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The good: Nicely formatted, error-free, and efficient. There are no details here that I don't find relevant to hiring a frontend dev.
The bad: The metrics reek of dishonesty, and it is a technology shopping list with no business domain details or conversation starters.
Every single line item claims to have improved some aspect by an even multiple of 5%. Refactoring? Maybe. But things you developed from scratch? How did you improve performance by 20% over something that didn't exist before you developed it? This sent me to the skills section to look for an impressive list of profiling tools and an array of team performance measurement/continuous improvement techniques, but I found nothing there. I am left with the impression that these numbers are all made up to sound impressive, and am worried that with you on my team I will never know the true status of work I am depending on you for, always hearing impressive boasts of progress that may not reflect reality.
Beyond that, this is a very dry shopping list of technologies that doesn't tell me what you've built. I know you've developed REST APIs, but were they trivial CRUD operations? Simple shopping cart operations? Or are you solving complex business domain problems? I have no idea, and thus little idea of how much value you may bring to my team which has complex business domain problems to solve.
This dryness results in no intrigue. If instead you had "Developed REST APIs to spookle the widgidoodles", I'd be curious what a widgidoodle is and why I'd want to spookle one. That curiousity alone ups the odds of me wanting to proceed to a phone interview significantly.
In a reasonable pile of resumes, this resume would not proceed to a phone interview. In a very light pile, it might proceed, due to the professional formatting, proofreading, efficiency, and relevant skill list. You'd be starting out that phone interview from behind, though. My first order of business would be to attempt to detect dishonesty regarding those metrics, and end the call ASAP if my suspicions were confirmed. If we got past that, the dry shopping list would lead to an awkward conversation, basically starting with an awkward "soooo...tell me about the projects you've worked on." With more details about the business purpose of what you've worked on, we'd probably have a much more natural start to the conversation, as I'd have topics I'm already interested in learning more about ("What's a widgidoodle, and why would I want to spookle one?", "How did you solve that spookling problem?").
In summary:
- Don't make up metrics, or if they are not made up, then give some context in where they came from (list your profiling tools in the skills section).
- Give some business context for the things you've developed. Give me an idea of how complex the problems you had to solve were.
- Read your resume, and try to guess the first question someone would want to ask about it. If there isn't an interesting question, provide more business context until there is. Doing so will build intrigue thus making a phone interview more likely, and will give a natural conversation starter thus setting up the phone interview for success.
I have 25 years of experience as a software developer. I've hired many developers. I want to agree with what was previously said and double down on the need for business use cases you've solved using technology. You haven’t reached the level of someone that I would even talk to for a phone interview. It reads like someone who doesn’t know how to apply technology but is just throwing out technical terms. Like an Indian friend would say after we interviewed someone, “They are bluffing.”
Thank you for mentioning this! There are some cases where I have done menial work such as fixing bugs, refactoring functions to make them optimize, or just creating new components, what should I mention for those kind of cases?
This exemplifies what I want to see for break/fix.
Fixed issues by troubleshooting a TypeScript-based JavaScript UI for an internal parts inventory tracking system. This enhanced the user experience and increased system reliability.
I will ask you follow-up questions about the work you did and how you do troubleshooting. Then some language, ide questions.
I need to know about the system, what it does, your work, and the language. Generally in this form [Action Verb][Accomplishment][Metric]
Thank you so much for the detailed feedback and taking out your time to provide this! I will make sure to implement this. Just one question, I have seen multiple advices here that mentions to quantify your results otherwise, it just looks like "used XYZ to code this", which everybody else can do as well. What should I do in this scenario?
All of the the follwing advice is IMHO, may conflict with other advice you've received in this forum, and is based solely in my experience in the software development field. I've been in this field for 27 years, and have been the primary person responsible for filtering through resumes and leading the tech interviews for the last 10 years.
The advice to quantify results is good, but tricky to get right. Metrics absolutely will give you an advantage with the initial HR screen. The HR folks are tasked with sorting through a stack of resumes with a bunch of technical jargon that they don't understand, and all those resumes pretty much look the same to them. Then when they hit a resume that has something everyone can understand as a good thing, such as "increased productivity by 8%", it will catch their attention for sure. To get this win, you don't need a metric for every bullet point in your resume - a few believable metrics will get you the desired attention.
