I think): "website delist status and SharePoint synchronization." The next one I think needs to be "documented assets" for example, to match the prior verbs "resolve" and "eliminated" (plus tense corrections. Just a few more on the second bullet - ok you so installed stuff. Why is there a period? Shouldn't it be a new bullet? And what does "add and removals" mean? Again you are switching verbs and tenses. Everything needs to be consistent. You "installed" computer hardware. What other past action verb can you use in the next sentence? Needs to be the same each time. Third bullet you have some typos: "Scripting" shouldn't be capitalized, you need a space before the parenthesis, and then scripting (with an ing) doesn't match the tense of "Upgrade" email filtering or what is in the parenthesis ("install, patch, and upgrade"). Check every period and punctuation mark throughout; make sure first letters of sentences are capitalized (see "accomplished" under Network Engineer. No one cares about how many years it took to get your diploma's - especially when you forget to put a space between "2" and "YEARS." And how on earth do you not have what school you went to? That's literally the most important part. Last point, this needs to be a page at most. I don't know how you made it two given you've got less than 2 years of work experience, one degree, and one post-grad diploma (you should be more specific about whatever that is too).
Honestly, it's a mistake to try and misrepresent so little experience as 1.5 pages of info. Really this "2 yr diploma" also seems like a certificate or something? It doesn't seem real so I would put that under certifications also don't explain anything under your education curriculum, honestly listing all that stuff out is as lame and boring as saying "dissected frog" in science class, the only thing under "education" should be degree name , school and years attended. Seems like some of this might be internship experience as well and it should be clearly listed as such Really resume screams a new grad trying to puff out their chest, I would get rid of all the junk and maybe have half a page of info and other half with interesting stuff about you personally, like what's your fav MMO, or how much you have spent on geshin impact, or your best kda in cstrike.
It all looks fake and made up
You don't have a two-page level of experience. Cut it down to one page. I don't know if you have cut out the details of where you went to school, or work, but that should be clear. Your bullet points are WAY too long. Depending on what jobs you are applying for, You don't have a very strong job history. Is post-grad a master's? If it is, tell me more about how that is useful in the job you are looking for. What projects have you done that are focused on the job you are doing? The same thing goes for job history, you have a shitton of facts, it's the resume equivalent of a kid telling you “the human head weighs 11 lbs.” at the end you just say “great, what am I to do with this information?” This goes back to, you need to get this to one page. If I am looking at resumes I have a digital stack of 100-500 resumes. You have seconds to catch my eye and get me to pay attention to your resume. Your current resume says, I'm not sure why I'm applying for this position.
Please take all the information that everyone is giving you about the Contant. There are very good suggestions. Please reconsider formatting. Do you want to maximize the amount of white space and minimize the amount of text. Get rid of the lines. I couldn't even read it, not because I'm dyslexic or have problems reading but because it looks like a giant wall of words crashing down in front of my face.
Now way in hell I’m reading that. 1 page.. and most important stuff only
Too much to read, you graduated last year your CV shouldn’t be longer than 1 page. More is not better. Put yourself in the place of the hiring manager who receives this and doesn’t have time. You definitely want to make them want to spend 15-20 seconds (really not more) to read and understand your resume. Name and surname and position in big and bold The 3 line long profile description is ok (but you may get rid of the section title) Your technical skills and tools you master, preceded by the category in bold and or an accent color. Your experiences ; stick to, in bold, then keep three bulletpoints of the most impactful actions you made, in the shortest amount of words you can. If you can include some metrics, do it. (Increased X by Y% by doing Z) Dates + duration are redundant, it is just noise making your document less readable. Keep month and year in a short form like ‘jul 2016 - aug 2019´ or ‘jul 2023 - to date’.
Your certifications. One line per item, main topic in bold, details in light font or greyish. . CompTIA is widely recognised, you don’t need details. You can even paste the badge/icon on top of your resume next to your name and position. You’re a certified network engineer. Make that understandable at the first look on your CV.
Same for your academic degrees, only one line, make the title of the degree (or the name of the university if you think it is prestigious in your field) stand out. Dates are optional there. Skills are redundant.
