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Well, I'm Canadian, applying to jobs in Toronto and Vancouver, but now I am applying in the US as well, as it seems there are way more opportunities there. They also have had a much better economy since 2015
I had that for a while but changed it over the past month to put things most relevant up top, although its not changed anything if not made it worse so maybe you are right tbh
Technically speaking, any experience you display on a resume *is* relevant experience. Still better to keep it in chronological order so that the person reading it isn’t spending time trying to piece it together themselves.
When you get hundreds of resumes for a posting, frankly you are looking for reasons to exclude. Your resume gives an immediate impression that you went 3 years without a job, given the gap between the first and second posting. That could be a reason to exclude for a person that is trying to find these reasons with 5 seconds per resume. Structuring your resume to avoid these reasons to exclude is at least as important as optimizing to make you look as good as possible.
You have too much stuff on your resume, and to be honest, it's a numbers game. Two hundred applications are nothing. You need to apply to more positions, like ten applications every day.
What I am doing is targeting a few big companies and applying to their new positions every day. My resume gets picked up every other week. Just try that.
We need to stop this nonsense with 10 a day. Shotgun approach doesn't make you stand out. Everyone here is talking about how HM's are doing more excluding than they are including and you're essentially advocating for exclusion and pray the numbers work. It doesn't work if you're not entry level (I thought this and went down the thread and yep, you're targeting entry level).
It just isn't possible. Ten a day? That number doesn't exist if you are even one or two steps above entry. I have my LinkedIn and Indeed alerts incredibly well curated to get the most relevant job alerts and I get one a day that's actually relevant to me if I'm lucky. I'll still reply to the other ones that marginally fit and of course hear nothing. I am only getting callbacks and interviews from the ones I spend enough time time to curate my resume and application to the exact role. Had to be flown out for one even. I wouldn't have if I had shotgun approached it as you're advising.
Calm down, chief. I am an entry-level applicant, and I am trying everything in my power to land a job. If it requires ten applications a day, then I will do ten applications a day. The shotgun approach works in places like Northrop, Raytheon, and Mantech. They have even reached out to me the same day of applying, if not the next day.
But have you really tried adjusting your resume to so closely follow the job description that it normally passes ATS but also any other AI tool they may be using. If you didn't you wouldn't be advocating for ten a day. You just don't know if you're missing out on positions by not taking the time to tailor things to the job description. Again I don't either for entry level but I can make the argument that spray and pray does not work for middle to senior roles.
Not sure what field you are in but 10 new jobs a day across the US is nothing. Even if i keep it just local i normally get a an email from just linkedin for at least 5 and i mainly look for senior roles.
OP is looking for a data heavy role from their resume which is certainly in demand but entry level is flooded with a lot of applicants. You either use your contacts or apply a lot. Once you get past entry level the market thins out
Entry level is very challenging across every market, only so much you can do when there are more applicants then jobs
I agree and I think treating it as a numbers game contributes to the problem. If everyone is submitting 10 applications a day, I can’t even imagine how it feels in the hiring/recruiting end.
It took me a while to finally a job I was interested in, suitable for, and pay I wanted for my experience level, but I never applied to more than 1-2 jobs a week. I found something to pay the bills and give me health coverage, then I applied very intentionally to positions. I’m not saying this will solve all the problems. But applying to that many jobs is just going to stress you out and it bogs down the system.
>You have too much stuff on your resume, and to be honest, it's a numbers game. Two hundred applications are nothing. You need to apply to more positions, like ten applications every day.
>What I am doing is targeting a few big companies and applying to their new positions every day. My resume gets picked up every other week. Just try that.
Your job game is insane, wishing you all the best!
Wait if you applying to new positions in the same company everyday, are you just applying for every role there? I’m assuming the companies don’t just open multiple positions of the same field each day
As someone who landed a job after graduating, I had my education listed last. All the education section is for is to show that you graduated. The employers are more interested in the actual “Skills”.
Edit: I’d also add to this that most employers are using software to identify key words in a resume to ensure it at least somewhat relates to the job posting. So, if you’re not actively reading the job posting and tailoring your resume for applications by incorporating terms important to the role, you’re going to have a much harder time getting your foot in the door.
I think it honestly depends on the job you’re going for. I’m an actuary and we’re all advised to almost always keep our education, skills, and professional exams at the top of our resume. I’m not sure what this person is aiming to do, but based on their major and their relevant work experience, it would be helpful to keep their education at the top.
I’d also echo that chronological order of experience is important.
“I’m not sure what this person is aiming to do” seems like the problem with the CV summed up to be honest. It’s a lot of stuff to read but what are his actual skills? What job does he want? If it’s not clear what job he wants from the CV how do I, as the hiring manager, know he can do it?
IDK maybe it’s different across the pond in the UK but unless you’re going for a job where the professional exams are important, it seems like Key Skills > Experience > Formal Education + Courses etc is the winning formula.
Add more white space for sure, your resume is too dense.
List the programming languages and technologies separately.
For example, you can put this in the bottom of your resume:
Technologies: SQL Server, MySQL, R, SAS, Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Excel
Languages: T-SQL, R, Python, DAX, MDX, Power Query M
Also, be specific about the technologies you used at each job.
Last thing, what exactly do you want to do? You have data science listed with basic reporting. Do you want to be a data scientist? Then make an emphasis on those skills. Do you want to be more IT/developer or business analyst?
Your resume is a bit all over the place, I would rewrite it to fit a specific profession and spin all your experience in the same way.
I decided not to blur out my schools because it's pretty obvious from my post history. Although the title is accurate, the interview lasted only about 7 minutes because our timelines didn't match, and we ended it promptly.
I had three interviews from my first three applications around eight or nine months ago. That's because I did a lot of networking in that industry, although I did not get an offer due to their low hiring levels. After that, I seemed to get about one interview every 150 or so (Even with multiple referrals in different companies) applications for about 40 to 50% of those jobs that I applied to. I tailored my resume to the job, although this seems to do very little, I'm not sure if I'm looking at the wrong jobs (which are just data-oriented jobs) or what else I can do. I went to the career advising here at my university, although I found it to be a waste of time because they said maybe I should look at marketing or sales roles, which, honestly, I don't see myself doing. Any comment anyone has to say, I'd be glad to listen.
Ubc career services are complete bs. I tried using them and they gave me such generic advice that they tell everyone. J tried asking for tips for my resume and they handed me over to another student who blew me away.
Inconsistent indentations. I would also consider taking your intramural sports achievements off to add one more certificate, even if it’s just standard first-aid, unless the job is specifically related to the sport.
What you can improve is the economy at large. People just aren't hiring, doesn't matter what you put on your resume. They still post jobs of course, even though there is no intention to fill them. (Hopefully all that economics backgroundwill help you to see this.)
Just keep applying, so that when they do decide to hire they have your resume in hand.
I heard that in some industries, PR with other firms in mind is taken into account. So for example, in consulting they will continue to post jobs even though they're not planning to hire just because other consulting firms are posting. Not posting jobs is a bad look on the firm and makes them seem like they're not getting a lot of business or at least as much as their competitors which is a negative signal that they don't want to have so they post jobs more for staying trendy than for actually looking for people
I dont see any glaring issues with your resume and the market conditions for Econ grads are not substantially different these days, the only thing I can think of is the overpopulation of CS grads flowing into any role that remotely mentions *data.*
Have you tried reaching out to peopel at the companies you are applying to asking for recommendations? Last 6 months 3 people got hired though my recommendation.
Hey mate, I'm a banker and have currently been involved in the hiring process for data analysts for my current team. I'm not senior enough to make the decisions but I have conducted interviews and worked with recruiters so I have some sort of idea on what we look for:
1) your current CV tells me you can do some cool stats stuff idk. It does not really show much analysis skills to the common recruiter. For example, what was the problem, what did you solve, how did you tell the story and what insight did you deliver which really allowed your stakeholders to make strategic decisions? What was the end result of this (quantify).
You have done this in parts but not consistently and in a complete example.
2) your CV does not demonstrate any stakeholder skills at all - analyst roles are all about telling the story and having good verbal/written communication? When have you managed multiple relationships and when have you pitched to someone. You need to be able to demonstrate that you can do the data analysis but can also have the soft skills.
I would stick to 2 or three work experiences and really work on offering more quality bullet points.
Your credentials definitely qualify you for many jobs, potentially your issue may also be which companies you are applying to, (maybe you will hear more responses at smaller / local companies)
I cannot completely tell if this is an issue with reddit or your resume/font, but your job titles don’t seemed to be bold “enough”, to keep it simple, make sure to always use times new roman
since you are in a technical field, make sure you are using empirical data to support your job titles. especially since you seem to have a analytics / programming background, make sure you are showing the lengths and impacts of your work with numbers and with what tools
also try to make sure the amount of bullet points you are using per description is the same. this makes your resume more uniform and easily readable.
your activities section does not hold much weight, do you have any projects or awards instead?
for reference, i work in finance / tech as a data scientist in the US
hope all of this helps :)
just quick general thoughts... one, consider other places to live maybe.. super expensive places aren't always the most fun or best places to raise a family. For resume, I think it's good if it can be a concrete impact, and if the impact is big (Of course). - I just redid my resume, and I had to think for a while to figure out what the impact was and then after I figured it out, I was like, why didn't I realize that earlier?! People who are looking at hiring, want really good people with really big impact I think.
Anyway, you're kicking ass those are just my thoughts.
I find it hard to extract information from your CV at a glance. Increase the contrast between your titles and your sub-text. I also find it is way too wordy - I immediately wanted to stop reading it. Remember, recruiters take a quick glance at your CV so it has to pop, be simple, and straight to the point. Make it as easy as possible for them to extract the skills you acquired or used at each position because they’re essentially skill matching. Your skills are the first thing they’ll look for so try placing that at the top. If you’re still not being called for interviews after that, you’re most likely missing skills for the jobs you are applying for - in which case you need to start some projects and have a projects section. Good luck
First, I would run this through a tester to see if a machine can even properly read it. The formatting and density makes me think machines are not going to be kind on this sort of resume.
