Resume Review

Let's help get some fresh talent in the industry. Help out another person by checking for spelling, grammar, making sure their resume is easy to read and any other tips you have come across your journey you think will benefit someone else.

The rules are simple:

Juniors:

Post a link to your resume / cv below for others to review, or get extra eyes on.

Seniors:

Please give feedback and reply so we don't all pile on the same one (but you can absolutely provide additional feedback).

*if you don’t want your personal info out there please replace with placeholders so the layout isn’t messed up. *

This thread was started on Twitter. Feel free to follow along in any or both places!

Comments

[Molly Struve (she/her)]

Wow, this is impressive and you just graduated! NICE WORK!

One suggestion I have would be to get a little more detailed on some points to help you really stand out. It will also help people get a firm grasp on what you can do the more detailed you are. For example:

• "Manage project to ensure timely completion" -> What exactly did you do that helped the team stay on task?
• "Integrate multiple complex enterprise systems to provide services that optimize and support business processes" -> What processes were supported? What systems were you working with?

I am personally a big fan of tailoring my Resume. You have A TON of awesome skills, but sometimes that makes it a little overwhelming to read. When you are applying, look at the job description and maybe try to whittle down your Skills list to those that you think would be most important for the job. That way if someone is reading your resume they can easily see you have the skills they are looking for.

When I first graduated I also put some of the relevant classes I took under my education section. Something to think about if you want. I also added notes about any organizations I was involved in or led that I thought might convey I had skills the employer was looking for.

Did I mention I LOVE your font?! :D Keep crushing it!!!

[Juan F Gonzalez]

+1 to what Molly said, I wish I would had such experience to show when I graduated haha.
Definitely trimming down the skills to the most relevant for the job you're looking for is important.

[Ben Halpern]

I agree with all of this. That’s all I have to add. 😂

[Ahmed Abdelsalam]

Great idea but Can I post my portfolio?
BTW Here's my portfolio

[Ben Halpern]

I don’t think anyone will mind. 😄

I’m looking at your portfolio on mobile. The look is clean, I’d say my biggest concern is that there is a lot of stuff there. I felt like I was scrolling and scrolling and scrolling.

It may be possible to consolidate some of the info and/or shrink some graphic and text to make the whole thing a bit more skimmable.

[David J Eddy]

Love the "FBI-SURVEILLANCE" WiFi network on the Linux Desktop Demo :D.

[rhymes]

Why on earth have you spoken at TEDx and I can't find a single link to the talk on your website :P ?

I would have it at font 72 with yellow background and tags around it.

[Renan Lourençoni Nobile]

It looks great! The only thing I would change is the blur effect on hover in your work examples.

[Leonard Morrison]

Here's my resume! Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Evan]

Pick a different font for the body text, it's particularly difficult to read. In particular, a good serif'd font is helpful for something that may be printed. Try Georgia, it's a websafe font that renders well and reads well.

[Enzo Lizama Paredes]

That's nice!! Here I leave my resume and I go slowly ...

I would appreciate your feedback!

[Kabir Hossain]

Your resume looks fine. But there is some mistakes like as CERTICATES.

[Howie Lynch]

thegrinch1985.github.io/Portfolio/

[Molly Struve (she/her)]

Hi!!!

+1 for being from Ireland, half my husbands family lives over there :) As for your resume I have a few thoughts.

• It is pretty long. I would suggest shortening it up to 1 page. I would do this by eliminating the first summary and saving that for a cover letter or email that you would send with the resume. I would also avoid writing paragraphs. I think it is a lot easier for those reading your resume if you use bullet points. It will also force you to make every word count and ensure you are not using a lot of fillers.
• I would move your job experience up to the very top and follow that with skills or education.
• I would pare down your skills. It is AWESOME that you have so many, but when you are applying for a job make sure to only include the ones that are relevant for that job.
• I would remove your references, no need to waste space with other people's contact info. Instead I would suggestion writing "References available upon request" at the bottom

If you have time I would suggest reading this Resume Writing Tips blog I wrote. Might have you ideas to tighten this up a bit.

Hope those suggestions help :)

[Jonathan Nicholas]

Here's mine.

Any feedback is highly appreciated!