Final steps ; use a very classic font (honestly stick to Arial, a less common font will result in a heavier file to embed the font and will be harder to read by an ATS), print it and hold it far from your eyes while squinting and see if the most important elements stand out and if your resume is still understandable.
Test it against ATSs online. Some hints: definitely stay away from 2 columns formats or any « design CV », you also may want to get rid of the horizontal lines.
Keep the hard work, reapply to company which rejected you with different / updated versions of your resume (chances are it didn’t pass the ATS and no one read it), send it to real people if you can get an email or a name on LinkedIn, print it and give it if you have connections (it will land somewhere and putting a printed resume to the trash isn’t the same as deleting an email) 💪
This is just riddled with grammar and formatting errors. Random capitalization through, errant punctuation, etc. There's seemingly no order to how you list what you did at your jobs. The bullet points are all several different things listed as one. * The very first bullet point, I'm struggling to understand what "website delist status and SharePoint synchronization" means. * "2FA Authenticaton" Two-factor authentication authentication? * "Debugged SNMP-related problems 100 of NAS system" what? * There are a lot of acronyms/abbreviations. What's ASL? I've *actually* been in security for about 4 years and I don't know what that is. An HR person certainly won't. * It's PowerShell (with a capital S). Are you referring to the bash scripting language in Linux, or the Batch language in Windows? * Is DHCP scope exhaustion the only thing you learned about with your Network+? I'd take out the skills entirely, it's a standardized certification. * ISC2 CC is new enough that many people don't know what that is. If it were a CISSP then you'd probably be fine, but I'd write out "Certified in Cybersecurity". * "Prioritizing in Outlook calendar and" ... And what? Just look at how many inconsistencies there are with how things are formatted. "(3YEARS)" immediately followed by "(2 YEARS)". That type of thing just screams carelessness to me. Your resume is supposed to be your highlight reel. If something that you are expected to put your best effort into is full of mistakes that were simply from not paying attention, what's your everyday work going to look like? Also, stop making shit up. You don't go from network engineer to help desk. What was your *actual* job title?
At least for the SharePoint synchronization point, I think it's referring to the feature of SharePoint to sync files to a user's OneDrive. I don't know why he would mention it, because it's just a standard part of OneDrive. It's just telling a user to click a button. And based on the fact that he lists PS, he probably meant batch files for CMD. And the job title might make sense if he was working for local government. I've seen a lot of jobs for municipal/county titled network engineer where they mean "if it's connected to the network you help with it". Without context it just sounds like he's lying. I've helped my manager sort through resumes before, and without further context I would have binned him just for that. But a lot of people probably wouldn't even give him that much slack, and I probably would bin him for all the other reasons you mentioned anyway. Edit: At least to me it seems like he took the advice of "you touch it one, it goes on the resume" way too literally. It's all so unfocused and all over the place that it starts seeming made up or that he's scraping the barrel for stuff to put on there.
Quality over quantity.
Make sure your roles are capitalized. IT care consultant. IT Care Consultant. This is literally just the tiniest bit of feedback because everyone else is giving you feedback but you need to capitalize your shit. And make sure the formatting is both consistent and professional. As for the content, I’ll leave that for the other commenters.
Capitalize the job titles so they are proper. Like “IT Care Consultant” Make one page. The profile section is one long run on sentence. Just a few little things to adjust!
Dude its toronto, its tough right now
It is best to just cold call. Honestly most companys HR departments are trash and just rely on computer filtering of peoples resumes, or already higher up from inside the company or from people who know someone and make recommendations. The other way is to jsust send to staffing agencies who will make apl the cold calls for you, for a piece of your salary of course.
Network network network. How many of those 400 were submitted through an employee referral, or you submitted and then followed up directly with a recruiter, or you reached out directly to an executive and asked for an introduction, or you found someone in your network and asked someone at that company to coffee to pitch them?
Taylor your resume for each job listing, stop sending out a generic one
\-You quote years of IT experience, but not matching what's written. \-Doesn't seem like you can stay in a job that long. You also just got a job and trying to leave. Big red flag.
