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You did not increase Whole Food’s sales by 30% by working as a grocery clerk.
None of your work experience bullet points are relevant for a CS job; retail DOES have applicable skills, but “I worked in a team” or “Improved social skills” don’t tell a recruiter anything unique or valuable about your experience.
The way you describe your first project makes it sound like you just wrote a paper about how quantum computing works instead of building something new.
Your second project needs more explanation, what kind of special features did you build for that website? What uniquely-valuable experience are you describing right now that would make a recruiter go “This is great stuff, we need this person on our team because they will provide a ton of value for our business?
“Research” as in PhD or just a fun hobby project? Needs clarification.
Don’t bloat the CV - make it targeted to the job you want. Provide a portfolio instead with examples of things you buildt (include screenshots or video).
Also, why is volunteering 50 hours for a car show *the very first thing on your CS resume?"
And you have mixed-tenses in your whole foods job bullets. First bullet point is present, the rest of the bullet points are passed.
This copy of my resume in particular was for a job at a village where they stated that experience working or volunteering in a city or village event was something that would help applicants be considered
Then why does your post say 300+ applications? Unless a majority of those 300+ applications were for jobs at that village that facors volunteering at a village, posting this version of your resume for advice isn't very productive.
What sort of jobs are you applying for?
True, I made this post right after applying. Regardless all my applications followed the same format and general structure + or - some information, so some of the advice on here has been very helpful.
I have mainly only applied to internships
Hey man just hijiacking your first comment here - fill your resume with projects and bring up the retail/volunteer experience in the interview. I had extremely good retail experience as a manager at multiple places, but eventually removed all of it and saw more success that way (looking for a job with a fresh CS degree)
What are some of those applicable skills that retail has for CS jobs? I’m helping somebody with their resume who has retail experience and wants to swing a CS job, wondering how they can frame it on their resume
Soft skills. Knowing how to translate business language into technical language is one of the most important yet underrepresented skills in tech. If you know how to take a business story and use cases and determine what systems and technology can add the greatest value you're head and shoulders above the guy who spent his entire childhood learning to code but can't hold a conversation with a normal person for more than 5 minutes.
Everyone with a CS degree knows HOW to do things. What sets you apart is also knowing WHY you do things and WHEN to do them.
True but this resume needs work to get a CS job. The only thing I gather is they made a marketing page in HTML, meaning JS usage is minimal. This is UX and shows nothing about competency as a developer. So all I know is they can layout HTML, which is barely a part of software development.
Also saying they increased whole foods sales by 30% year over year is… a bold move to say the least.
One thing im certain of, 8 years of experience in software development, I would not ask this person for interview given current resume, regardless of hiring climate.
This resume would not get any hits even in a hot market let alone this one. He needs to drop his work experience because it is entirely irrelevant and just put more projects in
Tell me about it. I’ve been shooting for manager positions recently just for a change of pace. I might get lucky since I’ve put in over 300 normal ETL developer applications..
Being brutally honest here, unless you were applying for min wage somewhere I wouldn't hire you. You have practically no job experience, no sought after skills, and no completed education. Not much going on here.
And that's perfectly OK, assuming you're young. Until you finish school, you're not really qualified for much and that's OK. You probably need another 3 years of work experience to get in somewhere decent.
The skills aren't the problem here. In tech, Java, SQL, and web development are top of what recruiters want to see. Now, could you tell what kind of jobs this person is applying for based on the resume? For me, what popped when glancing at this resume is the work experience section, which highlights grocery/retail sales. But this person is clearly looking for entry level software jobs. Incoherence = in the trash. OP, in the tech world, always put your Skills at the top (remove & Interests). If you have relevant experience, that goes next. If not, then put your Project Portfolio then Education below Skills and focus all of your effort on getting an internship. At this point, include a very brief objective stating that is your intention. A 3.2 GPA isn't impressive, even for a CS major, so remove it. Finally, remove all adverbs from your resume. How many of these 300+ applications were sourced from your University's career center or from a professor or alumni? I started as a research assistant, and I made sure the role involved coding. Your project portfolio is an okay substitute for that, but where are the github links? Now I'm actually confused about your project portfolio. How is building a platform for a small business not work experience? I'm guessing it was a fictional company? If so, then say so. You don't have to pretend to be a savant to get an internship.
>. Until you finish school, you're not really qualified for much and that's OK. You probably need another 3 years of work experience to get in somew
Yet I keep hearing that a degree is not enough.
I understand that OP is in Comp Sci but not everyone is in a tech major.
Remove the car show volunteer work it doesn't really track with what your trying to accomplish here. None of your working experience is really relevant which is fine but a simple 2 lines about providing quality customer service and working as a team is enough. Everything else is bull and will give them a bad opinion of you. Your resume is going to be on the shorter side and that's not a bad thing. Have you worked on any certifications or training outside of college? If not start now. Get rid of the cryptography and replace it with another project even if you're still working on it. Try to collect references from professors. Also your college definitely has a career center book an appointment to have them give you advice.
Also really highlight that you can speak two languages that alone is more valuable than your work experience.
1. nobody wants to hire a college student unless you are exceptional
2. 300 interview and 0 interviews is the universe telling you that you should be applying to internships instead
Exactly. I’m currently in Computer science right now as a college student and I hope to get an offer from my internship to join the company after college. Internships are small, but help with experience on your resume and open more doors for careers after you graduate
In today's market 300 submissions and no interviews is actually somewhat common for entry level position with little experience. That's just how it is now, online job applications sites are over saturated to hell. Most people get auto filtered.
Now if it were 1000+, I would agree with you.
It's okay if you're able to prove it with past projects and things.
But increasing sales by "team collaboration" and "creating sales opportunities" doesn't tell me much and just sounds like fluff
I disagree with this, but it depends what the metric is. In a sales oriented industry you could throw some numbers in there very easily and not be disingenuous
The stripper job market is terrible right now. Clearly OP should be trying to jump straight to upper management in a strip club by going there in person and giving the owner a firm handshake. That's how it used to work back in my day, anyway.
I would mention GitHub (if not learn it). HTML is not a coding language. I would highlight JavaScript, TypeScript (learn it) and Java.
You mentioned OS - be specific (Linux, Andriod, etc anything you worked with)
You should also mentioned that you did unit testing.
I’d drop the percentage sales increase since you have engineers reading your resume and not sales people. They will most likely think that’s cheesy. Try to go deeper by putting you relevant course work. A statement at the top about yourself and your professional interests. Try to go a little deeper on the skills.
Just wanted to add: can’t stress the importance enough of making resumes a little more personal. Big companies get hundreds of resumes for entry level roles. Most likely there’s someone reading them and giving some sort of initial yes or no on who they want to call in for an interview. Show your human side and show you might be someone they would enjoy working with.
Your work experience has nothing to do with CS. Just park it at the bottom as a short list to show that you can handle attendance. The focus should be on skills, at the top, and the projects to show off what you know.
Leave off your GPA as it’s not above 3.5, doing yourself no favors.
Good luck
I know this is unrelated but I hate hiring managers man. Literal scum of the earth. Even the nice ones, I hate them. They are so happy to take me on and then when I'm begging to quit all of a sudden they give me the cold shoulder. It felt so good to tell one that I don't need her job and that she can go to hell. If felt so good.
Yea no better feeling, but I don't recommend burning bridges to prove a point. A company isn't going to write you a good rec letter when you need it if you just left in a dime.
I’ll be blunt, you aren’t gonna get a CS job
The market is extremely competitive right now due to downturn and automation inciting mass layoffs
First problem, your GPA is markedly low, even a T10 student wouldn’t get hired right now with that
Second, you provide no details on your education
Third, neither job has anything to do with CS
Fourth, you need accessory items like club leadership, competitions, a project portfolio, a link to your personal website, and a LinkedIn link to even be considered given the current job market
Fifth, you need certifications that verify your competency within the niche you want to target
Sixth, your formatting is entirely inconsistent
Seventh, your YoY sales growth is a blatant lie
I could go on for quite some time, but I hope that I have written enough for you to get the point
I don’t mean this sarcastically, have you considered enlisting with the US military?
Their sign on compensation is high enough to invest, not touch it, and guarantee your retirement
They also have food and housing coverage, pension after 20 years, and full medical insurance for the rest of your life
Additionally, they don’t really care about your GPA, and having a degree - particularly in a STEM field - means that you will start as an officer and can expect an accelerated career path
You don’t even need to be involved in combat, I would recommend looking into technical support roles where you would never leave a US base, which there are far more of than current applicants, so your odds of receiving an offer are 100% as long as you pass their health requirements
I think you should include more about your CS knowledge and remove some of the work experience. If you haven't already invest some time into your LinkedIn profile; I was in the same position as you last summer until a recruiter reached out to me and I got the interview (and got hired). This was after 5 months of sending applications into the electronic void
What are you applying to? Full time jobs? Internships? What field?
I dont know how you want people to help you when you put zero effort into your post.
It’s tough right now, I had 75 qualified applicants for a software engineer position in February. Two years ago, for the same position I had 12 qualified applicants. Two years ago I also hired two entry level programmers who had no industry work experience, but today, I think they would be beaten out by laid off tech workers who have experience plus the degree.
Point I want to make is timing is part of what’s happening right now, it’s tougher right now and you’d have gotten more action from your resume two years ago for sure.
Yeah drop most of the work experience, maybe keep 1 job so they know you’re employable. Include as many projects as you can; school projects are okay. You only know 4 programming/scripting languages as a Junior? No C? That’s also troublesome. Just knowing a little web stuff is definitely not competitive in this market.
There’s nothing wrong with not knowing C, and it takes well more than an undergrad to become proficient with any language, let alone four. Java is still enormously popular and often used as the primary language through degree programs, and their full skillset is a pretty popular web stack with spring. Their resume does suck overall, though.
I think the ATS system and AI tracking resume are insane I as a normal human do not found many flaws that I judge this resume to be not selected even for an interview but AI and ATS is a mess even some sober deserving candidates are rejected. You have to add lies to resume to match the keywords as per the job so good luck with this AI horrible era
I’m proud of you for reaching out for help! For critiques: I would say to remove the 30% because in a sales associate/stocker position you personally would not have contributed substantially enough to add that to a resume. The project portfolio descriptions are really vague.
The language on your resume is passive and seems unprofessional. You do not keep to discuss skills you gained under each position, just want you did in the position, then you can have a separate section with 5 skills listed. I would suggest submitting it through a resume checker. Look up job descriptions of the positions you have held and base your descriptions off of those.
Good luck!
Most of the advice here isn’t great. Assuming you’re looking for an internship? But regardless, you’re doing cs at university so why haven’t you talked about it at all? What projects have you done, what societies are you a part of etc. The education part should be much bigger. Usually I would say get rid of HTML as it’s not really difficult, but as you’re still in university it’s fine.
Does your school do resume workshops or anything? You’ll be better served having somebody go through with you point by point to improve your resume. I do this sometimes at my old university and it’s way better than advice you’d get on Reddit.
The job market isn’t as bad as people are making it out to be. I think I saw a comment telling you to join the military which is crazy. I don’t understand the gpa system (not American) but you may be better served focusing on getting better grades also. Just be persistent and most importantly keep your head up.