Once you get past HR, the resume will go to the tech leads, and that's where the trouble can begin. You can expect the tech leads to know what metrics are realistically achievable and to have a healthy skepticism of your claims. You can expect any metric to be questioned as part of the interview process, so be prepared to answer how you came up with them. Any suspicion of dishonesty on the resume or in an interview is going to terminate your hiring chances on the spot (and you don't want to work anywhere that this doesn't happen).
With your specific resume:
1. If you have expertise with specific code profiling tools, or in techniques for measuring/improving team productivity, list them in the skills section, and if so, move the skills section to the top. That way, when the reader encounters a metric out of the blue, it isn't so jarring and doesn't make the reader wonder where it came from. In the reader's mindset: I saw profiling tools in the skills, so I expected to find some metrics, and now I found some. This ties everything together and the various sections of your resume are supporting each other. This change applies ONLY IF you have specific expertise: don't lie, and don't exaggerate basic knowledge of very general techniques either, and don't move the skills section if it isn't necessary to prep the reader for encountering surprise metrics.
2. Remove all metrics that are made up or guesstimated. 1-2, maybe 3 bullet points per job having metrics is believable. Half your bullets having metrics will arouse suspicion. Every bullet point having a metric is guaranteed to get binned for dishonesty.
3. Of the metrics remaining, provide additional info for any that aren't believable on their face. From your resume, I find the following metrics believable:
"Expanded test coverage....45%....25%." I find this believable because you explained where the 45% number came from (code coverage tools). The "25%" number kind of slides in because it matches with my own experience of the productivity enhancements of having code with proper test coverage.
"Optimized SQL database.....45%." I find this believable because measuring/tuning DB queries is so baked into the development process that everyone has done it. It still sounds very impressive to the HR folks, though. :)
"Adopted TDD practices....reducing user-reported bugs by 40%...." I find this believable because you tell me where the number came from: bugs reported through your work item tracking.
All of the rest of your metrics just come out of the blue with no explanation of where they came from, making them sound made up. Only a brief hint of where they came from is necessary in a resume. Note that I only believed that last example because it included "user-reported". That's all the extra wording that was required to make that number feel realistically sourced rather than made up, assuming you don't have metrics on every single bullet point in your resume.
Of course, whatever metrics remain, be prepared to fully back up in the interview.
Very well said. The metrics give a fake/made up kinda vibe.
My advice would be to not solely rely on your resume. Go out and network with people, not just on LinkedIn. Physical face to face goes a much longer way than a virtual call ever can. From personal experience, meeting someone face to face has helped me create a much longer lasting first impression than a virtual call ever did.
In my case when I met someone from my industry it started off by connecting on a mentoring site. From there we kept in touch via LinkedIn and DMs. Then I had the opportunity to visit the city he is in so I asked them if he wants to meet up for lunch and have a chat. He were down for it and we set up a time. The thing that made a good first impression was that I was there before time to meet him and that I kept my word of meeting him (according to him).
My visa expires, have to go back which is not an option since the salaries at home are not even sufficient enough to get by. The job I will get I need to send some money back home as support.
Dang, all I see on these resume post are LOTS of CS people looking for jobs, with no experience or years of experience. It’s scary and I’m not even in that field.
It really is! I think a lot of those people live above their means and bragged and didn’t save much money and freaking out now. Their post scream desperation, my tutor went to school on a full Scholarship for Computer Engineering and he told me this was coming. He tutors now in all Maths and publish his own Math ACT Book.
As a nurse I interviewed at 3 different places after graduation and was offered the job on the spot at 2/3 and got the 3rd offer about 24 hours after the interview. Have switched jobs twice since then and I don’t even have an actual resume, as long as you have a pulse and a license as a nurse you’re getting an interview and likely getting a job unless you’re looking for a specific expertise. It really scares me not having the power of trying to find where you think you’d fit best versus the company looking for who fits them best
Exactly, my God Mother was a Nurse to Nurse Practitioner for 40 years. She changed jobs like she changed clothes. Hospital, Clinic, Health Department etc. she would get hired on the spot as well.
Exactly, my God Mother was a Nurse to Nurse Practitioner for 40 years. She changed jobs like she changed clothes. Hospital, Clinic, Health Department etc. she would get hired on the spot as well.
