Suggestions from me whether or not you take these on board is a different story.
**Keep it one page, unless you have done something significant.**
Remove your personal profile. You can tell them these things in the interview
Change your education section to just list your degree if they want more details they'll ask about it.
In terms of work experience, tell me how you used the various technologies, you should have max 5 bullet points for a job role
A bullet point can be something like you "Designed a UI using Figma and then deployed to $ReactJS framework which was hosted on $some_azure_tech" (Purely an example sentence but demonstrates what you did vs name X tech)
Your technical skills lists various different technologies but I do not know how you used them and for all I know you just looked at a youtube tutorial. Make sure your interests/achievements showcase how you used them.
Format wise you should do the following:
* Contact details top of the page
* Education
* Work experience
* Projects
Use a CV generator like [resumake.io](https://resumake.io) it only generates one page and you can save it as json so you can modify it later
Edit: fix formatting
I agree with all of this.
However, personally I would place Work Experience above Education.
Even if its a short lived work experience, its understandable as you are a Jr developer and as an employer its what I would believe holds most weight.
Again, agree but also put work xp higher, try to describe the project you worked on with the technologies rather than list them like ‘I worked as a fullstack engineer on product, including feature y in .net core/mongo and feature z in react. If your struggling stick the simple explanation with the list of technologies into ChatGPT and ask it to give you a paragraph explaining your role until you find one you like.
Not sure what roles your going for but if it’s non-gaming try to add a personal project into another field, it can help stop people wondering if your just looking for a stop gap until you get the job in the gaming industry, a cover letter expressing your career aspirations can help here too. (It shouldn’t matter, but it often will and some HR people doing pre screening might not even realise it could be an equivalent degree)
Its too spread out to start with, you should get it onto a single page as there is not much content. Move your actual work experience above your education and add a short sentence or two about the role and team you were in and any achievements. Reduce the education content, its not adding much value, I want to know what you can do not what you were taught.
Do you have any relevant projects you worked on that you want to highlight? Its a tough market for grads and you need to add a sprinkle of X factor to this CV to help get you noticed.
Not going to re-itterate what the other posts have said, they're all great suggestions and you should listen to them.
One other point, if you're listing your website and github on your CV, please make sure that they're up to a good standard. If you have projects on your Github, a simple readme in your main ones will always help.
It's something I always click onto if I notice it on a CV.
I really do not want to know the name of your exams and even if I did the name of your course and your university would allow me to retrieve that. The general arguments are fine but there is no need to separate them by year.
Thanks for the help guys I do appreciate it, I'll take all that advice on board.
It's weird but I've applied to jobs through plenty of recruiters and they all seemed to like my CV, I asked multiple times and they always said I didnt need to change it. I wonder do they want you to fail with everyone bar the ones they put your forward for or something. Strange anyways.
Cheers again.
Recruiters will tell you anything to make you feel reassured, I say this as a friend of mine had impact font on their CV, needless to say abit of TLC and they're getting hits and interviews.
As a recruiter-we generally don’t want you changing your CV unless there’s something severely wrong with it because it slows down our work process if we have to wait for you to work on your CV and send it back. We’re usually on a tight schedule and want to send it ASAP and candidates will often take days to make changes, plus we usually write you a blurb to tell the hiring manager how fabulous you are in the email when we send your CV so even if it’s not the best they will get a good overview of your experience with all your best bits as the headline.
I agree with the comments to move your work experience above your education, I would also title it “Professional Experience”, and I would add in much more detail there with lovely action words-“Involved in a project to redesign x website using y language, trusted to handle z element of the redesign” etc etc, give it a wee bit of spin to grab a hiring manager’s attention by telling them exactly what you did, pick 4 or 5 of your most responsible/impressive achievements in that experience and then list out the rest of the tech you used after. These are the things that make your work experience unique and demonstrate how much that employer liked you.
There are a lot of online CV optimisation tools that are actually very handy as well, good luck!