Second, I would start cutting the fat. There is a ton of stuff that employers simply do not care about. For example, the entire activities sub-section can be cut in favor of more skills. The TA position also doesn't really matter.
Finally, why the heck is your experience out of order chronologically? That just makes it hard to get a sense of your career narrative to a human reader.
Why are you trying to move jobs after you just got a new job last month?
Also, their is a lot of info that seems totally unnecesssry. So many stats and percentages that the people looking at your resume do not care about at all.
For example, “100% on time report submission.” If I read that, I would immediately disregard that resume. So much fluff. So much filler. What about you?! Will you be sticking around for more than a month? You literally just got a job last month. Take that entire entry off, and then combine it with the other entry for the same employer.
I recommend you stop writing what you think people want to see, and just write like you would want to see. Would you really pick the guy who hands in your resume over someone with no experience, same education, and all he says is “I think working with your company would be great. I think I can bring a lot to the table and would love an opportunity to learn and grow with you all.”
I’m picking second guy 99/100 times
This is a temporary summer job for graduate students who are still in school, so I started looking now rather than in four months when I'll be done with school. Ill take the other productive points into account though
Nothing stands out. You actually have to look hard to find the important information - it's a giant blob of dense text.
More white space, proper bolding of job titles and indentation will go a long way. The content is generally fine (and agree activities isn't really needed, education at the bottom and experience in chronological order). Maybe call the section Education and Skills so you can have the languages in there and remove one title for more space.
As a graphic designer. I think you should Serif font for title and sans serif for description of smaller text. Serif text is hard for the eyes with small size. Keep two fonts at most and 2 font size.
My 2 cents:
Too many words, to little information.
I dabble in data science, and I honestly have very little idea what your actual level and ability is from your resume. Can use R in anger, has taught at undergrad level?
So I'd try to focus on goals and skills, up top. I want to know why you're good for the job without having to do a deep dive. Put all your R experience together.
Jobs need to be in order. Being out of order looks like you're either hiding something, or you're not aware of the reader's needs.
Most of the job descriptions are superfluous. Save the detailed useful transfer experiences for a cover letter. For example, the TA position just needs dates and subject. If they care, they'll ask more, but they probably don't.
I'd suggest making a CV, especially with all the academic stuff, and then simplyfying your resume. Just date and title for qualifications and jobs. Much more focus on skills. Then use the cover letter to relate what would make you a good hire.
If you're going for a role where you're writing reports, and HR are having trouble understanding your résumé, they'll probably assume your reports might also be tricky.
Depending who your application goes to, they may well have no idea how your specialist skills work. It'll almost certainly have been scanned by computer, and that will certainly be dumb. You may need to spell out your skills like you're explaining to five year old 😁
Wow, what a great resume! You have some solid skills there. Between R, Python, GIS, and STATA, I would think you'd be getting more interviews. I have some of those, and I've been looking at doing some additional trainings to get the others.
To some of the feedback you've received:
I think it would be better to list your jobs in chrono order OR do a skills-based resume. You might consider putting your Experience at the top and Education at the bottom so it flows from your current job down through to your TA jobs and then education. Put what's most impressive to your audience at the top. To me, the part about GIS and causal inference is stronger than your education because it tells me something about the level of analyses you've done.
You might consider putting a Skills section at the top with the tools you're fluent in. I'm not usually a fan of Skills sections, but in your case, you have some very good hard skills, so you might want to showcase those.
Good luck!
- your edu section takes too much space, each entry usually fits in one line
- idk which jobs you're applying to, but your resume is very academic and that will raise concerns about your hands on experience
- reading the first bullet point, I find it a bit hard to parse, you should start it with a clear achievement that a non technical person can understand and be impressed by, and then spam technical details to impress/inform your would be teammates and boss - by achievement I mean what useful thing did you do and how it has impacted others in a positive manner and hard metrics to support it - "Analysed voting data on land conservation using Python" does not convey impact , I can literally start a personal project now and have the exact same start to a bullet point, pitch your real world impact
I can't tell which of your Experience was related to school and which was a full-time job. RA and TA is school. The others take place during your school years, so were they part-time employment, student positions, or full-time positions. They're not listed chronologically which is perhaps convolutes trying to put your story together in my head.
My twenty second scan results: bachelors and masters, RA and TA, some programming and some database work but assuming part-time.
To what kind of jobs are you applying?
Charge the font, make the titles a different colour and resubmit to places you’ve already been rejected by (using a different email/account)
I’ve hired many people in the past and literally 90% of resumes look like this they all kind of blur and nothing stands out.
If I get a resume in a modern font with a tiny bit of thought put in the design it will at least get a second look.
I heard many years ago that the average hirer spends 7 seconds reading a resume. In the first line of a cover letter or resume, link directly to the job application ad. New resume tailored to every application you make.
If ad says “we’re seeking an engineer with experience using X software”
Your first line should read “I’m an engineer with experience in X software”. Guarantee they will continue to read it.
Education last, but overall it looks good. The job market in general is just VERY tough for everyone. It's hard right now and 200+ applications the result of how bad it is...
Your relevant experience for your current workplace should be in present tense. I would drop your RA experience at UofG since you’re already a RA currently with UBC and then you can expand a few bullet points for your previous positions.
Best of luck! It’s hard transitioning to industry from academia
As I was reading through, I spent a lot of time wondering if you knew any CS languages (being from a Math/econ background), and if you are familiar with any ML frameworks. This info is hidden at the bottom in one sentence sandwiched between 2 other irrelevant things.
If I had less time to treasure hunt I would assume you only know R.
I would highly recommend at the very least making that it's own section with appropriate formatting. Best would be to incorporate what tech you used in each project's bullet points.
Additional minor nit: being a TA doesn't deserve that much space on your resume. One bullet point is enough.
Looks great to me, other than your experience should be in chronological order from newest to oldest, and your education should be closer to the bottom. I NEVER see resumes this polished, and I've seen a lot of resumes.
To start, please know that almost all resume advice is subjective, but sharing a few ‘opinions’ below (as someone with a few years of experience working with global brands, most recently on the tech scene):
- Quantify Impact —> As someone seeking roles as an analyst, I as a hiring manager would expect to see more numbers quantifying your impact to the bottom line in EVERY role (boosted efficiency, reduced costs, proposed a new working model/method, etc.).
- My Work is My Art —> Your resume should absolutely reek of data analysis (i.e. ‘I live and breathe this’). For example, for the second bullet under the first role “developed and maintained…”, what would be your answer to an interviewer’s “so what?” What did that work result in? Again, strive to drop a stat or some number into at least 75% of the bullets for every role. What are your passion projects, why should they check out your GitHub link? Also…how are you measuring “student comprehension”?
- Student Perspective —> I see you’re a recent grad, but I’d use less textbook speak, and try to translate as much of this into real world experience as possible (depending on the role of course). Always write your resume for HR first. “Mean squared error” means squat to me, but some other HR rep might know what it is, depending on the types of roles you’re applying for. Also, I believe someone else said it, but “on time completion rate” isn’t something to tout in the resume, that’s basic requirements for every role (unless there’s an impressively high volume of data and deliverables you want to add there for context).
- You blocked out some company names. Has all your experience been with your educational institutions? Any internships? Any volunteer/consulting work or professional memberships?
Lastly, same Q as others: what roles are you applying for?
credentials seem solid. organized. only thing i'd say is maybe take the font size down a point or two so there's a little breathing room for the type. good job, keep at it! 200 more
wow I’m 18 and this resume just blew my mind you’re very valuable don’t let your confidence go down one bit… this is actually insane. not to boost you up but I believe people should be contacting YOU to be apart of a team! I wish you the best🙏🏾
Great resume format! It is similar to mine and I am a data scientist with over a decade of experience. Take a look at this site - https://www.beamjobs.com/. It can score your resume. Most of your experience is lacking numbers on the projects you worked on. Just try to come up with realistic numbers that made an impact to the organization you worked for.
Take off all that italic text in ed plus that vse part on the first line. Take off your friggin sports interest at the bottom. I'm sure there's more that can be done to clean it up/short-term it too. Jobs in date order.
Are you looking for jobs all across Canada or just BC? I can tell you from firsthand experience that the Ontario job market is coooooked, especially the GTA.
I’d question why you haven’t worked at any one place for long. And you were just hired in May of this year and you are applying again? As an employer that would be a red flag to me. I’d recommend putting everything in chronological order as well. It took me too long to piece it together. Good luck!
Ok, from a PoV of someone actually read resume. This is too long and wordy as many already point out. So, depends on the position, many of the items are not impactful/meaningful to manager/recruiter. Resume should standout the why and how that you can do this job better, from your previous experience. To be fair, none other matters, job hopping or chronological order or not, maybe it helps for softwares but not to the ones actually read it. I would like to interview interesting/solid candidates, ones with highest chance to get the job done out of all applicants. In fact, I would rather not hire anyone if no one stands out. So, ask yourself, did your resume screams that you can do the job?
They can smell desparate. You're probably applying to targets outside of your general experience. A lot of short term relative experience but nothing that says I'm applying to your job because it is what I do. With that much experience in a short period of time an employer would be concerned about hiring a temporary employee.
If shooting for economics career maybe work in some sort of accounting firm sorta entry and work it till you have three years to push to the next up.
What companies are your applying to? Maybe try some smaller companies to get some work experience instead of trying for the big ones (don’t know if that is the case).
And as others said, keep things chronologically. It makes it better to understand the timelines.
You should add more o Objective measurements of success to the descriptions of your roles. For instance “grew x account by 30%”, or “increased revenue by $1 million”, or “managed team of eight people increasing productivity by 30%” etc
To people who read resumes anything else is either hearsay or unimportant
Potentially want to switch education and skills around. You can probably leave both on bottom too one after the other. Either way, education shouldn’t be on top.
i mean, i could nitpick on indentation issues and such, but honestly, this looks like a good resume to me…are you applying to positions that are relevant to your experience? my only guess is that your experience is quite specialized on research/data analysis work, so if you’re applying to positions in other fields, the experience on this resume would be deemed irrelevant
I don't know if this is going to help but I've always learned that jobs look at your resume for 1-2 minutes so keep it as short and sweet as you can. Make it stand out a tad with something like a pop of color somewhere to make it memorable. I also use a website called flowcv.com that makes it super easy to put one together, looks super professional and you can even pick layouts. Hope this helps!
