Resume got rejected by over 10,000 employers job posting. Applied in all 5 anglo countries (US, AU, NZ, UK, CA) + India. What is so disastrous about this resume? Background: I'm from a tier 3 no name college. I have 3 unpaid internships work experience. Can't even land an interview at Wipro or Cognizant. My college didn't have on-campus placements. My CGPA is 9.3 I have redacted it, but decided to include here. Do I lack skills? (sorry if you're a recruiter, you probably have my resume please don't reveal my identity) #swe #resume
Not a recruiter so take it with a grain of salt 🧂 1. Emphasize "impact" and tell more unique stories. Nobody cares about logging in without page refreshes. Tell the audience what is the impact. Increase page visits by x% or reduce X steps from the user journey or whatever. Make them up if you have to. 2. "Show don't tell" -- this one is a cliche. But instead of writing "Public Speaking" or "Self-starter" just listed a public talk you have given, or even some coursework that requires presentation in front of large audience. Same thing for "best practices UI/UX development" etc. Tell us exactly what you did and what was the outcome. These read like empty statements. 3. Try feeding this resume to ChatGPT and ask it to edit.
Thanks for the tips! I think they're useful. I used bard to edit my resume, but yeah will definitely go over #1 and #2 and come up with better statements and list soft skills within my broader experiences.
front end isn’t that impressive these days. and your “applied” skills only show front end. also your projects are very mid. blog website and sorting visualizer are prob the two most common projects people do/know of. not impressive. also your supposed other projects seem a bit more impressive but you don’t highlight them, makes me think it’s all talk… also LC shouldn’t be a skill, don’t include soft skills either.
I’ve actually built all the other projects and much more! Thanks for the advice I’ll switch the ordering.
Do you have work authorisation in those countries?
None at all.
Need metrics. No way to know what you actually did.
What metrics am I supposed to put? There’s nothing I can put. It’s not like there is any measurable impact. I mostly just built the front end and back end websites and that’s it.
Who used it? How was the experience of the website loading time before and after you added your features? How many visitors since you worked on your features? Impact matters.
Job market bad
No experience
I need a job to get experience, but I can’t a find a job because I have no experience. CYCLICAL LOGIC 🧠 What am I supposed to do about that? I can’t fix it
Sorry man I don’t make the rules. Start in IT and keep applying?
You have to come up with a new strategy. Seriously why would you keep applying when it’s not working. Go the referral route.
I have nobody who can refer me. I contacted randos on linkedin, but they refused to refer me because they "didn't know me". One guy even said "I already referred some other people go ask someone else" even when I asked him 6 MONTHS before and continuously made contact with him. I contacted recruiters and all of them were like "not interested" or "we're hiring senior candidates" or "Amazon is not hiring at this time, please apply later". This is the experience that I had. The referral route is an absolute disaster. It totally failed and collapsed on me. I felt like an homeless beggar trying to talk to people who were billionaires or something. They didn't even give me a dollar. I changed my resume many times since it was not working. I applied with at this point 10 different resumes with different projects each time on the resume. I iterated over all the projects I've built with little no success. What am i supposed to do? I'm just lost at this point. Please help me, I'm begging you.
If you can, pursue a degree in one of the countries you are interested in working. Maybe avoid US for now. It is too expensive and jobs are not guaranteed and the visa stress is too much to deal with anyway. Hopefully that will help you.
You have a three year BSc. Why would anyone hire you when there’s so many BTech graduates out there?
What's wrong with that? I still graduated with a full degree. I have all the skills you could want. What else am I supposed to do?
A BSc is an easier degree compared to a BTech. And there are many BTech folks out there looking for a job.
Do you need visa sponsorship? I think it’s hard to get a new grad job right now with sponsorship.
Yeah I do need a sponsorship.
Disagree, there's no need to specify an internship is unpaid. experience is experience.
Are you candid in disclosing to your interns that statements by your company to them that they’re “gaining experience” are inaccurate?