#Please Roast Resume for new grad. Be brutally honest.

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royal yacht
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I have a sinking feeling that there is something wrong in terms of what ATS is looking for from like a keyword perspective. Although everything that is mentioned here is technically true I also think it sounds way more impressive than it is making it seem like I am lying. Is that a concern or am i just psyching myself out

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vestal junco
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My two cents:

  1. Swap education and technical skills sections. Skills should be at top bc it's the first thing recruiters look for. Keep in mind these recruiters are not technical, they just are looking for keywords like "python" or "aws"
  2. Have you confirmed the ATS can actually parse the latex? I've been using a microsoft word doc for mine since college and it's not as pretty but possibly more functional in this regard.
  3. I'm having trouble understanding what you did in some of these bullet points. For example, you made a "digital twin platform" for "virtual representation of warehouses". Try to make it simpler, for example: "Owned the front-end and back-end development of an internal tool for monitoring warehouses, <INSERT IMPACT HERE>".
  4. In your non-redacted version, link to the patent (or if the patent doesn't have your name, remove this bullet probably).
  5. I don't think the random bolding is helping that much
gaunt sandal
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For a new grad, less is more. Recruiters know you don’t know all 50 technologies listed in your skill section that well. Better to remove a lot of those not listed on the listing you are applying for.

Personally two lines of bullet is too long to read. Recruiters usually scan half of a sentence so try to get most of your bullets to one line (not a hard rule).

I agree with trumpet player that the random bolding isnt helping, if not making it harder to scan. Try leaving the bold bold for metrics or take it off.

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Your experience is impressive, just keep at it

silent estuary
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'established a scalable metric onboarding system' be careful wtih the adjective 'scalable' without having anything mentioning HOW its scalable. this kind of glazing adjective without any support is obvious GPT written bullet point