What to put on your resume if you have no real professional experience ?

[jinduy]

what should i put under experience if i never had a job/internship and am applying for something that pertains to the cs field? should i just put the courses i took? i did take some project courses... any suggestions on beefing up a shallow resume?

 

[SackOfAllTrades]

i rated you a 1

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: SackOfAllTrades
i rated you a 1

And I rated you a 1

 

[jinduy]

Originally posted by: SackOfAllTrades
i rated you a 1

thanks...?

 

[jinduy]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: SackOfAllTrades
i rated you a 1

And I rated you a 1

and i rated you a 1!!! :Q

 

[Jeff7181]

My rating is still higher than either of your's

 

[slydecix]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
My rating is still higher than either of your's

It's going lower... 1

 

[gopunk]

you should describe what you did in the most impressive course projects (don't just say what classes you've taken).

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Elitebull

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
My rating is still higher than either of your's

It's going lower... 1

People without ratings enabled shouldn't be able to rate others... ya turd

 

[Siddhartha]

Originally posted by: jinduy
what should i put under experience if i never had a job/internship and am applying for something that pertains to the cs field? should i just put the courses i took? i did take some project courses... any suggestions on beefing up a shallow resume?

Lie?

Nah

Have you done anything, projects, hobbies, volunteer work, etc that is even remotely related to the job you are seeking?

 

[jinduy]

Originally posted by: Dr Smooth

Originally posted by: jinduy
what should i put under experience if i never had a job/internship and am applying for something that pertains to the cs field? should i just put the courses i took? i did take some project courses... any suggestions on beefing up a shallow resume?

Lie?

Nah

Have you done anything, projects, hobbies, volunteer work, etc that is even remotely related to the job you are seeking?

I did just finish some senior project courses, i guess that this is all i can put for now... thnx

 

[Ness]

If you don't have professional experience then you have the challenge of making whatever job experience you did have sound impressive... like pointing out your work ethic (perfect attendance? rating on last review? Sales of the store?)

 

[DaviDaVinci]

Originally posted by: Elitebull

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
My rating is still higher than either of your's

It's going lower... 1

much lower....1

 

[bleeb]

Forget about applying... having no experience is like trying to date Jessica Alba... it ain't gonna happen.

 

[crumpet19]

and i gave all of you a one. bwahaha

 

[neilm]

You never even had part-time work?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Be honest. Do mention major school projects, and courses related to the position, but don't pad the listings. A short, to the point listing is more impressive than spending two paragraphs to describe your rental store database project.

I hope you're applying for an entry-level position, since a job description that says "experienced" means it.

 

[Hector13]

Originally posted by: ness1469
If you don't have professional experience then you have the challenge of making whatever job experience you did have sound impressive... like pointing out your work ethic (perfect attendance? rating on last review? Sales of the store?)

I wouldn't put down stuff like "perfect attendance" unless you are applying for like a clerk position.

If you don't have any job experience, don't put an "experience" section in your resume. Under your "education" section, you should list any relevant courses and big group projects that you worked on. If you are just graduating, no one is going to expect you to have a lot of experience.

 

[guapo337]

Originally posted by: bleeb
Forget about applying... having no experience is like trying to date Jessica Alba... it ain't gonna happen.

Oh so optimistic. If everyone had that attitude, nobody would have professional jobs in 20 years when the current generation retires.

 

[DT4K]

When I was graduating with my CS degree with no work experience, instead of an experience section, I put a section for academic projects. In that section, I listed several programs / databases I had built for things like Senior Capstone, Systems Analysis group project, etc. Since I had no work experience, I thought this at least showed that I did get some experience doing hands-on software development and that I could program.

Something like this, but maybe with more details:

Academic Software Projects
- Designed and implemented an object-relational database in Oracle 8i with a VB6 client
- Designed and implemented a VB6/Oracle 8i document management system that allowed users to submit, search for, and open documents.
- Built an Internet shopping cart application using ASP, VBScript and SQL Server.
- Developed video de-interlacing software for senior capstone project. Application was written in C in a Linux environment.

 

[jinduy]

Originally posted by: Shanti
When I was graduating with my CS degree with no work experience, instead of an experience section, I put a section for academic projects. In that section, I listed several programs / databases I had built for things like Senior Capstone, Systems Analysis group project, etc. Since I had no work experience, I thought this at least showed that I did get some experience doing hands-on software development and that I could program.

Something like this, but maybe with more details:

Academic Software Projects
- Designed and implemented an object-relational database in Oracle 8i with a VB6 client
- Designed and implemented a VB6/Oracle 8i document management system that allowed users to submit, search for, and open documents.
- Built an Internet shopping cart application using ASP, VBScript and SQL Server.
- Developed video de-interlacing software for senior capstone project. Application was written in C in a Linux environment.

thanks! this is a good idea!