#Dropout with 16 months paid intern/co-op experience

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north marlin
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Long story short, my classes were relocated to a campus that is almost a 4 hour commute from where I live, and I cannot financially support taking more semesters anyways so I am now looking for any sort of entry level tech or developer job.

Hopefully I can leverage my 16 months of co-op experience here to find something in the field, even if it's just a stepping stone to get more experience before transitioning into a real SDE, DevOps or SysAdmin type role (I have interest in all these fields).

Any feedback, suggestions or advice is appreciated it. My updated resume is attached, and I've also attached the old co-op resume that I built my new resume from for comparison.

Anon_Resume2023v3.png oldanonres1.png oldanonres2.png
calm ridge
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Remove the (Full time 16 months) part

civic pelican
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skills section is taking wayyyyy too much space

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can probably drop ur best buy experience, its 7 years old

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SDE, DevOps and SysAdmin are all pretty different from each other. At the least, SDE and DevOps are more related than SysAdmin to either

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so i imagine it might be a little tough to try and cater one resume to 3 different fields

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ur project bullet points are pretty meh

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would review that

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u dont need to say that u were in school “(full time)” it’s unnecessary

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if the seneca college one was the one u dropped from and havent completed I would say Incomplete so its clear. You dont want to come off like youre trying to trick somebody into thinking u have a degree.

flat forge
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@civic pelican makes all valid points. as stated before, maybe see if you can tailor for DevOps specific roles - if that may be what you are interested in

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also, do you know the impact your work has had on customers and/or your team?

north marlin
calm ridge
north marlin
# flat forge also, do you know the impact your work has had on customers and/or your team?

not on our customers, everything was kind of isolated into parts in like a black box sorta need to know basis by design, for security/privacy reasons (since I worked at a bank).
I do know that my work helped reduce a lot of our teams more repetitive work pretty significantly, also helped take out chance for user error in a lot of our more manual than it should have been processes

north marlin
civic pelican
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sounds redundant and unnecessary

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so it does not sound better imo

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put incomplete next to the degree name

north marlin
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its slimmed down a lot, i have a lot more empty space

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do I use it to load up more projects? I have a few more I can add

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also udemy courses I've completed if that's worth adding

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@civic pelican is this better?

civic pelican
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can u incresse the font size? its tiny

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u dont need to ping btw

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i alrdy get notifications

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udemy courses arent really worth anything IMO.

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make the project names bigger and darker

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increase overall font size

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i would expand on some of ur projects more

north marlin
civic pelican
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including what actual project is and what u used to make it.

  • Created a CLI program where users can read and write data to a MongoDB database via CLI using C++
  • Leveraged Object Oriented programming to reduce repeated code and increase maintainability and modularity.
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all of it. all of its tiny

north marlin
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the formatting came out all wonky cause I had to convert it from latex to pdf to word since I found latex not to be great for this kind of thing (a little too late). ill try making the font bigger

civic pelican
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word stinks butt

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latex is easy to change the font size? wym

north marlin
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I was having trouble getting my resume to format the way I wanted in latex, and had someone tell me on the latex reddit that it sucks for this kind of thing, then pointed me towards a post/discussion about why its bad for resumes