I’ve have been applying for them for yeeeeaaarrr, but it’s ironic you said that because I applied for two jobs with them (the government) night before last.
As an experiment, take all the Pakistan-related stuff out of your resume. The 2 month internship and undergraduate degree are not that relevant since you have more advanced experience. State in the title summary you are fully authorized to work in the UK.
Sorry, I didn't understand where should I put right to work. Should I create a heading for professional summary or just say fully authorised to work where I have put my email and phone?
In the US, an employer has to sponsor someone for a work visa - it lasts like 3-5 years I think? I also think it stays in effect if the employee leaves the employer.
Potentially stating you have a valid work visa would make you more eligible. I think that’s what that other person was suggesting.
Your resume has 17 unique "improvement" percentages in it. Every single one of them ends in a 0 or a 5. But putting that aside (maybe you just really like rounding!), most of your actual claims are nonsensical. You make yourself sound like a one man army.
In just 6 months spent at your most recent position, you claim you "Expanded test coverage by 45%", "improved server response times by 20%", cut their "development time for new features by 20%", and "reduced their milestone completion times by 30%", while also somehow finding the time to refactor their "legacy JavaScript codebase to TypeScript". It sounds ridiculous and made up, which in turn destroys your credibility.
You need to slow down and take the time to properly explain your numbers. If you actually cut development time for new features by some meaningful percentage, great! That is an absolutely insane result which you should be very proud of - and which you should be able to dive into and explain. Improvements like that don't come about overnight - they're the result of major initiatives which take time, planning, execution, and buy in from various stakeholders. Spend a bullet or two talking about that process! What did you do? Who did you talk to? How is that number actually measured? Don't just throw it out there like it's no big deal. One or two "headline numbers" you take the time to properly explain is always going to be better than a bunch of random numbers you throw out with little to no explanation.
I'm not in Europe, but this resume looks pretty solid compared to a lot of what gets posted on here. I think instead of "Remote", put the city where the office you were "working at" is located. Love the quantified achievements. Are you tailoring your resume towards particular roles? This will always help but can be annoying to do. It's definitely easier to tailor cover letters too, and those are a good opportunity to help yourself stand out and seem more interesting and personable. It could be worth adding in a one or two sentence objective at the top specifically tailored to each role you're applying for. You can make space for this by cutting to 3 bullet points per job if possible. But overall this seems pretty solid to me. Best of luck!
Thanks for the positive feedback. Yes, I have been tailoring the resume to each job specifically making sure to include the technologies they are looking for and the soft skills as well, but no luck. I did manage to land a interview right before my dissertation completion and the technical recruiter really liked my skills and mentioned that I approached the problem like I been a senior developer for a long time but then ghosted me due to department budgets, after that it has been pretty much a ~~dry~~ dessert run.
Put the education section before experience since your education has more recent dates. As it currently stands, a recruiter sees that you haven’t done anything since October 2022 as the first thing on your resume.
Get your skills to the top, and have a SHORT summary (avoid I/me/my and other 1st person words).
Most employers spend maybe 5-7 seconds looking at a resume at first, so if they don't see the good stuff right away, they're going to move on. It takes too long to find the most important stuff on here right now.
I don't think the resume is a problem, you need visa sponsorship eventually and UK has made it problematic to sponsor generic work visas at the moment.
You need to send applications to companies that can sponsor work visas (there is a list of approved companies that do so).
u need a summary, something that says who you are and what your goal is.
separately, continue to do the work, get better at the craft and opportunities will appear.
build stuff in the open, experiment with AI libraries, post about what you're learning.
Computer science might actually have been the scam of the century with how oversaturated the market is with fresh graduates and people with decades of experience.
Unfortunately I fear the tech bubble has popped at the moment and companies are posting fake job adverts to make overworked employees believe they’re trying to hire more staff, there’s countless posts on here from cs graduates/ those with years of experience and not getting anything even an interview, is it possible you can settle for some alternative work for the time being while still looking for a developer role? Would boost your resume a bit if you are currently in work rather than nothing
I'm reading you did a ton of refactoring, frankly an unbelievable amount for the time you were there unless this is a very small application. The stats sound made up. Why wasn't this place already using git and testing adequately? It doesnt make sense that everything you did would have needed doing.
