Resume Roast - Dec 2021

  • The template is good, ignore the other people about that (my resume is also a very classic LaTeX-looking resume and I've had really good success with it).
  • Keep your formatting consistent in each section. Here's the inconsistencies I've spotted:
    • Education: One school has bulleted info while the other doesn't. I get you transferred from one to the other but honestly you could fit all the info you need into just two lines (I don't think location is too important, if the recruiter wanted to know the location of your school they could just search for it). Check formatting psuedo-code block for my suggestion.
    • Everywhere: Make sure every sentence ends with punctuation or it doesn't. I think adding periods to the end looks better but I don't think it matters as long as your consistent (you're not). Also, if you're shortening the abbreviations for months, shorten everything other than May to it's 3 letter counterpart (you have March and June not shortened, if its >3 characters you should shorten it).
    • Extracurriculars: Both are formatted differently, just pick one formatting style and roll with it. It doesn't matter too much which one you pick, but here's my suggestion:

# My Suggested Education Formatting (two lines)
\bold{University Name}{Start Date -- End Date}
\emph{Degree Name (Transferred Out)}\emph{X.X/Y.Y GPA}

# My Suggested Extracurriculars Formatting (one line)
{\bold{Organization} $|$ \emph{Title/Role}}{Start Date -- End Date}
  • I think your technical skills section could use some recategorization. I think these categories would be good if you had more items to list (it's okay not to have a lot, as long as you're not lying about anything nobody will care), but you don't so here's how I'd probably do it with this info:

\bold{Programming Languages}: Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust, SQL, HTML/CSS
\bold{Tools \& Frameworks}: Django, React, Git, AWS (List of AWS services you've used...)
\bold{Spoken Languages}: English (Advanced), Portuguese (Native)
  • If you're using this resume right now, remove the incoming intern stuff. While some people think it's fine, a lot of people I know see it as kind of vain/bragging, so I'd recommend leaving the experience section to be work you've already completed vs. something you're going to complete in the future.
  • Probably swap the title and company names, usually from job to job your role won't change that much (obviously business intelligence intern vs. SWE intern are different) but the company will.

\bold{Company Name}{Start Date -- End Date}
\emph{Role}\emph{City, Country}
  • Make each bullet point one coherent sentence following the STAR formatting (I'm sure you've heard of it a million times, it sounds kind of cringe but it works well). If it can't fill up an entire STAR sentence, it's probably not worth putting on at all. If it's too much info for one STAR sentence, split it into two.
  • Probably reorder the sections. When recruiters are manually scanning your resume, they typically are really just looking at your education/experience, as those are usually the hook for them to read more. So I'd recommend going in the order of Education -> Experience -> the other two don't matter. Most of the time they read your resume for like 20 seconds so they're mainly going to be looking for broad information (what companies you've worked at, graduation year, school, etc). The technical skills section is really just for spamming keywords so the automated resume filter gives you priority. Extracurriculars are just there to fill space for the time being, eventually you'll phase those out as you get better experience.

Hope that helps! DM me if you want any examples of what's worked for me and if you have any questions.

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