The market is brutal right now, but your resume needs work too. I am a self taught ex-FAANG software engineer (got offers from practically everywhere I applied to, even before I joined FAANG). I've hired many people to my team, and here are some of the things I can point out:
- Tailor your resume for CS jobs. Your resume is not your biography. You don't have to fill it up just for the sake of filling it up (but at the same time, limit it to 1 page at most). Try to limit your resume only for information that is relevant for your potential employer.
- No matter what you studied, employers care about this the most: Can he/she build something useful for me. The best way you can demonstrate it is by doing it, e.g. internships, your own projects. If you show no signals on your resume that you have done that, the employer doesn't care.
- As someone who has no job experience, your most effective move will be to work on interesting projects. Contribute to well known open source projects (there are tons of them on GitHub), or simply build something on your own.
- If you can't build something on your own, I wouldn't hire you anyway.
- Finding your first job is the most difficult mountain to climb. Finding jobs after that won't be as difficult, because you can show on your resume that you've built things in the past. It will require some extra effort to climb that mountain.
Good luck!
Your work experience is completely irrelevant for what you want to do. You haven’t sold any of your skills at all. Just look at your first bullet point in your project portfolio
Researched how quantum computer operate and gained a deep understanding of core components
The average HR person doesn’t know what a quantum computer is. What about their operations did you research? What did you even learn? What core components? What result was there?
Look up the STAR method for points and make your point relevant to that. Get rid of your work experience and put more projects from your school or your skills.
How do you only know Java and website coding if you’re a CS major? 🤦
Look at what jobs are requiring and learn those skills. If you know Java, go learn C/C++ and add that on. Take some time to learn Python as anything that involves ML/AI needs that. Take some time and learn R which expands you to more science based coding jobs.
As a CS major your skill set is too limited. And combine that with your BS work experience, it makes your resume very unattractive. It’s hard to believe you personally increased the revenue of your WF by 30%. Sure your resume is a place to show off, but there’s a difference between a humble brag and unbelievable claims.
Example:
- proposed and implemented new strategies for more efficient merchandising approaches
- received employee of the month recognition for providing exceptional customer experience
- took on a team leadership role to provide motivation and feedback to drive team success.
As for your research experience, it sounds like you wrote a paper for a class. No one cares about your homework. Was this published in an academic journal or presented in a conference? Then list it! If it’s just homework, then remove it.
For the business site, that shouldn’t be the last thing! It’s your only real experience…. Go into details and tell us what you actually did? Did you implement the backend data base and built the front end UI? Let us know what you did and what you used to do it.
For your skills, list them out. “Troubleshooting hardware and software” means nothing. Are you certified? “Comfortable with operating systems and network troubleshooting.” Means what? What OSs do you know? Windows 7/8/10/11? Unix? Linux? MacOS? And what about networks do you know? Certified? Do you understand routing? How about DHCP? DNS? Are you able to configure a layer 3 network? If you can what vendor? Vagueness like that tells me you’re pretending to know stuff you don’t know. Be specific with what skills you actually have.
Sorry for being harsh! I was in your same position after I graduated and learned all of this from friends.
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They probably don’t know your last name, or a phone number to reach you. Idk how many people are named Omitted but first grade rules of including your last name will always apply throughout life. 🤭
You're still a student. You have no degree. What are you applying for? keep going to school and finish your degree. Work at a minimum wage job. Chill and study. Get a grown up job when you graduate.
They’re most likely applying to internships, the CS market is brutal right now and if you don’t graduate with internship experience, your chances of landing a full time tech job is significantly lower, “just chill and study” is terrible advice given the area of study and the current market for that area of study
The top commentator is right about the sales stat, but after fixing that:
- Have Volunteer experience last, not first, if at all
- The personal summary is important in this case; try to tie everything you've done into a narrative and focus on the industry you are applying for, mention your schooling and if relevant, side projects/learning depending on the industry. Whole Foods is a high-brow retailer, so use that, maybe highlight people skills and attention to detail, team player etc.
- Presentation matters, especially when you are trying to get a better job than previously. There are a ton of easy PDF templates and design builders online, Canva, etc, simple drag-and-drop stuff (doesn't have to be fancy) that just makes it on a basic level more likely to be read.
if your university has a career center take your resume there for advice. they will probably rip it apart but it will help you in the end.
also if you have a major specific advisor talk to them as well, sometimes they’re willing to help
I would focus heavily on research and development opportunities! Quantum Cygroptraphy is usually for grad students, focuses on research and connections in academia .
If u r looking for development jobs,
reduce the words on ur work experience and projects.
Instead, add an objective. Mention what u want and are good at.
Make your technical skill list a lot more granular and extensive - e.g. instead of just JS put stuff like Angular, React, Redux, Axios, etc. SQL specify Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres etc. Have other frameworks and libraries and skills like Bootstrap, Flex, UX/UI or whatever u are familiar with. The more technical tools u can label, the better.
Seeing IL lemme guess you’re Chicagoland area. If so. I also applied to 300+ with only a handful of interviews. But a lot of these jobs here rn have 500-1000+ applications! I’ve looked into it and it’s insane.
The project portfolio should be above the work experience since the jobs are not that relevant. Maybe even reduce the jobs to the most recent one or two, just to show that you are employable. I would add more to the projects section and make that more of a focus than the work experience.
It seems like you're exaggerating about what you did. People know a stocker has no impact on sales so don't lie and say you increased them 30%. And some of those points are just a vague word salad where I'd ask, what does that even mean?
A stocker/cashier should talk about what they actually did. I took inventory. I assisted customers and answered their questions. I was responsible for displays looking correct and following planograms. I swept floors, ensuring the cleanliness of the store was above and beyond standards. You didn't do rocket science but you can tell employers what you did do, it did have value.
Increased sales/"opportunities" how? Chasing leads is a salesperson's job. But this wasn't a sales or marketing job? This was an operational job. Talk about how you handled the day to day operations. That's it. And use plainer language, not a random word salad of business-sounding jargon, when it seems clear you don't know what the words you're using mean.
Check your university for resources that can help you in your job search. Usually, a university or college will provide services such as reviewing resumes, job search workshops, job boards and career fairs. Make sure to make use of them.
Cater your resume to what you are applying for. If you are trying to get a computer science job I would put all of the education and stuff at the top and the work experience at the bottom because none of your work experience is related to computer science. I also wouldn't consider volunteering as work experience I would consider it as ,community outreach, or 'other'. A lot of places only care about what is relevant to their position that they are hiring for.
1. Reorder to: education, skills, projects, work experience. This is the order the components of your resume are valued for internships
2. Make work experience more soft skill focused. Use this to answer the question “can you work on a team?”
3. Change “currently attending (junior)” to “Exp. May 2025” or whatever your expected graduation is
4. By far the most important part to this. 99% of students do not have anything that truly differentiates them from their peers who are also mass applying for internships. Recognize that and stop using only “easy apply” or “one click apply” features by themselves. If you do that, don’t consider your application submitted until you also reach out to a recruiter from the company on LinkedIn with a message along the lines of “Hi, I just submitted my application for XYZ position, but I wanted to give you my resume directly as well in case that simplifies the process for you,” or something along those lines. They’ll know what you’re doing. You know what you’re doing. But ultimately they’ll like that you care enough about the position to do it. That is your differentiator. Good luck out there.
If I were u I’d remove my entire work experience and just highlight my projects sections. Add some more stuff to the projects section and mention work experience as maybe side work and contributions in small.
Stop trying to make it sound like you accomplished everything from behind a cash register. Doesn't take a genius to know you are likely stuck in one spot all day scanning barcodes and rotating impulse displays.
Just show that you were reliable. Unfortunately, you're calling yourself out as "I learned nothing from my job responsibilities while doing them." Cashiers are customer service oriented. Talk about the metrics. Did you get positive customer surveys? Were you ranked for speed at all? Did you receive praise or commendation? What about potential membership/credit card referrals?
Be honest. Talk about how you had the shiniest cash register in the store. At least that isn't far-fetched.
Dude run the resume through a ATS checker. 90% of Companies run your resume through an automated system and if it don’t see the keywords it wants, it tosses it to the side. Also, hate to break it to you but tech and CS has become INSANELY saturated hundreds of thousands of people thought them self how to code and tons went to bootcamps during covid. Companies hired way to many people and now there’s just to many Right now the job market for these jobs is horrible.
you increased sales by 30% as a cashier at whole foods?? why are you applying to other jobs i’m sure whole foods has an insane compensation package to offer you
You come off as a bullshitter.
Be upfront - you have work experience, cool, it’s not related, but it’s something. That’s all those two jobs need to be.
Projects - if someone talks to you about those, can you at will go into it with them? Will it impress them?
If not, find something else, or be able to.
Also - cryptographers make fuck all. Cool topic and all but uhh, yeah, it’s trash money. It was years ago, doubt it’s changed.
And if you were going to make money, you’d need at least a 3.75.
Just fyi.
I'm guessing you're looking for a CS related internship. If that's the case, the GPA is probably hurting you, both from being on your resume and being fairly low in general. If you're looking for a FT SC job, then it's the complete lack of degree and experience.
Education: I would add relevant coursework, as appropriate for the position.
Experience: Title/Employer/Location/Dates all on the same line. You bullets read like complete BS with some vague (and exaggerated) metrics tossed in.
Projects: This should have the same header style as Education and Experience. The first project specifically look like research papers, not something you actually did. The second one could conceivably be listed under Experience (Independent Web Site Developer)
Skills: "Comfortable with..." is not a statement that inspires confidence. I would drop that entire statement. In fact, the only really useful point is that you're bilingual.
You need to get a professional internship and shrink the pro-experience section to just include that and maybe one retail job- you’re a college student so firms won’t be expecting much there.
Your work experience makes no sense you didn't raise the profits of anything by being a cashier or stocker. To me this resume is blowing hot smoke. Just be real with your resume the bottom half seems fine I would place it on top though and completely redo the work experience don't over sell yourself on entry level positions....
You have no experience, what you have learned coding wise is alarming considering you are a junior, and I have no idea why you are applying if you are a junior.
All resume advice is like cow paddies in a field. Not helpful in getting you to your destination.
You need action. Here’s what you do…. Set up 3 meetings with people doing the job you want. Hand them your resume and ask what they would need to see to hire you/for their company to hire you. Listen to what they say and modify the resume after each interview. By #3 you will have a significantly better story in your resume. Then, use the intel and names from the interviews in your cover letters when applying. You’re much closer than you think.
If you have little relevant experience but good relevant skills e.g. you know how to code but haven’t been in that kind of a role then you should switch the orientation so it shows things from most to least relevant.
If I was hiring for a technical role and all the experience is retail I’d probably skim over it tbh
Your work history is a complete meme. There is stretching things then there is trying to take credit for increasing sales by 20/30 percent and a stocker and cashier lmao. Makes you look like a massive bullshitter or an inflated self importance.
Also what are you applying for? If it is CS related for like coding ect, make a github and put projects there. You have this thing about quantum computing (looks like some sort of paper you wrote for class maybe?) that takes up a ton of space and is so niche it is probably irrelevant. Use this space for more skills that are specific. "Trouble shooting software"? Okay but what.....anyone in the field is going to know it isn't ALL software. You have no need to be so general when you have plenty of space for specifics.
I would put your projects first if applying to IT jobs that are relevant to your major. If you are applying to a job that doesn’t require a degree then I would remove the bachelors degree, unless the job is a short term contract or part time role. Basically, you don’t want them to think you will jump ship once a better opportunity comes, but if it’s a part-time job that you could do at the same time as a full time job, or a short term contract, then theres not as much risk to them.