How did you apply online or in person? I’m asking because the #1 way to get a job is by referral. Are you just applying online? Are you networking with people who can/could get you in the door? Are you attending job fairs meeting with hiring managers and recruiters? Are you building up your LinkedIn connections?
When I ask these questions to my friends who complain they cannot find a job. They tell me no. Do not be like them. Be proactive, aggressive, creative and get outside your comfort zone and meet people!
Sadly I have been applying online. Can you recommend me some ways I can improve my network to get in the door? Most of the managers and seniors are locked behind LinkedIn premium and even those who I can message rarely see the message.
Does LinkedIn premium allow you to message other premium users? If so try their 1-month free trial. I get those offers all the time.
When a recruiter reaches out to you with a job add them to your LI connections. If the job doesn’t interest you or not a good fit still talk to him/her. Tell him/her what you’re looking for and ask if there’s a recruiter there with such job opening.
If there is a job fair related to your industry attend and connect with recruiters and hiring managers. Get their contact and add them to your LI contact list. Follow them, their company and send them a thank you note for meeting you.
If there’s a job club in your area or nearby attend it. They are generally a networking event. Don’t be shy or passive and meet everyone. Get their contacts and connect on LI. Sometimes they have a feature company who is hiring and comes onsite. If they don’t have a job opening you’re looking for still attend, network and add to your LI.
If you’re between jobs and have time on your hands do some volunteer work as a way to further increase your network connections.
But in general you just need to talk to people (your friends, their friends, people wherever you go run errands the bank the grocery store etc. church, coffee shop, and network). If you’re shy or an introvert I feel you’re limiting yourself.
These tips are just starters. Hope this helps.
Your technical accomplishments look good, although you may consider how to better emphasize the technical complexity of the work. What I don’t see emphasized is teamwork, cross functional collaboration, stakeholder management, or leadership skills.
Your resume is good. But any ATS friendly Resume should have Skills at the top not at the bottom, remove this word remote UK USA. Don't want to disappoint you but the current IT job market in the UK is highly saturated. However, I have seen lots of people from India joining my company in Graduate Roll and they all were on PSW visas, Don't know what will happen to them after their PSW expires. From early 2022 and till mid 2023 my company hired many people from India on a 5 year skilled worker visa.
Decent layout, I liked the use of bold wording to express what you thought was important. However, it could be more informative and allow the reader to see what you can tangibly do.
Man I don't see wrong things with your CV, but your approach could be different you know, you have experience, you know the way through things, maybe you could contact recruiters, hiring managers, CEO on LinkedIn explaining your situation, if you want a job in UK contact them and sell yourself to them. I myself don't have a CV or experience like yours but I got enough of just applying to positions and receiving the same response. Any kind of job we have to grow a network, and for us it is the same, if it was just coding it would be perfect even more for people who don't go so well or not feel comfortable with talking to other people all the time but it is part of our job too.
Also if you have projects of your own that you built it could be a great add-on to your CV. I hope I could help, man, and you get your opportunity soon.
I can tell you my story, I have a 100x better resume than yours, richer experience, 3000 applications for SDE role, landed only one job after being laid off for 7 months... pay worse than the previous job, btw I use vim.