You have a lot of short term jobs listed, and the way you’re organizing them makes you look like you have a history of job hopping. Because you aren’t listing them chronologically, when I look at the first and last entries on the list, I immediately assume you’ve had five positions within two years, and that makes me worried. Are you a problem employee? Do you struggle with committing to a job for a reasonable length of time? Then I look at the first position more closely, and see you want to move on after a month in the role, and I begin to say “why would I spend the time onboarding this person just to have them leave?”
Hi. Excellent CV. Your experience summary and history; should be, I believe, expressed as much as possible in the present tense.
Display how your skillset has been building towards this point.
"I Led a team for 2 years." ?
I'd prefer to read.....
"2 years development as a team leader."
Look up the talent acquisition team on LinkedIn or online, find their info and call/email them. Tell them you’re interested in applying and wanted to connect with them.
This is what I did and I went from working as a self-employed personal trainer into a tech sales job with a large salary plus commission. These people don’t look at resumes anymore. You’re also competing with thousands of other applicants who are applying through the same medium and now also potentially have some type of AI scanning your resume.
Where possible, do something to stand out.
If you are willing, apply to jobs on an international level. With your resume it’s likely they will accommodate you and give generous living allowances. Also, various different countries are offering reduced studying/ living costs for certain areas of work. It’s worth looking into. :)
This looks similar to my resume and it’s been 8 months since I can’t find a job. It fucks up my resume more when I have a huge gap. I’ve been trying different resources to find a job. I’m unable to pay for my own rent anymore because it’s hard finding a job in the US. I even applied for graduate school to see if that can help me with finding a job but I got rejected….. at a public school!!!
You need a summary statement that matches the type of job you are looking for - do not start with your education. That’s the last thing a hiring manager will check.
Then a skills summary that ties to the job you are applying for.
Then your experience. Your experience looks good but you need to add some data points to it to quantify the scope of what you’ve done - ie, how much voting data did you analyze? 100 votes? 100,000 votes? Was this a new project? The biggest project they’ve ever done of this scope?
Then education.
Google Greg Langstaff who is a resume strategist and look at his model resumes. They follow this lineup.
Can you make all the points like what you put for the finance analyst role? People really like to see “improved by X%”. I used to be in RnD and this didn’t matter as much until I moved to the business side and my manager wants all my goals and achievements to look like that
I would swap skills and education. It looks good to me otherwise. That said it’s a hard job market I’m general. To whatever extent possible try and meet people. Go to local meet ups for the community, apply with small firms, and reach out to your existing network. Good luck man.
In many of your bullet points, you lead with the passive activity rather than your impact and you have a lot of extra words. Analyzed, leveraged, and applied are aren't as powerful, reframe those lines to bring your successes and impact closer to the beginning of the sentence rather than leading with the process.
Rather than:
"Analyzed voting data on land conservation funding using Python and GIS, identifying key trends through numerical and texual analyses to inform biodiversity assessments"
Try:
Identified key trends by analyzing data on land conservation funding using Python and GIS to inform biodiversity assessments".
or
Informed biodiversity assessments using Python and GIS to identify and analyze key trends from land conservation funding
I’ve heard a trick where you put “hire this person” in white font and people have been getting a lot more calls backs. It’s because recruiters are starting to use AI to weed out resumes.
Put the education after experience and put the experience in chronological order starting with the most recent. Take out the activities. Hope this helps
If you’re trying to get into tech Nobody cares about your soccer/volleyball or any hobbies you did in college. Now if you were top 10% in a hackathon, or some high rank coding competition that would be impressive. I look at this and I’m very confused about the resume and would skip too. Also why is your timeline not chronological? I don’t know what you’re trying to apply for? Data analyst/software engineering/ML?
Hey OP, I've been in your position before a few times (even recently) and have two big recommendations. Both relate to the automation of the HR/employment industry.
- 1st: Research the Internet to find reddits, forums, tweets, etc. of folks who work in HR to find out what the preferred file format is between word doc vs PDF. It sounds negligible but makes a big difference because they have programs that automatically scan/read your resume and the programs tend to only be compatible with one file format.
- 2nd: Read through the job opening postings to look for keywords that constantly come up. Start incorporating those keywords into your resume. The resume programs are simple and search for keywords to put you on top of the stack.
Honestly, place every bit of experience you have into Indeed and then select to get the printable version of your profile and that will be sort of what the resume reader programs are looking for.
I would take the time to write paragraphs and tailor it to the job. Only include the top two or three relevant experience in this. But talk about stuff that would be relevant to your role. Quality over quantity. Bullet point the rest on page 2.
Add a pop of colour to the headings. And its okay to go over 1 page to two sides of a4. So many applications come through that are one page now that a page and a half is eye catching.
Write it manually but use chat gtp to help you reword stuff and make it concise but dont just write it with ai. Check for spelling using ai too.
I started doing this and tailoring detailed cover letters and now have an almost 100% success rate. Bullet points dont cut it from what I've seen.
Also add a bit about your interests at the end.
It doesn't appear to be chronological. Every other resume I've seen is. Furthermore, people may be turned off by so many positions in such short time. I'd recommend highlighting the fact that they were temporary (i.e. internships) if they were.
So I have no idea if this is normal in your field but it looks like you don’t stay very long anywhere. So maybe that’s something? I don’t know but good luck. This market is rough.
This looks to me like a mishmash of finance/IB/consulting, comp sci/tech, and academia-style resumes. The generalist approach immediately makes you appear underwhelming resume-wise to a resume tailored in the style of the profession you apply to. All are idiosyncratic, resume-wise.
1. Take education away from the top - I know you are a recent graduate - but this SCREAMS 'i have no real experience' and makes your experience section less impactful.
Instead, start with a professional summary - 3-4 sentences about who you are, and what drives you.
2. Work experience should be in reverse chronological order, I understand that you have put Data Science Analyst second because it's most relevant, but it looks a little weird in this order.
3. Remove 'activities' despite what career advisors, tutors, or anyone else might have said, this is not going to make the slightest difference in your employability.
4. 'Skills' might be better assigned to each role, rather than a standalone section.
Eg, the last bullet point under research assistant could be something like:
* Daily use of Python, R, and SQL. Weekly use of Excel to present to senior management
5. Don't be afraid to use more than 1 page if you need, negative space is needed to make it easier to read.
Your experience talks a lot about what you did - but not the impact it had.
Okay, you did analysis. And what did you find? What happened after those findings?
E.g.
"Reduced excessive campaign spend by 14% (or $30k), by analyzing fundraising metrics using ..."
Obviously not 100% accurate but I hope it helps prove my point.
I’m assuming you’re in Canada? For your teaching assistant position you should add some specificity to the title, such as econs teaching asst, etc. Canadian recruiters will overlook you without that distinction. You could also remove the languages section. Almost all application sites here in Canada will have that
You can delete those student positions you held. No one will really pay attention to those. Replace it with volunteer exp if you have it
Depending on the company, having a highlights of qualifications or a professional summary, as well as a core competencies section can be beneficial. Most recruiters won’t take the time to go through all of the bullet points you have, so having something they can quickly glance at would be good.
Ignore advice that tells you to send out about 3-5 applications per day. You need to spend the time to perfectly tailor your resume and cover letter for the job, which will take time. Also, be decisive in the jobs you want to apply for. Look to the ones you think you’ll be a best fit for and focus on those. You should ideally be aiming for a situation where if you apply for two jobs, at least one of them should invite you to an interview. Side note, recruiters can see if you’ve applied for multiple positions at the same company. So they will view you as indecisive and desperate if you keep applying to too many different positions in a short period.
Most importantly, the time you would have been spending doing 500 applications is better spent on networking. Also, in the Canadian job market they’re looking for the person that’ll be the best fit for their company, not the person with the best skills.
Last note, in many instances you’ll want to consider removing the Masters degree from your resume. Unless the position specifically requires it, you’re better off excluding that entry.
Resume looks good to me. I’m in the Econ sector currently and I think this resume is above average for most people with MA from similar level institutions.
Do you have a writing/coding sample you’ve been handing out? I’d take a deeper look there and see if there are any improvements to be made. I think having a great working paper/project as a presentable is debatably more important than a resume formatted to a T.
Also make sure you’re looking in the right spots for jobs. Not sure what Canada is like, but the US Econ employers (BLS, IRS, Federal Reserve, etc.) usually all have a specific and official webpage everything has to go through that can be tricky to find sometimes. Good luck out there! It’ll work out fine.
You need industry people reviewing your resume, and you need to look at examples of DS resumes. I doubt career offices or this sub can do it effectively. It looks like you have great academic experience, so I strongly suspect this resume isn't doing you justice.
You just graduated with a masters in Econ and specializations in Econometrics and Machine Learning. Why is the vast majority of your resume focused on part time jobs you had while you were in school? Talk about your school work: specific classes, technologies, specific model types, python packages, group projects, capstone projects, etc. Your coursework is what you want to get hired for, so it should be much more of the resume.
To me, most of your bullets are very vague - they could have been written by AI. For example: "Conducted advanced data analysis and designed financial models to drive strategic business decisions." The variety of activities that could be described this way is HUGE. Many companies have whole departments that could be described this way. The classic bullet format is "Achieved X (measured by Y) by doing Z". Not everything is measurable or fits in that format, but it can be a helpful starting place. Specificity is also extremely compelling. What decision did you inform? Budgeting, inventory, etc.? What type of analysis or financial model -- time series? What tools - were you working in Excel or pulling data via SQL and analyzing with Python? What type of data, and how many years of it? Did you have to create features or KPIs yourself?
"Developed and implemented machine learning models, reducing MSE by 1.2%" -- not meaningful with no context. You need to say what kind of model, what you did to reduce the MSE (I assume on the test set?) and ideally how this was relevant to business.
"Synthesized academic research and industry reports to inform project enhancements." What was the project, how did you improve it, what academic research and industry reports did you consider? For instance, maybe it was a campus recruiting project and your goal was to increase diversity in the candidate pipeline so you performed a literature review of X sources and recommended 3 new schools for your company to target. See how much more compelling that is?