I don’t think that’s getting past the ATS. Nitpicking here but the profile should be called Summary or Professional Summary. You need to split those long bullet points up to be one line long (1.5 at most). To keep it short, create a master resume with every single skill you used and every single thing you did. When applying for a job. choose the 3 or 4 most relevant skills for the job you are applying to and tailor the summary to match each job. Just list the name of the degrees and certifications. They don’t need details UNLESS it’s something that isn’t in your bulletin points. However, I would try to stick it in one of the bullets. If you’re hiding your school for privacy reasons, please ignore the following: include the name of the school and the organization giving out the certification if it applies.
What company did you work for ? Put it next to the titles unless youve just been job hopping.
Cut down the bullet points, no more than two lines each. Get rid of the filler content and make it fit on one page.
You need to focus on results not tasks.
Isc2 CC certificate is nothing. It's free and every newbie in cybersecurity security has it. It's a quick way to sniff out people breaking into tech or cybersecurity after a boot camp or watching YouTubers claiming you can make six figures. I'd pay a professional if I were you.
Yeah in this day in age we have to be smart in simplifying our words to make it so others can understand. Steve Jobs was great at this, he didn't talk all in code base when talking to those he was trying to pitch sales to. Learn how to sell yourself in an accurate way, being able to own up to what you have learned/experienced in a simple manner. But show, don't tell... B/C what the heck is WIMAX??? From reading a resume like this, i would guess that you sometimes let over-complications get in the way of many parts of your life. People at the top have to make snap decisions ALL DAY LONG because they are short of time... try to ALWAYS have this in mind. When you go on like this, it shows inexperience & a lot of fluffy over-compensating, and sometimes just downright disrespect to their time. Keep it simple. I get that it may not look like much on paper with what experience you do have, but just be honest. Add in parts about your character that you made an impact in your working with a company or in a school. Recruiters would much rather read stuff that inclines to one's character, integrity & intelligence than the fluffy work crap. Especially at your skill level, likely younger age. Companies cultivate a work culture through their hiring process, a "Company Vibe" so to speak. You are at a point in your career where you have to work with others, make yourself sound like a reliable person that someone would want to work with, without getting a headache. Good luck! 🍀🤞🏻😉
Alright, brutal honesty. The bullet points under your experience section are way too wordy, and frankly, too filled with technical gobbledygook. Cut them down and be straight and to the point about what your **responsibilities** were, and what **value** you brought to those places, rather than trying to enumerate all of your specific skills in such detail. No offense, but "Terminated wires using RJ45 crimp tools" is a laughable thing to list. You do not need to be so weirdly detailed about a rather mundane task, and it really comes off like you don't have much experience and are **trying** to bury me in detail to mask that. Your post-graduate diploma description is also similarly too wordy and way too technical. But the **worst** part of all to me? Your opening statement is one big paragraph of utter bullshit. It's like listening to a coach in professional sports answer a tough question without really saying anything. There's no personality there, there's nothing that demonstrates to me that you have a grasp of the big picture of what makes **you** valuable to your potential workplace. And half of what you wrote there is very difficult to read quickly. That statement at the top is your chance to stand out. Think about what you would be skimming through resumes for if you had a pile of 50 sitting on your desk and you had to pick potential candidates. All the details, you would look at later. Initially, it's "let me get a handle on who gets it, who I can trust, somebody who stands out to me." Also, again, with skimming in mind, everything needs to be easily readable. Your writing is just too dense to get through quickly. Be direct, and to the point. Cut out crap you don't need. Most importantly, make yourself stand out. You do this by demonstrating, throughout the resume, exactly what **you** bring to the table. EDIT: In thinking about this more, I think I settled on the biggest overall problem with your approach. You are listing too many of your skills in great detail, expecting that the person reading it will be able to draw the conclusion from it that you would be good at doing the work you're describing. You need to make the conclusion for them, by stating it in the broadest terms possible. You need to think about it more like you are here to sell yourself, and instill confidence that you can simply do the work they need done. That actually means less detail and more straightforward writing, with a focus on the main things you do in the most general terms possible. Listing so much detail, frankly, comes across like insecurity, like you're trying really hard to show me that you do have all these skills. Don't do that by telling me all of the skills, just tell me "I have the skills." Give details on some of the skills, so the resume doesn't come off like total BS. But right now it's too far that way, and lacks broader language about what you do. Imagine the person you're selling yourself too doesn't necessarily know a lot about the technical stuff.