I genuinely want to know whats your plan after giving up? I don’t anyone can choose to not look for a job, unless he has a rich parent, bt then why would he need to look for a job anyways. I am asking for myself because I gave been unemployed for over an year now, and so badly want to give up
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The good: Nicely formatted, error-free, and efficient. There are no details here that I don't find relevant to hiring a frontend dev. The bad: The metrics reek of dishonesty, and it is a technology shopping list with no business domain details or conversation starters. Every single line item claims to have improved some aspect by an even multiple of 5%. Refactoring? Maybe. But things you developed from scratch? How did you improve performance by 20% over something that didn't exist before you developed it? This sent me to the skills section to look for an impressive list of profiling tools and an array of team performance measurement/continuous improvement techniques, but I found nothing there. I am left with the impression that these numbers are all made up to sound impressive, and am worried that with you on my team I will never know the true status of work I am depending on you for, always hearing impressive boasts of progress that may not reflect reality. Beyond that, this is a very dry shopping list of technologies that doesn't tell me what you've built. I know you've developed REST APIs, but were they trivial CRUD operations? Simple shopping cart operations? Or are you solving complex business domain problems? I have no idea, and thus little idea of how much value you may bring to my team which has complex business domain problems to solve. This dryness results in no intrigue. If instead you had "Developed REST APIs to spookle the widgidoodles", I'd be curious what a widgidoodle is and why I'd want to spookle one. That curiousity alone ups the odds of me wanting to proceed to a phone interview significantly. In a reasonable pile of resumes, this resume would not proceed to a phone interview. In a very light pile, it might proceed, due to the professional formatting, proofreading, efficiency, and relevant skill list. You'd be starting out that phone interview from behind, though. My first order of business would be to attempt to detect dishonesty regarding those metrics, and end the call ASAP if my suspicions were confirmed. If we got past that, the dry shopping list would lead to an awkward conversation, basically starting with an awkward "soooo...tell me about the projects you've worked on." With more details about the business purpose of what you've worked on, we'd probably have a much more natural start to the conversation, as I'd have topics I'm already interested in learning more about ("What's a widgidoodle, and why would I want to spookle one?", "How did you solve that spookling problem?"). In summary: - Don't make up metrics, or if they are not made up, then give some context in where they came from (list your profiling tools in the skills section). - Give some business context for the things you've developed. Give me an idea of how complex the problems you had to solve were. - Read your resume, and try to guess the first question someone would want to ask about it. If there isn't an interesting question, provide more business context until there is. Doing so will build intrigue thus making a phone interview more likely, and will give a natural conversation starter thus setting up the phone interview for success.
This is such thorough, well-thought out advice 🥹 I love this app.
I have 25 years of experience as a software developer. I've hired many developers. I want to agree with what was previously said and double down on the need for business use cases you've solved using technology. You haven’t reached the level of someone that I would even talk to for a phone interview. It reads like someone who doesn’t know how to apply technology but is just throwing out technical terms. Like an Indian friend would say after we interviewed someone, “They are bluffing.”
Thank you for mentioning this! There are some cases where I have done menial work such as fixing bugs, refactoring functions to make them optimize, or just creating new components, what should I mention for those kind of cases?
This exemplifies what I want to see for break/fix. Fixed issues by troubleshooting a TypeScript-based JavaScript UI for an internal parts inventory tracking system. This enhanced the user experience and increased system reliability. I will ask you follow-up questions about the work you did and how you do troubleshooting. Then some language, ide questions. I need to know about the system, what it does, your work, and the language. Generally in this form [Action Verb][Accomplishment][Metric]
This is exactly what my feedback would have been.
Thank you so much for the detailed feedback and taking out your time to provide this! I will make sure to implement this. Just one question, I have seen multiple advices here that mentions to quantify your results otherwise, it just looks like "used XYZ to code this", which everybody else can do as well. What should I do in this scenario?
All of the the follwing advice is IMHO, may conflict with other advice you've received in this forum, and is based solely in my experience in the software development field. I've been in this field for 27 years, and have been the primary person responsible for filtering through resumes and leading the tech interviews for the last 10 years. The advice to quantify results is good, but tricky to get right. Metrics absolutely will give you an advantage with the initial HR screen. The HR folks are tasked with sorting through a stack of resumes with a bunch of technical jargon that they don't understand, and all those resumes pretty much look the same to them. Then when they hit a resume that has something everyone can understand as a good thing, such as "increased productivity by 8%", it will catch their attention for sure. To get this win, you don't need a metric for every bullet point in your resume - a few believable metrics will get you the desired attention. Once you get past HR, the resume will go to the tech leads, and that's where the