#New grad and recently laid off junior dev looking for advice
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B.S. with Honors not Honors...
the 2022 note.... IDK, never seen it before in my life
avoid justification, don't make network span in two separate lines
Visual studio.... is this a skill?
Project is not consistent!, you once explain what project about and the other (3rd point you explain what you did)!
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.
For experience points, make sure they sound impactful. Follow STAR method and add metrics where appropriate (but don't overdo it).
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.
Thanks for the advice guys! ill improve my resume accordingly
ive followed your advice to add more metrics, how would you rate these revised bullet points?
what is the relation between what you led and what you replaced? I think you meant "responsible"
ill change the wording
hows this?
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
Why not start with replaced then give the result
Replaced over 50% leading to modernization.... using...
and the 50% is an estimated or an actual number?
its an esimate, definitely somewhere around 40-60%
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
You can write something similar to this:
"Modernized the frontend interface.... used React, Redux, etc... to be more modular, reusable and responsive and scale to business demands"
Thanks for the example, I utilized a mix of your words and chatgpt to change first point's wording
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?
Looks better.
If you re-read it over a few more times, you'll be able to refactor it even further. Basically just bake in the tech you listed at the end into the beginning of the point.
Remember that it needs to sound natural. Explain what you did, how you achieved it, and what impact it had.
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
Otherwise, this is a much better rewrite and now I understand what the purpose of that point is
I think it's fine if you don't have a revenue stat for this point, but do you think you can at least estimate the percentage for the increase in new subscriptions and recurring subscriptions these templates enabled?