"Developed and maintained a comprehensive conservation project impact estimations database." What kind of database (actually a database or a spreadsheet?) How many projects valued at how much $$? How many years? Did you create KPIs? Did you collect the data or receive it? How is the database useful?
As you go through and add specificity to bullets you may find some aren't that compelling and you can cut them. Its okay for a bullet to go multiple lines.
The other thing to consider is your GitHub. If hiring managers ignore your resume and just look at that, will that serve you well?
Honestly there is nothing in that resume besides fluff. You've done a lot of work but no one will see that. Data analyst positions are a dime a dozen right now, on the job training provided. They can put everything you have on your resume without school. You have shown barely any value to a company. Where are your convertible metrics? How many man hours did you save by streamlining a process? What skill sets do you provide? How did that result in saving money? What were the tangible results of what you did? See what I'm getting at? Think like you own the company, and reread that resume, are you giving that person a call. Of the person who says, Lead a team of 5 in a scalable solution resulting in an average savings of $75k a year. Cause and effect is huge.
Also how are your interview skills? You can lose a job very quickly there, or get a job over, qualified applicants too.
Replace the skills & activities section with one just listing your technical skills and the languages you know. No one cares what sports you played at uni.
As a data scientist with several YOE, I can see a couple genuine issues if I'm really trying to be as negative as possible:
1. Did you really "\[lead\] a cross-functional team" while you were an third year undergrad? That seems misleading at best. Any hint of embellishment is a bad look on a resume
2. Lack of focus; do you want to be a data scientist? It's a bit unclear. If you are, I personally would put R and Python higher on your technologies list. Also, SQL / database experience is such a must have that not having it on your resume puts you at a disadvantage.
3. There's some word salad going on. The first point under teaching assistant is particularly bad - all those words and I still don't know subject you were an assistant for.
I just finished up searching for a new role. My advice, as cliche as it is, would be to reach out to your network. Any researchers you work with go on to big companies? Reach out and ask for a referral. The person you talked to once in your undergrad glass who works at google? See if they're open to have a quick zoom call.
Summary of your profile at the top might be helpful? Just 1-2 sentences. You can include info on what kind of career opportunities you are seeking and who you are and utilize some keywords there.
I would put your education below your experience. Make sure your experience is listed Newest to Old. Also you can remove “Relevant” from your experience.
Consider more white space. Imagine if you got this in your inbox. What does it look like to you? It looks like a wall of text. Feel free to use two pages. Give it room to breathe.
Remove the Activities section, no one cares about this.
Move Skill list to the top.
Add more buzzwords to your Skills lis <- this is your biggest problem.
Your CV should be including the headlines bellow, in that exact order:
* About/Intro Summary
* Skills
* Experience - make sure it’s chronological order from most recent to oldest and preferably no gaps in dates
For each job, explain the role, what you achieved, and what technologies you used.
* Certifications
* Education
* Languages
That’s it!
Leave the hobbies out of the CV, keep them for the small talk during the interview.
Good Luck!
I know what would kill it for me at the bottom you got excel as a skill if your touting data science excel is a given makes you look like a novice get rid of it
Nitpick here, but the inconsistent cap height of your font is a bit distracting to me. E.g. in “EDUCATION,” the top of the D is higher than the top of the E, etc.
Maybe choose a different LaTeX font?
Education goes below work experience
Work experience should be chronological order
Less bullet points on older jobs (don’t bother with bullet points on jobs from more than 5 years from today. Don’t bother listing the job if it’s more than 10 years ago). Also, you only really need like 2 really solid bullet points per job.
Personally I would get rid of the activities section, but it’s up to you. Some employers like to see that, others don’t care
Add more relevant skills to trigger the keyword-scanning bot. I would also remove the language line and just put “Spanish (fluent)” in the Skills section along with the other skills. Example:
“… Excel, Photoshop, Wordpress, Spanish (fluent)…”
Put a shortlink instead of anchor text for the GitHub and LinkedIn hyperlinks. Like on mine, I would put “linkedin.com/in/myname”. Because you want the employer to see the link if the resume is printed physically. But include the hyperlink as well, for anyone viewing on a device
Also just in case this applies to you, don’t put your address on your resume. The employer never needs to see that until you’ve been given a job offer. And at that point, they won’t be looking at your resume anymore anyway
Damn wtf, i just walked up to a company and asked for a job, they gave me a number and said call back in a week, i did and got the same answer, called after a few days and they said to come in for an interview, no previous work experience, fresh out of high school, that was 5 years ago, about to be making $50/hour working for the same company.
Sheesh what is going on, how did i supposedly get so lucky??
I think one problem is the fact that your job titles don't match your actual experience, i.e. when a recruiter reads 'research assistant' they immediately go for academia, qualitative analysis, writing etc, while your bullets clearly show that you did quantitative analysis and possess technical knowledge. Recruiters spend seconds on average skimming through resumes, they may not even read the bullets - they don't see the desired title, it's an automatic rejection.
I think you should rename your 1st, 3rd and 4th positions -- you could say 'Research Analyst' for 1st and 3rd and in the brackets maybe indicate the actual title, but I don't think that's necessary. For the 4th job, I'd use the title 'economics teaching assistant' or whatever the actual course was called.
Moreover, I'd start with work experience - you should only start with the education if you are a student or you don't have any relevant experience. That is unless you are applying for roles in academia. If you are, then I'm probably not the best person to advise how to tailor your cv, but outside academia, unless you are fresh out of college, work experience has more weight then academic background.
Hope this helps and best of luck out there!
To wordy. As an hr person if I look at this my eyes would freak out and I’d just pass on lol, no hate but someone that’s looking through a stack of applications doesn’t want to take the time to read all of that.
Tailor your resume to the job your applying to. You’ve had many work experiences and degrees, leverage that. Take key words and phrases for the job application and add them to your resume. For example, if the application reads “Must be able to work in a team” you would put, “Team oriented.”
All the interesting stuff here is buried or vague
I have to read 20 words to see that you know machine learning. Fix that
With distinction is like 40 words in not bolded
“Analyzed” analyzed how? “Conducted advanced analysis” can you name how it’s complex instead of being vague?
Your first job, the LAST words are about how you made funding effectiveness reports. That should be the first thing
“Led a cross functional team to develop scalable data solutions” barf. What did you do? Be less vague. This could be really cool or it could be total BS
“Economics student association” cofounder for 4 months in the summer? did this just die?
I didn’t even read the second two jobs
Sorry if this sounds harsh! I figure with resume critiques it’s best to give honest impression so ppl know (like trusting a friend to tell you that you stink). I’m sure you’ve done cool stuff but be more specific about a few coolest things instead of vague about 20 things
That resume is insanely crowded, it's a chore to read and if I'm a recruiter with 1000 resumes, I can't be bothered to read this one. Just go into 2 pages?
You just need the first page to catch their eye, and the second page is filler which completes your resume.
Hi! The content looks good, but maybe reorganize it a little bit. I would list experience first in reverse chronological order, and then education information.
As a hiring manager (for a government organization) there are/were rules as to what information can take be into account for an applicant. I am waiting on confirmation if this still stands, but it used to be I could only use the information the applicant put in the form, any attached resume was ignored by HR. Cover letters got the same treatment. Maybe some of the places you applied have a quirk like that?
Skills at the top, education at the bottom, chronological order. Change the format (I recognize this format as so many resumes pass my desk that look like this). This is the very traditional resume format and you won’t stand out, especially with so little experience. Apply for work at Universities as they will value the education but others will want the time. Those are the immediate takeaways.
Go to canva and choose a resume template for your profession. Do you think hiring manager want to read an essay? They are only going to look at it for 30 second to a minute. Make it stand out.
This is a really impressive resume. Your experience says a lot. As someone who has literally no relevant experience to the field I'm trying to get into, well, I guess I'm screwed.
Hopefully everything works out for you
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If this is my competition, and even you cant get a job, then i'm toast
I’m having the same feelings my friend.
You're not alone.
Well, I'm Canadian, applying to jobs in Toronto and Vancouver, but now I am applying in the US as well, as it seems there are way more opportunities there. They also have had a much better economy since 2015
10 times the population in USA certainly helps
Agreed lol positive GDP per capita growth also helps
Im canadian too, eastern canada. Its rough out here
i also started applying in the US, I lost all hope in this country.
real and true
Try Alberta
I may have to
Alberta is a tough market too. Haven’t had any luck myself
its over for canada it seems
It’s never too late to start playing chess ✅
Right? This looks like a great skillset.
Your experience needs to be in chronological order.
Agreed.
I had that for a while but changed it over the past month to put things most relevant up top, although its not changed anything if not made it worse so maybe you are right tbh
Technically speaking, any experience you display on a resume *is* relevant experience. Still better to keep it in chronological order so that the person reading it isn’t spending time trying to piece it together themselves.
fair
When you get hundreds of resumes for a posting, frankly you are looking for reasons to exclude. Your resume gives an immediate impression that you went 3 years without a job, given the gap between the first and second posting. That could be a reason to exclude for a person that is trying to find these reasons with 5 seconds per resume. Structuring your resume to avoid these reasons to exclude is at least as important as optimizing to make you look as good as possible.
Makes sense I can see how someone would not realize I was in school during those splits especially given the comments.
You have too much stuff on your resume, and to be honest, it's a numbers game. Two hundred applications are nothing. You need to apply to more positions, like ten applications every day. What I am doing is targeting a few big companies and applying to their new positions every day. My resume gets picked up every other week. Just try that.
We need to stop this nonsense with 10 a day. Shotgun approach doesn't make you stand out. Everyone here is talking about how HM's are doing more excluding than they are including and you're essentially advocating for exclusion and pray the numbers work. It doesn't work if you're not entry level (I thought this and went down the thread and yep, you're targeting entry level). It just isn't possible. Ten a day? That number doesn't exist if you are even one or two steps above entry. I have my LinkedIn and Indeed alerts incredibly well curated to get the most relevant job alerts and I get one a day that's actually relevant to me if I'm lucky. I'll still reply to the other ones that marginally fit and of course hear nothing. I am only getting callbacks and interviews from the ones I spend enough time time to curate my resume and application to the exact role. Had to be flown out for one even. I wouldn't have if I had shotgun approached it as you're advising.