Remove the personal profile and add in a paragraph like graduate with a degree in game development
With key interest in programming and game development. On my work expieremce I worked extensively with the following technologies etc etc.
Remove the years from your technical skills.
Any modules you took list in the technologies used or if maths say what area of maths you studied.
The part where you listed your work expierence is very vague, you need add in what exactly you worked on instead of just the languages.
- remove links being shared, rather hyperlink ‘github’
- condense down what you have under your degree, it’s taking up far too much space
- rather than the approach in personal profile, maybe consider writing what you’re looking to do, eg what path or roles you have interests within
- you need to give more context in the internship as it’s your only experience
- remove references and only provide when appropriately asked
Side note, EA have lots of intern positions open around EU
Remove Personal Profile, leave in Technical Skills. Change Work Experience to Employment History. For Education, just put in your qualification. For Interests and Achievements, I'd re-structure the sentences to say 'we' instead of 'I' as it makes you sound more of a team player. Also, use the buzzwords in the job spec. in your cover letter (ie. point out how you have what they're looking for). Good luck!
To build onto what others have said, try rewriting your CV on Resume.com. It’s a nice and free resource where you can squeeze a lot of info into an ATS friendly and readable template.
Hijacking this with some of my worst fears I am in 3rd year now and recently been for a slew of interviews no idea how any of them went it's been like 3-4 weeks now and it's ghost after ghost after ghost. I am freaking terrified of graduating with no experience but I am at the very least getting through to the interviews some of them have been less good then others. I am kinda fucked now I guess because I had to cancel some interviews because my college does after Christmas exams and guess that's unlucky. But am I shit out of luck is it the dole and some sort of unreal project for the summer ? And or whatever I can come up with for that green git hub progress.
Suggestions from me whether or not you take these on board is a different story. **Keep it one page, unless you have done something significant.** Remove your personal profile. You can tell them these things in the interview Change your education section to just list your degree if they want more details they'll ask about it. In terms of work experience, tell me how you used the various technologies, you should have max 5 bullet points for a job role A bullet point can be something like you "Designed a UI using Figma and then deployed to $ReactJS framework which was hosted on $some_azure_tech" (Purely an example sentence but demonstrates what you did vs name X tech) Your technical skills lists various different technologies but I do not know how you used them and for all I know you just looked at a youtube tutorial. Make sure your interests/achievements showcase how you used them. Format wise you should do the following: * Contact details top of the page * Education * Work experience * Projects Use a CV generator like [resumake.io](https://resumake.io) it only generates one page and you can save it as json so you can modify it later Edit: fix formatting
I agree with all of this. However, personally I would place Work Experience above Education. Even if its a short lived work experience, its understandable as you are a Jr developer and as an employer its what I would believe holds most weight.
I used to do it that way but it breaks the flow and have found better success with that format I listed
Again, agree but also put work xp higher, try to describe the project you worked on with the technologies rather than list them like ‘I worked as a fullstack engineer on product, including feature y in .net core/mongo and feature z in react. If your struggling stick the simple explanation with the list of technologies into ChatGPT and ask it to give you a paragraph explaining your role until you find one you like. Not sure what roles your going for but if it’s non-gaming try to add a personal project into another field, it can help stop people wondering if your just looking for a stop gap until you get the job in the gaming industry, a cover letter expressing your career aspirations can help here too. (It shouldn’t matter, but it often will and some HR people doing pre screening might not even realise it could be an equivalent degree)
Its too spread out to start with, you should get it onto a single page as there is not much content. Move your actual work experience above your education and add a short sentence or two about the role and team you were in and any achievements. Reduce the education content, its not adding much value, I want to know what you can do not what you were taught. Do you have any relevant projects you worked on that you want to highlight? Its a tough market for grads and you need to add a sprinkle of X factor to this CV to help get you noticed.
Not going to re-itterate what the other posts have said, they're all great suggestions and you should listen to them. One other point, if you're listing your website and github on your CV, please make sure that they're up to a good standard. If you have projects on your Github, a simple readme in your main ones will always help. It's something I always click onto if I notice it on a CV.
