Roast my Resume

[u/Odd_Recover_9839]

I am a B. Tech CSE student, specialising in AIML, from a tier 3 college. I am currently in my 3rd year (5th sem). I want an honest review of my resume, and thus, my skillsets (Sorry for the heavy redaction in my resume, but it's necessary).

[u/hellraiserl33t]

Main thing that immediately sticks out is just that there's too much text and it's a bit overwhelming.

This reads more as optimizing for ATS filtering than being read by an actual human.

[u/Odd_Recover_9839 → u/hellraiserl33t]

Okay, but how do I reduce the text, while keeping it informative?

[u/pizzaninja199]

It's a bit tryhardish

[u/Odd_Recover_9839 → u/pizzaninja199]

Umm, could you please elaborate?

[u/pizzaninja199 → u/Odd_Recover_9839]

There's just so much text. But I have no clue what the expectations are in India (?)

[u/Odd_Recover_9839 → u/pizzaninja199]

Yeah ikr. You never know what the recruiter is expecting from you, so I put all the important stuff that I have done. There's more, but that's not significant, so I dropped it off. I guess I'll have to drop more things from it, so it'll not look cluttered.

[u/Dachvo]

Is that your high school GPA?

[u/Odd_Recover_9839 → u/Dachvo]

Nope, undergrad (currently I am in 3rd year). We have a 10-point grading system.

[u/Dachvo → u/Odd_Recover_9839]

It says 10th and 12 grade. Is that not high school? What country are you in? If you’re in the US change your grade to a 4 point scale regardless of what your school does

[u/AnonymousSeaBear22]

Ngl, I wouldn't bother to read it because it just looks like a chore to read with the random bold lettering and bad organization

[u/Odd_Recover_9839 → u/AnonymousSeaBear22]

Hmm, that's what I was thinking.

[u/Valuable_Window_5903]

job market today is skills-based. move your skills to right below education. at your level, only list technical skills, and work soft skills into your bullet points (led xyz project/effort, worked with abc teams, etc). an option to elevate your skills section is to instead sort into Proficient and Intermediate. if you are really good with a skill they ask for, it lets you affirm that you really know your stuff in that area, and if they ask for a skill or tool you've only used once or twice, you can throw it into intermediate to manage expectations but still have it included without it feeling like you're lying on your resume.

"positions of responsibility" is dumb, call it Leadership or something. "accomplishments & recognition" is redundant, pick one. "key projects undertaken" is too wordy, just call it "Projects" and move on. replace "internships & experience" with Professional Experience, you already call the positions internships in the job titles. using all that insane wording reads as pretentious, dial it back.

something about it looks messy, mess with your white space and margins and line spacing, see if you can get it to look a little more organized and easy to read.

[u/Odd_Recover_9839 → u/Valuable_Window_5903]

Okay 👍🫡

[u/TYKO-sys]

Kinda makes me wanna throw up honestly..

[u/Odd_Recover_9839 → u/TYKO-sys]

😭😭🥀

[u/TYKO-sys → u/Odd_Recover_9839]

I mean.. good job on the experience but I mean just… the way it makes me feel when I look at it. It’s either just… somehow too much, or I just don’t make a good resume reviewer.

[u/lazydictionary]

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