#New grad and recently laid off junior dev looking for advice

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wicked heart
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Only managed to get 1 real interview in the past 2 months of job hunting. Are there any glaring issues with my resume?

Thanks for any help!

grand oracle
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B.S. with Honors not Honors...

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the 2022 note.... IDK, never seen it before in my life

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avoid justification, don't make network span in two separate lines

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Visual studio.... is this a skill?

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Project is not consistent!, you once explain what project about and the other (3rd point you explain what you did)!

little sleet
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The note about your coursework finishing in 2022 is not needed. Remove it.
I would trim down your coursework and make it more succinct. If you must, just list out the most noteworthy courses.

little sleet
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For experience points, make sure they sound impactful. Follow STAR method and add metrics where appropriate (but don't overdo it).

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I don't know if I would list IDEs as part of skills since in most cases writing code in them is assumed, but that's just me.
React is not a language, it is a library/framework. It uses JavaScript/TypeScript which is a language. Move it to its appropriate category.

Remove soft skills. Those should be demonstrated in your experience points.

Bullets in the projects section are not consistent (black bullets for the project and then dashes for their details?).
I don't know if I'd list the hatchways assessment as a project.

Also, why do some of your projects have extra details but not others? Each should have at least 1 bullet for an explanation of what the project was.

wicked heart
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Thanks for the advice guys! ill improve my resume accordingly

wicked heart
grand oracle
# wicked heart

what is the relation between what you led and what you replaced? I think you meant "responsible"

wicked heart
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ill change the wording

wicked heart
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im basically trying to find a professional and concise way to say that I was the main frontend dev at my company, and created a lot of new react pages to replace vanilla js ones by myself

grand oracle
# wicked heart hows this?

Why not start with replaced then give the result

Replaced over 50% leading to modernization.... using...

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and the 50% is an estimated or an actual number?

wicked heart
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its an esimate, definitely somewhere around 40-60%

grand oracle
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then use "estimated"

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or else, it will be considered as misinformation.

little sleet
# wicked heart ive followed your advice to add more metrics, how would you rate these revised b...

Sort of hard to tell the differences between the original points and these new ones, but aside from that, it looks a bit better.
You should probably rephrase the first bullet to be shorter and to the point while maintaining the impact (have a go at it yourself or pass to ChatGPT for suggestions).

The other points look good and show meaningful impact, but the last one doesn't really tell me much of what the purpose was and it could be considered redundant to some. Either have another go at it to make it sound more impressive or find another point to replace it with

little sleet
wicked heart
wicked heart
# little sleet Sort of hard to tell the differences between the original points and these new o...

for the last point, I wanted to convey that I made seasonal marketing emails that were sent out to tens of thousands of users, which also resulted in a decent amount of re-subscriptions to my company's products. However I do not have the financial stats on how much revenue was generated or how many users re-subscribed so I couldn't write a metric for it.

What do you think about this new sentence?

little sleet
little sleet
# wicked heart

If you follow that pattern, you'll be able to do the same thing for this point and then whenever you write up points in the future, it will almost come naturally

little sleet
# wicked heart

Otherwise, this is a much better rewrite and now I understand what the purpose of that point is

little sleet