#Looking for new grad roles. Absolutely no OAs. International

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heady totem
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Don’t mix professional experience with student org experience, it’s highly misleading and detracts from your resume

quick prawn
heady totem
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Focus more on simplifying and reordering your points to highlight business impact more than trying to sound more impressive than you actually are with tech or bad metrics (e.g., quantity of unit/integration tests). I prefer that your first bullet for each experience be the highlight - what’s your biggest impact/contribution to the business?

Your “leadership” for the top experience especially reads like someone trying to pad their competence than someone who’s actually competent. Might be ok for new grad if you move it to a separate leadership section, but to a hiring manager it just reads like arrogance and someone difficult to coach

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If you go too deep in the technical hole, you also end up trapping yourself with certain interviewers (common in quant, finance, and startups) - e.g., if I ask you on how to build a fault tolerant distributed system and some of the nuances there, I can guarantee you’ll end up tripping over yourself because frankly there’s only so much you learn in a class and non industry setting

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So main takeaway is to try to simplify it enough that it’s attractive to both non technical (recruiters) and technical folk (hiring managers and interviewers)