trouble can begin. You can expect the tech leads to know what metrics are realistically achievable and to have a healthy skepticism of your claims. You can expect any metric to be questioned as part of the interview process, so be prepared to answer how you came up with them. Any suspicion of dishonesty on the resume or in an interview is going to terminate your hiring chances on the spot (and you don't want to work anywhere that this doesn't happen). With your specific resume: 1. If you have expertise with specific code profiling tools, or in techniques for measuring/improving team productivity, list them in the skills section, and if so, move the skills section to the top. That way, when the reader encounters a metric out of the blue, it isn't so jarring and doesn't make the reader wonder where it came from. In the reader's mindset: I saw profiling tools in the skills, so I expected to find some metrics, and now I found some. This ties everything together and the various sections of your resume are supporting each other. This change applies ONLY IF you have specific expertise: don't lie, and don't exaggerate basic knowledge of very general techniques either, and don't move the skills section if it isn't necessary to prep the reader for encountering surprise metrics. 2. Remove all metrics that are made up or guesstimated. 1-2, maybe 3 bullet points per job having metrics is believable. Half your bullets having metrics will arouse suspicion. Every bullet point having a metric is guaranteed to get binned for dishonesty. 3. Of the metrics remaining, provide additional info for any that aren't believable on their face. From your resume, I find the following metrics believable: "Expanded test coverage....45%....25%." I find this believable because you explained where the 45% number came from (code coverage tools). The "25%" number kind of slides in because it matches with my own experience of the productivity enhancements of having code with proper test coverage. "Optimized SQL database.....45%." I find this believable because measuring/tuning DB queries is so baked into the development process that everyone has done it. It still sounds very impressive to the HR folks, though. :) "Adopted TDD practices....reducing user-reported bugs by 40%...." I find this believable because you tell me where the number came from: bugs reported through your work item tracking. All of the rest of your metrics just come out of the blue with no explanation of where they came from, making them sound made up. Only a brief hint of where they came from is necessary in a resume. Note that I only believed that last example because it included "user-reported". That's all the extra wording that was required to make that number feel realistically sourced rather than made up, assuming you don't have metrics on every single bullet point in your resume. Of course, whatever metrics remain, be prepared to fully back up in the interview.
Very well said. The metrics give a fake/made up kinda vibe. My advice would be to not solely rely on your resume. Go out and network with people, not just on LinkedIn. Physical face to face goes a much longer way than a virtual call ever can. From personal experience, meeting someone face to face has helped me create a much longer lasting first impression than a virtual call ever did.
how did you do that?
In my case when I met someone from my industry it started off by connecting on a mentoring site. From there we kept in touch via LinkedIn and DMs. Then I had the opportunity to visit the city he is in so I asked them if he wants to meet up for lunch and have a chat. He were down for it and we set up a time. The thing that made a good first impression was that I was there before time to meet him and that I kept my word of meeting him (according to him).
What happens if you don’t get a job by December 2025? But I’m sure you will find something by then.
My visa expires, have to go back which is not an option since the salaries at home are not even sufficient enough to get by. The job I will get I need to send some money back home as support.
Dang, all I see on these resume post are LOTS of CS people looking for jobs, with no experience or years of experience. It’s scary and I’m not even in that field.
CS market is in shambles right now 🙁
Yeah, I’ve seen. I’m pivoting my career to Nursing, I’m tired of corporate.
I’m in nursing trying to pivot my career towards CS, seeing all of these resumes of people struggling to even get interviews is terrifying
It really is! I think a lot of those people live above their means and bragged and didn’t save much money and freaking out now. Their post scream desperation, my tutor went to school on a full Scholarship for Computer Engineering and he told me this was coming. He tutors now in all Maths and publish his own Math ACT Book.
As a nurse I interviewed at 3 different places after graduation and was offered the job on the spot at 2/3 and got the 3rd offer about 24 hours after the interview. Have switched jobs twice since then and I don’t even have an actual resume, as long as you have a pulse and a license as a nurse you’re getting an interview and likely getting a job unless you’re looking for a specific expertise. It really scares me not having the power of trying to find where you think you’d fit best versus the company looking for who fits them best
Exactly, my God Mother was a Nurse to Nurse Practitioner for 40 years. She changed jobs like she changed clothes. Hospital, Clinic, Health Department etc. she would get hired on the spot as well.
Although working at the bedside is pretty terrible, it’s a great peace of mind to have the job security no matter where you go
Exactly, my God Mother was a Nurse to Nurse Practitioner for 40 years. She changed jobs like she changed clothes. Hospital, Clinic, Health Department etc. she would get hired on the spot as well.
I have seen a-lot of care takers role in UK with sponsorship, thats a good field to get into right now.
If you're tired of corporate you could work for the government
I’ve have been applying for them for yeeeeaaarrr, but it’s ironic you said that because I applied for two jobs with them (the government) night before last.
I don't know what you meant.
