Can't get a single interview || More than 500 Apps

[sick aspen]

bruh U had an amazon internship and can't get interviews? no wonder I can't get interviews either. My resume is nowhere near as good as yours, and if you're not having any luck I'm screwed 😭

[empty sparrow]

It's a full time role worked for a year, No one is giving shit because am trying to move to software or data engineer and it was a support role

[sacred sluice]

the resume looks solid to me

unless u r international, u prob get some callbacks when the market swings back

[empty sparrow]

I'm an international unfortunately

[sacred sluice]

oh maybe that’s why then

tough market for domestics, even harder for internationals :/

and about the resume, just my opinion, u can place the skills section below the education

[empty sparrow]

I did migrated some of my projects to get cloud to get experience and tinkered with AWS S3 storage and ec2 just to get some experience and add some keywords

Ohh gotcha, but I was like everyone goes for the experience

[sacred sluice]

maybe rephrase some of wordings with buzz words

[sacred sluice]

its like half and half

some recruiters I met said, they look for the skills first to see if the candidate is qualified or not

since they just skim through the resume

[empty sparrow]

ohh gotcha

[sacred sluice]

also, u can place name of the company above the role since it’s the highlight u know

the word Amazon comes before the role would give better exposure

I mean role is just a role

[agile knoll]

So what exactly is a "data support engineer"??

[sacred sluice]

I don’t think you don’t have to blur the role

instead blur the big names

lowkey recruiters r superficial mofos so they don’t really read what role u had rather where u worked ig

u remember that fake resume?

[empty sparrow]

Basically same work as data engineer but instead of multiple point of contact and huge responsibilities we tend to work on only single process and work with Business intelligence engineers

[sacred sluice]

but yeah these r just my small feedbacks , I hope u find a good position soon!

gl mate

[empty sparrow]

Ohh cool, never though like that

[empty sparrow]

Yea but in that it was role was highlighted

I was under the impression that role matters a lot (more than the work place)

[sacred sluice]

I think recruiters r just hr they can’t tell the difference between the roles u have on your resume ngl

[empty sparrow]

ohh than they go by whatever they see

[agile knoll]

Some bullet points are nice, some bullet points are weak, and the sentence structure is not consistent, and you have some silly mistakes... makes the thing hard to read

[empty sparrow]

can you please help me out by pointing out some ? or should I rewrite again all the things ?

[agile knoll]

First of all your titles:

Change it to:

• Graduate Research Assistant
• Data Scientist or Data Engineer

Change "academic exp" to "Projects"

• Sentimental analysis should be "sentiment analysis ML model", needs to be a bit more descriptive
• Cloud web interface? What did the app do exactly?
• Remove the ":" from those titles

Skills are fine but HTML and Javascript are languages not web technologies

oh you weren't a graduate TA, you were a research assistant

LOL

[empty sparrow]

I was a research assistant

yea

should I peel the support part from my role?

[agile knoll]

Yeah just call it Data Engineer

[empty sparrow]

ohh that cloud web part was a automotive car inventory management one

tried to implement end to end application for the automobile inventory

[agile knoll]

yeah then the title should be "cloud inventory app" or somrthing

OK so your bullet points are so weak lol... read this outloud:

"analyzed hadoop and increased user threshold by 30% so more people can use it"

It sounds like you just went in the menu and flipped it to 30% more

But I think you should highlight the analysis that led you to that conclusion?

And then, a bullet point that you installed software? Literally anyone can install software... that bullet point is such a mess... what part of it are you trying to highlight?

[empty sparrow]

Basically what I did is that analyzed the mapreduce and yarn distribution of resources on the hadoop cluster, changed the resource allocation which helped in that

[empty sparrow]

Ok I just realized what I wanted to say and the sounding is totally different

[agile knoll]

OK I recommend you rewrite your bullet points... focus on the idea your trying to communicate, and use Google's bullet point format

“Accomplished [X] as measured by [Y], by doing [Z].”

for example

I like to flip the format around personally

so I would say:

Migrated refund functionality to Stripe API using Ruby on Rails, reducing refund processing times by 21%

you say your technical achievement, what tech/language you used, and the metric if there's one

very straight to the point

[empty sparrow]

make sense, let me flip the points

[empty sparrow]

@agile knoll changed the part GRA part, please help me review it

Also let me know what other changes I need to make, is the other's are also bad? and rewrite it?

there's so much stuff I have to write but can't decide on which i need to focus on

[agile knoll]

The experience looks much better

I still don't know what "analyzed and traced down this and that" really means... maybe it's enough to say analyzed

and implement my recommendations for the project section as well