Know your audience, and try to be 2 steps ahead of the interviewer by anticipating what your weak points are and then addressing accordingly.
My first real job out of college was working for a biotech corporation in the call center, so you could try to get your foot in the door that way. (That way you could transfer into IT once the market improves)
Frankly speaking, your resume is not good for a software development role. I have 8 years of experience and replied to a comment, but want to make this visible for you.
This resume needs work to get a CS job. The only thing I gather is they made a marketing page in HTML, meaning JS usage is minimal. This is UX and shows nothing about competency as a developer. So all I know is they can layout HTML, which is barely a part of software development. What about data structures/algorithms? HTML/CSS are not programming languages so you have given me 0 proof you are a competent developer
Also saying they increased whole foods sales by 30% year over year is… a bold move to say the least.
I would not ask this person for interview given current resume, regardless of hiring climate
There are a lot of things to point out, but this "increased sales by 30%" lie is probably enough for recruiters to toss out your application. You're making yourself look like a bullshitter, and no one wants to hire a bullshitter.
There is no getting around the basic fact that you’re a college student with 5 years experience in retail who’s taken some computer science classes. You’re qualified for other retail jobs, or some of the most entry-level computer science internships. Are these the types of openings you’ve been applying to?
You should tailor your resume to each specific internship so that it looks like you actually spent time looking into the position and, you know, *want* that specific internship. I guarantee you if I picked a random one of the 300 positions you applied to and asked you “what do you know about this job/company” you wouldn’t be able to articulate what it is that made you apply beyond “it’s a job opening and I want a job.” Recruiters can sniff that out from a mile away.
this was about my resume when i was in college, being miserable in computer science. Squarely average in a sea of computer science nerd geniuses that built their own operating system by the age of 9. I was a nerd wanna-be without the passion or the coding chops. My question to you is, do you really want to 'code'? Maybe web design, or network support would be better? Have you thought of doing internships at technical support companies, or something adjacent, like it related trades like camera installs, cabling/wiring, etc..that's what I ended up doing, and I now 30k-50k a month at 42 years old.
Gonna be brutally honest : there’s no point to have the quantum research there. You can just be honest with us and admit you had no impact; I know you did because that world is hard to get into. Moreover, there’s already quantum encroyocryption algorithms and people have known about this issue for years. Unless you made your own encryption algorithm for quantum computers, just remove it, it makes you look like you don’t know what you’re talking about.
It’s like you have one of the most basic things you can build (a simple website) and then you jump to the moon and did quantum research. I don’t think anyone is gonna buy that. Don’t mention research unless you had an actual impact, you just make yourself look like a fool.
Your job experience is in whole foods with being a comp sci major. Work on some projects. Build your portfolio and then apply for internships.
You can't expect to be hired for a Comp Sci job without 0 experience. Rn folks are asking for 2 years experience for an internship
It's kind of frustrating that college students have to have super polished resumes, but this seems to be the state of things these days. If you have a college/university career center, consider going there and getting your resume and cover letter reviewed by them, as well. And yes, having a cover letter will help you. I know it's annoying, but because it's annoying a lot of other students will not do it, and your application might stand out if you do.
Yeah, I'm probably going to reiterate some things others have said, but I think I have a few new thoughts/ideas, too:
* **General Notes:** Order of these things could be improved. I'd maybe get rid of Interests and instead do a short summary at the top. You're an undergrad looking for part-time work/internship opportunities in X field of interest. Maybe move Skills to the top, under the summary. Then Education. Then Projects. Then Work Experience. Basically, from most to least relevant. Do you have a Github? If so, add it. If you have a website, add it. (If you don't, consider maybe spending a weekend and deploying something on Github pages. If your other projects are deployed, link them. If not, deploy them or add images.) And one last note, be consistent with your punctuation. In some places, you're not using periods. In some places you are. It looks like you are not detail oriented when these things are not consistent.
* **Work Experience:** Most of this work experience is not relevant. Either get rid of the work experience section or seriously truncate it. I'm talking dates of employment (can be month/year only), company, job title, and maybe city.
* **Education:** Unless you are going to MIT or Stanford, remove the GPA. Include the degree name. Are you getting a Bachelor's of Science? A Bachelor's of Arts? Don't say you're a junior, add the start date and expected date of completion instead. Might be worth including a relevant coursework section with any higher level Math (I'd say Calc III, Discrete, Linear Algebra would be relevant), or general CS/IT courses taken/in progress. Could be good to mark those by term and year.
* **Skills:** Since it seems you don't know a lot of languages yet, are there other computational skills you could include? Object Oriented Programming? DSA? Version control? REST API development? Have you written tests for your code at all? Did you use any libraries, frameworks, or packages that are commonly used in industry? (Examples could be: Spring Boot, Bootstrap, jQuery, various SQL ORMs, etc.) Also, consider adding soft skills: communication, teamwork, problem solving, time management, blah blah. Whatever you think you're good at.
* **Projects:** For these, think about how you're framing them. Focus less on what you learned and more on what you actually did and your techniques. Were there any major challenges overcome? For instance, I can't tell what you actually did in your research project. Did you work with faculty on this? Or was it a class project? What kind of research did you do? Was it an experiment or a survey of literature in the field? Also, try to keep these bullets to a line; the orphaned words on the second line are eating up space.
I’d maybe suggest focussing on less applications and really trying to nail your cover letter and resume to fit the job requirements based on your relevant experience with the measurable outcomes.. the current AI resume filtering systems also filter a lot out of they don’t hit a certain percentage of key words that are in the job description and if there isn’t a cover letter… all sorts… less is more, you will get there. I feel in the same boat myself. Good on you for putting yourself out there and asking for feedback, that takes strength. I’d hire you!!
Welcome to living in one of the world’s biggest metros. You’re not only competing against those in your backyard, but also those from every other market in the country to include overseas. You picked a great degree to explore, but you haven’t graduated and the market here is intense. I would see what resources your school offers for job placement as it might help land an internship and create some connections as well as the possibility of a FT gig.
Change your Blog Article type Resume to Professional Resume. Don't use point wise express.
Your Skill and what you have in hand experience mentioned in Bold format, which make some real attention to the HR. they are still human. they like professionalisms. Font style and size matters a lot. Style matters too. make some changes and then submit. some section should be Up and some down.
I really hate all the bullet points. Especially in the project portfolio it sounds like you made a PowerPoint presentation and are expecting a medal for that.
At least on the work experience it would be better if you just had a couple sentences explaining what the hell you actually did instead of vaguely puffing yourself up. Something like:
*During my time as a sales associate at Whole Foods, I was able to gain much needed experience interacting with customers face to face, working effectively with a team, and stocking merchandise. This experience helped me understand the importance of time management and teamwork. I’m very proud to have been with a crew that increased sales YoY by up to 30%.*
Your resume looks like my old one, and this is what recruiters told me:
1. Change the order of your resume. Skills need to come before work history. Oftentimes, recruiters confirm that your skills match their job postings before they continue with your resume.
2. Your research project could count as work experience. With this in mind, you can remove all of your work history not related to your field.
3. Expand on your projects. You did a decent job on the second project, tell me how you used your skills to do something.
4. Talk about any organizations/clubs you are involved in. I received an interview a handful of times because I mentioned being president of the computer science club and a member of NSBE.
5. If you go to events such as hackathons, capture the flag, or anything similar, mention that. Every interview I've had as mentioned that for me
I know you’ve got a ton of advice going on here, but what stood out most to me is the order of information. If you’re shooting for anything CS related, consider moving your project portfolio section above the work experience.
Also, I think some of the people in these comments are being a bit too harsh. I had a hard time in college for my CS degree, and amidst that and a pandemic I came out with no internships, no projects, a GPA I don’t remember and never put on a resume, and what felt like little knowledge. I currently have a job as a web dev and am moving on to an e-commerce site manager after improving my resume and constantly applying. You really just have to want to improve yourself and keep at it until you get lucky for the first time. After you get some experience it will be easier. Good luck.
Ya the blaring issue for me is that the bullet points in the job descriptions sound like you’re over exaggerating what you actually did there. I recruit a few times a year and the “stinky” resumes get passed over pretty quickly, mostly because there are just so many applicants these days that I often look for the most honest applicants.
You’re applying for computer science roles, not sales roles. You need to remove the language discussing any contribution you had in YoY.
You’re probably better off leaving out the Cryptography project. You definitely want to lead with your website development experience.
Also- you’re a junior? Part of the reason you aren’t getting any results is that you’re still in school. Setting aside the fact that you don’t have your degree yet, stating that you’re still a student (I presume full-time?) is tipping off hiring managers that you already have something you’re dedicating a significant amount of time to during the week. I can’t think of many companies that would want a part-time developer/engineer/etc.
All this aside, my recommendation to you would be (if you’re not already) to apply for help desk roles- part time now, and include full time gigs in your job search when you graduate. CS is oversaturated right now. You’ll have an easier time getting a role in information technology, and it’ll provide valuable experience you can translate to a role in dev/engineering/what have you.
First of all I’d say put your projects first since they have a lot more to do with CS than your work experience. Also use stronger action verbs, “improve social skills” and “learned how to work on a team” is very vague and doesn’t transmit too much confidence. And as other people mentioned, it’s hard to believe you increased Whole Foods’ sales by 30% just by doing teamwork, I think that’s a bit of a red flag for who’s hiring you. Focus on your CS related projects, use stronger action verbs for them (MIT has a list with good ones) and put your job experience as one of the last things. Only talk about the volunteering thing if you really need to fill out some empty space but if you do so find a way to describe transferable skills. They won’t really care if there absolutely no use to them.
What exactly did you do to increase sales by 30 percent and 20 percent respectively? CEOs that get paid tens of millions of dollars per year to continuously improve shareholder value couldn’t pull that off.
The reason you didn’t get anywhere is because your resume contains things that did not happen and recruiters can see right through that stuff. Your projects might be valuable experience, but you need to (truthfully) quantify your project results in your resume.
Question, what are you applying for, a comp sci job? If so I would recommend something like.
1. Education. You could probably just change "Currently Attending (Junior)" to "Expected Graduation (2025)"
2. Skills, in second place so recruiter can immediately see the skills you have. Might want to rephrase "comfortable with operating systems and network trouble shooting" as "Proficient in Operating System Management and Network Troubleshooting.". Maybe someone can chip in.
3. Projects, should come next as they seem to be more relevant if you are applying for a comp sci role.
4. Work Experience, ideally work experience would go before projects, but they should be highly applicable to what you're applying to.
For your current list of work experiences, I would get rid of your "Village of OMITTED Volunteer" as it only has one bullet point and doesn't really convey that much. The numbers are good like "increasing sales YoY up to 20%", but make sure they're realistic. Idk much about sales but increasing sales by 20% seems a lot. If it is true, I hope you are able to elaborate during an interview.
Additionally, if you have a GitHub, I would recommend having that included in your contact info. Make sure to curate your GitHub to show off the projects you've done.
No to bash you or trying to be mean, just being realistic, this is probably the first time I saw a resume and think you actually don’t deserve to get hired.
1. For your experience bullet points, you should like you put minimal effort or just BSed it.
2. For your skills, you don’t have anything but the most basic languages that everyone learns when they first get into programming.
