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A few comments. You're applying to companies that are going to receive thousands of technical resumes. If you look at yours from their point of view what do yo
by lucozade 12y ago
A few comments.
You're applying to companies that are going to receive thousands of technical resumes. If you look at yours from their point of view what do you see? Why would they want to hire you rather than another person?
You have java and javascript. Great. So do thousands of others. What did you do with them that would make you stand out? Did you deploy an innovative use of rule-based tech on Google/Amazon cloud to launch a new product/increase revenue by $X?
Formatting aside (I presume you cut and paste from Word or whatever), your resume is primarily a set of general statements and a list of technologies (I'm also assuming the elided pieces are a list of companies/promotions you've had). These tell me some things about you but I don't know anything about what you've actually done with those technologies nor do I get an appreciation of the passion that you state.
For a resume, although you need to include some basic fact (college, employers etc), a laundry list of things, be it technologies or employment history or whatever, makes for dry reading and doesn't paint the picture of a passionate technological achiever that I assume you want.
My suggestion is to take each stage in your career and give an example of how you used technology to solve a problem/create an opportunity. Be specific and keep each one down to a few short sentences but try to ensure that you've captured at least some of the key moments that you've been proud of. BTW if you have contributions in the public domain, these can work just as well (or better).
One final point. People don't just use the resume when they recruit. They'll Google you. Is your online profile, esp the first few entries, what you want to project? If you blog, are they rants or thoughtful discussions on the subjects that you've said you are passionate about? Are your public tweets/posts libelous?
Good luck
- sidcool 12y agoThanks for your honest advice. I will work on those aspects and update the results.