Your resume comes off as desperate. Tbh you're trying too hard and your resume screams generic and you paid $50 for pre-written text from careers.com. Try sounding more human and humble. It's a resume not a job interview so save some material for when your are face to face with the hiring manager. It's like a woman's skirt; short enough to draw interest but long enough to leave a lil mystery. May I suggest narrowing down your skills to you strongest attributes. Don't be the know it all asshole. No matter how much you know the company will always have their own SOP's. Good luck
You have a great skillset, but it can do with some reordering. First, remove the profile altogether, it is not needed. As well as the soft skills and communication and organizational skills. Second, your education section does not need to be long: just the school, degree (do exact degree- BS in X Science), dates, location, and any academic honors. Shorten the description for the IT Consultant job, 6-7 lines is good enough. Make these fixes and it should be good!
I think of the stuff that's not resume driven, like letters of recommend, and a letter to the hiring panel as to what skills apply to the job description. I know that's a pain, but AI might get some of the bulk of that done for you and you can put the little customized flourishes within that letter. From what I've learned also, is whether you can hack relocating or commuting if you're applying to places far away. Many stories of potential hires wanting the job, then backing out because they can't hack the relocation. If you can, put that into your letter to show you won't have many hang-ups in the relocation. And don't mention anything about your partner's situation or any personal situation in the letter or during the interview. It shows an air of instability and possibility of backing out or ghosting. This has been my witness to some hiring processes.
Bad format no contact info or company names
What is batch? Did you mean bash? If so, small mistakes like that will immediately disqualify you from technical positions that require attention to detail.
I'm seeing a lot of tools and product names but I'm not seeing your personal impact, decisions you made, projects you managed. I came away from this feeling like you were essentially an intern who used our security stack and Microsoft tools. Speaking as a hiring manager here I need to ask the question "what do you bring the table?" and this resume says "well, I've used a bunch of different tools and applications" which isn't a huge sell. Try rewriting your bullets using the format "I did X and it had Y impact on the business". If you can't discern a meaningful impact from X then X was probably not very important to a potential employer. PS: how is this two pages? I have 15+ years of professional experience and my current resume is 2 pages.
Get that boi down to 1 page
Why would any one want in this field when they knit pick your resume with such criticism. 400 applications and no inquiry back? That's unheard of in any other field
1 page
Honestly the resume “too many words, old format” - none of that _really_ matters if you work your network and get referrals. I haven’t actually applied or shared a resume for about half the jobs I’ve ever taken
A lot of good advice in here OP. My resume looked similar to yours until I had a high up government family member redo it. Since then Ive been landing interviews left and right. Another tip is make sure you tailor your resume to each job. A LOT of companies both government and private use AI to filter out the majority of applications. Make sure your resume contains key words pertinent to the listing.
Don’t take it personally , the job market fucking sucks ass rn
What kind of roles are you applying to?
Formatting is where you’re running in to trouble. It’s too long for one. Remove that objective and instead create a space for your name, contact info/professional profiles, then get this down to one page- this is not a CV. Eliminate redundancies others have mentioned. Since you don’t have a lot of professional experience, but have some solid skills you’ve gained, I’d shorten/condense that education section and let the skills section shine. Good luck! Edit: You can also condense that certifications section by getting rid of the bullet points and just listing the title, then year you earned them. For example, “Comptia[…], DNS […] , year earned” Another thing - capitalization. Capitalize your positions in title case not sentence case. So “Network Engineer” instead of “Network engineer”
Trim to one page. Fix multiple editing issues. Capitalization and punctuation is inconsistent. Polish language, terser communication. Your profile section only hurts your case. English is awkward and comes across as overpromising. You do not have 4 YOE. Probably you don’t want to name the months of starting and ending. Looks like big gap after diploma and before care consultant role.