3. Your resume makes it so I look at the middle first , but your middle doesn’t have anything impressive on there
Do warm applications not cold. find the address of recruiters and ask them for a job. 100% success…
Jk but get to know or chat via LinkedIn or business card/connections. Mass cold appli do nothing but get discarded instantly (99% of the times)
So without knowing what kind of jobs your actually applying for it’s a little harder to give you criticism. Retail jobs aren’t going to be impressive or relevant to anyone outside the retail space. Entry level jobs in amy industry are hard to come by these days. Lots of people get started via internships or apprenticeships. Your school should have job placement assistances. I know ow that doesn’t help a whole lot but ii always had better luck talking to people in person. Maybe apply at smaller firms/companies where the HR person is more likely to actually read resumes rather then have a program do it for them.
Good luck
Maybe someone has mentioned, but I haven't seen it yet. No one will care about your quantum computing research project. Take it off your resume and use the space for something else.
The truth is lie to get interview if you know your stuff you will pass the interview. Resume is made for lying unfortunately at least when you have no experience. Ik it’s unfortunate but that is how it works.
Just apply to blue-collar jobs. Anything to do w/ coding is being outsourced. There's so many technologies/frameworks right now engineers made to self-justify their existence. Its not worth it.
Would help if you gave a link to some work, rather than 'Business Website'. Also, this is short enough to tailor to each job or type of job you're going for. What do you want to be a cashier? Crypto bro? Dev? Don't just throw it out 300 times, change it up per vacancy so ALL skills are relevant. Give them something to connect with. Remove cashier jobs from Dev CVs, or steer them to a technical point, even if it's a stretch. Use that space to write about personal projects, unofficial builds, KEYWORDS.
If possible share a link to your GitHub account. I love it when someone shares it, I always look. I will almost always reach out and contact someone if they have done anything of substance that looks like it probably works.
Assuming this isn't a joke, this entire resume reads like someone making shit up to make themselves seem more important than they are. You didn't increase sales 30% by working as part of a team, sales increased while you were there. The thing about open ended questions is just weird.
You're better off being straightforward and coming across as inexperienced than trying to fluff "emptied trash cans" into "disposal specialist in charge of 10,000 units of product." Everyone reading your resume is going to assume that if you'll lie or exaggerate on these small things that you'll do it on the big things too.
More importantly, this just shows an overall lack of understanding of the business world in general. The things you've chosen to highlight as bullet points say a lot about what you think an employer is looking for, and yours are so scattered that it's evident you don't know. This also tells me you're probably spamming every opening you see with the same resume and 99% of them are being filtered out before a human even sees them because you're not hitting any of the keywords the positions are asking for
I *think* I understand your situation.
- **Me as a former jobseeker with high qualifications:**
"I study these subjects, so I am disciplined, focused & intellegent. I have the ethics & skills to perform the tasks required for the advertised position. I will be a great asset to your team.
- **Me now as an employer:**
"The applicant displays high commitment & drive with the current study towards creditation, however, the skills do not apply to the work I required to be performed. Do they have experience in \_\_\_\_\_\_\_, \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_ & \_\_\_\_\_\_\_? What risk am I taking by onboarding this applicant? What experience do they have in a professional environment and if no work experience available, what experiences in their schooling/hobbies relate to the skills required for the job?"
**Sell yourself** in any way you can.
You're gonna get turned down, a lot, when applying for work with no experience as a stranger too. So, **NETWORK!!!**
Best of luck mate :)
Why do I feel like this person has already reached out to some "experts" at TopResume or their ilk? The 30% Whole Foods thing sounds like something they would put on there. Results that cannot be quantified or backed up in an interview. You can't just say you did something. You have to be a superstar and increase sales by some percentage. Even if you are a receptionist. Or a cashier. I made the mistake of paying them once and the results were so awful I could barely look. And to add; writing is not particularly good either.
Move skills to the top. And create more side projects and fill up your GitHub repo.
That's the only way to get a job. Volunteer for free at local church to revamp their sites and maybe you do such a great job that you network into a job through it.
You should probably make sure you are applying to places relevant to the experience listed on the resume. If your experience is not there is not relevant you are contributing to the slog of job filtering.
When applying somewhere it needs to be focused on the job you do the experience you have. If it is just store job, apply with the less is more in mind. They don't care about your accomplishments.
If it is an experienced job. Focus on the experience that relates to the job.
I'll be frank, your resume isn't impressive. Like I wouldn't even consider you for helpdesk.
Remove this stupid YoY flare. Replace the research project with a link to your git page. Start doing some actual projects and demonstrate that you can tie in your Java and SQL, make a basic website for yourself to demonstrate you actually know html/CSS.
You are also still a junior in college so what you have here is a resume designed for retail or part time work. Employers are going to question why you wanna just jump into the work force or if you are going to only be available part time.
Finish your degree and continue to work on things above. IT is in a shitty place right now so you need to be ahead of your peers if you have time to go to school and work try to get an internship. The experience interning is useless but the networking could be your golden ticket.
Attend hackathons, game jams communities that involve CS and literally network more. You never know who will be impressed and want to hook you up with a interview.
I spill the networking thing so much on this sub because its legit important.
your resume is trash.
your work experience is irrelevant, I would remove and post some projects depending on the type of job.
If you don't have project/research work, you need to find something to do on campus for FREE.
You should add some activities, like you tutor computer science, or you are in some coding club etc.
Also you should be applying for an internship not job.
You have a year before you graduate so correct your course or you will be increasing 30% sales at whole foods every year.
you can apply to 300 more, still you will not get an interview. I’m keen to know what do you guys think about getting a tech job? like seriously do you have any idea how hard is it to get a job right now and with a resume this crappy you have guts to ask why you aren’t getting an interview, bro it’s high time, start working.
can we ditch the 2001 mantra of making a single page, white with bullet points of black text resume? Legit just looks like some legal document that I wouldn’t even glance at and then just throw out
Look, I hate to break this to you but you’re a college student with no qualification as yet and you’re competing with all the experienced people recently laid off.
I don't know what jobs you're applying for but I am assuming it is in an entry level range.
Getting interviews is tough so don't lose hope. I recommend focus your resume on getting the interview and not the job per se.
Put yourself in the perspective of the person reading your resume on a screen, likely with dozens of others which means you are going to only get a minute or less of attention to just get onto the list of resumes the reader will spend maybe 5-10mins reading more completely to make her choice on who to invite for a conversation.
To that end, the story your resume sends to me in a quick read is one of someone who is naive or out of touch with themselves. You can't claim the bullet points under your retail experience as your own.
Consider instead using that real estate under your retail experiences about what you learned from that job that would make you an attractive candidate. Particular anything related to teamwork.
Maybe how you learned to work within a team of people with different backgrounds and opinions. Or how you learned how important it was to be a consistent and positive employee.
These tell me at least that you're a safer bet to join a team and contribute.
Of course a lot of that is based on not knowing the jobs you're applying for, but as someone who does hiring of entry level roles in the tech sector I am looking for behaviors that are compatible with the existing team and someone with the capacity to learn.
If it helps, happy to help review further versions if you want more input. I know it's rough put there, stay positive, keep applying, keep your chin up.
Its not the "*Resume*" its the "*Content of the Resume*".
There is nothing on it that makes you a top 10% candidate for **any** job.
Post-Quantum Cryptography project? Cool, but irrelevant to any job.
Business Website in HTML - very low value generic project.
The only good stuff I see here is in your list of skills: **Hardware/Software troubleshooting, OS and networking**
These things have the potential to put you ahead of others but they are buried and there is no backing for these claims. You need to build on top of them and lift these up. You need to complement it with a small project(s) that highlights these skills.
I would recommend picking up a Raspberry Pi and RPi Cam and building a network video stream project, maybe a license plate reader that stores the license plates to a spreadsheet. Or implementing an FPV drone camera with radio stream. Or something else that streams data over the network that shows you can implement basic stuff. These projects should not cost more than $200 and should be doable in a week or two.
Once you get that done, you put the skills on top, back them with the sample project right below the EDUCATION and people will be curious/interested to speak to you.
These resumes are so bad. I swear this template looks like it was used in the 90’s…. If this came across my desk I’d throw it in the trash immediately because from first glance it doesn’t seem like the person applying put a lot of effort into this. Start over and good luck
Since you’re still in school, I’d move around the sections into education, skills, project portfolio and then work experience. I would take out the Champs Sport and put another school project in. Your work experience isn’t going to help you get an internship or software job. You need to really sell your project experience until you get your first software role.
Since you’re still in school, I’d move around the sections into education, skills, project portfolio and then work experience. I would take out the Champs Sport and put another school project in. Your work experience isn’t going to help you get an internship or software job. You need to really sell your project experience until you get your first software role.
Looks like you’re starting out - you could ask a startup if you can do a summer internship a couple days a week with them and program in exchange for their reference!
Startups need the help and would be open to cheap labor. Just ask in r/startups , if you don’t neeeeed the money right now - I’m sure someone will give you a shot
Is this for an internship or a job? Because you are still in college. And with no internship experience, an average GPA, and no diploma - you wouldn’t find a CS job yet…
Put your github in your resume, and actively work on it. Try to get more work experience through research at your university. Start doing more networking (plenty of ways to) so that you have leads on jobs.
Your a non-essential applicant. Non-essential applicant is what you are referred too. In this Biden Economy you have growing government due to growing governmental control. Unless you apply to a zombie company or the government they want you to just fill a seat and work obedient no matter what then you may get interviews. To put it simply companies just want obedient shit heads to write off that they have warm bodies on the clock to cover their tax obligations nothing more.
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You did not increase Whole Food’s sales by 30% by working as a grocery clerk. None of your work experience bullet points are relevant for a CS job; retail DOES have applicable skills, but “I worked in a team” or “Improved social skills” don’t tell a recruiter anything unique or valuable about your experience. The way you describe your first project makes it sound like you just wrote a paper about how quantum computing works instead of building something new. Your second project needs more explanation, what kind of special features did you build for that website? What uniquely-valuable experience are you describing right now that would make a recruiter go “This is great stuff, we need this person on our team because they will provide a ton of value for our business?
Thank you!
“Research” as in PhD or just a fun hobby project? Needs clarification. Don’t bloat the CV - make it targeted to the job you want. Provide a portfolio instead with examples of things you buildt (include screenshots or video).
Also, why is volunteering 50 hours for a car show *the very first thing on your CS resume?" And you have mixed-tenses in your whole foods job bullets. First bullet point is present, the rest of the bullet points are passed.
This copy of my resume in particular was for a job at a village where they stated that experience working or volunteering in a city or village event was something that would help applicants be considered
Then why does your post say 300+ applications? Unless a majority of those 300+ applications were for jobs at that village that facors volunteering at a village, posting this version of your resume for advice isn't very productive. What sort of jobs are you applying for?
True, I made this post right after applying. Regardless all my applications followed the same format and general structure + or - some information, so some of the advice on here has been very helpful. I have mainly only applied to internships
Hey man just hijiacking your first comment here - fill your resume with projects and bring up the retail/volunteer experience in the interview. I had extremely good retail experience as a manager at multiple places, but eventually removed all of it and saw more success that way (looking for a job with a fresh CS degree)
What are some of those applicable skills that retail has for CS jobs? I’m helping somebody with their resume who has retail experience and wants to swing a CS job, wondering how they can frame it on their resume
Soft skills. Knowing how to translate business language into technical language is one of the most important yet underrepresented skills in tech. If you know how to take a business story and use cases and determine what systems and technology can add the greatest value you're head and shoulders above the guy who spent his entire childhood learning to code but can't hold a conversation with a normal person for more than 5 minutes. Everyone with a CS degree knows HOW to do things. What sets you apart is also knowing WHY you do things and WHEN to do them.