[rhymes]

Old school, nice!

Just put the work experience at the top.

I would put stuff in this order: work experience, skills, education, awards and scholarship and then volounteering experience

[Michelle Epps]

I have a bit of a different perspective but that’s the beautiful thing about these exercises! Also, remember it’s improtant to tailor your resume to the opportunity you are pursuing...

I like the old school vibe! I give advice to put your most impactful “experience” at the top - for you at this moment, it’s your eduction. That will shift! Also, I would remove the line in the middle of each experience regarding positive feedback prior to departure and much like you’ve seen in other feedbacks on here - add the “so what” instead. What business or technology outcomes resulted. That will be more impactful.

Great job representing yourself overall!

[rhymes]

Great feedback! :-)

[Jonathan Nicholas]

Great feedback from both of you! I really appreciate it.

[Jack Harner 🚀]

Would love some feedback on mine.

I have a website version that uses Print CSS to adjust down to a printer friendly version.

My thought was that since I'm trying to get a web design/development job having a resume website would be kinda cool and nifty that I can just print off a copy, wherever I am.

[Gareth Bradley]

I love the interactive Website Jack.

[Jack Harner 🚀]

Thanks Gareth!

[Ben Sinclair]

Hi Jack.

I like the look of this immediately, but there are a couple of things I would change:

• The headings have underlines on them which make them look like links (they're not)
• The employment timeline and skills sections are very large compared to the rest of the page, and they take up a lot of vertical space, which feels unbalanced.
• The accordion effect for the previous roles is nice, but I don't know why it's there. Why do I need to click to read the text? It's not to save vertical space (see previous point) and there's not a lot of text in them, so why not leave them open?
• I don't know why the roles on the timeline have a hover effect, because it makes me think I can interact with them and I'm left clicking to no effect.
• In general it feels like things get more claustrophobic the further down the page I scroll, with less padding and ending up with one giant image. Perhaps this could be made into a thumbnail link?
• From the two projects, one has an image associated with it and one doesn't. It'd be nice to add an image to the first one (the desktop recreation) provided that's not using copyrighted assets or anything.

I really like the way you talk about "Professional Highlights" and "Projects I'm Proud Of". This gives me the impression that you're selecting things you think will interest me as a prospective employer, rather than turfing out every project you've ever done. Saying you're proud of something and showing it off is also a great way to impress people.

[David J Eddy]

I am loving the printed version. Really stands out compared to the 'wall of text' most resumes are these days. My only concern is the non-tech centric roles; but I have no suggestion on how to deal with that given your experience and how tightly coupled they are to the next step in career path.

OVerall, I am digging the design Jack. Well done.

[Jack Harner 🚀]

Thanks for your feedback David. I was definitely trying to stand out with the design.

I've had a couple people mention having my time at Target on there. The only reason I included it was to prevent the "Why'd you take a year off?" question. I've read that having employment gaps isn't the end of the world, but if there's a gap and the answer is "Oh, I just worked at Target" that seems worse than not having the gap.

[Benny Leung]

I love it, it's simple and beautiful

But in Hong Kong, the job hunter only Ctrl+F the exact word, didn't know what is that

They will ask do you know .net if you know C#

Finally, CV will become "Word Wall" :(

[Sophie The Lionhart]

Might just be me, but I always notice when a site doesn't have a favicon or has the wrong one such as the drupal one when they don't give their own. So I would say get a favicon. Looks nice otherwise.

[Darius]

Perfect resume because its form itself speaks to your area of expertise. It paints you as having very specific skills, and that's usually a good thing. While a narrow focus can mean some people will not respond, it means that you will hook the ones who ought to respond.

[Jack Harner 🚀]

Thank you for the kind words. That's definitely what I was going for. I'm trying to get a job making websites, so why not have my resume be a website? Most places only have an upload field for the resume, but then I can just go there, print off a fresh copy as a PDF and upload it.

[SofianeG]

You should precise which type of API you can work with: REST ? GraphQL ?

[Doğukan Öztürkan]

Thank you for advice Im using both but I need to rewrite :)

[Michelle Epps]

Hi Samundra,
I am going to give you macro level comments as...
-it doesn’t render well on iOS

My overall advice is simplify. The font in the intro is a bit difficult to read - I would suggest shifting it. In these situations, you want to think of your personal brand. How can you find a more streamlined version that still represents you?