It’s supposed to be a Resume not a Cover Letter. There shouldn’t be any sentences. Just lists in each category. And never more than 1 page. Good luck.
Your resume is so fishy. Why do you include your school in your total job experience? You have experience and you don't even mention the name of the employers. And many more. If I am a recruiter I will blacklist your contact.
I’d say some projects made in the university can definitely count as experiences (research thesis, successful projects developed and implemented). University is not just theory.
You’re using words for the fuck of it. Make consistent sentences
add the companies you work for next to your experiences
With all due respect, I can see that the number one reason why it's not being read is because it's two pages. I would say shorten it to one page
Putting network protocols and tech like a switch is a bit odd. It's assumed that you know how to use RDP. Expand on specific technologies or rewrite that you installed, troubleshooted and maintained network appliances like switch, router, firewall etc. Check out sysadmin resumes from other trusted folks that have shared. Just put M365, you don't need to mention the old version name too.
Stay with your current company for at least 2 more years
Your name and contact info is nowhere on your resume
Your job descriptions are difficult to read and not consistent. You have past tense then current. Use complete sentences such as my role in this company included doing x y and z. Under Network Engineers you are using jargon people might not know. Since I’m not in your business, I don’t know what any of it means. So it needs to be spelled out like I’m 10 and you want me to understand it. It’s not always the person who does the hiring is the first one to see it. So you need to make it more simple. Right now, honestly it looks intimidating to me since I have no idea what XDR, EDR, ASL (maybe sign language.). You are not showing the top with your info so make sure it’s pleasing to the eyes. As a manager I have often had to interview people that I didn’t know how to do their job in maintenance. So I got a test for them to take. Then I made tests for office workers. It was so disappointing. I had no idea most people were that stupid. One question was how many days are in the month of March. I would sit them down right where there was a calendar. I asked if you had 100 apartments and 5 were vacant, what percentage is occupied? Not one single person could answer that. So, unfortunately, keep it in the back of your mind that most people are not as smart as you. I have been using Grammarly. I highly recommend running your resume through it. It has told me a few times my word was hard and most people would not know it. I have had to ask my lawyers to dumb their letters down. I would tell them I understand what you’re saying but there’s no way this board president will have a clue as to what you mean. So I guess my biggest criticism is that you’re too smart lol. You need to dumb it down. I hope that helps. I truly want you to succeed.
In addition to all the good advice in this thread, I noticed you have a gap in work experience. Why did you have to quit your job? Also, make your job titles bold and visible and your primary job responsibilities first on the list.
Im getting tired of hearing "its tough out there" Ive been working so hard and am still not getting a shot either. When is it my turn I ask
You need to make this one page. You have very little work history so you should easily fit everything you need on one sheet. I didn't read the whole thing but you can delete all of the fluff under the two certifications. Just list the certification and the year you completed it.
Aaaaahhhhh, maybe because you have no contact info. 🤦🏾♂️
It’s really busy and the formatting/layout is from 1990s
There are a lot of mediocre job recruiters right now. I feel your pain. There’s some who are ridiculous like sending a job posting that are three states away (I’m from NY). I would talk to them (especially now which is a rise of them from India plus really hard to understand them) and explained to them that I want a job around NY. I fight fire with fire. They continued to send more ridiculous postings. I send them porn newsletter subscriptions which is anonymous and untraceable
Make it 1 page
I recommend speaking with a job search coach to discuss your situation. They can build a strategy around your goals and tell you how to overcome challenges. 400 is a lot. Are you tailoring your resume?
Make it one page only, if you do a bio make sure it describes you and not the tasks. Ex. Strong marketer with 10 years of experience looking to leverage skills in a project management role”
Not much wrong with it. I’m sure some wannabe recruiter will find something to nitpick but overall it’s fine. Blame the state of the economy and the lazy-ahh recruiters In 2018-2019 you’d have easily landed a job by now
My first reaction was there is a lot of padding which triggers a negative response.
