Graduating in 2 weeks with no job offer. Need resume advice | CS Career Hub | Page 1

scenic fable Apr 24, 2023, 10:07 PM

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I'm graduating in 2 weeks, and I didn't receive a fulltime job offer from my internship (cyber security startup company) due to issues with HR. Apparently, they hired too many interns and had to let all the newer interns (me included) go. That happened about a month ago, and since then I've been scrambling to get a full time job before I graduate. I've been applying to entry level positions in my state as well as fully remote positions. Moving out of my state is a deal breaker because the cost of living is really low here, and I have a lot of family here and also like the area in general. I've sent about 200 applications so far, and I've had only 2 interviews. Both went very well and I was able to make it to the final round, but I ended up being rejected by both places because they found someone with more experience. I think it's just a numbers game at this point because I tend to do pretty well in interviews, but getting an interview in the first place is hard for some reason. I'm guessing it's my resume, so please be brutally honest with me on how I can improve it. Do I need to fix the formatting, do more impressing personal projects, etc?

coarse minnow Apr 24, 2023, 11:21 PM

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formatting could use work, but not a ton of work

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reduce left and right margin

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maybe add horizontal line after section names

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definitely adding more line spacing between bullet points, they look smushed together

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can probably cateogrize skills like so #1008225248098926753 message

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last 2 projects are weak so my 2cent would be to replace those

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are u going for more cyber security jobs? or more swe jobs?

scenic fable Apr 25, 2023, 12:16 AM

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I want to go for swe jobs

coarse minnow Apr 25, 2023, 12:17 AM

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yeah so i would definitely replace the last two projects in that case

scenic fable Apr 25, 2023, 3:32 AM

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Ok thanks! I did have a hard time fitting all this in one page anyway lol. Things will look cleaner after removing that

warm oak Apr 25, 2023, 3:48 PM

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Too much space, no summary, looks very empty. Let me know if you need help.

coarse minnow Apr 25, 2023, 4:39 PM

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summary isnt really necessary.. maybe if u have 5+ YOE

bright wharf Apr 26, 2023, 10:37 PM

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What type of swe roles are you looking for? Good to narrow down that as well if possible

scenic fable Apr 27, 2023, 3:56 PM

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bright wharf What type of swe roles are you looking for? Good to narrow down that as well if ...

That's a good question lol. I guess anything that doesn't have to do with web dev, machine learning, or data science.

bright wharf Apr 27, 2023, 3:59 PM

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Specifically embedded then? Or what are some examples then haha

scenic fable Apr 27, 2023, 9:28 PM

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bright wharf Specifically embedded then? Or what are some examples then haha

Embedded sounds cool to me, but I don't have much experience with that. I'm not sure what other examples there are lol. It seems like everything these days is web dev, machine learning, or data science

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Maybe I'll bite the bullet and do web dev since I know a decent amount about it from classes in college

bright wharf Apr 27, 2023, 10:09 PM

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Definitely worth trying to figure out what you want to focus on, and double down on the specific skills for the position

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A lot of companies have incorporated practical coding session exercises in their interview process (for example for a frontend web dev position may ask you build x in react) and trying to go broad and build practical skills in every area is difficult to start

scenic fable Apr 27, 2023, 10:45 PM

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I like desktop application stuff and I guess that's it lol. If I knew more about embedded, I'd probably do that

bright wharf Apr 28, 2023, 8:43 PM

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So a company like Slack/Discord for example? In the end desktop apps still just use similar frameworks to web

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On the backend still hitting the same endpoints as the web app too a lot of the time

#Graduating in 2 weeks with no job offer. Need resume advice