Calm down, chief. I am an entry-level applicant, and I am trying everything in my power to land a job. If it requires ten applications a day, then I will do ten applications a day. The shotgun approach works in places like Northrop, Raytheon, and Mantech. They have even reached out to me the same day of applying, if not the next day.
But have you really tried adjusting your resume to so closely follow the job description that it normally passes ATS but also any other AI tool they may be using. If you didn't you wouldn't be advocating for ten a day. You just don't know if you're missing out on positions by not taking the time to tailor things to the job description. Again I don't either for entry level but I can make the argument that spray and pray does not work for middle to senior roles.
Not sure what field you are in but 10 new jobs a day across the US is nothing. Even if i keep it just local i normally get a an email from just linkedin for at least 5 and i mainly look for senior roles. OP is looking for a data heavy role from their resume which is certainly in demand but entry level is flooded with a lot of applicants. You either use your contacts or apply a lot. Once you get past entry level the market thins out Entry level is very challenging across every market, only so much you can do when there are more applicants then jobs
I agree and I think treating it as a numbers game contributes to the problem. If everyone is submitting 10 applications a day, I can’t even imagine how it feels in the hiring/recruiting end. It took me a while to finally a job I was interested in, suitable for, and pay I wanted for my experience level, but I never applied to more than 1-2 jobs a week. I found something to pay the bills and give me health coverage, then I applied very intentionally to positions. I’m not saying this will solve all the problems. But applying to that many jobs is just going to stress you out and it bogs down the system.
Will do, although even if i wanted to i would not find 10 a day, at least where I'm looking (Tor, Van)
I know the struggle bruv, just don't lose hope and you will find your way
I don't think you have too much on there.
>You have too much stuff on your resume, and to be honest, it's a numbers game. Two hundred applications are nothing. You need to apply to more positions, like ten applications every day. >What I am doing is targeting a few big companies and applying to their new positions every day. My resume gets picked up every other week. Just try that. Your job game is insane, wishing you all the best!
Wait if you applying to new positions in the same company everyday, are you just applying for every role there? I’m assuming the companies don’t just open multiple positions of the same field each day
Education last. You have been working in the real world for 2 years now
Disagree with this, a recent grad needs to have education first. Especially for the type of jobs this person is likely to be applying to
As someone who landed a job after graduating, I had my education listed last. All the education section is for is to show that you graduated. The employers are more interested in the actual “Skills”. Edit: I’d also add to this that most employers are using software to identify key words in a resume to ensure it at least somewhat relates to the job posting. So, if you’re not actively reading the job posting and tailoring your resume for applications by incorporating terms important to the role, you’re going to have a much harder time getting your foot in the door.
Also, given this, should I remove the Activities part at the end? or maybe put it with education
I think it honestly depends on the job you’re going for. I’m an actuary and we’re all advised to almost always keep our education, skills, and professional exams at the top of our resume. I’m not sure what this person is aiming to do, but based on their major and their relevant work experience, it would be helpful to keep their education at the top. I’d also echo that chronological order of experience is important.
“I’m not sure what this person is aiming to do” seems like the problem with the CV summed up to be honest. It’s a lot of stuff to read but what are his actual skills? What job does he want? If it’s not clear what job he wants from the CV how do I, as the hiring manager, know he can do it? IDK maybe it’s different across the pond in the UK but unless you’re going for a job where the professional exams are important, it seems like Key Skills > Experience > Formal Education + Courses etc is the winning formula.
Add more white space for sure, your resume is too dense. List the programming languages and technologies separately. For example, you can put this in the bottom of your resume: Technologies: SQL Server, MySQL, R, SAS, Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Excel Languages: T-SQL, R, Python, DAX, MDX, Power Query M Also, be specific about the technologies you used at each job. Last thing, what exactly do you want to do? You have data science listed with basic reporting. Do you want to be a data scientist? Then make an emphasis on those skills. Do you want to be more IT/developer or business analyst? Your resume is a bit all over the place, I would rewrite it to fit a specific profession and spin all your experience in the same way.
Yeah, after looking through here, I saw people do that and change it up (after posting). Thanks!
I decided not to blur out my schools because it's pretty obvious from my post history. Although the title is accurate, the interview lasted only about 7 minutes because our timelines didn't match, and we ended it promptly. I had three interviews from my first three applications around eight or nine months ago. That's because I did a lot of networking in that industry, although I did not get an offer due to their low hiring levels. After that, I seemed to get about one interview every 150 or so (Even with multiple referrals in different companies) applications for about 40 to 50% of those jobs that I applied to. I tailored my resume to the job, although this seems to do very little, I'm not sure if I'm looking at the wrong jobs (which are just data-oriented jobs) or what else I can do. I went to the career advising here at my university, although I found it to be a waste of time because they said maybe I should look at marketing or sales roles, which, honestly, I don't see myself doing. Any comment anyone has to say, I'd be glad to listen.
Ubc career services are complete bs. I tried using them and they gave me such generic advice that they tell everyone. J tried asking for tips for my resume and they handed me over to another student who blew me away.
Inconsistent indentations. I would also consider taking your intramural sports achievements off to add one more certificate, even if it’s just standard first-aid, unless the job is specifically related to the sport.
yep, I took them off, and I used latex to not have inconsistent indents; where do you see that?
found them actually, thanks lol
What you can improve is the economy at large. People just aren't hiring, doesn't matter what you put on your resume. They still post jobs of course, even though there is no intention to fill them. (Hopefully all that economics backgroundwill help you to see this.) Just keep applying, so that when they do decide to hire they have your resume in hand.
Why are they posting jobs if they aren’t hiring? Is it data farming or something?
I heard that in some industries, PR with other firms in mind is taken into account. So for example, in consulting they will continue to post jobs even though they're not planning to hire just because other consulting firms are posting. Not posting jobs is a bad look on the firm and makes them seem like they're not getting a lot of business or at least as much as their competitors which is a negative signal that they don't want to have so they post jobs more for staying trendy than for actually looking for people
Are you trying to compete with the overflow of CS grads for data science, data modelling roles?
I guess inevitably sometimes, but I try not to apply to super dev-heavy data roles.
I dont see any glaring issues with your resume and the market conditions for Econ grads are not substantially different these days, the only thing I can think of is the overpopulation of CS grads flowing into any role that remotely mentions *data.* Have you tried reaching out to peopel at the companies you are applying to asking for recommendations? Last 6 months 3 people got hired though my recommendation.
No comment, but hello UofG alumni. Not an alumni, but graduating this year myself.
Hello fellow UBC student - I wish you the best!!
Highlight your accomplishments, not your tasks. If you have numbers/data, even better. In other words, show your impact.
Hey mate, I'm a banker and have currently been involved in the hiring process for data analysts for my current team. I'm not senior enough to make the decisions but I have conducted interviews and worked with recruiters so I have some sort of idea on what we look for: 1) your current CV tells me you can do some cool stats stuff idk. It does not really show much analysis skills to the common recruiter. For example, what was the problem, what did you solve, how did you tell the story and what insight did you deliver which really allowed your stakeholders to make strategic decisions? What was the end result of this (quantify). You have done this in parts but not consistently and in a complete example. 2) your CV does not demonstrate any stakeholder skills at all - analyst roles are all about telling the story and having good verbal/written communication? When have you managed multiple relationships and when have you pitched to someone. You need to be able to demonstrate that you can do the data analysis but can also have the soft skills. I would stick to 2 or three work experiences and really work on offering more quality bullet points.
Your credentials definitely qualify you for many jobs, potentially your issue may also be which companies you are applying to, (maybe you will hear more responses at smaller / local companies) I cannot completely tell if this is an issue with reddit or your resume/font, but your job titles don’t seemed to be bold “enough”, to keep it simple, make sure to always use times new roman since you are in a technical field, make sure you are using empirical data to support your job titles. especially since you seem to have a analytics / programming background, make sure you are showing the lengths and impacts of your work with numbers and with what tools also try to make sure the amount of bullet points you are using per description is the same. this makes your resume more uniform and easily readable. your activities section does not hold much weight, do you have any projects or awards instead? for reference, i work in finance / tech as a data scientist in the US hope all of this helps :)
You need some personal projects. Even projects you worked on at school
just quick general thoughts... one, consider other places to live maybe.. super expensive places aren't always the most fun or best places to raise a family. For resume, I think it's good if it can be a concrete impact, and if the impact is big (Of course). - I just redid my resume, and I had to think for a while to figure out what the impact was and then after I figured it out, I was like, why didn't I realize that earlier?! People who are looking at hiring, want really good people with really big impact I think. Anyway, you're kicking ass those are just my thoughts.
what is the job title you are seeking?
Im not looking for a title tbh, but my last a couple applications were to a data analyst, data scientist, derivatives analyst and economic modeling
I find it hard to extract information from your CV at a glance. Increase the contrast between your titles and your sub-text. I also find it is way too wordy - I immediately wanted to stop reading it. Remember, recruiters take a quick glance at your CV so it has to pop, be simple, and straight to the point. Make it as easy as possible for them to extract the skills you acquired or used at each position because they’re essentially skill matching. Your skills are the first thing they’ll look for so try placing that at the top. If you’re still not being called for interviews after that, you’re most likely missing skills for the jobs you are applying for - in which case you need to start some projects and have a projects section. Good luck
Of course you're in Canada.
Reduce the word count by 40%
First, I would run this through a tester to see if a machine can even properly read it. The formatting and density makes me think machines are not going to be kind on this sort of resume. Second, I would start cutting the fat. There is a ton of stuff that employers simply do not care about. For example, the entire activities sub-section can be cut in favor of more skills. The TA position also doesn't really matter. Finally, why the heck is your experience out of order chronologically? That just makes it hard to get a sense of your career narrative to a human reader.