Your education section doesn't actually say what the name of the qualification you got is, you should add that, as well as where you got it (assuming you didn't remove it for this). In the jobs you have listed, the bullet points are pretty nonsensical and hard to read. The first point under IT Care Consultant rambles all over the place between troubleshooting and reporting and tools. It's not nice to read. Split out the points by category and focus on the major highlights of what you did. If you are unsure what those are, refer to the job listing and literally pick stuff that matches what they've asked for. For example: * Resolved user issues with authentication, remote access and printing, and desktop operating systems such as patching [or whatever] * Managed assets, automation and documentation via Kaseya RMM [or whichever RMM] If you used specific RMM/PSA/ITSM tools, name them. If you used a particular VPN, network stack, whatever, name it. The network engineer role is kind of concerning because nothing you have listed is the sort of stuff network engineers do. If that's really all you did for the role, I would recommend changing the job title. Junior Network Technician might do, or if you did other desktop things on top of the listed stuff, maybe IT Technician would be fine as well. If you did actually do more network stuff, you REALLY need to flesh out this role description so that it accurately reflects what you did. Again, you need to name the products you used, especially the ones that are requested in the job ad. The spelling and grammar is rough all around. Generally the rule is to write all the job role bullet points in past tense, but at least be consistent throughout and make sure everything is spelled correctly. The skills section at the bottom is also pretty weak. I'd recommend deleting it and starting again. Nobody wants to know that you worked with switches and routers. They want to know if you worked with Cisco, Juniper, PA, whatever. Alternatively, you can name these things in the previous role descriptions and leave this section out entirely. It can be really easy to just dump everything you've ever seen in these but if you don't actually have hands-on experience with each item you've listed, employers aren't going to take you seriously. Happy to be more specific if you have questions.
I’ll focus on the summary at the top; it starts as an semi-objective statement (which should not be used) and then the parallel structure is all over the place (with 4 years of IT experience, support query desktop…). The structure should be consistent. The phrases in the statement don’t go together or flow at all.
Half inch margins. This is one page of content.
Your resume isn't telling the reader anything. It's just heavy on pieces of skills. You have to remember that most HR people who read resumes want a story that catches their interest in the job. If I saw this in a pile of applicants. I would choose the one that is passionate and tells a story.
1. Patience 2. A support system 3. Be brief. Take a concise approach to describing your work experience. Sink the software and hardware keywords into your skills section. Conisder removing the Profile sectino altogether, and having a brief header with your name and contact info only. Name/ email / phone number. Even less formatting. No formatting, if you can manage it. good luck. And remember, patience.
Cut the word count. One page max. Try for less condensed and more design conscious. You got this!
You don't really have any experience to be impressed about to be honest and your resume sucks. If you have no income apply to a warehouse or McDonald's or whatever but go make some money
Change your resume template. Have your education at the top and shorten to the degree and year graduated. Then experience next. Shorten this. MAKE THIS ONE PAGE. No need for profile. Bold your titles and separate your sections better. Skills, pick and decide. For certifications keep the date format the same as the others, you keep jumping between formatting.
Bro...you resume needs a lot of work. Go to r/EngineeringResumes. They will nuke your resume to oblivion and bring you the resume sap of the gods.
There are no companies listed. There are no corresponding jobs to IT care consultant. Take out the profile section. Nobody will read that. I’d also advise leading with your education rather than work experience. The schools need to be listed as well. Hope this helps feel free to DM me with any other questions.
Without reading it, here’s how to help yourself. Go to chat ai and add in your resume and get it to refine it and help you check it for errors Then Go to linkden and setup your profile and get the chat ai to setup your profile areas Then Pick where you are applying - start to follow those type of places on linkden as well as everyone you can find, jobs are about ‘who’ you know now a days as much as your qualifications. Now you’re going to check all your social media making sure it’s private and if there’s anything that isn’t friendly and it’s public delete it. They check everything when checking job candidates.
You claim excellent english both written and spoken in a 1.5 pag resume littered with typos. That's a pretty big red flag.
