2.5 YOE - 1000+ applications , 1 Interview . May 2023 Grad International .

[hollow wolf]

I am getting resume rejected everywhere almost , its becoming depressing day by day . I urgently need help , don't know what more to improve

@spring hill

[lyric valve]

do skills like this : #1008225248098926753 message

u can prob remove a few projects

let the bullet points go over the date location column

put exp first

[hollow wolf]

oh cool , thanks 🙂

[hollow wolf]

i made this in flow cv , its not allowing it

any other alternatives? Word is just painful

@lyric valve

[lyric valve]

https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/jakes-resume/syzfjbzwjncs

[hollow wolf]

i tried this but my experience section is long so it goes over 1 page

[lyric valve]

remove a few projects

until it fits

i mean you could prob remove them all

[hollow wolf]

remove all projects ?!

[lyric valve]

you got plenty to show with all your exp

[hollow wolf]

aren't projects important?

oh

ok

[lyric valve]

leave 1 if you really want ahaha

but they dont look as near as complex as your work stuff

[hollow wolf]

Exp
Skills
Projects
Education

?

[lyric valve]

maybe like exp projects skills education or exp projects education skills

[spring hill]

Check the pinned post and the template Azote suggested.

You could also proof-read the CV. For example there is a missing space between Kubernetes and Azure in the skill list, there are two different ways of writing Spring Boot.

[spring hill]

Your work history is a bit unclear. So you got your bachelors, then had three jobs or projects, 1y, 6m, 6m. Then you started your masters, had an internship during masters, graduated, and took a job in June. Is it so?

Is this the one where you do reports in Tableau/BIRT? I'm asking because 2 months is still onboarding. Do you have info about if you would have different tasks after onboarding?

For the jobs between degrees: why are these short? Was it freelancing/project work?

[hollow wolf]

yes

Is this the one where you do reports in Tableau/BIRT? I'm asking because 2 months is still onboarding. Do you have info about if you would have different tasks after onboarding?

yes , things are mismanaged. its shitty . there was no onboarding . they just gave me work laptop and credentials .

and took my immigration docs for verification , then ofc gave it back to me

there was no background check also

nothing

its bs of a company tbh , now i overheard the ceo yesterday saying on the phone to his other vp "why would i need him(me)" . also they used to keep telling me in the first 2 months "that's what you were hired for" (like initially they wanted me to build an entire big ass billing system bymyself) then that changed and then they outsourced this shit to MongoDB (the company) they will do the DB and the entire backend and give a sample app . post that idk what i'll do there . so this is a process rn we waiting on the proposal from them so until then they gave me this random ass tasks on tableau and BIRT since "i was free and didn't have work" .things are not looking good here for me and i am scared and anxious @spring hill

[ripe fiber]

Ok, this sounds almost exactly like the experience I've had, except for the fact that your company finally realized their stupidity and outsourced it.
Can I ask what kind of company it is and what industry they're in?

[hollow wolf]

its between a startup and a mid size firm . flow of money is there . its bootstrapped . owner puts in his own money. been around 25-30 years in us and sea(2 countries). but there are just 10-13 employess in usa

as SEA is cheap labor

but the quality of product is garbage filled with tons of issues with incompetent people . owner just pressurizes people to fix things as he doesn’t want to lose out on clients

even if they outsource that shit , it has to built upon . can’t be deployed directly . they don’t realise that mongo is a db company not a contracting company smh

[ripe fiber]

I can definitely relate to your frustrations. I've been in that situation in this job, just much worse.
Plus, I'm more surprised mongo would actually agree to something like this.

[hollow wolf]

i am damn sure the owner is gonna get played

mongo can help you make the db perfectly not the entire thing , those sales people are smart in luring people

[ripe fiber]

Exactly. This is the classic case of incompetent people thinking they know best how to manage a project they really know nothing about.

[hollow wolf]

its the most mismanaged bs firm i have ever seen

[ripe fiber]

You haven't seen mine then😂

[hollow wolf]

i am on F1 opt (international student) so i can’t even leave without anything lined up

and the market is bs

getting résumé rejected everywhere mostly

[ripe fiber]

Same

[hollow wolf]

oh fr?

[ripe fiber]

I started looking at the wrong time. Just two months before the market went to shit

Been searching ever since

[hollow wolf]

when did you graduate

[ripe fiber]

Jan 2021

[hollow wolf]

oh damn

[ripe fiber]

Took me 1 year to find this shithole job

[hollow wolf]

but at that time the market was booming right?

[ripe fiber]

It was. I was getting many interviews

[hollow wolf]

2021 mid till 2022 mid it was golden

[ripe fiber]

It was the prime of the industry. Huge growth due to covid

[hollow wolf]

yea

[ripe fiber]

Sadly that momentum was unsustainable, and what goes up must come down, and not only did it come down, it crashed

It's funny because professionals would tell you that once you break into the industry with your first job, subsequent ones become easier to get.
Guess they were talking when the market doesn't go to shit because I never thought finding my next gig would be nearly impossible

Anyway man, I don't think I have to tell you what you already probably know and heard million times, but keep at it.
I'd also suggest putting your experience into ChatGPT and see what it spits out for phrasing your bullets in different ways. You can play around with that to see what fits.