How to structure work experience in Resume
I started my first job as a soft. eng. at a startup (7 months ago). I am looking to move to a big company. But my Resume often gets rejected even through referrals. There is what I mention for my latest and only industry job's description. Please let me know what I need to change/improve. Work description: - Taught myself GoLang in 2 weeks and collaborated with 2 teams to lead the development of the backend machine learning pipeline. - Mentored a data analyst through weekly meetings, leading to the development of new business insights that resulted acquisition of more customers. - Presented analysis on how to find similar patterns among IoT tracking devices, this began as an ambiguous project that I drove to completion and launched new meaningful metrics. Thanks so much! :)
Taught myself golang in 2 weeks. Lol.
That’s mean. He/she has only 7 months of experience and could use some help from someone like you. Be useful.
I also thought it was weird thing to say. :) I saw it mentioned here: I saw it mentioned here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCOgVQ8a1zs&feature=youtu.be&t=8m34s. I think the logic is to say you are hardworking and can pickup things so quickly. Let me know what you think. :)
“Taught myself GoLang in 2 weeks” - I’ll be surprised if you DON’T get rejected, with that line in there. Take that out.
Oh, I saw it mentioned here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCOgVQ8a1zs&feature=youtu.be&t=8m34s. Should I remove the timeframe aspect of it or the entire sentence.
Remove 2 weeks for sure.
Some minor tweaking of your bullet points. - lead the development of a backend machine learning pipeline shared by 2 teams resulting in (insert some result) - Mentored team members through weekly meetings to improve the teams overall business knowledge resulting in enhanced interactions with business users and customers. - analyzed patterns found in IoT devices resulting in (put specific metrics) Try to follow the star format and concisely put down the result of your actions. Make sure you are using strong verbs that focus on development. Would be much better if you can be more specific on the first bullet point. Be more specific on the third bullet point and if you did any development for this analysis add it. Also move this to the second bullet point becuase it is technical. Your current second bullet point is a nice soft skills thing that you should move as a third bullet point.
Try rooftop slushie for feedback from people who hire people like you to get real feedback. I’m not in eng, but you need more detail on what you accomplished vs what you spent time doing. If you have relevant projects or student activity from college, that could help too
You didn’t actually say what you built and how. The mentoring and leading language is clearly BS and will be discounted for someone fresh out of school. It also sounds like this one analysis is the only thing you did. Analysis can mean something as simple as looking at clicks on a button that anyone can do You should say what projects you did so we get an idea of the volume of work and tech used. What did you build on those projects? Really basic stuff.... If you can give me a clear picture of what you did in a short 7 months of work then that doesn’t bode well for having smooth technical discussions with you on a day to day basis
Since you have only 7 months of experience, put more emphasis on what problems you solved, systems you designed and the impact you made. Maybe talk about the complexity of problems you were trying to solve, improvement in system performance, number of customer escalations etc. “Taught myself”.... get rid of that “Mentored...”. Nobody is hiring you to mentor engineers “Began as ambiguous project”... I don’t like that wording.