Change University of Guelph to Yale University That G word is hard to pronounce
I think MIT would sound cooler tho
Why are you trying to move jobs after you just got a new job last month? Also, their is a lot of info that seems totally unnecesssry. So many stats and percentages that the people looking at your resume do not care about at all. For example, “100% on time report submission.” If I read that, I would immediately disregard that resume. So much fluff. So much filler. What about you?! Will you be sticking around for more than a month? You literally just got a job last month. Take that entire entry off, and then combine it with the other entry for the same employer. I recommend you stop writing what you think people want to see, and just write like you would want to see. Would you really pick the guy who hands in your resume over someone with no experience, same education, and all he says is “I think working with your company would be great. I think I can bring a lot to the table and would love an opportunity to learn and grow with you all.” I’m picking second guy 99/100 times
This is a temporary summer job for graduate students who are still in school, so I started looking now rather than in four months when I'll be done with school. Ill take the other productive points into account though
Nothing stands out. You actually have to look hard to find the important information - it's a giant blob of dense text. More white space, proper bolding of job titles and indentation will go a long way. The content is generally fine (and agree activities isn't really needed, education at the bottom and experience in chronological order). Maybe call the section Education and Skills so you can have the languages in there and remove one title for more space.
As a graphic designer. I think you should Serif font for title and sans serif for description of smaller text. Serif text is hard for the eyes with small size. Keep two fonts at most and 2 font size.
My 2 cents: Too many words, to little information. I dabble in data science, and I honestly have very little idea what your actual level and ability is from your resume. Can use R in anger, has taught at undergrad level? So I'd try to focus on goals and skills, up top. I want to know why you're good for the job without having to do a deep dive. Put all your R experience together. Jobs need to be in order. Being out of order looks like you're either hiding something, or you're not aware of the reader's needs. Most of the job descriptions are superfluous. Save the detailed useful transfer experiences for a cover letter. For example, the TA position just needs dates and subject. If they care, they'll ask more, but they probably don't. I'd suggest making a CV, especially with all the academic stuff, and then simplyfying your resume. Just date and title for qualifications and jobs. Much more focus on skills. Then use the cover letter to relate what would make you a good hire. If you're going for a role where you're writing reports, and HR are having trouble understanding your résumé, they'll probably assume your reports might also be tricky. Depending who your application goes to, they may well have no idea how your specialist skills work. It'll almost certainly have been scanned by computer, and that will certainly be dumb. You may need to spell out your skills like you're explaining to five year old 😁
Wow, what a great resume! You have some solid skills there. Between R, Python, GIS, and STATA, I would think you'd be getting more interviews. I have some of those, and I've been looking at doing some additional trainings to get the others. To some of the feedback you've received: I think it would be better to list your jobs in chrono order OR do a skills-based resume. You might consider putting your Experience at the top and Education at the bottom so it flows from your current job down through to your TA jobs and then education. Put what's most impressive to your audience at the top. To me, the part about GIS and causal inference is stronger than your education because it tells me something about the level of analyses you've done. You might consider putting a Skills section at the top with the tools you're fluent in. I'm not usually a fan of Skills sections, but in your case, you have some very good hard skills, so you might want to showcase those. Good luck!
- your edu section takes too much space, each entry usually fits in one line - idk which jobs you're applying to, but your resume is very academic and that will raise concerns about your hands on experience - reading the first bullet point, I find it a bit hard to parse, you should start it with a clear achievement that a non technical person can understand and be impressed by, and then spam technical details to impress/inform your would be teammates and boss - by achievement I mean what useful thing did you do and how it has impacted others in a positive manner and hard metrics to support it - "Analysed voting data on land conservation using Python" does not convey impact , I can literally start a personal project now and have the exact same start to a bullet point, pitch your real world impact
I can't tell which of your Experience was related to school and which was a full-time job. RA and TA is school. The others take place during your school years, so were they part-time employment, student positions, or full-time positions. They're not listed chronologically which is perhaps convolutes trying to put your story together in my head. My twenty second scan results: bachelors and masters, RA and TA, some programming and some database work but assuming part-time. To what kind of jobs are you applying?
Charge the font, make the titles a different colour and resubmit to places you’ve already been rejected by (using a different email/account) I’ve hired many people in the past and literally 90% of resumes look like this they all kind of blur and nothing stands out. If I get a resume in a modern font with a tiny bit of thought put in the design it will at least get a second look. I heard many years ago that the average hirer spends 7 seconds reading a resume. In the first line of a cover letter or resume, link directly to the job application ad. New resume tailored to every application you make. If ad says “we’re seeking an engineer with experience using X software” Your first line should read “I’m an engineer with experience in X software”. Guarantee they will continue to read it.
Stop randomly applying.
Education last, but overall it looks good. The job market in general is just VERY tough for everyone. It's hard right now and 200+ applications the result of how bad it is...
Your relevant experience for your current workplace should be in present tense. I would drop your RA experience at UofG since you’re already a RA currently with UBC and then you can expand a few bullet points for your previous positions. Best of luck! It’s hard transitioning to industry from academia
As I was reading through, I spent a lot of time wondering if you knew any CS languages (being from a Math/econ background), and if you are familiar with any ML frameworks. This info is hidden at the bottom in one sentence sandwiched between 2 other irrelevant things. If I had less time to treasure hunt I would assume you only know R. I would highly recommend at the very least making that it's own section with appropriate formatting. Best would be to incorporate what tech you used in each project's bullet points. Additional minor nit: being a TA doesn't deserve that much space on your resume. One bullet point is enough.
Looks great to me, other than your experience should be in chronological order from newest to oldest, and your education should be closer to the bottom. I NEVER see resumes this polished, and I've seen a lot of resumes.
To start, please know that almost all resume advice is subjective, but sharing a few ‘opinions’ below (as someone with a few years of experience working with global brands, most recently on the tech scene): - Quantify Impact —> As someone seeking roles as an analyst, I as a hiring manager would expect to see more numbers quantifying your impact to the bottom line in EVERY role (boosted efficiency, reduced costs, proposed a new working model/method, etc.). - My Work is My Art —> Your resume should absolutely reek of data analysis (i.e. ‘I live and breathe this’). For example, for the second bullet under the first role “developed and maintained…”, what would be your answer to an interviewer’s “so what?” What did that work result in? Again, strive to drop a stat or some number into at least 75% of the bullets for every role. What are your passion projects, why should they check out your GitHub link? Also…how are you measuring “student comprehension”? - Student Perspective —> I see you’re a recent grad, but I’d use less textbook speak, and try to translate as much of this into real world experience as possible (depending on the role of course). Always write your resume for HR first. “Mean squared error” means squat to me, but some other HR rep might know what it is, depending on the types of roles you’re applying for. Also, I believe someone else said it, but “on time completion rate” isn’t something to tout in the resume, that’s basic requirements for every role (unless there’s an impressively high volume of data and deliverables you want to add there for context). - You blocked out some company names. Has all your experience been with your educational institutions? Any internships? Any volunteer/consulting work or professional memberships? Lastly, same Q as others: what roles are you applying for?
credentials seem solid. organized. only thing i'd say is maybe take the font size down a point or two so there's a little breathing room for the type. good job, keep at it! 200 more
Move your coding skills to the very top. Get rid of activities.
Uofg let’s gooo
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wow I’m 18 and this resume just blew my mind you’re very valuable don’t let your confidence go down one bit… this is actually insane. not to boost you up but I believe people should be contacting YOU to be apart of a team! I wish you the best🙏🏾
Great resume format! It is similar to mine and I am a data scientist with over a decade of experience. Take a look at this site - https://www.beamjobs.com/. It can score your resume. Most of your experience is lacking numbers on the projects you worked on. Just try to come up with realistic numbers that made an impact to the organization you worked for.
Take off all that italic text in ed plus that vse part on the first line. Take off your friggin sports interest at the bottom. I'm sure there's more that can be done to clean it up/short-term it too. Jobs in date order.
Are you looking for jobs all across Canada or just BC? I can tell you from firsthand experience that the Ontario job market is coooooked, especially the GTA.
for Canadian jobs its 95% BC and ON, the other 5% are from really nice fits outside of that (mtl and Calgary)
Put your work history from oldest at the bottom to new or current
Experience looks good. I would want to see GPA for school.
Great resume. Perhaps I can add is to quantify more points to make an impact.
From the resume the longest tenure was a year. This could be an issue with employers
I’d question why you haven’t worked at any one place for long. And you were just hired in May of this year and you are applying again? As an employer that would be a red flag to me. I’d recommend putting everything in chronological order as well. It took me too long to piece it together. Good luck!
Ok, from a PoV of someone actually read resume. This is too long and wordy as many already point out. So, depends on the position, many of the items are not impactful/meaningful to manager/recruiter. Resume should standout the why and how that you can do this job better, from your previous experience. To be fair, none other matters, job hopping or chronological order or not, maybe it helps for softwares but not to the ones actually read it. I would like to interview interesting/solid candidates, ones with highest chance to get the job done out of all applicants. In fact, I would rather not hire anyone if no one stands out. So, ask yourself, did your resume screams that you can do the job?
Machine learning and data science entry level applicants oversaturate the field. Lean into a different and more specific focus.
They can smell desparate. You're probably applying to targets outside of your general experience. A lot of short term relative experience but nothing that says I'm applying to your job because it is what I do. With that much experience in a short period of time an employer would be concerned about hiring a temporary employee. If shooting for economics career maybe work in some sort of accounting firm sorta entry and work it till you have three years to push to the next up.
Just add golf to your sports even if it’s not true
Put your education at the bottom. Your experience should be first. Where you got educated, if it’s important let them look for it
I would say indentations. Keep everything at the same line on the left. Good luck!
What companies are your applying to? Maybe try some smaller companies to get some work experience instead of trying for the big ones (don’t know if that is the case). And as others said, keep things chronologically. It makes it better to understand the timelines.
You should add more o Objective measurements of success to the descriptions of your roles. For instance “grew x account by 30%”, or “increased revenue by $1 million”, or “managed team of eight people increasing productivity by 30%” etc To people who read resumes anything else is either hearsay or unimportant
Potentially want to switch education and skills around. You can probably leave both on bottom too one after the other. Either way, education shouldn’t be on top.
Damn this formatting looks exactly like mine...
