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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 stor
by 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 agoExcellently articulated, this is what you want to go for.