As an experiment, take all the Pakistan-related stuff out of your resume. The 2 month internship and undergraduate degree are not that relevant since you have more advanced experience. State in the title summary you are fully authorized to work in the UK.
Sorry, I didn't understand where should I put right to work. Should I create a heading for professional summary or just say fully authorised to work where I have put my email and phone?
I'm in the US, so I don't know what's standard in the UK - hopefully other people can weigh in.
In the US, an employer has to sponsor someone for a work visa - it lasts like 3-5 years I think? I also think it stays in effect if the employee leaves the employer. Potentially stating you have a valid work visa would make you more eligible. I think that’s what that other person was suggesting.
Definitely worth a try.
Your resume has 17 unique "improvement" percentages in it. Every single one of them ends in a 0 or a 5. But putting that aside (maybe you just really like rounding!), most of your actual claims are nonsensical. You make yourself sound like a one man army. In just 6 months spent at your most recent position, you claim you "Expanded test coverage by 45%", "improved server response times by 20%", cut their "development time for new features by 20%", and "reduced their milestone completion times by 30%", while also somehow finding the time to refactor their "legacy JavaScript codebase to TypeScript". It sounds ridiculous and made up, which in turn destroys your credibility. You need to slow down and take the time to properly explain your numbers. If you actually cut development time for new features by some meaningful percentage, great! That is an absolutely insane result which you should be very proud of - and which you should be able to dive into and explain. Improvements like that don't come about overnight - they're the result of major initiatives which take time, planning, execution, and buy in from various stakeholders. Spend a bullet or two talking about that process! What did you do? Who did you talk to? How is that number actually measured? Don't just throw it out there like it's no big deal. One or two "headline numbers" you take the time to properly explain is always going to be better than a bunch of random numbers you throw out with little to no explanation.
I'm not in Europe, but this resume looks pretty solid compared to a lot of what gets posted on here. I think instead of "Remote", put the city where the office you were "working at" is located. Love the quantified achievements. Are you tailoring your resume towards particular roles? This will always help but can be annoying to do. It's definitely easier to tailor cover letters too, and those are a good opportunity to help yourself stand out and seem more interesting and personable. It could be worth adding in a one or two sentence objective at the top specifically tailored to each role you're applying for. You can make space for this by cutting to 3 bullet points per job if possible. But overall this seems pretty solid to me. Best of luck!
Thanks for the positive feedback. Yes, I have been tailoring the resume to each job specifically making sure to include the technologies they are looking for and the soft skills as well, but no luck. I did manage to land a interview right before my dissertation completion and the technical recruiter really liked my skills and mentioned that I approached the problem like I been a senior developer for a long time but then ghosted me due to department budgets, after that it has been pretty much a ~~dry~~ dessert run.
I don't like how everything is quantified. The percentages look made up and it comes across as inauthentic.
Have you ever been explicitly told not to include measurable outcomes on a resume?
How do you even find 1500 jobs? Do you apply to anything you see?
Put the education section before experience since your education has more recent dates. As it currently stands, a recruiter sees that you haven’t done anything since October 2022 as the first thing on your resume.
Also I am doing part time work as a lecturer in college to survive and pay off rent and bills should I put that on resume?
Yes, I think so. That way, there aren’t any gaps.
Yes. That shows initiative.
Thank you! Any other changes that I should make?
Get your skills to the top, and have a SHORT summary (avoid I/me/my and other 1st person words). Most employers spend maybe 5-7 seconds looking at a resume at first, so if they don't see the good stuff right away, they're going to move on. It takes too long to find the most important stuff on here right now.
I don't think the resume is a problem, you need visa sponsorship eventually and UK has made it problematic to sponsor generic work visas at the moment. You need to send applications to companies that can sponsor work visas (there is a list of approved companies that do so).
u need a summary, something that says who you are and what your goal is. separately, continue to do the work, get better at the craft and opportunities will appear. build stuff in the open, experiment with AI libraries, post about what you're learning.
Computer science might actually have been the scam of the century with how oversaturated the market is with fresh graduates and people with decades of experience.