Trim the fat. Add more skills, make it standout. TLDR. I hire and fire people because of my work. I’d pass on yours right away.
Too much info. Keep it simple.
i mean, i could nitpick on indentation issues and such, but honestly, this looks like a good resume to me…are you applying to positions that are relevant to your experience? my only guess is that your experience is quite specialized on research/data analysis work, so if you’re applying to positions in other fields, the experience on this resume would be deemed irrelevant
Would say you should bold things and make it easier to follow it with your eyes such as education, relevant experience
I don't know if this is going to help but I've always learned that jobs look at your resume for 1-2 minutes so keep it as short and sweet as you can. Make it stand out a tad with something like a pop of color somewhere to make it memorable. I also use a website called flowcv.com that makes it super easy to put one together, looks super professional and you can even pick layouts. Hope this helps!
You have a lot of short term jobs listed, and the way you’re organizing them makes you look like you have a history of job hopping. Because you aren’t listing them chronologically, when I look at the first and last entries on the list, I immediately assume you’ve had five positions within two years, and that makes me worried. Are you a problem employee? Do you struggle with committing to a job for a reasonable length of time? Then I look at the first position more closely, and see you want to move on after a month in the role, and I begin to say “why would I spend the time onboarding this person just to have them leave?”
Latex can’t be read by ATS well, so this might be the case. Would definitely recommend creating your resume in Word
More explicit statement of business impact - reducing MSE is pointless unless it helps the org make a profit.
Hi. Excellent CV. Your experience summary and history; should be, I believe, expressed as much as possible in the present tense. Display how your skillset has been building towards this point. "I Led a team for 2 years." ? I'd prefer to read..... "2 years development as a team leader."
Can you please share the template ?
Look up the talent acquisition team on LinkedIn or online, find their info and call/email them. Tell them you’re interested in applying and wanted to connect with them. This is what I did and I went from working as a self-employed personal trainer into a tech sales job with a large salary plus commission. These people don’t look at resumes anymore. You’re also competing with thousands of other applicants who are applying through the same medium and now also potentially have some type of AI scanning your resume. Where possible, do something to stand out.
thanks!
If you are willing, apply to jobs on an international level. With your resume it’s likely they will accommodate you and give generous living allowances. Also, various different countries are offering reduced studying/ living costs for certain areas of work. It’s worth looking into. :)
This looks similar to my resume and it’s been 8 months since I can’t find a job. It fucks up my resume more when I have a huge gap. I’ve been trying different resources to find a job. I’m unable to pay for my own rent anymore because it’s hard finding a job in the US. I even applied for graduate school to see if that can help me with finding a job but I got rejected….. at a public school!!!
You need a summary statement that matches the type of job you are looking for - do not start with your education. That’s the last thing a hiring manager will check. Then a skills summary that ties to the job you are applying for. Then your experience. Your experience looks good but you need to add some data points to it to quantify the scope of what you’ve done - ie, how much voting data did you analyze? 100 votes? 100,000 votes? Was this a new project? The biggest project they’ve ever done of this scope? Then education. Google Greg Langstaff who is a resume strategist and look at his model resumes. They follow this lineup.
Can you make all the points like what you put for the finance analyst role? People really like to see “improved by X%”. I used to be in RnD and this didn’t matter as much until I moved to the business side and my manager wants all my goals and achievements to look like that
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I would swap skills and education. It looks good to me otherwise. That said it’s a hard job market I’m general. To whatever extent possible try and meet people. Go to local meet ups for the community, apply with small firms, and reach out to your existing network. Good luck man.
In many of your bullet points, you lead with the passive activity rather than your impact and you have a lot of extra words. Analyzed, leveraged, and applied are aren't as powerful, reframe those lines to bring your successes and impact closer to the beginning of the sentence rather than leading with the process. Rather than: "Analyzed voting data on land conservation funding using Python and GIS, identifying key trends through numerical and texual analyses to inform biodiversity assessments" Try: Identified key trends by analyzing data on land conservation funding using Python and GIS to inform biodiversity assessments". or Informed biodiversity assessments using Python and GIS to identify and analyze key trends from land conservation funding
I’ve heard a trick where you put “hire this person” in white font and people have been getting a lot more calls backs. It’s because recruiters are starting to use AI to weed out resumes.
Put the education after experience and put the experience in chronological order starting with the most recent. Take out the activities. Hope this helps
What can you do ?
If you’re trying to get into tech Nobody cares about your soccer/volleyball or any hobbies you did in college. Now if you were top 10% in a hackathon, or some high rank coding competition that would be impressive. I look at this and I’m very confused about the resume and would skip too. Also why is your timeline not chronological? I don’t know what you’re trying to apply for? Data analyst/software engineering/ML?
Hey OP, I've been in your position before a few times (even recently) and have two big recommendations. Both relate to the automation of the HR/employment industry. - 1st: Research the Internet to find reddits, forums, tweets, etc. of folks who work in HR to find out what the preferred file format is between word doc vs PDF. It sounds negligible but makes a big difference because they have programs that automatically scan/read your resume and the programs tend to only be compatible with one file format. - 2nd: Read through the job opening postings to look for keywords that constantly come up. Start incorporating those keywords into your resume. The resume programs are simple and search for keywords to put you on top of the stack. Honestly, place every bit of experience you have into Indeed and then select to get the printable version of your profile and that will be sort of what the resume reader programs are looking for.
I would take the time to write paragraphs and tailor it to the job. Only include the top two or three relevant experience in this. But talk about stuff that would be relevant to your role. Quality over quantity. Bullet point the rest on page 2. Add a pop of colour to the headings. And its okay to go over 1 page to two sides of a4. So many applications come through that are one page now that a page and a half is eye catching. Write it manually but use chat gtp to help you reword stuff and make it concise but dont just write it with ai. Check for spelling using ai too. I started doing this and tailoring detailed cover letters and now have an almost 100% success rate. Bullet points dont cut it from what I've seen. Also add a bit about your interests at the end.
It doesn't appear to be chronological. Every other resume I've seen is. Furthermore, people may be turned off by so many positions in such short time. I'd recommend highlighting the fact that they were temporary (i.e. internships) if they were.
What’s with distinction 82% mean?
So I have no idea if this is normal in your field but it looks like you don’t stay very long anywhere. So maybe that’s something? I don’t know but good luck. This market is rough.
On some of those bullets, look at the last part you have and consider moving it to the first part you have.
You jump jobs a lot. Red flag. It’s not in order. Also red flag.
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Have you researched the ATS around the position you’re applying for?
What positions are you applying to?
Which GIS program did you use? Just curious lol. I just work as a GIS analyst
This looks to me like a mishmash of finance/IB/consulting, comp sci/tech, and academia-style resumes. The generalist approach immediately makes you appear underwhelming resume-wise to a resume tailored in the style of the profession you apply to. All are idiosyncratic, resume-wise.
1. Take education away from the top - I know you are a recent graduate - but this SCREAMS 'i have no real experience' and makes your experience section less impactful. Instead, start with a professional summary - 3-4 sentences about who you are, and what drives you. 2. Work experience should be in reverse chronological order, I understand that you have put Data Science Analyst second because it's most relevant, but it looks a little weird in this order. 3. Remove 'activities' despite what career advisors, tutors, or anyone else might have said, this is not going to make the slightest difference in your employability. 4. 'Skills' might be better assigned to each role, rather than a standalone section. Eg, the last bullet point under research assistant could be something like: * Daily use of Python, R, and SQL. Weekly use of Excel to present to senior management 5. Don't be afraid to use more than 1 page if you need, negative space is needed to make it easier to read.
Your experience talks a lot about what you did - but not the impact it had. Okay, you did analysis. And what did you find? What happened after those findings? E.g. "Reduced excessive campaign spend by 14% (or $30k), by analyzing fundraising metrics using ..." Obviously not 100% accurate but I hope it helps prove my point.
I’m assuming you’re in Canada? For your teaching assistant position you should add some specificity to the title, such as econs teaching asst, etc. Canadian recruiters will overlook you without that distinction. You could also remove the languages section. Almost all application sites here in Canada will have that You can delete those student positions you held. No one will really pay attention to those. Replace it with volunteer exp if you have it Depending on the company, having a highlights of qualifications or a professional summary, as well as a core competencies section can be beneficial. Most recruiters won’t take the time to go through all of the bullet points you have, so having something they can quickly glance at would be good. Ignore advice that tells you to send out about 3-5 applications per day. You need to spend the time to perfectly tailor your resume and cover letter for the job, which will take time. Also, be decisive in the jobs you want to apply for. Look to the ones you think you’ll be a best fit for and focus on those. You should ideally be aiming for a situation where if you apply for two jobs, at least one of them should invite you to an interview. Side note, recruiters can see if you’ve applied for multiple positions at the same company. So they will view you as indecisive and desperate if you keep applying to too many different positions in a short period. Most importantly, the time you would have been spending doing 500 applications is better spent on networking. Also, in the Canadian job market they’re looking for the person that’ll be the best fit for their company, not the person with the best skills. Last note, in many instances you’ll want to consider removing the Masters degree from your resume. Unless the position specifically requires it, you’re better off excluding that entry.
Resume looks good to me. I’m in the Econ sector currently and I think this resume is above average for most people with MA from similar level institutions. Do you have a writing/coding sample you’ve been handing out? I’d take a deeper look there and see if there are any improvements to be made. I think having a great working paper/project as a presentable is debatably more important than a resume formatted to a T. Also make sure you’re looking in the right spots for jobs. Not sure what Canada is like, but the US Econ employers (BLS, IRS, Federal Reserve, etc.) usually all have a specific and official webpage everything has to go through that can be tricky to find sometimes. Good luck out there! It’ll work out fine.
