I need an honest resume review for new grad. Please be ruthless
Hey folks, as title says, please be ruthless and point out what the hell is wrong with this resume. I appreciate honest reviews. I've been applying lately to new grad positions, not a single call. Quick poll: would you call me based on this resume ? lol TC: None
I would personally put education at the bottom. The first thing you are telling about yourself is about education but you want them to evaluate your skills and experience instead.
I'm still in college, that's why education comes first
But there is so much to your character, interests, internship experience that’s useful to know than your education.
Did you make this in (La)TeX? Big ups for that as a personal thing, but you might want to use a worse tool like Word or Google Docs. Early in my career I submitted all my resumes as LaTeX-generated PDFs, and only years later learned many recruiters and even hiring managers use text-scraping tools to filter PDF resumes for key words and phrases. It turns out some of those tools don’t actually work, and produce mangled or out-of-order text depending on how the LaTeX document was aligned. Or at least, that’s how it was 7+ years ago.
hey, no it's a Microsoft Word template i used
Oh, all right then. Carry on. Good template!
Include relevant frameworks and technologies when you mention building a website or feature.
And programming languages used
Depending on who you’re hoping will see the resume first, you might want to claim rudimentary familiarly with Groovy. After all, you worked with Jenkins Pipeline and Java, so you have everything you need to learn the rest fast if needed. One hopes a hiring manager with some understanding of their own employees’ work would recognize/infer “Jenkins = Groovy (subset) (ish)” but a recruiter might just skip to the skills list and take you off the pile if you don’t mention the keyword they’re searching.
it was indeed written with Groovy, u think I should mention that ? like add Groovy as a keyword in that bullet ?
I’d throw it on the language pile just so a less technical person gets the idea that you’ve learned and are capable of learning a wide variety of languages. I’d personally read it as redundant but forgive you right away. It’s not much different from calling out experience with SQL and experience with MySQL as separate skills.
Some of your sentences are weak and meaningless. You should describe your experience in a way that shows the value you will add to the hiring manager's team or org. Try to use more power verbs (designed, analyzed, etc). E.g. last point in your homicide analysis project starts with "answered questions"....did you analyze data sets to identify certain patterns? Just saying you answered questions doesn't really tell me anything about your skillsets. It's just my personal opinion. Also, as someone pointed above you should move education to the bottom and I'd suggest you label your internships section as "Industry Experience"
example of weak/meaningless sentences ?
Lol I gave you an example in this post
I prefer to be more conservative with formatting. What will happen if you copy and paste your resume into a plain text box? What will happen to the bullets, lines, and especially these right-aligned dates?
there is a hidden table behind that text, it's all column formatted
This can work. Remember, some recruiters may want to extract information from your resume and enter that data into some system. Making their life easier may help at the screening phase.
I’d bring you on as an intern for sure. Resume format only matters to shitty recruiters.
I'm looking for a full-time position actually
I don’t hire anyone right out of college unless they’ve interned here prior.
Impossible to evaluate with black lines. 98% of resume review is “where did you go to school” and “where have you worked”
are u talking about the sections' dividers ?
No
Seems like you've made an impact in the few roles you've been in. Good job.
One thing that sticks out, your formatting and indentation are not uniform.
can u explain more ?
Look at the languages and technologies section...bullet points don't align with the bullet points in sections above and the gap between bullets and text also doesn't match with above sections