Find ways to streamline and highlight the items you really want to standout - that will be the key.

Keep up the energy and talent!

[Fen Slattery]

I agree, that font is pretty difficult to read, and will be very difficult for anyone reviewing your resume with conditions like low vision or dyslexia.

[Prateek Phoenix]

Would love to have some feedback on my resume. 😅

Link - drive.google.com/open?id=1aVLMrrJk...

And here's a link to my website where I have put up my work hackertronix.com

Thanks to the community for this initiative

[David J Eddy]

Love the portfolio site Prateek! The little Star Wars heads popping up is a nice touch. It's missing the link to your CV.

[Prateek Phoenix]

Yea I didn't add my resume on the site, but that's a good suggestion... You can download my resume from here drive.google.com/open?id=1aVLMrrJk...

[David Lyons]

Would love some feedback. 🙏

Portfolio
Resume

[rhymes]

Love the resume and its terseness, just increase the font size a bit :D I think you can still fit it in one page

[Maaruf Dauda]

Hi, here's my resume. If anyone would be kind enough to give feedback on this, I'll wait with apprehension... 😖

[rhymes]

Like the format and the fact that is a one page CV

(I wouldn't put my phone number in the CV)

One thing I would ask you is "what does it mean that you pioneered the development of a distributed DB" ? Maybe you should expand on that or remove it if you can't for contractual reasons.

You seem strong on mobile development, maybe write more about which kind of problems you helped solve as an intern at CoLab (expand the two sections?)

Anyway, really good resume :)

[AntonJaie]

Here's my resume: drive.google.com/file/d/1YzR9b2Nj2...

I welcome any feedback!

[Turfa Auliarachman]

Hi, here is my CV. I am graduating next year. Would love some feedback.

Thank you

[rhymes]

Hi Turfa! Just a little detail:

Group your achievements by date, it would make sense to have the international one first if it was the most recent but it's something 3 years old so I would group them by year and that's it.

Finally, you have a typo: "url shorter" instead of "url shortener"

Great work!

[Turfa Auliarachman]

Thanks for your feedback!

[Molly Struve (she/her)]

Hope you dont mind, I shared your resume with a candidate below as a great example for formatting :)

[Turfa Auliarachman]

I'm more than happy. Actually I use template from Career Cup.

[prachip1]

I am a WordPress developer from the past one year. I am quite interested in Front end development using HTML, CSS ,Javascript,jQuery and other. I am looking for a job in this field only. This is website prachipweb.co.in. please review it.

[Molly Struve (she/her)]

Your website is SLICK!!! I like what you did with the %'s and the skills, that is a neat touch. I would assume that the left is beginner and right is mastery. You might want to put a little key on that just so people know what the scale is measuring.

For the CV itself.

• I think the top three sections, Career Objective, Profile, and Personal Qualities you can do without on the CV. They are great but I think you should save them and use them in a cover letter or email that you would write when you are applying. By doing that you can also tailor them to the job you are applying to make sure you emphasis the qualities the job is looking for.
• Project Undertaken and Research Work - make sure to get the spacing right under the bullets, that will just sharpen it up.
• In terms of applying for a job I think you can do without Extra-Curricular Activities and Personal Details BUT I would put that you know multiple languages under you skills bc that is definitely not something everyone has.

Hope that helps :)

[prachip1]

Thank you so much.. I will make these changes .

[Shahor]

Your website is really beautiful, but there is something that could send a wrong message and be detrimental.

The first time your website is loaded, that is to say without cache, there is a loading bar at the top.
All is well, and I was pretty excited to discover why I was asked to wait.

The loading went on for a few seconds and then I just saw a regular page that didn't make me understand at all why there was a loading.
It seems unnecessary and my knee jerk reaction was This person doesn't care about their craft

Please don't take this the wrong way, I'm not assuming anything but since it was my initial reaction I'm thinking I won't be the only one and losing a recruiter's interest for such a detail would be a shame.

[prachip1]

No I wont mind. You correcting the fault and that is a big help. I will fix it. Thanxx