Here is my resume. Please provide some constructive criticism.

[TommyVercetti]

Can you provide some constructive criticism on my resume. I have been looking for a job since October. 7 interviews, and nothing so far. I am just about to give up.

My Resume

HTML RESUME <-- might be kinda screwy, just saved as HTML in Word.

 

[minendo]

&#8206;&#61607;&#8206; Developed team working skills by working&#8206;

Remove the first working.

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: minendo

&#8206;&#61607;&#8206; Developed team working skills by working&#8206;

Remove the first working.

"Developed team building skills by working with..." sounds like leadership. Above sounds like kindergarten. 😉

Read through the entire resume with an eye to making yourself sound like Tommy Franks, since the quickest turnoff when looking at a resume is when the guy sounds like Gomer Pyle.

 

[GigaCluster]

Can you convert it to HTML or PDF?

 

[newuser]

Include year of graduation.
have any contact information for references?

On a side note, did you try to get some contacts in the job market while interning? Use your available contacts (connections) to land a job.

 

[amnesiac]

If you're going to mention references, type "References provided upon request."

Don't include them in your resume. It's unnecessary.

You might want to work on the formatting a little bit. It's really.......plain.

You want to make your resume stand out a bit enough to be noticed among the hundreds of other identical ones, but not so much that it's freakishly gaudy.

The "add value and quality" line doesn't jive quite right. Change your objective to something more like "where my (remove "2 years") experience in software testing can be applied to its fullest extent in a development atmosphere" or anything similar to that.


I feel I'm qualified to critique your resume because I do hiring for my company and I've reconstructed enough of my friends' resumes to the point where they got several more job offers than before.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Have you really been working over 2 years continuously as an intern? That seems ood. Odd is not good.

> "Worked in a cross functional team environment to code, debug and test software in a C/C++ Windows environment."
What was your work? "worked as a XXX in a cross-functional..." makes more sense, for example "worked as programmer and QA test lead in a ..."

> Assumed leadership role in at least 2 projects, managed the whole team, and trained/mentored the new interns.
If you aren't sure of the exact number (why not?), cut the "at least." Also be ready to explain those 2.

> Increased productivity and reduced testing time, by automating testing procedures, fine tuning existing plans, developed new methodologies.
> Developed test plans, based on current requirements and specifications.
"developed new methodologies" sounds pretentious if you aren't a researcher in software engineering. I'd probably switch the order of these two points and rewrite the productivity one, including working in the status reports ("provided timely status reports"?)

> Created test status reports, and wrote documentation for several projects.
These shouldn't be mixed together even though they both involve writing. Make writing documentation its own sentence. Mention status reports as part of the other 2 testing points.

> Researched new technologies and developed a web based application for searching logs and generating reports.
Two different activities. I'd probably delete the first one since it 's vague and makes me wonder if it's mroe than just visiting DevX or reading MSDN. If you can explain it better then it might be owrth keeping.

> Maintain the institute?s UNIX web server/file server.
Maintained.

Hope that helps, if it seems brutal remember when you have 50 resumes to go through even one odd point can get your resume tossed into the don't-call pile.

 

[Soybomb]

I vote for pulling the objective, everyone knows what your objective is when they get your resume.

You said you code/test/debug in a windows c++ environment. Perhaps you can expound on that a little more with details of what tools you used in your work or something like that. More substance and less fluff would look better to me, be more specific. Instead of saying you managed the whole team, say you managed a team of 34 people or whatever. What did you use or do to automate the testing procedures?

 

[Pepsi90919]

it's meh.

 

[DougK62]

It's too plain - jazz it up a bit with some well-placed horizontal lines and different font sizes.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

OBJECTIVE

Interested in a software development or QA related position where 2 years of experience with programming and software testing will add value and quality.

Take out the "interested" part....sounds like you're just inquiring about and not seeking a position. The value and quality part is kind of cheesy

EDUCATION



Vice City University, Vice City, FL.

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science. Minor in MIS

Tell when your graduation was, put in GPA if over 3.0. Might want to list some courses, it depends

SKILLS

Java, C/C++, Perl/CGI, UNIX Shell Scripts and SQL. Working knowledge of Microsoft Windows 9X/2000/XP, UNIX/Linux, Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop and HTML.

If you're going to stress the 2 years of experience in your objective, skills & education should BOTH go under experience. How your resume is laid out depends on how you word your objective.

Oh, I didn't read your .DOC formatted one but don't use Word's resume template. Resume scanners don't pick up templates well. Do it all by hand