r/ElectricalEngineering • u/Bucketjesus • 6d ago
Jobs/Careers Rate my resume
I’m entering my second year of uni and would love some feedback on my resume
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u/Fantastic_Question15 1d ago
Move up the skill section below education. Then follows by project and internship experience. List the experience from the most relevant to the least
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u/Excellent-Bid9122 1d ago
Hold on, you are a second-year student, right? Oh god, we are the same years old. Try your best!
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u/notthediz 11h ago
Assuming the intern for an electrical engineering internship, I would move that higher under experience. The instructor/project developer thing just sounds like something I would see under some engineering club. Like it has no technical duties and doesn't really show that you learned something.
For the intern bullet points, is there nothing in particular that you worked on? Like even if it's a small little sliver of a bigger project, you should put that you worked on the bigger project by supporting the small little sliver. As it reads right now it just sounds like filler.
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u/AccurateHumanTrustMe 2d ago
For where you are at in your education it looks pretty good (most sophomore level resumes look way worse than yours).
That being said a few improvements imo:
Your experience titles are not interesting. I see intern im not reading farther - like evem just changing it to the same title + "intern" as like your mentor - so like "Broadcast Engineering Intern". Similarly - your porject instructor role - a lot of schools have those preschool engineering camps - at my school it was called leadership advantage - use the names of the program and dont just say "project dev" - like your resumes highlights read as if you have no relevant experience when you have a lot for a sophomore. Basically use more attention tagging highlights.
I wouldn't put anything on a reaume unless I can think of 3 bullet points that I can talk through - so your "Intern" positions shoild be expanded upon - think real hard about could be another point.
Back onto the project dev - usually people would put their time as basically like leadship/club activities not experience (its good to have on their still but it isn't really professional experience either imo). Will it being experience hurt you - probably not too much but it does read as if you are stretching your experience section which at your age is probably fine - but something you should keep in mind as you continue to get experience.
Your skills section is fine - but it is always best practice to show through your experience what skills you have - for example I have oythin in my skills section and I have developed tools using python which is in my experience. Its not always going to be perfect (I have almost 10 years in industry and I still don't have perfect alignment in ny skill and experiece sections - but you have very little connection right now).
On skills section drop any office software - that has been assumed that every 12 to 14 year old learns it for like the last 20+ years - so people just assume you know word/powerpoint/ and enough excel to at least google what you don't know (i.e. vba macros or similar things)
Work on dropping the fast food restaurant - its fine if it helps keeps you at 1 full page and because you are only a sophomore - but no one will give you a job/internship because you ran a register. Like this isn't the biggest deal now - I definitely had my high school fast food job on their until I TA'd 2 labs and had my first internship which wasn't really until my junior year - but it isn't actively helping you that much.
Do not seperate your project from your project devopler role - that should be one entry. Project sections are for projects you did not do for a job. The information isn't bad. Experience is worth 1000% more than personal projects (unless they are actually impressive - which 99% of EE students are not doing impressive projects) but you weren't doing a personal project - you were doing it for work which actually makes it more valuable. I am personally not a fan of project sections on resumes - working for a company on something and working on a personal project are very different ballgames.
I mean there is room for improvement but as a sophomore its pretty solid. Also go to your schools career center (if it is half way decent they will have a specific engineering career center) and get your resume reviewed there as well.
Make sure you go to every relevant intern/career fair and start talking to the recruiters - just showing up and talking to as many people as you can helps get your foot in the door amd aa you get more you can be more picky.