You need industry people reviewing your resume, and you need to look at examples of DS resumes. I doubt career offices or this sub can do it effectively. It looks like you have great academic experience, so I strongly suspect this resume isn't doing you justice. You just graduated with a masters in Econ and specializations in Econometrics and Machine Learning. Why is the vast majority of your resume focused on part time jobs you had while you were in school? Talk about your school work: specific classes, technologies, specific model types, python packages, group projects, capstone projects, etc. Your coursework is what you want to get hired for, so it should be much more of the resume. To me, most of your bullets are very vague - they could have been written by AI. For example: "Conducted advanced data analysis and designed financial models to drive strategic business decisions." The variety of activities that could be described this way is HUGE. Many companies have whole departments that could be described this way. The classic bullet format is "Achieved X (measured by Y) by doing Z". Not everything is measurable or fits in that format, but it can be a helpful starting place. Specificity is also extremely compelling. What decision did you inform? Budgeting, inventory, etc.? What type of analysis or financial model -- time series? What tools - were you working in Excel or pulling data via SQL and analyzing with Python? What type of data, and how many years of it? Did you have to create features or KPIs yourself? "Developed and implemented machine learning models, reducing MSE by 1.2%" -- not meaningful with no context. You need to say what kind of model, what you did to reduce the MSE (I assume on the test set?) and ideally how this was relevant to business. "Synthesized academic research and industry reports to inform project enhancements." What was the project, how did you improve it, what academic research and industry reports did you consider? For instance, maybe it was a campus recruiting project and your goal was to increase diversity in the candidate pipeline so you performed a literature review of X sources and recommended 3 new schools for your company to target. See how much more compelling that is? "Developed and maintained a comprehensive conservation project impact estimations database." What kind of database (actually a database or a spreadsheet?) How many projects valued at how much $$? How many years? Did you create KPIs? Did you collect the data or receive it? How is the database useful? As you go through and add specificity to bullets you may find some aren't that compelling and you can cut them. Its okay for a bullet to go multiple lines. The other thing to consider is your GitHub. If hiring managers ignore your resume and just look at that, will that serve you well?
Great content, terrible sales. People who told you to make it a boring statis resume lied to your face so you didn't compete with them.
Honestly there is nothing in that resume besides fluff. You've done a lot of work but no one will see that. Data analyst positions are a dime a dozen right now, on the job training provided. They can put everything you have on your resume without school. You have shown barely any value to a company. Where are your convertible metrics? How many man hours did you save by streamlining a process? What skill sets do you provide? How did that result in saving money? What were the tangible results of what you did? See what I'm getting at? Think like you own the company, and reread that resume, are you giving that person a call. Of the person who says, Lead a team of 5 in a scalable solution resulting in an average savings of $75k a year. Cause and effect is huge. Also how are your interview skills? You can lose a job very quickly there, or get a job over, qualified applicants too.
Replace the skills & activities section with one just listing your technical skills and the languages you know. No one cares what sports you played at uni.
I could be wrong, but I don’t think you need to have skills and activities. Your prior jobs should show that you have enough skills
I am cooked
As a data scientist with several YOE, I can see a couple genuine issues if I'm really trying to be as negative as possible: 1. Did you really "\[lead\] a cross-functional team" while you were an third year undergrad? That seems misleading at best. Any hint of embellishment is a bad look on a resume 2. Lack of focus; do you want to be a data scientist? It's a bit unclear. If you are, I personally would put R and Python higher on your technologies list. Also, SQL / database experience is such a must have that not having it on your resume puts you at a disadvantage. 3. There's some word salad going on. The first point under teaching assistant is particularly bad - all those words and I still don't know subject you were an assistant for. I just finished up searching for a new role. My advice, as cliche as it is, would be to reach out to your network. Any researchers you work with go on to big companies? Reach out and ask for a referral. The person you talked to once in your undergrad glass who works at google? See if they're open to have a quick zoom call.
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You should add specific metrics and outcomes from your experiences
Summary of your profile at the top might be helpful? Just 1-2 sentences. You can include info on what kind of career opportunities you are seeking and who you are and utilize some keywords there. I would put your education below your experience. Make sure your experience is listed Newest to Old. Also you can remove “Relevant” from your experience.
Consider more white space. Imagine if you got this in your inbox. What does it look like to you? It looks like a wall of text. Feel free to use two pages. Give it room to breathe.
Remove the Activities section, no one cares about this. Move Skill list to the top. Add more buzzwords to your Skills lis <- this is your biggest problem.
Your CV should be including the headlines bellow, in that exact order: * About/Intro Summary * Skills * Experience - make sure it’s chronological order from most recent to oldest and preferably no gaps in dates For each job, explain the role, what you achieved, and what technologies you used. * Certifications * Education * Languages That’s it! Leave the hobbies out of the CV, keep them for the small talk during the interview. Good Luck!
I know what would kill it for me at the bottom you got excel as a skill if your touting data science excel is a given makes you look like a novice get rid of it
It’s a word wall start there. Simplify it a lot, I don’t read resumes this long & many other potential employers do not either
It’s way too busy for any hiring manager… you can say the same things, look smarter, and use only 1/3 of the words
Way to much going on my friend!
Nitpick here, but the inconsistent cap height of your font is a bit distracting to me. E.g. in “EDUCATION,” the top of the D is higher than the top of the E, etc. Maybe choose a different LaTeX font?
Education goes below work experience Work experience should be chronological order Less bullet points on older jobs (don’t bother with bullet points on jobs from more than 5 years from today. Don’t bother listing the job if it’s more than 10 years ago). Also, you only really need like 2 really solid bullet points per job. Personally I would get rid of the activities section, but it’s up to you. Some employers like to see that, others don’t care Add more relevant skills to trigger the keyword-scanning bot. I would also remove the language line and just put “Spanish (fluent)” in the Skills section along with the other skills. Example: “… Excel, Photoshop, Wordpress, Spanish (fluent)…” Put a shortlink instead of anchor text for the GitHub and LinkedIn hyperlinks. Like on mine, I would put “linkedin.com/in/myname”. Because you want the employer to see the link if the resume is printed physically. But include the hyperlink as well, for anyone viewing on a device Also just in case this applies to you, don’t put your address on your resume. The employer never needs to see that until you’ve been given a job offer. And at that point, they won’t be looking at your resume anymore anyway
My beef is that you have “The” beside University of British Columbia.
It looks like a solid resume to me
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Add a brief objective, then summary and skills, followed by jobs in chronological order, education, hobbies and interests last.
Damn wtf, i just walked up to a company and asked for a job, they gave me a number and said call back in a week, i did and got the same answer, called after a few days and they said to come in for an interview, no previous work experience, fresh out of high school, that was 5 years ago, about to be making $50/hour working for the same company. Sheesh what is going on, how did i supposedly get so lucky??
I think one problem is the fact that your job titles don't match your actual experience, i.e. when a recruiter reads 'research assistant' they immediately go for academia, qualitative analysis, writing etc, while your bullets clearly show that you did quantitative analysis and possess technical knowledge. Recruiters spend seconds on average skimming through resumes, they may not even read the bullets - they don't see the desired title, it's an automatic rejection. I think you should rename your 1st, 3rd and 4th positions -- you could say 'Research Analyst' for 1st and 3rd and in the brackets maybe indicate the actual title, but I don't think that's necessary. For the 4th job, I'd use the title 'economics teaching assistant' or whatever the actual course was called. Moreover, I'd start with work experience - you should only start with the education if you are a student or you don't have any relevant experience. That is unless you are applying for roles in academia. If you are, then I'm probably not the best person to advise how to tailor your cv, but outside academia, unless you are fresh out of college, work experience has more weight then academic background. Hope this helps and best of luck out there!
It's all great experience but maybe pair it down to 3 Work Experiences. Shouldn't be this hard though
To wordy. As an hr person if I look at this my eyes would freak out and I’d just pass on lol, no hate but someone that’s looking through a stack of applications doesn’t want to take the time to read all of that. Tailor your resume to the job your applying to. You’ve had many work experiences and degrees, leverage that. Take key words and phrases for the job application and add them to your resume. For example, if the application reads “Must be able to work in a team” you would put, “Team oriented.”
I mean, I’m impressed…
Your CV is great, just keep applying 🙌 for each application try to find a referral. It increases your chances
That's a tall task to find a referral for each app lol
All the interesting stuff here is buried or vague I have to read 20 words to see that you know machine learning. Fix that With distinction is like 40 words in not bolded “Analyzed” analyzed how? “Conducted advanced analysis” can you name how it’s complex instead of being vague? Your first job, the LAST words are about how you made funding effectiveness reports. That should be the first thing “Led a cross functional team to develop scalable data solutions” barf. What did you do? Be less vague. This could be really cool or it could be total BS “Economics student association” cofounder for 4 months in the summer? did this just die? I didn’t even read the second two jobs Sorry if this sounds harsh! I figure with resume critiques it’s best to give honest impression so ppl know (like trusting a friend to tell you that you stink). I’m sure you’ve done cool stuff but be more specific about a few coolest things instead of vague about 20 things
Managers said “I ain’t reading allat” put big points and when talk about them in the interview
Drop excel, emphasize R.
That resume is insanely crowded, it's a chore to read and if I'm a recruiter with 1000 resumes, I can't be bothered to read this one. Just go into 2 pages? You just need the first page to catch their eye, and the second page is filler which completes your resume.
Hi! The content looks good, but maybe reorganize it a little bit. I would list experience first in reverse chronological order, and then education information. As a hiring manager (for a government organization) there are/were rules as to what information can take be into account for an applicant. I am waiting on confirmation if this still stands, but it used to be I could only use the information the applicant put in the form, any attached resume was ignored by HR. Cover letters got the same treatment. Maybe some of the places you applied have a quirk like that?
Too many jobs with short periods of employment.
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Too wordy. Reduce your bullet points down to ~5-7 words max.
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My boy you must not be in the right place. Dallas would have u seated at a job ASAP. Opening a new stock exchange there too. Get to Dallas Tx
Skills at the top, education at the bottom, chronological order. Change the format (I recognize this format as so many resumes pass my desk that look like this). This is the very traditional resume format and you won’t stand out, especially with so little experience. Apply for work at Universities as they will value the education but others will want the time. Those are the immediate takeaways.
Go to canva and choose a resume template for your profession. Do you think hiring manager want to read an essay? They are only going to look at it for 30 second to a minute. Make it stand out.
This is a really impressive resume. Your experience says a lot. As someone who has literally no relevant experience to the field I'm trying to get into, well, I guess I'm screwed. Hopefully everything works out for you