#Incoming second year student any feedback appreciated idk what im doing:)))))

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unique thorn
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wdym by metrics?

unique thorn
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ohh okk thanks

ornate sinew
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Hey can you highlight more of what you doing in Google student club in a section like Leadership Experience, it would be interesting to see if you have organized any workshops/worked in a team etc

uncut blaze
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Really odd formatting - would recommend aligning it to something more standard. Areas for this:

  • "Relevant Coursework" font size
  • Italicizing courses
  • Center alignment on section titles
  • Completely inconsistent date formatting (why commas)
  • Cramming project headers
  • Periods on bullets

Other general feedback

  • While your projects indicate full-stack experience, your skills do not convey the same information on their own. Recommend reordering them per applicability to the job description (and add TypeScript while you're at it) or moving it to the bottom
  • Bullets in general can use reducing and review - I like your first project a lot, but it doesn't get enough emphasis, but you generally have an issue not showing enough technical competency ("Employed Redis' REST API", "Implemented Pusher... by usage of subscription and binding events") with the way you approach things. Look into how things like in-memory cache (Redis) and websockets (Pusher) are integrated in day-to-day applications - the pusher team is really good with this, would recommend looking into areas around it
  • First project should have AI as an emphasis for the first bullet. I also wanna see a stronger communication of why things like user auth is even necessary
  • Second project also can use a revisit entirely - first bullet needs a complete wipe down (you're focusing too heavy on the stack and feature over the bare description as you did for the other two projects)
  • Avoid self-qualifiers ("intuitive", "seamless", "beautiful") - third project can be shortened significantly
  • Having abstractions like MUI with CSS, or React (JSX) with HTML makes you look very amaeturish - I don't recommend it usually, but in your case, given that you have little experience, it's fine
  • Have more metrics for your chef work - this is an opportunity to show off non-traditional background
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Lastly, for the love of god, your "other interests" section is doing you no favors (especially Gym) - move everything there (minus gym) to "Activities" under the activities section under relevant coursework if you intend to keep it OR create a new section for community involvement/extracurriculars if you worked on a larger project in GDSC

unique thorn
unique thorn