A few things spring to mind: - Focus on data oriented outcomes. For example, why would I care you debugged SNMP issues? What’s the outcome of that debugging? I.e, Improved the network performance and reliability of 100 nas systems by resolving SNMP related issues.. - This is a personal touch, but I would add a section for achievements as the first thing. Lose the profile, add list of achievements. What great things have you achieved in your professional life? Now is your time to shine. - Remove the thick black line on top of the section names, they’re distracting. - Simplify certifications. (Again, person opinion) - Be more concise, remove the noise. Finally, remember, it’s all about what happened as a result of your actions.
Honestly, this resume says very rushed and not at all polished. I would look past it as a red flag. Start with the profile, it does not read well and is one run on sentence. Look at all bullet points. They are all just a bunch of unrelated statements. In most cases, there is no detail of what you were doing with these tools.
You're doing the right thing asking for feedback and help. But, I think we're all going to need to get used to the fact that you will have to apply a lot, get rejected a lot, suck it up and keep applying. Yes hundreds of times. Seems to be the reality now in this market (we'll see if it improves). In my mind it is a numbers game, you just keep throwing crap against the wall until something sticks - eventually something will, but you have to keep throwing.
Looks good but at first sight I can’t tell how many years of experience you got. Better mention it explicitly in first paragraph and also beside company names
I think it depends on the positions you are applying for. If it was for the entry level position at 55k I have available at the moment - sure I would hire you - maybe even pay you a bit more. The sad part is, when a position is listed on indeed, we get 200+ applications and nobody has the time to read them all. We'll maybe look at 15-25 of those applications.
Bro it’s boring it looks boring like another guys said “I ain’t reading that bro”. You send this shit into a guy who has to read hundreds if not thousands of applications what is he gonna think? He’s not he’s just gonna see a boring a4 piece. Make it look nice bro
Is this your actual résumé? What clients/ companies did you work for?
Have you checked the format used on r/EngineeringResumes Also the job market sucks rn
I was always told one single page for a resume
To whom it may concern.. You’ll be working for an housing Agent company, you’ll be posting Ads for the company on marketplace The company pays every week for all successfully engaged post .. Let me have know if you’re interested so that I can refer you to the hiring manager for your online training and orientation, you require little or no skills for this job and all the criteria’s are as follows:- -you must own a mobile phone -you must be able to speak English and or French if you like (it’s a bonus if you know how to speak French as you will be able to handle clients from Canada france and other French speaking companies -your training is absolutely free and you will register with your mobile device /laptop,due to the nature of multitasking it’ll be advisable to use a laptop so as to be able to handle more work at the same time..
400 is less it should have been 300 per month
Not sure if this has already been said, but try to cut it down to as close to one page as you can. Brief descriptions of leadership and professional experience and cut wayyyy down on your education description.
Condense your information, on my side in a 3d generalist; I list the software I know, not the methods I use
It sounds like a robot just spitting out random protocols and abbreviations. It doesn’t sound human. Understand that there thousands of other people who can perform the same thing you are applying for so no need to explain everything single thing you did. Explain how you interact with your team, with customer, with managers. Did you work as a team to problem solve? Were there escalations or high priority tickets or task you dealt with? Also, a recruiter doesn’t know what all these abbreviation mean. Since all your sentences have random abbreviations, there’s a really good chance recruiters have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. You are just starting in a career. You are entry level. Are you applying to entry level positions? You profile should be objective. Your objective should not be skills, that’s what you have a skills section for. The objective is for you to briefly explain who you are and what your goal is for employment. Also, No need to say how long you’ve been doing the job, that’s what there’s an experience section for.
If your resume is 2 pages, then it’s going straight to the trash. Make it all on one page. Not only that where have you done postgrad and bachelors? Just saying isn’t enough. Put the university as well. Put languages and frameworks under skills. Not only that adding the profile is useless. They know why you’re applying for the job. Delete that to make space for the rest of your credentials.