Experience dealing with people with unreasonable demands. Patience to push through the painful work that sometimes just has to be done.
Probably Don’t need the mediocre GPA on there
Check out the computer science subs. Everyone is complaining about how brutal the job market is now.
True but this resume needs work to get a CS job. The only thing I gather is they made a marketing page in HTML, meaning JS usage is minimal. This is UX and shows nothing about competency as a developer. So all I know is they can layout HTML, which is barely a part of software development. Also saying they increased whole foods sales by 30% year over year is… a bold move to say the least. One thing im certain of, 8 years of experience in software development, I would not ask this person for interview given current resume, regardless of hiring climate.
>Also saying they increased whole foods sales by 30% year over year is… a bold move to say the least. He's gonna become CEO if that tracks xD
The resume is like a marketing major disguising as a cs major with all the bullets points talking about increasing sales
This resume would not get any hits even in a hot market let alone this one. He needs to drop his work experience because it is entirely irrelevant and just put more projects in
Tell me about it. I’ve been shooting for manager positions recently just for a change of pace. I might get lucky since I’ve put in over 300 normal ETL developer applications..
Remove GPA. General consensus is to not put gpa there unless it’s 3.5+
It depends on the major, in science and engineering anything above a 3 is good.
Being brutally honest here, unless you were applying for min wage somewhere I wouldn't hire you. You have practically no job experience, no sought after skills, and no completed education. Not much going on here. And that's perfectly OK, assuming you're young. Until you finish school, you're not really qualified for much and that's OK. You probably need another 3 years of work experience to get in somewhere decent.
It sounds like OP is looking for an internship, which you should be able to get with 0 experience. His resume just needs editing
youd be surprised how many internships want experience nowadays
The skills aren't the problem here. In tech, Java, SQL, and web development are top of what recruiters want to see. Now, could you tell what kind of jobs this person is applying for based on the resume? For me, what popped when glancing at this resume is the work experience section, which highlights grocery/retail sales. But this person is clearly looking for entry level software jobs. Incoherence = in the trash. OP, in the tech world, always put your Skills at the top (remove & Interests). If you have relevant experience, that goes next. If not, then put your Project Portfolio then Education below Skills and focus all of your effort on getting an internship. At this point, include a very brief objective stating that is your intention. A 3.2 GPA isn't impressive, even for a CS major, so remove it. Finally, remove all adverbs from your resume. How many of these 300+ applications were sourced from your University's career center or from a professor or alumni? I started as a research assistant, and I made sure the role involved coding. Your project portfolio is an okay substitute for that, but where are the github links? Now I'm actually confused about your project portfolio. How is building a platform for a small business not work experience? I'm guessing it was a fictional company? If so, then say so. You don't have to pretend to be a savant to get an internship.
>. Until you finish school, you're not really qualified for much and that's OK. You probably need another 3 years of work experience to get in somew Yet I keep hearing that a degree is not enough. I understand that OP is in Comp Sci but not everyone is in a tech major.
Remove the car show volunteer work it doesn't really track with what your trying to accomplish here. None of your working experience is really relevant which is fine but a simple 2 lines about providing quality customer service and working as a team is enough. Everything else is bull and will give them a bad opinion of you. Your resume is going to be on the shorter side and that's not a bad thing. Have you worked on any certifications or training outside of college? If not start now. Get rid of the cryptography and replace it with another project even if you're still working on it. Try to collect references from professors. Also your college definitely has a career center book an appointment to have them give you advice. Also really highlight that you can speak two languages that alone is more valuable than your work experience.
1. nobody wants to hire a college student unless you are exceptional 2. 300 interview and 0 interviews is the universe telling you that you should be applying to internships instead
Exactly. I’m currently in Computer science right now as a college student and I hope to get an offer from my internship to join the company after college. Internships are small, but help with experience on your resume and open more doors for careers after you graduate
In today's market 300 submissions and no interviews is actually somewhat common for entry level position with little experience. That's just how it is now, online job applications sites are over saturated to hell. Most people get auto filtered. Now if it were 1000+, I would agree with you.
The whole "Add metrics" advice is complete bullshit if you're not at like executive level. Take it offf
It's okay if you're able to prove it with past projects and things. But increasing sales by "team collaboration" and "creating sales opportunities" doesn't tell me much and just sounds like fluff
It tells me that the guy is willing to lie
100% agreed.
I disagree with this, but it depends what the metric is. In a sales oriented industry you could throw some numbers in there very easily and not be disingenuous
What jobs are you applying for?
I think on this sub you should have to say what jobs you're applying for. Maybe he's applying for 100 jobs as a female stripper
The stripper job market is terrible right now. Clearly OP should be trying to jump straight to upper management in a strip club by going there in person and giving the owner a firm handshake. That's how it used to work back in my day, anyway.
I would mention GitHub (if not learn it). HTML is not a coding language. I would highlight JavaScript, TypeScript (learn it) and Java. You mentioned OS - be specific (Linux, Andriod, etc anything you worked with) You should also mentioned that you did unit testing.
I’d drop the percentage sales increase since you have engineers reading your resume and not sales people. They will most likely think that’s cheesy. Try to go deeper by putting you relevant course work. A statement at the top about yourself and your professional interests. Try to go a little deeper on the skills. Just wanted to add: can’t stress the importance enough of making resumes a little more personal. Big companies get hundreds of resumes for entry level roles. Most likely there’s someone reading them and giving some sort of initial yes or no on who they want to call in for an interview. Show your human side and show you might be someone they would enjoy working with.
Your work experience has nothing to do with CS. Just park it at the bottom as a short list to show that you can handle attendance. The focus should be on skills, at the top, and the projects to show off what you know. Leave off your GPA as it’s not above 3.5, doing yourself no favors. Good luck
What is leading you to say you directly increased the sales of giant chain stores as a cashier?
They effectively collaborated with a team. Oh and it’s probably made up
I know this is unrelated but I hate hiring managers man. Literal scum of the earth. Even the nice ones, I hate them. They are so happy to take me on and then when I'm begging to quit all of a sudden they give me the cold shoulder. It felt so good to tell one that I don't need her job and that she can go to hell. If felt so good.
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Yea no better feeling, but I don't recommend burning bridges to prove a point. A company isn't going to write you a good rec letter when you need it if you just left in a dime.
I’ll be blunt, you aren’t gonna get a CS job The market is extremely competitive right now due to downturn and automation inciting mass layoffs First problem, your GPA is markedly low, even a T10 student wouldn’t get hired right now with that Second, you provide no details on your education Third, neither job has anything to do with CS Fourth, you need accessory items like club leadership, competitions, a project portfolio, a link to your personal website, and a LinkedIn link to even be considered given the current job market Fifth, you need certifications that verify your competency within the niche you want to target Sixth, your formatting is entirely inconsistent Seventh, your YoY sales growth is a blatant lie I could go on for quite some time, but I hope that I have written enough for you to get the point I don’t mean this sarcastically, have you considered enlisting with the US military? Their sign on compensation is high enough to invest, not touch it, and guarantee your retirement They also have food and housing coverage, pension after 20 years, and full medical insurance for the rest of your life Additionally, they don’t really care about your GPA, and having a degree - particularly in a STEM field - means that you will start as an officer and can expect an accelerated career path You don’t even need to be involved in combat, I would recommend looking into technical support roles where you would never leave a US base, which there are far more of than current applicants, so your odds of receiving an offer are 100% as long as you pass their health requirements
For being a Junior in your degree it’s probably expected for you to know more programming languages
I think you should include more about your CS knowledge and remove some of the work experience. If you haven't already invest some time into your LinkedIn profile; I was in the same position as you last summer until a recruiter reached out to me and I got the interview (and got hired). This was after 5 months of sending applications into the electronic void
What are you applying to? Full time jobs? Internships? What field? I dont know how you want people to help you when you put zero effort into your post.
It’s tough right now, I had 75 qualified applicants for a software engineer position in February. Two years ago, for the same position I had 12 qualified applicants. Two years ago I also hired two entry level programmers who had no industry work experience, but today, I think they would be beaten out by laid off tech workers who have experience plus the degree. Point I want to make is timing is part of what’s happening right now, it’s tougher right now and you’d have gotten more action from your resume two years ago for sure.
Yeah drop most of the work experience, maybe keep 1 job so they know you’re employable. Include as many projects as you can; school projects are okay. You only know 4 programming/scripting languages as a Junior? No C? That’s also troublesome. Just knowing a little web stuff is definitely not competitive in this market.
There’s nothing wrong with not knowing C, and it takes well more than an undergrad to become proficient with any language, let alone four. Java is still enormously popular and often used as the primary language through degree programs, and their full skillset is a pretty popular web stack with spring. Their resume does suck overall, though.
Can’t tell what the heck you want with these unrelated work experience
I think the ATS system and AI tracking resume are insane I as a normal human do not found many flaws that I judge this resume to be not selected even for an interview but AI and ATS is a mess even some sober deserving candidates are rejected. You have to add lies to resume to match the keywords as per the job so good luck with this AI horrible era
I’m proud of you for reaching out for help! For critiques: I would say to remove the 30% because in a sales associate/stocker position you personally would not have contributed substantially enough to add that to a resume. The project portfolio descriptions are really vague. The language on your resume is passive and seems unprofessional. You do not keep to discuss skills you gained under each position, just want you did in the position, then you can have a separate section with 5 skills listed. I would suggest submitting it through a resume checker. Look up job descriptions of the positions you have held and base your descriptions off of those. Good luck!
Most of the advice here isn’t great. Assuming you’re looking for an internship? But regardless, you’re doing cs at university so why haven’t you talked about it at all? What projects have you done, what societies are you a part of etc. The education part should be much bigger. Usually I would say get rid of HTML as it’s not really difficult, but as you’re still in university it’s fine. Does your school do resume workshops or anything? You’ll be better served having somebody go through with you point by point to improve your resume. I do this sometimes at my old university and it’s way better than advice you’d get on Reddit. The job market isn’t as bad as people are making it out to be. I think I saw a comment telling you to join the military which is crazy. I don’t understand the gpa system (not American) but you may be better served focusing on getting better grades also. Just be persistent and most importantly keep your head up.
The market is brutal right now, but your resume needs work too. I am a self taught ex-FAANG software engineer (got offers from practically everywhere I applied to, even before I joined FAANG). I've hired many people to my team, and here are some of the things I can point out: - Tailor your resume for CS jobs. Your resume is not your biography. You don't have to fill it up just for the sake of filling it up (but at the same time, limit it to 1 page at most). Try to limit your resume only for information that is relevant for your potential employer. - No matter what you studied, employers care about this the most: Can he/she build something useful for me. The best way you can demonstrate it is by doing it, e.g. internships, your own projects. If you show no signals on your resume that you have done that, the employer doesn't care. - As someone who has no job experience, your most effective move will be to work on interesting projects. Contribute to well known open source projects (there are tons of them on GitHub), or simply build something on your own. - If you can't build something on your own, I wouldn't hire you anyway. - Finding your first job is the most difficult mountain to climb. Finding jobs after that won't be as difficult, because you can show on your resume that you've built things in the past. It will require some extra effort to climb that mountain. Good luck!
