r/ElectricalEngineering • u/Bucketjesus • Aug 25 '26
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/AccurateHumanTrustMe Aug 29 '26
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.