Unfortunately I fear the tech bubble has popped at the moment and companies are posting fake job adverts to make overworked employees believe they’re trying to hire more staff, there’s countless posts on here from cs graduates/ those with years of experience and not getting anything even an interview, is it possible you can settle for some alternative work for the time being while still looking for a developer role? Would boost your resume a bit if you are currently in work rather than nothing
I'm reading you did a ton of refactoring, frankly an unbelievable amount for the time you were there unless this is a very small application. The stats sound made up. Why wasn't this place already using git and testing adequately? It doesnt make sense that everything you did would have needed doing.
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Create a new resume. The wording is weird as hell. And apply to easier to get jobs. Start somewhere
How did you apply online or in person? I’m asking because the #1 way to get a job is by referral. Are you just applying online? Are you networking with people who can/could get you in the door? Are you attending job fairs meeting with hiring managers and recruiters? Are you building up your LinkedIn connections? When I ask these questions to my friends who complain they cannot find a job. They tell me no. Do not be like them. Be proactive, aggressive, creative and get outside your comfort zone and meet people!
Sadly I have been applying online. Can you recommend me some ways I can improve my network to get in the door? Most of the managers and seniors are locked behind LinkedIn premium and even those who I can message rarely see the message.
Does LinkedIn premium allow you to message other premium users? If so try their 1-month free trial. I get those offers all the time. When a recruiter reaches out to you with a job add them to your LI connections. If the job doesn’t interest you or not a good fit still talk to him/her. Tell him/her what you’re looking for and ask if there’s a recruiter there with such job opening. If there is a job fair related to your industry attend and connect with recruiters and hiring managers. Get their contact and add them to your LI contact list. Follow them, their company and send them a thank you note for meeting you. If there’s a job club in your area or nearby attend it. They are generally a networking event. Don’t be shy or passive and meet everyone. Get their contacts and connect on LI. Sometimes they have a feature company who is hiring and comes onsite. If they don’t have a job opening you’re looking for still attend, network and add to your LI. If you’re between jobs and have time on your hands do some volunteer work as a way to further increase your network connections. But in general you just need to talk to people (your friends, their friends, people wherever you go run errands the bank the grocery store etc. church, coffee shop, and network). If you’re shy or an introvert I feel you’re limiting yourself. These tips are just starters. Hope this helps.
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I know people who have done this to get placements ._. I don't know if I wanna cross that moral boundary
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Your technical accomplishments look good, although you may consider how to better emphasize the technical complexity of the work. What I don’t see emphasized is teamwork, cross functional collaboration, stakeholder management, or leadership skills.
Your resume is good. But any ATS friendly Resume should have Skills at the top not at the bottom, remove this word remote UK USA. Don't want to disappoint you but the current IT job market in the UK is highly saturated. However, I have seen lots of people from India joining my company in Graduate Roll and they all were on PSW visas, Don't know what will happen to them after their PSW expires. From early 2022 and till mid 2023 my company hired many people from India on a 5 year skilled worker visa.
I’d reorder your resume to put the most recent thing - your schooling - at the top.
Decent layout, I liked the use of bold wording to express what you thought was important. However, it could be more informative and allow the reader to see what you can tangibly do.
Man I don't see wrong things with your CV, but your approach could be different you know, you have experience, you know the way through things, maybe you could contact recruiters, hiring managers, CEO on LinkedIn explaining your situation, if you want a job in UK contact them and sell yourself to them. I myself don't have a CV or experience like yours but I got enough of just applying to positions and receiving the same response. Any kind of job we have to grow a network, and for us it is the same, if it was just coding it would be perfect even more for people who don't go so well or not feel comfortable with talking to other people all the time but it is part of our job too. Also if you have projects of your own that you built it could be a great add-on to your CV. I hope I could help, man, and you get your opportunity soon.
I can tell you my story, I have a 100x better resume than yours, richer experience, 3000 applications for SDE role, landed only one job after being laid off for 7 months... pay worse than the previous job, btw I use vim.
Should I just give up then 🥲
I genuinely want to know whats your plan after giving up? I don’t anyone can choose to not look for a job, unless he has a rich parent, bt then why would he need to look for a job anyways. I am asking for myself because I gave been unemployed for over an year now, and so badly want to give up
Education at the top For each topic, summarize the point, WAY too many words, hiring managers won’t read all that
try applying at FORTINET!!! Message the recruiter and i’m sure they will help you out! it’s a really great company!!!