People can tell you have lied
Your work experience is completely irrelevant for what you want to do. You haven’t sold any of your skills at all. Just look at your first bullet point in your project portfolio Researched how quantum computer operate and gained a deep understanding of core components The average HR person doesn’t know what a quantum computer is. What about their operations did you research? What did you even learn? What core components? What result was there? Look up the STAR method for points and make your point relevant to that. Get rid of your work experience and put more projects from your school or your skills.
How do you only know Java and website coding if you’re a CS major? 🤦 Look at what jobs are requiring and learn those skills. If you know Java, go learn C/C++ and add that on. Take some time to learn Python as anything that involves ML/AI needs that. Take some time and learn R which expands you to more science based coding jobs. As a CS major your skill set is too limited. And combine that with your BS work experience, it makes your resume very unattractive. It’s hard to believe you personally increased the revenue of your WF by 30%. Sure your resume is a place to show off, but there’s a difference between a humble brag and unbelievable claims. Example: - proposed and implemented new strategies for more efficient merchandising approaches - received employee of the month recognition for providing exceptional customer experience - took on a team leadership role to provide motivation and feedback to drive team success. As for your research experience, it sounds like you wrote a paper for a class. No one cares about your homework. Was this published in an academic journal or presented in a conference? Then list it! If it’s just homework, then remove it. For the business site, that shouldn’t be the last thing! It’s your only real experience…. Go into details and tell us what you actually did? Did you implement the backend data base and built the front end UI? Let us know what you did and what you used to do it. For your skills, list them out. “Troubleshooting hardware and software” means nothing. Are you certified? “Comfortable with operating systems and network troubleshooting.” Means what? What OSs do you know? Windows 7/8/10/11? Unix? Linux? MacOS? And what about networks do you know? Certified? Do you understand routing? How about DHCP? DNS? Are you able to configure a layer 3 network? If you can what vendor? Vagueness like that tells me you’re pretending to know stuff you don’t know. Be specific with what skills you actually have. Sorry for being harsh! I was in your same position after I graduated and learned all of this from friends.
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They probably don’t know your last name, or a phone number to reach you. Idk how many people are named Omitted but first grade rules of including your last name will always apply throughout life. 🤭
You're still a student. You have no degree. What are you applying for? keep going to school and finish your degree. Work at a minimum wage job. Chill and study. Get a grown up job when you graduate.
They’re most likely applying to internships, the CS market is brutal right now and if you don’t graduate with internship experience, your chances of landing a full time tech job is significantly lower, “just chill and study” is terrible advice given the area of study and the current market for that area of study
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The top commentator is right about the sales stat, but after fixing that: - Have Volunteer experience last, not first, if at all - The personal summary is important in this case; try to tie everything you've done into a narrative and focus on the industry you are applying for, mention your schooling and if relevant, side projects/learning depending on the industry. Whole Foods is a high-brow retailer, so use that, maybe highlight people skills and attention to detail, team player etc. - Presentation matters, especially when you are trying to get a better job than previously. There are a ton of easy PDF templates and design builders online, Canva, etc, simple drag-and-drop stuff (doesn't have to be fancy) that just makes it on a basic level more likely to be read.
if your university has a career center take your resume there for advice. they will probably rip it apart but it will help you in the end. also if you have a major specific advisor talk to them as well, sometimes they’re willing to help
Education goes on bottom
Edu goes on the bottom after you have job experience. As a fresh graduate keep it at the top
At the least, you need a new opener. You can still use that bullet point but open with something else. Reordering will help some.
If you applied for 300 jobs. I guarantee it was not 300 jobs you are even qualified for. Be realistic. Go talk to macDonalds
I would focus heavily on research and development opportunities! Quantum Cygroptraphy is usually for grad students, focuses on research and connections in academia .
If u r looking for development jobs, reduce the words on ur work experience and projects. Instead, add an objective. Mention what u want and are good at. Make your technical skill list a lot more granular and extensive - e.g. instead of just JS put stuff like Angular, React, Redux, Axios, etc. SQL specify Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres etc. Have other frameworks and libraries and skills like Bootstrap, Flex, UX/UI or whatever u are familiar with. The more technical tools u can label, the better.
What is your ideal position you're trying to get? What titles are you targeting?
Seeing IL lemme guess you’re Chicagoland area. If so. I also applied to 300+ with only a handful of interviews. But a lot of these jobs here rn have 500-1000+ applications! I’ve looked into it and it’s insane.
The project portfolio should be above the work experience since the jobs are not that relevant. Maybe even reduce the jobs to the most recent one or two, just to show that you are employable. I would add more to the projects section and make that more of a focus than the work experience.
It seems like you're exaggerating about what you did. People know a stocker has no impact on sales so don't lie and say you increased them 30%. And some of those points are just a vague word salad where I'd ask, what does that even mean? A stocker/cashier should talk about what they actually did. I took inventory. I assisted customers and answered their questions. I was responsible for displays looking correct and following planograms. I swept floors, ensuring the cleanliness of the store was above and beyond standards. You didn't do rocket science but you can tell employers what you did do, it did have value. Increased sales/"opportunities" how? Chasing leads is a salesperson's job. But this wasn't a sales or marketing job? This was an operational job. Talk about how you handled the day to day operations. That's it. And use plainer language, not a random word salad of business-sounding jargon, when it seems clear you don't know what the words you're using mean.
Check your university for resources that can help you in your job search. Usually, a university or college will provide services such as reviewing resumes, job search workshops, job boards and career fairs. Make sure to make use of them.
Cater your resume to what you are applying for. If you are trying to get a computer science job I would put all of the education and stuff at the top and the work experience at the bottom because none of your work experience is related to computer science. I also wouldn't consider volunteering as work experience I would consider it as ,community outreach, or 'other'. A lot of places only care about what is relevant to their position that they are hiring for.
1. Reorder to: education, skills, projects, work experience. This is the order the components of your resume are valued for internships 2. Make work experience more soft skill focused. Use this to answer the question “can you work on a team?” 3. Change “currently attending (junior)” to “Exp. May 2025” or whatever your expected graduation is 4. By far the most important part to this. 99% of students do not have anything that truly differentiates them from their peers who are also mass applying for internships. Recognize that and stop using only “easy apply” or “one click apply” features by themselves. If you do that, don’t consider your application submitted until you also reach out to a recruiter from the company on LinkedIn with a message along the lines of “Hi, I just submitted my application for XYZ position, but I wanted to give you my resume directly as well in case that simplifies the process for you,” or something along those lines. They’ll know what you’re doing. You know what you’re doing. But ultimately they’ll like that you care enough about the position to do it. That is your differentiator. Good luck out there.
If I were u I’d remove my entire work experience and just highlight my projects sections. Add some more stuff to the projects section and mention work experience as maybe side work and contributions in small.
Stop trying to make it sound like you accomplished everything from behind a cash register. Doesn't take a genius to know you are likely stuck in one spot all day scanning barcodes and rotating impulse displays. Just show that you were reliable. Unfortunately, you're calling yourself out as "I learned nothing from my job responsibilities while doing them." Cashiers are customer service oriented. Talk about the metrics. Did you get positive customer surveys? Were you ranked for speed at all? Did you receive praise or commendation? What about potential membership/credit card referrals? Be honest. Talk about how you had the shiniest cash register in the store. At least that isn't far-fetched.
Dude run the resume through a ATS checker. 90% of Companies run your resume through an automated system and if it don’t see the keywords it wants, it tosses it to the side. Also, hate to break it to you but tech and CS has become INSANELY saturated hundreds of thousands of people thought them self how to code and tons went to bootcamps during covid. Companies hired way to many people and now there’s just to many Right now the job market for these jobs is horrible.
you increased sales by 30% as a cashier at whole foods?? why are you applying to other jobs i’m sure whole foods has an insane compensation package to offer you
You come off as a bullshitter. Be upfront - you have work experience, cool, it’s not related, but it’s something. That’s all those two jobs need to be. Projects - if someone talks to you about those, can you at will go into it with them? Will it impress them? If not, find something else, or be able to. Also - cryptographers make fuck all. Cool topic and all but uhh, yeah, it’s trash money. It was years ago, doubt it’s changed. And if you were going to make money, you’d need at least a 3.75. Just fyi.
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I'm guessing you're looking for a CS related internship. If that's the case, the GPA is probably hurting you, both from being on your resume and being fairly low in general. If you're looking for a FT SC job, then it's the complete lack of degree and experience. Education: I would add relevant coursework, as appropriate for the position. Experience: Title/Employer/Location/Dates all on the same line. You bullets read like complete BS with some vague (and exaggerated) metrics tossed in. Projects: This should have the same header style as Education and Experience. The first project specifically look like research papers, not something you actually did. The second one could conceivably be listed under Experience (Independent Web Site Developer) Skills: "Comfortable with..." is not a statement that inspires confidence. I would drop that entire statement. In fact, the only really useful point is that you're bilingual.
You need to get a professional internship and shrink the pro-experience section to just include that and maybe one retail job- you’re a college student so firms won’t be expecting much there.
for whole foods were there KPIs that you were measured against which you can show you improved upon? the sales one is not believable of course
Your work experience makes no sense you didn't raise the profits of anything by being a cashier or stocker. To me this resume is blowing hot smoke. Just be real with your resume the bottom half seems fine I would place it on top though and completely redo the work experience don't over sell yourself on entry level positions....
You have no experience, what you have learned coding wise is alarming considering you are a junior, and I have no idea why you are applying if you are a junior.
Nepotism is real. Join some organizations while you still can. My entry level jobs post college came from who I knew
All resume advice is like cow paddies in a field. Not helpful in getting you to your destination. You need action. Here’s what you do…. Set up 3 meetings with people doing the job you want. Hand them your resume and ask what they would need to see to hire you/for their company to hire you. Listen to what they say and modify the resume after each interview. By #3 you will have a significantly better story in your resume. Then, use the intel and names from the interviews in your cover letters when applying. You’re much closer than you think.
If you have little relevant experience but good relevant skills e.g. you know how to code but haven’t been in that kind of a role then you should switch the orientation so it shows things from most to least relevant. If I was hiring for a technical role and all the experience is retail I’d probably skim over it tbh
Do you have any internships in the computer science field? Your resume lacks any relevant work experience.
Your work history is a complete meme. There is stretching things then there is trying to take credit for increasing sales by 20/30 percent and a stocker and cashier lmao. Makes you look like a massive bullshitter or an inflated self importance. Also what are you applying for? If it is CS related for like coding ect, make a github and put projects there. You have this thing about quantum computing (looks like some sort of paper you wrote for class maybe?) that takes up a ton of space and is so niche it is probably irrelevant. Use this space for more skills that are specific. "Trouble shooting software"? Okay but what.....anyone in the field is going to know it isn't ALL software. You have no need to be so general when you have plenty of space for specifics.
I would put your projects first if applying to IT jobs that are relevant to your major. If you are applying to a job that doesn’t require a degree then I would remove the bachelors degree, unless the job is a short term contract or part time role. Basically, you don’t want them to think you will jump ship once a better opportunity comes, but if it’s a part-time job that you could do at the same time as a full time job, or a short term contract, then theres not as much risk to them. Know your audience, and try to be 2 steps ahead of the interviewer by anticipating what your weak points are and then addressing accordingly. My first real job out of college was working for a biotech corporation in the call center, so you could try to get your foot in the door that way. (That way you could transfer into IT once the market improves)
I wouldn’t put all of the oldest, least relevant info on top.
