When you don't have a way of making an impression by talking to someone or meeting them face to face, your resume becomes critically important. What I would li

When you don't have a way of making an impression by talking to someone or meeting them face to face, your resume becomes critically important. What I would like to say is that you do not know the audience that you are presenting this to and sometimes your name will make a bigger impression than anything on your resume. It's unfortunate that these things still make a difference but it is what it is. Looking at a resume such as your's and being somewhat jaded, I might think the following: - This is likely an immigrant. - They may not speak English well and may have had their resume written for them. - I'd rather hire someone who I can identify with rather this person who could be from a foreign culture. Now, I do not know if you are an immigrant or whether you speak or write English well. The point is that with your name and without explicitly giving the opposite impression, this is what a reviewer of your resume may think. Choosing you versus someone named "John Smith" becomes much more simpler (ie. you don't get chosen). So how do you counteract some of this? Well, for starters, you could use a nickname for your first name. Remember this is to just get you through the door. Secondly, if you did go to school here before University, you could list your high school. Basically, anything you could put that would let someone know that your verbal and written English is great would be good. I am not saying that this is what is stopping you from getting an interview, but there are many employers who have become very jaded by having someone come in for an interview who was the perfect candidate on paper but couldn't sling a complete sentence together due to language issues. These types of employers would rather just not take the risk, especially for an internship type position when they could just as easily pick someone else that looks more safe.