lime pelican
I want to land and internship this coming summer of 2023. All the application have been rejected so far. I would love to get advice on my resume. I have very less experience and dont have a standout project that I can include in the resume. My resume looks very empty.
elfin ore
review this to revamp ur bullet points #1008225248098926753 message
youve done a bsc and now an msc, have u not joined any clubs? done any extracurriculars? hackathons? volunteering? open source contributions? leadership experience?
lime pelican
yes i am currently in my second semester. I have joined clubs but not many activities. no hackathons though.
zero open source except for the first open source contribution and no leadership experience
however i do have some linkedin certifications that I could add
elfin ore
eehh…
need something more tangible than that
would recommend working on any of the things above to add more content to the resume
lime pelican
do the projects in the projects section have to be personal projects only?
elfin ore
they dont have to be personal. If you did stuff for like a hackathon or a class (but dont say it was for a class) or like a group project u can put that there
what were u trying to add there
lime pelican
I have a project i did in my last job but if i add the project then the bullet points from the first job and project collide so i was trying to avoid adding it
lime pelican
it was actually the only project that was available
elfin ore
so .. why are u not wanting to put it in experience? sorry just trying to make sure i understand what ur saying
lime pelican
i have it in the job experience already but as an experience rather than a separate project
elfin ore
so then i would not put it as a separate project. It is redundant and unnecessary
lime pelican
yeah i was thinking the same
i have completed some youtube projects that dont seem that valuable for the resume
but*
elfin ore
whew lord i hate seeing youtube projects on resume
at least expand on the project if u just rip off youtube initially
like add ur own functionality/twist to it
but any recruiter worth their poo will be able to sniff out youtube projects
especially since a lot of people use the same ones lol
lime pelican
yes
but i end up abandoning the project after finishing the tutorial 😅
should i be adding a coursework project but is very minor
elfin ore
ummmmmm what was the project👀 ive added coursework projects to my resume before
lime pelican
it was group project related to implementing distributed systems concepts
my friend completed the backend portion of the project using aws and mongoDB
the results from the backend was fetch through an Api and I consumed it to display on the mobile applicaiton
elfin ore
and what did you do?
u can add it , sounds complex enough but i would be careful adding the stuff u didnt really contribute to and/or dont know how it works
like u can mention it but dont pass it off as like ur the one that added the aws and mongodb or somethin
lime pelican
yeah no point in adding something i dont know
I did the mobile part using flutter and fetched the data from the api and just the frontend part
elfin ore
u can still add that
or something like that should be fine🤷🏾♀️
lime pelican
thank you will do that now
lime pelican
