#Student co-op resume, 0 experience

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stoic hornet
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unsure of whether I should put Teaching Assistant or VP Tech at the top

untold harbor
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either or tbh id just make any points about users/students in the first bp rather than 2nd

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if u have more to talk about for projects or other 2 experiences u could remove freelance web dev and increase spacing for better readability

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i like this bullet point but instead of 'supporting 15k' maybe use 'scaling blabalblaba'

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IMO people do not use the verb scale enough

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the easiest way to make this bp flow better is to just say directly how many users there are. u have a lot of jargon that flows into a 2-line bp whhen you can have one muchh better bp with less jargon but like 5000 users or sum shi

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in general u want ur bullet points to center around business impact, so less techy stuff and more things about the user or the company (if its a project treat it like a company cuz any good project has at least some operation cost). things like cost optimization, operating at a larger scale, having a large userbase, etc

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not saying techy stuff is bad but much much more importance on the business value metrics

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like this is direct business value, but we know recruiters will read only the first couple bullet points and by putting it last in ur description they high change wont read

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stoic hornet
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Thanks

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do you think I should change Freelance Web Dev to just Web Dev? or just remove the experience

untold harbor
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depends. try removing it and add bullet points to other things while increasing line spacing for better readability

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if that fits and it doesnt look like u added too much lien spacing id keep it

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ur other 2 expeirence is so much stronger

stoic hornet
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Is it even worth putting down? or should I replace it with another project

untold harbor
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this idea is cool but heres my critiques

  1. first bullet point drags on too long. after 'social platform for designers and swes' either cut it off or add metrics to fill in thhe 2nd line
  2. 200% API speed increase can definitely be reworded to direct business value
  3. reduced load times can also be reworded to direct business value
  4. a user-centric project that is NOT deployed or has no link to it IMO raises a few flags (recrutier wont know but the next person reviewing ur resume might)
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untold harbor
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how woudl they know

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as long as you know HOW to scale to X users

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then you have X users

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when talking about how u scaled to 15,000 requests per second u better have a concrete answer like oh i used built in horizontal scaling on gcp or some shiht like thaht

stoic hornet
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oh

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I just looked up how many requests can expressjs handle

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and assumed it was fine

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i guess the framework isnt the limiting factor

untold harbor
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thats mainly dependent on hardware. when talkking about cloud deployment youre working with constraints of shitty hardware so a concrete answer would be horizontal/vertical scaling

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and just a tip if u were to ever talk about this in an interview you need to say directly how thihs impacts the user or ur operating costs

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i mean the easiest thing is like yehh so we are getting tons of new users and we have to scale horizontally and thats like ok so u scaled because of business reasons not just for whatever

stoic hornet
untold harbor
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no

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as long as u can talk about it

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if u at the very least have a high level overview of deployment, scaling, etc itll be fine

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ur interviewer knows ur bullshhitting anyway cuz he also bullshitted on his resume lol

stoic hornet
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fair

untold harbor
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just wants to check like ok but can u actually do what u claim

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also one flaw is that your user centric platform has no mention of database

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im just throwing things out there also for my own interviewing prep, 'tell me about a time you used user feedback to improve a product' 'in nexus beta, many users were complaining about slow page load times. initially, we were doing XYZ but I built high performance UI components w/ react and tailwind, reducing page load times by 400% and ultimately addressing the complaint'

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so some things you cant exactly quantify as business value, page load times is hard to quantify on a company/user level unless like slow page loads contributed to higher operating costs (doubt). so in an interview then youd dive into why your 400% page load contributes business value

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wtf bros a freshman 😭 u gonna do good bro dw all u need to do is market urself better

stoic hornet
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But thank you so much

halcyon veldt
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Yo another Carleton student, good luck