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I have also been appling for developer jobs and waiting more than a month for more than rejection responses. For anyone who came here to share advice about my

I have also been appling for developer jobs and waiting more than a month for more than rejection responses. For anyone who came here to share advice about my resume, here's a link via my VPS: http://162.243.149.58/Resume.pdf http://162.243.149.58/Resume.pdf

munin 10y ago
one quick piece of feedback: resumes about stories. namely, your story: what have you done? how did you do it? what impact did it have? there's a hint of a story in your last internship - there was a proposal? you proposed it to management? you wrote some java code for hadoop? what did all of that do? but it's hidden amongst very low calorie things like "ssh key management" which is basically just copying blobs of text around. I don't care about your skill at catting two files together, I had someone write a program to do that. but there on one line is "Java software development for Hadoop." What was that about? I have some Hadoop, I have some people write Java code for it. could you do that? I have no idea, so, on to the next resume we go. here is what I would write if something had happened to me: "Working with my intern mentor, I developed a research proposal to discover previously unknown relationships in users of our web site. I designed a scoring function to be implemented in Hadoop, presented the design and motivation to management, implemented the scoring function, and ran it over our data. It improved costs in the business by %5." who - you and someone else did what - came up with an idea, pitched it, implemented it why - because you saw a business use case so what - it helped the business way better story! and nothing in there about managing ssh keys.
- ChuckMcM 10y ago
  Excellently articulated, this is what you want to go for.
joeld42 10y ago
The resume lists mostly sysadmin and supporting tasks. Dev tasks (like "developed web-based email search" or "Shipped working code") are too vague. The layout (especially the "Knowledge and Skill" section) look like you're trying to pad things out to fill a page. If you do more admin stuff, maybe you are applying for the wrong jobs. If you are looking for software development jobs, be concrete. Give examples of projects you've built or contributed to: e.g. "Implemented significant features for in-house helpdesk ticketing system (Python/Javascript/HTML/CSS) supporting 35 users and over 2700 tickets/week." Enumerate the "working code" that you shipped.

munin 10y ago

one quick piece of feedback: resumes about stories. namely, your story: what have you done? how did you do it? what impact did it have? there's a hint of a story in your last internship - there was a proposal? you proposed it to management? you wrote some java code for hadoop? what did all of that do? but it's hidden amongst very low calorie things like "ssh key management" which is basically just copying blobs of text around. I don't care about your skill at catting two files together, I had someone write a program to do that. but there on one line is "Java software development for Hadoop." What was that about? I have some Hadoop, I have some people write Java code for it. could you do that? I have no idea, so, on to the next resume we go. here is what I would write if something had happened to me: "Working with my intern mentor, I developed a research proposal to discover previously unknown relationships in users of our web site. I designed a scoring function to be implemented in Hadoop, presented the design and motivation to management, implemented the scoring function, and ran it over our data. It improved costs in the business by %5." who - you and someone else did what - came up with an idea, pitched it, implemented it why - because you saw a business use case so what - it helped the business way better story! and nothing in there about managing ssh keys.

ChuckMcM 10y ago
Excellently articulated, this is what you want to go for.

joeld42 10y ago

The resume lists mostly sysadmin and supporting tasks. Dev tasks (like "developed web-based email search" or "Shipped working code") are too vague. The layout (especially the "Knowledge and Skill" section) look like you're trying to pad things out to fill a page. If you do more admin stuff, maybe you are applying for the wrong jobs. If you are looking for software development jobs, be concrete. Give examples of projects you've built or contributed to: e.g. "Implemented significant features for in-house helpdesk ticketing system (Python/Javascript/HTML/CSS) supporting 35 users and over 2700 tickets/week." Enumerate the "working code" that you shipped.