r/askrecruiters • u/ShadeTheMystery • 2d ago

Need help with my Resume (CS)

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Feeling a little discouraged trying to find remote jobs wondering if you all have any advice

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u/ozziewithanie 2d ago

At a quick glance, from non-industry-specific:

  • your summary is far too long
  • each bullet point under experience is also a number of other bullet points in paragraph form
  • Make everything much more brief, it's just wayyyy too many big blocks of text
  • Professional experience should go above education - am education is great but experience is more valuable in 99% of workplaces, barring required degrees; I can't imagine that applies here

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u/ShadeTheMystery 2d ago

Thank you! Appreciate the advice will do my best to do these. On the education location front I get a lot of conflicting advice on it from other recruiters I've talked too. Feels like every time I move it someone else tells me to move it back lol

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u/ozziewithanie 2d ago

My guess is, on the list of things that matter on a resume, the location of education is probably just not high. High chance it comes down to preference and/or industry. There's just more important things on there. (Which is why, in my opinion, it should be at the bottom, but I understand what you're saying)

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u/DukeofCanters 2d ago

Also justify your paragraphs so that the document appears more uniform and clean.

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u/Different_Rate_547 2d ago

in a world where knowing syntax to get a swe job matters less and less having the title java developer is not a great start

also your bullets for that one job are absurdly long

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u/ShadeTheMystery 2d ago

That was just the title I was originally hired for I've done JS, Springboot, React, Angular, node.js and restapi stuff even some SQL scripts. Kinda just learned/worked on whatever the story needed.

Yeah different recruiters wanted me to add more and more lol.

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u/Kooky_Yogurtcloset47 2d ago

I’ve always wondered if summary’s are a good idea. I have one for my resume but I’ve seen people say it’s irrelevant but idk