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Frankly speaking, your resume is not good for a software development role. I have 8 years of experience and replied to a comment, but want to make this visible for you. This resume needs work to get a CS job. The only thing I gather is they made a marketing page in HTML, meaning JS usage is minimal. This is UX and shows nothing about competency as a developer. So all I know is they can layout HTML, which is barely a part of software development. What about data structures/algorithms? HTML/CSS are not programming languages so you have given me 0 proof you are a competent developer Also saying they increased whole foods sales by 30% year over year is… a bold move to say the least. I would not ask this person for interview given current resume, regardless of hiring climate
This might be the worst resume I’ve ever seen bro
There are a lot of things to point out, but this "increased sales by 30%" lie is probably enough for recruiters to toss out your application. You're making yourself look like a bullshitter, and no one wants to hire a bullshitter.
For your current work, it should be present tense not past.
There is no getting around the basic fact that you’re a college student with 5 years experience in retail who’s taken some computer science classes. You’re qualified for other retail jobs, or some of the most entry-level computer science internships. Are these the types of openings you’ve been applying to? You should tailor your resume to each specific internship so that it looks like you actually spent time looking into the position and, you know, *want* that specific internship. I guarantee you if I picked a random one of the 300 positions you applied to and asked you “what do you know about this job/company” you wouldn’t be able to articulate what it is that made you apply beyond “it’s a job opening and I want a job.” Recruiters can sniff that out from a mile away.
Lie on your resume every one else does
this was about my resume when i was in college, being miserable in computer science. Squarely average in a sea of computer science nerd geniuses that built their own operating system by the age of 9. I was a nerd wanna-be without the passion or the coding chops. My question to you is, do you really want to 'code'? Maybe web design, or network support would be better? Have you thought of doing internships at technical support companies, or something adjacent, like it related trades like camera installs, cabling/wiring, etc..that's what I ended up doing, and I now 30k-50k a month at 42 years old.
Gonna be brutally honest : there’s no point to have the quantum research there. You can just be honest with us and admit you had no impact; I know you did because that world is hard to get into. Moreover, there’s already quantum encroyocryption algorithms and people have known about this issue for years. Unless you made your own encryption algorithm for quantum computers, just remove it, it makes you look like you don’t know what you’re talking about. It’s like you have one of the most basic things you can build (a simple website) and then you jump to the moon and did quantum research. I don’t think anyone is gonna buy that. Don’t mention research unless you had an actual impact, you just make yourself look like a fool.
Take off your GPA. It’s not high enough to list.
When the ask you how you increased sales by 30%, what are you going to say?
Village of Downers Grove, huh? Lots of great advice here, the job market in the Chicago suburbs is really rough.
Your job experience is in whole foods with being a comp sci major. Work on some projects. Build your portfolio and then apply for internships. You can't expect to be hired for a Comp Sci job without 0 experience. Rn folks are asking for 2 years experience for an internship
Textbook narcissist
It's kind of frustrating that college students have to have super polished resumes, but this seems to be the state of things these days. If you have a college/university career center, consider going there and getting your resume and cover letter reviewed by them, as well. And yes, having a cover letter will help you. I know it's annoying, but because it's annoying a lot of other students will not do it, and your application might stand out if you do. Yeah, I'm probably going to reiterate some things others have said, but I think I have a few new thoughts/ideas, too: * **General Notes:** Order of these things could be improved. I'd maybe get rid of Interests and instead do a short summary at the top. You're an undergrad looking for part-time work/internship opportunities in X field of interest. Maybe move Skills to the top, under the summary. Then Education. Then Projects. Then Work Experience. Basically, from most to least relevant. Do you have a Github? If so, add it. If you have a website, add it. (If you don't, consider maybe spending a weekend and deploying something on Github pages. If your other projects are deployed, link them. If not, deploy them or add images.) And one last note, be consistent with your punctuation. In some places, you're not using periods. In some places you are. It looks like you are not detail oriented when these things are not consistent. * **Work Experience:** Most of this work experience is not relevant. Either get rid of the work experience section or seriously truncate it. I'm talking dates of employment (can be month/year only), company, job title, and maybe city. * **Education:** Unless you are going to MIT or Stanford, remove the GPA. Include the degree name. Are you getting a Bachelor's of Science? A Bachelor's of Arts? Don't say you're a junior, add the start date and expected date of completion instead. Might be worth including a relevant coursework section with any higher level Math (I'd say Calc III, Discrete, Linear Algebra would be relevant), or general CS/IT courses taken/in progress. Could be good to mark those by term and year. * **Skills:** Since it seems you don't know a lot of languages yet, are there other computational skills you could include? Object Oriented Programming? DSA? Version control? REST API development? Have you written tests for your code at all? Did you use any libraries, frameworks, or packages that are commonly used in industry? (Examples could be: Spring Boot, Bootstrap, jQuery, various SQL ORMs, etc.) Also, consider adding soft skills: communication, teamwork, problem solving, time management, blah blah. Whatever you think you're good at. * **Projects:** For these, think about how you're framing them. Focus less on what you learned and more on what you actually did and your techniques. Were there any major challenges overcome? For instance, I can't tell what you actually did in your research project. Did you work with faculty on this? Or was it a class project? What kind of research did you do? Was it an experiment or a survey of literature in the field? Also, try to keep these bullets to a line; the orphaned words on the second line are eating up space.
I’d maybe suggest focussing on less applications and really trying to nail your cover letter and resume to fit the job requirements based on your relevant experience with the measurable outcomes.. the current AI resume filtering systems also filter a lot out of they don’t hit a certain percentage of key words that are in the job description and if there isn’t a cover letter… all sorts… less is more, you will get there. I feel in the same boat myself. Good on you for putting yourself out there and asking for feedback, that takes strength. I’d hire you!!
You’re still in school. Expected behaviour.
Welcome to living in one of the world’s biggest metros. You’re not only competing against those in your backyard, but also those from every other market in the country to include overseas. You picked a great degree to explore, but you haven’t graduated and the market here is intense. I would see what resources your school offers for job placement as it might help land an internship and create some connections as well as the possibility of a FT gig.
Your first app is a website. Then you move into an understanding of quantum cryptography
Change your Blog Article type Resume to Professional Resume. Don't use point wise express. Your Skill and what you have in hand experience mentioned in Bold format, which make some real attention to the HR. they are still human. they like professionalisms. Font style and size matters a lot. Style matters too. make some changes and then submit. some section should be Up and some down.
Put your skills and projects above the unrelated work experience.
I really hate all the bullet points. Especially in the project portfolio it sounds like you made a PowerPoint presentation and are expecting a medal for that. At least on the work experience it would be better if you just had a couple sentences explaining what the hell you actually did instead of vaguely puffing yourself up. Something like: *During my time as a sales associate at Whole Foods, I was able to gain much needed experience interacting with customers face to face, working effectively with a team, and stocking merchandise. This experience helped me understand the importance of time management and teamwork. I’m very proud to have been with a crew that increased sales YoY by up to 30%.*
I’ve heard if you haven’t finished school, your school should be the last thing at the bottom of
Your resume looks like my old one, and this is what recruiters told me: 1. Change the order of your resume. Skills need to come before work history. Oftentimes, recruiters confirm that your skills match their job postings before they continue with your resume. 2. Your research project could count as work experience. With this in mind, you can remove all of your work history not related to your field. 3. Expand on your projects. You did a decent job on the second project, tell me how you used your skills to do something. 4. Talk about any organizations/clubs you are involved in. I received an interview a handful of times because I mentioned being president of the computer science club and a member of NSBE. 5. If you go to events such as hackathons, capture the flag, or anything similar, mention that. Every interview I've had as mentioned that for me
Wrong school most likely. All about ‘prestige’ these days in a saturated market. Not much you can do about it now. Maybe look for non-tech jobs
I usually spend 5s on resumes. This one I spent .01s.
If you're still in school, then put an estimated graduation time (example: May 2025) right next to where it says attending.
I know you’ve got a ton of advice going on here, but what stood out most to me is the order of information. If you’re shooting for anything CS related, consider moving your project portfolio section above the work experience. Also, I think some of the people in these comments are being a bit too harsh. I had a hard time in college for my CS degree, and amidst that and a pandemic I came out with no internships, no projects, a GPA I don’t remember and never put on a resume, and what felt like little knowledge. I currently have a job as a web dev and am moving on to an e-commerce site manager after improving my resume and constantly applying. You really just have to want to improve yourself and keep at it until you get lucky for the first time. After you get some experience it will be easier. Good luck.
Just a suggestion, have you tried career fairs? I did one back in about November and gave my resume to a bunch of recruiters. Some do keep them.
Maybe learn some sql or Linux
Ya the blaring issue for me is that the bullet points in the job descriptions sound like you’re over exaggerating what you actually did there. I recruit a few times a year and the “stinky” resumes get passed over pretty quickly, mostly because there are just so many applicants these days that I often look for the most honest applicants.
You’re applying for computer science roles, not sales roles. You need to remove the language discussing any contribution you had in YoY. You’re probably better off leaving out the Cryptography project. You definitely want to lead with your website development experience. Also- you’re a junior? Part of the reason you aren’t getting any results is that you’re still in school. Setting aside the fact that you don’t have your degree yet, stating that you’re still a student (I presume full-time?) is tipping off hiring managers that you already have something you’re dedicating a significant amount of time to during the week. I can’t think of many companies that would want a part-time developer/engineer/etc. All this aside, my recommendation to you would be (if you’re not already) to apply for help desk roles- part time now, and include full time gigs in your job search when you graduate. CS is oversaturated right now. You’ll have an easier time getting a role in information technology, and it’ll provide valuable experience you can translate to a role in dev/engineering/what have you.
First of all I’d say put your projects first since they have a lot more to do with CS than your work experience. Also use stronger action verbs, “improve social skills” and “learned how to work on a team” is very vague and doesn’t transmit too much confidence. And as other people mentioned, it’s hard to believe you increased Whole Foods’ sales by 30% just by doing teamwork, I think that’s a bit of a red flag for who’s hiring you. Focus on your CS related projects, use stronger action verbs for them (MIT has a list with good ones) and put your job experience as one of the last things. Only talk about the volunteering thing if you really need to fill out some empty space but if you do so find a way to describe transferable skills. They won’t really care if there absolutely no use to them.
the YoY increases don’t make sense. where are you getting your data? i.e tableau etc…
What exactly did you do to increase sales by 30 percent and 20 percent respectively? CEOs that get paid tens of millions of dollars per year to continuously improve shareholder value couldn’t pull that off. The reason you didn’t get anywhere is because your resume contains things that did not happen and recruiters can see right through that stuff. Your projects might be valuable experience, but you need to (truthfully) quantify your project results in your resume.
If you’re applying to computer science jobs don’t waste the top section talking about Whole Foods and volunteering
Question, what are you applying for, a comp sci job? If so I would recommend something like. 1. Education. You could probably just change "Currently Attending (Junior)" to "Expected Graduation (2025)" 2. Skills, in second place so recruiter can immediately see the skills you have. Might want to rephrase "comfortable with operating systems and network trouble shooting" as "Proficient in Operating System Management and Network Troubleshooting.". Maybe someone can chip in. 3. Projects, should come next as they seem to be more relevant if you are applying for a comp sci role. 4. Work Experience, ideally work experience would go before projects, but they should be highly applicable to what you're applying to. For your current list of work experiences, I would get rid of your "Village of OMITTED Volunteer" as it only has one bullet point and doesn't really convey that much. The numbers are good like "increasing sales YoY up to 20%", but make sure they're realistic. Idk much about sales but increasing sales by 20% seems a lot. If it is true, I hope you are able to elaborate during an interview. Additionally, if you have a GitHub, I would recommend having that included in your contact info. Make sure to curate your GitHub to show off the projects you've done.
