Career advice/resume review. Referrals appreciated!
what it do blind, I’ve stumbled into an IT career by not applying to any internships during school.😔 The green-eyed monster has taken over watching my roommates and colleagues preach about their remote life compared to my 100% onsite. I know my tenure/experience is lacking but I did manage to accomplish a lot at my most recent job coming into a massively growing startup that had stuck themselves into technical debt due to lack of any tech literacy. I saw that python was a growing trend so I picked it up quick because I learned to program in C and Java in school. I’ve been doing my due diligence in the leetcode grind 120~ easy 50~ mediums 20~ hards , but im not necessarily looking to jump into a SWE field even though the compensation is tempting. I’m mostly looking to work remotely related to a devops role to pursue traveling without the need for high compensation (my crypto moon bag has served me well). But still would like to make a decent wage. Any advice by seasoned vets of the tech field to on how I should approach my career going forward? If there seems to be any positions that seem like a good fit I would love some referrals as well. below is my poorly anonymized resume! #affirm #airbnb #airtable #akuna #akunacapital #alteryx #amazon #anduril #ansatz #appfolio #apple #appliedintuition #applovin #argoai #arthurai #asana #atlassian #aurora #autodesk #benchling #blend #bloomberg #boeing #box #brex #bytedance #capgemini #capitalone #captialone #chegg #citadel #cloudflare #cockroachlab #cocoon #coinbase #compass #coursera #crowdstrike #cruise #czi #databricks #datadog #deloitte #deshaw #digitalocean #discord #disney #docusign #doordash #dropbox #duolingo #ebay #engineering #etsy #ey #faang #facebook #fastly #figma #fireeye #fiverings #fiveringscapital #flexport #github #goldmansachs #google #grubhub #headspace #houzz #hrt #hudsonriver #hulu #imc #indeed #instacart #instagram #intuit #janestreet #janestreetcapital #jump #jumptrading #khanacademy #lendingclub #linkedin #lyft #microsoft #mongodb #mozilla #nasa #netflix #nextdoor #niantic #notion #nuro #nvidia #okta #opendoor #optiver #oracle #palantir #pandora #paypal #peloton #persona #pinterest #plaid #purestorage #pwc #qualcomm #qualtrics #quill #quora #radix #reddit #rivianautomotive #robinhood #roblox #roku #rubrik #salesforce #samsara #scaleai #shopify #slack #snap #snapchat #snowflake #spacex #splunk #spotify #square #squarespace #stripe #stytch #sumologic #tableau #tesla #tiktok #transcend #transform #twilio #twitch #twitter #twosigma #uber #uipath #unity #verkada #virtufinancial #vmware #watershed #waymo #wish #workday #yelp #zendesk #zillow #zoom #engineering #software #swe
Hey, I suggest you cut the skills section by at least 50%, probably more. Separate languages from tools. There’s a bunch of grammar mistakes (capitalisation?). Drastically cut both the number of bullet points as well as the amount of text in each point. CV overally isn’t very readable, pick a simple template and highlight things you want to highlight.
Thanks for the reply! I tried to categorize the skills section by 1st relating to programming 2nd cloud 3rd IT related I did this because I was planning to apply to a broad range of jobs but didn’t want to cut down and make specific resumes because they are loosely related. I felt i should have thicc bullet points because I didn’t really have enough experience so I went the route of going in-depth with what i have done. I’ll try out some different templates and try to condense. thanks again!
if you're keen on keeping everything, just have a skills section and make the groups clear. like: programming languages: cloud: IT:
Feels like a lot of the bullet points can be shortened. Like the one about jira feels like a whole essay Also the censoring is not doing its job lol
Ask yourself something; "If someone gave me this resume for a job I was hiring for, would I want to read this?" The answer should be no, and if it's not, you're being too easy on yourself. I'd recommend to start from there and then apply the additional recommendations from other people here.
thanks for the harsh words, I thought I was self-aware but it looks like that was not the case. I’ll go back to the drawing boards and come back stronger 💪💪
Good attitude. I NEVER mix words when I genuinely want someone else to improve. You have a decent amount of experience, you just have to think about what other people's perspective of your resume will be. And of course; Cater to the recruiters at the job(s) you want.
Update your resume and feel free to DM for a referral.
As a hiring manager I always suggest putting experience first and education after, as that’s what’s most important to me. Also, I’d suggest working in the skills/technologies/languages into the experience bullet points, as it allows for better understanding of how much experience you have with the ones I’m interested in. But keep the section with the keywords as well.
Remove the skills section from your Linkedin, or add something better there. Windows 10, Microsoft 365, Customer Satisfaction etc. are not skills!
Don’t work for the CIA or any other secretive agency, Andy.
To add design perspective to already very good feedback: your skills kinda mush together. I’d rather fewer languages there and you could even add them into the experience section so it’s more integrated, if the concern is to pass automated scans this way the keywords are still there but it’s more legible to the human eye. Your certifications are valuable (at least the AWS one is from the c1 perspective), but that also means you could omit azure and AWS as separate “skills”. I kinda would like education to be elsewhere as you progress into non-new grad roles, and that would actually make ur certifications stand out more imo. Basically tighten everything up because it’s a lot of text for manual review. Feel free to DM for capital one if you’d like! Happy to help however I can.
ditch the all lower case writing. it looks cute in terms of design but not good to look at for a resume. too much white space on the left column, you're wasting space where you could be filling up w work experience instead. need more quantifiable results.
agreed with the quantifiable results, i kinda went on a spree overnight to make a resume. do you all actually think the lowercase is a big deal? i did intentionally do this to have cleaner design and as I reviewed resumes myself I never thought this would raise any sort of concern (obviously biased but)
The lowercase is simply horrible. You have to tune this for either a human being or a computer going through this resume, right? Might as well make it easiest for a human being and the computer will do just as much with it if not a little more detailed.