#Freshman Shooting for Summer 2023 Big Tech + Quant Programs!

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potent tree
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Hey all! I'm looking to apply to programs like Microsoft Explore, Google STEP, FB University, and the like. As well as programs like Jane Street SEE and other small quant programs. I just finished my resume and would love some advice if anyone has some! Thanks!

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weary flare
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huge huge huge props to you for taking such an early initiative to career development. resume literacy and construction unfortunately is not a readily taught to all students so it's important we start learning asap so that it becomes second nature.you are in an amazing, i mean amazing position not only because you have an ample amount of technical skills up your sleeve at a young stage of your career but because of your initiative. you've set yourself up well. don't lose that initiative. it'll take you far.

  • entirety of "Publication and Awards" section should be moved above "Volunteering". you should also include a time-date range for those volunteering experiences in the same formatting you enlisted for your work experiences. don't list the title of your position to the right, put it under the name of the volunteering experience just like you did with your work experiences.

  • speaking of "Experience", say "Work Experience" rather than simply "Experience"

  • that jane street experience, i'm a bit confused. is that a class or work experience ? if the former, remove it from "Experience" and list it under "Education"

  • this is a nitpicky detail right here. the Skills subsection in Education is a bit redundant. ill send you my resume so you can have an idea as to how i listed these same concepts - i'm somewhat in the same boat as you.

potent tree
potent tree
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Ok how's this, I did opt to leave Jane Street in experience since with the bullet points I think it would have looked off:

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@weary flare

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past basalt
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hi nathaniel, some thoughts

  • replace summer 2022 with the actual date format like you did for other sections. maintaining a consistent formatting is important for recruiters to easily go through your resume.
  • your resume throws me off. Your first one is a student? how is that experience? im assuming that you put it here so that when you apply to jane street know you were there that summer? If so, i would reduce the bulletpoints. You didnt actually accomplish anything there - you just learned as a student. No bulletpoints. You can keep it here without the bulletpoints.
  • "SCHOOL-CMS at Fermilab" - this doesnt mean anything to a recruiter. can you reword this or describe it differently to make it clear to a recruiter that you were a researcher and published something?
  • your third experience- remove the bulletpoints that are not technical related in computer science. This goes for the rest of your resume (excluding volunteer section). Translating languages is not a skill that recruiters are looking for, they are looking for technical skills.
  • switch your publication with volunteer experience. Its more impressive than volunteering work which is non technical.
  • its perfectly fine to not have a full page resume as a student applying for these technical programs. That being said - im not confident that your volunteering section will do anything or is relevant for these programs. are they?
hollow phoenix
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I don’t see the point of adding physics to coursework if you aren’t going into a physics workforce

Oh you haven’t started college yet, nvm just keep it, but I’d say that it’s high school courses, because HS vs college is way different

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I would assume video game app is replaced with the actual name, just want to stste the obvious

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This might be a hot take but move the publication to the last bullet of the section, especially since yoy list it in publications

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I wouldn’t have excel on your technologies