Resume review - 11 months unemployed - Final Review!!
Previous Post: https://www.teamblind.com/post/Professional-resume-review-required---11-months-unemployed-1dtSWrWE Dear blinders/friends, Firstly, thanks so much guys for being so helpful. Stay blessed everyone! I wish all the best to you guys and to the people looking for jobs. The title says everything. I have implemented all the feedback. I just want to know if anything still needs improvements and if I should start applying now. :) P.S: I am based in Canada. #jobs #resume #resumereview
At this point I don't think it's your resumes fault
Thank you mate for your encouraging response. :)
I actually agree - OP - resume is only used to get an interview. Unless youâre getting 0 calls - Iâd focus on improving interview skills and converting calls. At this point doesnât matter if your resume improves by x% - your problem is that youâre not employed for a long duration - you should have a convincing story of why that is the case - not that nobody wants you. If youâre not getting calls - Iâd suggest finding a non-profit or work on a personal project - so you donât come across as long term unemployed. Hope this helps.
Try for jobs in the USA
I tried using LinkedIn mainly. Can you please share where else I can apply for USA based jobs?
Linkedin, indeed.com
do you have high salary requirement?
No never. I just want to get into the tech market regardless of the good salary range.
A few nitpicks. If you can, without breaking confidentiality, put an x and a y next to your relative improvements. The numbers look good but the reader cannot tell if they are good. If youâre operating on a pile of bad code then those improvements are less impressive. Itâs unclear what scalability improvements mean exactly in this context. Context matters. Better throughput on the same hardware utilization? Auto-scaling? Not sure. But these are nitpicks. Good luck
Thanks for the response. I always feel a problem around that, I am short of words. I want to review some kind of samples so I would be able to articulate more words on these things and make them more interesting for the reader. Can you please help with anything with links/content or general information where I can find and add up that stuff where required?
My opinion is you are focusing too much on metrics and not enough on what you actually did. For sales and management I want to know their quantitative results, but for a software engineer I want to know what they worked on. Saying performance increased 25% is meaningless without context because we don't know where you started and how complicated that achievement was. "Developed ... APIs" is too generic, you should describe what the APIs were and give some indication of the complexity of the task. Enhanced performance by 25% could be because of a single config value. If you added caching to the system then say that explicitly. What did your optimized payment gateways entail? You said you were unemployed for 11 months yet your resume shows your present job from June 2023 - present. The dates don't add up there. If you were only employed for a few months at your latest job, that section should be shorter than your previous job to draw the reader's eye to your previous experience. Otherwise people may read your most current position and stop there. My advice is to choose the accomplishments you are most proud of and beef those up and leave the performance metrics as a detail at the end of their respective sections.
Thanks for the response. I will work on all the advice you mentioned but I want to explain and need more help on a few aspects. So, I got the gist of what you are trying to say, but my problem is that the info will be pretty generic to my overall resume. I mean where I can get samples of such info easily, so I can add them to my resume? Any help around that, please? I will focus less on metrics and more on achievements, but what's the right place to get such samples of words etc? So, I invest more time in nitpicking and less on rewriting on my own because I still try to make it look more professional and justified based on my experience. Yes, I have been unemployed, but for the last role earned by working on a freelance project for a Canadian client in past, I added that on top, so recuirters will think it like I have some Canadian experience and I have no gap on the resume. If I try to make it short, odds are they might think I have big gaps in my resume. Any guidance around that, please? I immigrated to Canada in May 2023, I left my last role in March 2023. I added this experience from June 2023 - present.
I don't have any examples, but maybe browse around on linkedin and see what descriptions people are giving in their profiles. See which ones are the most interesting to you. Probably it will be the ones that describe a product they worked on as opposed to one loaded with keywords and metrics.
DM for SAP and anyone else for a referral!
I really like the design of the resume. I would love to know the template name :)
Thanks, bro but interestingly this is the only resume in my entire career which I made myself without using any template. đ Itâs a plain Word file without using any table. I made it with simple common fonts and ATS passable.
Is the market really that bad? I know itâs bad for entry but for experienced engineers it should still be decent (2-3 month turn around time) As a senior engineer you should have no issues with getting a job. I wish you good luck though OP! Itâs pretty scary when senior engineers canât get jobs..
Well, I have seen a lot of my friends who earned decent experience in the USA, struggling for jobs in Canada for the past 13 months. I tried so hard but the results weren't fruitful. My all experience is earned outside Canada so it could be the reason but I am not getting interview calls either. So, I rigorously worked on my resume again and wanted to try my luck again. Truth is I have 37 resume drafts after all efforts. Thanks to the blind community and supportive people like you Sir. :)
2-3 months are just the process. And they reject after the final round. Now you apply again and interview again and 2-3 more months. Boom 6 months gone