From Australia, is my resume good enough to crack jobs in NYC or other American cities? | cscareers.dev | Page 1

weak jacinth Feb 4, 2025, 7:02 PM

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I didn’t look at this in depth but the coloring really stood out to me. Remove the coloring

patent needle Feb 5, 2025, 5:14 AM

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Nah respectfully I love the colouring and think it makes it a bit unique. It still gets parsed by ATS fine.

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Unless there's a specific reason it should be removed?

nocturne grotto Feb 5, 2025, 5:19 AM

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the problem is the hr person looking at the resume after it gets through ATS

patent needle Feb 5, 2025, 6:04 AM

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Fair enough - is it that they wouldn't like the colour and want me to stick to the standard format? I suppose this makes sense but would they really care that much about the colour

weak jacinth Feb 5, 2025, 7:02 AM

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Just unprofessional

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Imo

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If u want to show personality add a brief “interests” section at the very bottom

patent needle Feb 5, 2025, 8:19 AM

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Fair enough - I'll take that into consideration. Thanks 🙂 What do you think about the content? Good enough to break into the American tech scene or nah?

weak jacinth Feb 5, 2025, 8:23 AM

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“Prefect” typo? Rural high awards section

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“Full stack website” as a project is much too vague

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When something sounds too vague, regardless of what it is on resume, it gives off a sense of trying to make something grandiose when it’s not, can make recruiters question if its actually what you say it is or if youre just stretching the truth

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Just list it as what it is

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Yea idk the colors r an eyesore imo im sorry man theyre super distracting. Imo, it is a MUST to remove the coloring

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Programming teacher would be experience

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O ive never heard it b4, my bad

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Also dont list artificial intelligence as a tech in the stack

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If its a wrapper just list it as APIs

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I think its alright, needs a lot of reformatting, definitely please remove the coloring, and maybe add more metrics and impact on ur experiences

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I dont think this can crack big tech or even tier 2s, but maybe a random mid-small company

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If ur applying for next cycle, i would strongly suggest getting some deeper and flashier projects on ur resume before you apply

patent needle Feb 5, 2025, 9:26 AM

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Thanks very much for the feedback. I will take all of it into account.

patent needle Feb 5, 2025, 9:27 AM

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weak jacinth “Full stack website” as a project is much too vague

Ah the project is actually a published website, with a proper name, I just wrote full-stack as a way to anonymise the resume.

weak jacinth Feb 5, 2025, 9:27 AM

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Ahh okay

patent needle Feb 5, 2025, 9:27 AM

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weak jacinth If its a wrapper just list it as APIs

I was considering this but I wasn't sure if non-technical recruiters would understand it. Though I get ur point

patent needle Feb 5, 2025, 9:28 AM

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weak jacinth I dont think this can crack big tech or even tier 2s, but maybe a random mid-sma...

Damn American market must be tough. I've been able to get interviews from big tech and Jane street with this in Aus. I have heard though that American talent is much stronger so that would make sense. What do you think is missing from my resume? Internships at a large company?

weak jacinth Feb 5, 2025, 9:29 AM

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patent needle Damn American market must be tough. I've been able to get interviews from big te...

Jane street with this resume is crazy ngl

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Uhh tbh

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For something like amazon, this might be enough to have a shot at process

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Maybe meta or apple too

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But google prob no shot

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I think if it was just slightly flashier with a flashy project or a big brand name, itd be good enough to try for big tech

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Its also harder since youd be intl so

patent needle Feb 5, 2025, 9:31 AM

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Actually, that full stack website is a very 'flashy' project with an acitve user base.

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But I thought internship experience would be more valuable

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Do u suggest I write more about the project and reduce some lines from internship

weak jacinth Feb 5, 2025, 9:31 AM

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Ohhh thats great then

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Users are great

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Very good

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Highlight the users

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Add more impact and metrics

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Users r very strong

patent needle Feb 5, 2025, 9:32 AM

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It's not many though just a few hundred a few thousand sometimes

weak jacinth Feb 5, 2025, 9:33 AM

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Thats good enough

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List it as like x users over the past x months

patent needle Feb 5, 2025, 9:33 AM

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Fair enough. I'll have to cut out one of the internships

weak jacinth Feb 5, 2025, 9:33 AM

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No u dont

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Is ur resume written in latex?

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Use jakes resume template

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It can get a little more dense than what u have rn

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Also dense is good

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Gives a good halo effect

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Make sure its all good info tho cuz recruiters will sniff out pure fluff and itll reflect poorly

patent needle Feb 5, 2025, 9:35 AM

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Nah it's written in Word

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Alsoo I just remembered, I applied to HRT algo dev in NYC ages ago with the colours and got interview. Didn't go throughb with it as I had work but hey I think it's a decent indication that the colours are somewhat ok.

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Anyway thanks for the help, made sense. Will defo focus on discussing the project more.

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Time to delete this so no one can trace it back to me just in case lol

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Fk I dont think I can delete the thread oh well

weak jacinth Feb 5, 2025, 9:57 AM

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Yes naturally, im just saying dense is good

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Too dense, is obv not good

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Its just different definitions of dense i dont think either of us are wrong

#From Australia, is my resume good enough to crack jobs in NYC or other American cities?