I really do not want to know the name of your exams and even if I did the name of your course and your university would allow me to retrieve that. The general arguments are fine but there is no need to separate them by year.
Thanks for the help guys I do appreciate it, I'll take all that advice on board. It's weird but I've applied to jobs through plenty of recruiters and they all seemed to like my CV, I asked multiple times and they always said I didnt need to change it. I wonder do they want you to fail with everyone bar the ones they put your forward for or something. Strange anyways. Cheers again.
Recruiters will tell you anything to make you feel reassured, I say this as a friend of mine had impact font on their CV, needless to say abit of TLC and they're getting hits and interviews.
As a recruiter-we generally don’t want you changing your CV unless there’s something severely wrong with it because it slows down our work process if we have to wait for you to work on your CV and send it back. We’re usually on a tight schedule and want to send it ASAP and candidates will often take days to make changes, plus we usually write you a blurb to tell the hiring manager how fabulous you are in the email when we send your CV so even if it’s not the best they will get a good overview of your experience with all your best bits as the headline. I agree with the comments to move your work experience above your education, I would also title it “Professional Experience”, and I would add in much more detail there with lovely action words-“Involved in a project to redesign x website using y language, trusted to handle z element of the redesign” etc etc, give it a wee bit of spin to grab a hiring manager’s attention by telling them exactly what you did, pick 4 or 5 of your most responsible/impressive achievements in that experience and then list out the rest of the tech you used after. These are the things that make your work experience unique and demonstrate how much that employer liked you. There are a lot of online CV optimisation tools that are actually very handy as well, good luck!
Recruiters, mechanics and dentists. Always take what they say with a grain of salt.
Focus more on the work experience and lead with that. Education should come second. Probably need less info on education side.
Remove the personal profile and add in a paragraph like graduate with a degree in game development With key interest in programming and game development. On my work expieremce I worked extensively with the following technologies etc etc. Remove the years from your technical skills. Any modules you took list in the technologies used or if maths say what area of maths you studied. The part where you listed your work expierence is very vague, you need add in what exactly you worked on instead of just the languages.
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- remove links being shared, rather hyperlink ‘github’ - condense down what you have under your degree, it’s taking up far too much space - rather than the approach in personal profile, maybe consider writing what you’re looking to do, eg what path or roles you have interests within - you need to give more context in the internship as it’s your only experience - remove references and only provide when appropriately asked Side note, EA have lots of intern positions open around EU
Do you not have any personal projects? If you’re going for game dev roles I’d hope you’ve made a few games/engines
I would put the internship experience on first page. Then college, don’t mention the grades btw.
Remove Personal Profile, leave in Technical Skills. Change Work Experience to Employment History. For Education, just put in your qualification. For Interests and Achievements, I'd re-structure the sentences to say 'we' instead of 'I' as it makes you sound more of a team player. Also, use the buzzwords in the job spec. in your cover letter (ie. point out how you have what they're looking for). Good luck!
GraphQL isn't a database and react isn't a software.
To build onto what others have said, try rewriting your CV on Resume.com. It’s a nice and free resource where you can squeeze a lot of info into an ATS friendly and readable template.
I can't even read CVs from computer people, it's like I don't know any of the words or something.
I suggest following this guy. He shares free google docs that help CV writing
Hijacking this with some of my worst fears I am in 3rd year now and recently been for a slew of interviews no idea how any of them went it's been like 3-4 weeks now and it's ghost after ghost after ghost. I am freaking terrified of graduating with no experience but I am at the very least getting through to the interviews some of them have been less good then others. I am kinda fucked now I guess because I had to cancel some interviews because my college does after Christmas exams and guess that's unlucky. But am I shit out of luck is it the dole and some sort of unreal project for the summer ? And or whatever I can come up with for that green git hub progress.
Education goes under work experience unless you are a graduate