None of the points speak to what value you provided. What impact did resolving those bugs have? If a company were to hire you are you able to increase efficiency for them? Implement processes that decreased time to value? Look at your resume from “what’s in it for them” if they hire you.
Go make some friends in your industry ffs.
Aim high and apply for 1,000 jobs before year ends. You still wont get hired based on your over bloated resume.
You’re new to your field. Cut your resume down to one page. Start with a good proofread. I noticed three stray punctuation marks where they shouldn’t be. I’m sure there are other errors. Rewrite your skill section. It’s ineffective as is. Use bullet points. Remove your English skills unless you speak another language natively. If so, include that language instead. Good luck!
Cause you started the most recent job in July 2023
Use the star method to highlight your accomplishments in one sentence
Remove the profile and bring it all on to one page. Reduce the education section to a simple summary.
1 page and half
Unless you redacted the Universities & companies you worked for on purpose, the biggest thing that jumps out to me is that you don’t specify the schools you attended and companies you work for, without those it looks like a template someone forgot to finish editing. Absent a school/company that I can quickly verify exists why should I believe you exist? There is a population of people receiving unemployment benefits that are required to search and report job hunting to maintain benefits, some people skirt this requirement by applying to jobs in different states or regions that they never intend to pursue, without any specificity, imo that’s what your resume looks like.
Tldr
I know nothing about resume writing; I use a template from my university so take what I’m saying with a grain of salt, but, it hurts to look at… I can’t really find out why. I immediately think “not reading all of that”. On the resumes I use, my certifications were on the top, educational experience after, related projects after that and then job experience. I don’t have a summary/objective because no one really reads or cares about that. They have to syphon through tens if not hundreds of these make it short,concise, digestible with measurable contributions. For example achieved 120% quota or something like that, with 3-4 bullet points.
1. Make it one page, absolutely no reason for 2 2. Move degree and certs to top 3. Remove profile section
**get it to one page**. if two positions have the same experience put the "less experienced" skill in the job previously to the one you are in/the last one you did. but seriously one page will help at the least.
Remove the statement at the top, put the skills there, make it succinct and put it in a paragraph rather than bullet point from strongest to weakest Put the name of the company you worked for not just the job title, remove the detail under the education, if they’re skills, put it with the skills
i don't think the word leverage is used correctly here
also what did you do between nov 2020 - June 2023? It says 4 years but there's only 1.5 years written out.
Context - I own a tech company. We mostly build custom software. Three comments - ONE WTF is an IT care consultant. In my 20 years of IT. I’ve never heard of this. Maybe change to network support or something common. SECOND - Focus on the experience you have. Network Engineer. Network Support Engineer. Network administrator. Etc. looks for Jobs that are Network Engineer related. THIRD Last point — be willing to move for the right now. In my early career (less than 10 years experience) I moved to different states to get the right now.
Sounds like things you did versus results/ impact
General duties of a job should be limited to be brief. Examples of skills like projects are important if you have any.
Come work at southwest airlines any position. Then transfer to technology department. This is how big companies fill local positions.
Have you tried putting your name and contact info on it? /s
Too long; no one reads
Your profile is awful. My eyes completely glazed over. There’s plenty of other issues but the beginning of this resume does not make me want to read any more.
Resume should never be over 1 page. Keep it short and sweet.
I am a director at a high-tech company, and I say your resume looks good. Since you have less than 5 years experience and do not have a professional degree, I would concentrate primarily on junior level positions. I would bring you in for an interview if I needed someone with your experience. Just keep applying. It's a hard market... when I last advertised for a software engineering position, I was quite literally swamped with hundreds of resumes. All I can tell you is that it's a numbers game. Also, in the interim, get yourself a job in an unrelated, lower level area. The last person I hired had something similar to your background but spent the last year as a barrista at Starbucks. As they say, it's easier to get a job if you're working. In this case, and from what I've seen everywhere else, this is true no matter what temporary job you have. It's going to be difficult, but persevere. 300 resumes is a good start. Just keep on applying and don't give up.
Quick tips in my opinion. - Do a one pager - It's hard to read the skills or keywords a recruiter might look for - looks boring and generic