No to bash you or trying to be mean, just being realistic, this is probably the first time I saw a resume and think you actually don’t deserve to get hired. 1. For your experience bullet points, you should like you put minimal effort or just BSed it. 2. For your skills, you don’t have anything but the most basic languages that everyone learns when they first get into programming. 3. Your resume makes it so I look at the middle first , but your middle doesn’t have anything impressive on there
I would take off your GPA and move the project experience before work since its more relevant
Also yes, I would never put down my GPA if it was below a 3.6
Remove your gpa from resume
Do warm applications not cold. find the address of recruiters and ask them for a job. 100% success… Jk but get to know or chat via LinkedIn or business card/connections. Mass cold appli do nothing but get discarded instantly (99% of the times)
So without knowing what kind of jobs your actually applying for it’s a little harder to give you criticism. Retail jobs aren’t going to be impressive or relevant to anyone outside the retail space. Entry level jobs in amy industry are hard to come by these days. Lots of people get started via internships or apprenticeships. Your school should have job placement assistances. I know ow that doesn’t help a whole lot but ii always had better luck talking to people in person. Maybe apply at smaller firms/companies where the HR person is more likely to actually read resumes rather then have a program do it for them. Good luck
Maybe someone has mentioned, but I haven't seen it yet. No one will care about your quantum computing research project. Take it off your resume and use the space for something else.
I see no worthwhile work experience other than customer service
is this a shit post 😂😂😂😂😂😂
The truth is lie to get interview if you know your stuff you will pass the interview. Resume is made for lying unfortunately at least when you have no experience. Ik it’s unfortunate but that is how it works.
You may want to pay someone to make your next resume
I’ve been there. My best tip is to tailor your resume to each job posting.
Inconsistent punctuation - some bullets end with a period, some don't.
We have very similar formatting for our resumes. I love it.
Just apply to blue-collar jobs. Anything to do w/ coding is being outsourced. There's so many technologies/frameworks right now engineers made to self-justify their existence. Its not worth it.
Would help if you gave a link to some work, rather than 'Business Website'. Also, this is short enough to tailor to each job or type of job you're going for. What do you want to be a cashier? Crypto bro? Dev? Don't just throw it out 300 times, change it up per vacancy so ALL skills are relevant. Give them something to connect with. Remove cashier jobs from Dev CVs, or steer them to a technical point, even if it's a stretch. Use that space to write about personal projects, unofficial builds, KEYWORDS.
You don’t need a car intern. I would focus on my skills at the top.
If possible share a link to your GitHub account. I love it when someone shares it, I always look. I will almost always reach out and contact someone if they have done anything of substance that looks like it probably works.
This is a joke, right? I feel like it is and I'm being bamboozled by an amazing piece of sarcasm that I'm too dumb to recognize for sure
Assuming this isn't a joke, this entire resume reads like someone making shit up to make themselves seem more important than they are. You didn't increase sales 30% by working as part of a team, sales increased while you were there. The thing about open ended questions is just weird. You're better off being straightforward and coming across as inexperienced than trying to fluff "emptied trash cans" into "disposal specialist in charge of 10,000 units of product." Everyone reading your resume is going to assume that if you'll lie or exaggerate on these small things that you'll do it on the big things too. More importantly, this just shows an overall lack of understanding of the business world in general. The things you've chosen to highlight as bullet points say a lot about what you think an employer is looking for, and yours are so scattered that it's evident you don't know. This also tells me you're probably spamming every opening you see with the same resume and 99% of them are being filtered out before a human even sees them because you're not hitting any of the keywords the positions are asking for
I *think* I understand your situation. - **Me as a former jobseeker with high qualifications:** "I study these subjects, so I am disciplined, focused & intellegent. I have the ethics & skills to perform the tasks required for the advertised position. I will be a great asset to your team. - **Me now as an employer:** "The applicant displays high commitment & drive with the current study towards creditation, however, the skills do not apply to the work I required to be performed. Do they have experience in \_\_\_\_\_\_\_, \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_ & \_\_\_\_\_\_\_? What risk am I taking by onboarding this applicant? What experience do they have in a professional environment and if no work experience available, what experiences in their schooling/hobbies relate to the skills required for the job?" **Sell yourself** in any way you can. You're gonna get turned down, a lot, when applying for work with no experience as a stranger too. So, **NETWORK!!!** Best of luck mate :)
Why do I feel like this person has already reached out to some "experts" at TopResume or their ilk? The 30% Whole Foods thing sounds like something they would put on there. Results that cannot be quantified or backed up in an interview. You can't just say you did something. You have to be a superstar and increase sales by some percentage. Even if you are a receptionist. Or a cashier. I made the mistake of paying them once and the results were so awful I could barely look. And to add; writing is not particularly good either.
You increased Whole Foods revenue by 20% by collaborating? Uh. No. Focus on your learned skills at this phase of your career.
Move skills to the top. And create more side projects and fill up your GitHub repo. That's the only way to get a job. Volunteer for free at local church to revamp their sites and maybe you do such a great job that you network into a job through it.
You should probably make sure you are applying to places relevant to the experience listed on the resume. If your experience is not there is not relevant you are contributing to the slog of job filtering. When applying somewhere it needs to be focused on the job you do the experience you have. If it is just store job, apply with the less is more in mind. They don't care about your accomplishments. If it is an experienced job. Focus on the experience that relates to the job.
I'll be frank, your resume isn't impressive. Like I wouldn't even consider you for helpdesk. Remove this stupid YoY flare. Replace the research project with a link to your git page. Start doing some actual projects and demonstrate that you can tie in your Java and SQL, make a basic website for yourself to demonstrate you actually know html/CSS. You are also still a junior in college so what you have here is a resume designed for retail or part time work. Employers are going to question why you wanna just jump into the work force or if you are going to only be available part time. Finish your degree and continue to work on things above. IT is in a shitty place right now so you need to be ahead of your peers if you have time to go to school and work try to get an internship. The experience interning is useless but the networking could be your golden ticket. Attend hackathons, game jams communities that involve CS and literally network more. You never know who will be impressed and want to hook you up with a interview. I spill the networking thing so much on this sub because its legit important.
your resume is trash. your work experience is irrelevant, I would remove and post some projects depending on the type of job. If you don't have project/research work, you need to find something to do on campus for FREE. You should add some activities, like you tutor computer science, or you are in some coding club etc. Also you should be applying for an internship not job. You have a year before you graduate so correct your course or you will be increasing 30% sales at whole foods every year.
you can apply to 300 more, still you will not get an interview. I’m keen to know what do you guys think about getting a tech job? like seriously do you have any idea how hard is it to get a job right now and with a resume this crappy you have guts to ask why you aren’t getting an interview, bro it’s high time, start working.
I just threw up in my mouth reading that. Your unrelated work experience should be 1 or 2 lines per job and then add a bunch of personal projects.
can we ditch the 2001 mantra of making a single page, white with bullet points of black text resume? Legit just looks like some legal document that I wouldn’t even glance at and then just throw out
Your resume needs to be in ATS format (Application Tracking System)
Look, I hate to break this to you but you’re a college student with no qualification as yet and you’re competing with all the experienced people recently laid off.
I don't know what jobs you're applying for but I am assuming it is in an entry level range. Getting interviews is tough so don't lose hope. I recommend focus your resume on getting the interview and not the job per se. Put yourself in the perspective of the person reading your resume on a screen, likely with dozens of others which means you are going to only get a minute or less of attention to just get onto the list of resumes the reader will spend maybe 5-10mins reading more completely to make her choice on who to invite for a conversation. To that end, the story your resume sends to me in a quick read is one of someone who is naive or out of touch with themselves. You can't claim the bullet points under your retail experience as your own. Consider instead using that real estate under your retail experiences about what you learned from that job that would make you an attractive candidate. Particular anything related to teamwork. Maybe how you learned to work within a team of people with different backgrounds and opinions. Or how you learned how important it was to be a consistent and positive employee. These tell me at least that you're a safer bet to join a team and contribute. Of course a lot of that is based on not knowing the jobs you're applying for, but as someone who does hiring of entry level roles in the tech sector I am looking for behaviors that are compatible with the existing team and someone with the capacity to learn. If it helps, happy to help review further versions if you want more input. I know it's rough put there, stay positive, keep applying, keep your chin up.
Whew I thought I was worried about the competition lol
Its not the "*Resume*" its the "*Content of the Resume*". There is nothing on it that makes you a top 10% candidate for **any** job. Post-Quantum Cryptography project? Cool, but irrelevant to any job. Business Website in HTML - very low value generic project. The only good stuff I see here is in your list of skills: **Hardware/Software troubleshooting, OS and networking** These things have the potential to put you ahead of others but they are buried and there is no backing for these claims. You need to build on top of them and lift these up. You need to complement it with a small project(s) that highlights these skills. I would recommend picking up a Raspberry Pi and RPi Cam and building a network video stream project, maybe a license plate reader that stores the license plates to a spreadsheet. Or implementing an FPV drone camera with radio stream. Or something else that streams data over the network that shows you can implement basic stuff. These projects should not cost more than $200 and should be doable in a week or two. Once you get that done, you put the skills on top, back them with the sample project right below the EDUCATION and people will be curious/interested to speak to you.
These resumes are so bad. I swear this template looks like it was used in the 90’s…. If this came across my desk I’d throw it in the trash immediately because from first glance it doesn’t seem like the person applying put a lot of effort into this. Start over and good luck
Since you’re still in school, I’d move around the sections into education, skills, project portfolio and then work experience. I would take out the Champs Sport and put another school project in. Your work experience isn’t going to help you get an internship or software job. You need to really sell your project experience until you get your first software role.
Since you’re still in school, I’d move around the sections into education, skills, project portfolio and then work experience. I would take out the Champs Sport and put another school project in. Your work experience isn’t going to help you get an internship or software job. You need to really sell your project experience until you get your first software role.
What are you applying to?
Unless you’re rocking a 4.0 I would remove that GPA.
Hmmm…
Looks like you’re starting out - you could ask a startup if you can do a summer internship a couple days a week with them and program in exchange for their reference! Startups need the help and would be open to cheap labor. Just ask in r/startups , if you don’t neeeeed the money right now - I’m sure someone will give you a shot
Is this for an internship or a job? Because you are still in college. And with no internship experience, an average GPA, and no diploma - you wouldn’t find a CS job yet…
Every champ sports bullet point has a comma splice. Those commas are not necessary
Put your github in your resume, and actively work on it. Try to get more work experience through research at your university. Start doing more networking (plenty of ways to) so that you have leads on jobs.
How'd you get my exact resume format?!
I’m just going to say, experience can go below projects bc they are less relevant
Your a non-essential applicant. Non-essential applicant is what you are referred too. In this Biden Economy you have growing government due to growing governmental control. Unless you apply to a zombie company or the government they want you to just fill a seat and work obedient no matter what then you may get interviews. To put it simply companies just want obedient shit heads to write off that they have warm bodies on the clock to cover their tax obligations nothing more.
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