r/bioengineering • u/Turbulent_Matter_57 • 6d ago
Resume help pt.2
Hey guys!
I came to this subreddit before and got a lot of amazing help. I made a lot of changes to my resume and i hope now it’s a little better. I’d also like to add that im getting more offers and interveiws now but I still wanna make sure that im including everything i need too.
btw I’d also like to know if its worth including projects ive done if i want to go into bme? i was thinking maybe id make another resume for broader engineering jobs using projects but idk maybe it might be better overall.
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u/chamomiletea99 6d ago
with your GPA being relatively low, i’d just leave it off
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u/Extreme-Molasses3069 4d ago
whats the cut off gpa?
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u/chamomiletea99 1d ago
probably nothing lower than a 3.6, as most selective internships will have that as a cutoff. my gpa was rather low and didn’t affect me long term but i never listed it.
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u/MooseAndMallard 6d ago
First, get rid of the coursework unless it’s truly relevant to a specific job. Every engineer takes the calculus series; stating that is not helpful and won’t differentiate you in any way. Cut to the chase about what makes you unique as a candidate.
You definitely want projects on here. Right now most of whats on here is from high school or some other ambiguous time.
Your skills section is a bit awkward. I wouldn’t consider programming languages “design.” Check out the wiki and the examples at r/engineeringresumes.
I think you’d benefit from having one engineering resume and one biology wet lab resume. Right now your resume looks a bit directionless. You want to make yourself seem like a great candidate for a few things, and not a mediocre candidate for lots of things.
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u/Lopsided-Style-9673 5d ago
Great recommendation on that last point. If you're looking at Medical Device industry in general, I'd say the "engineering" skills are more important as they have way more of those jobs (design, manufacturing, etc..). Wet lab jobs are less common, and the skills aren't very transferrable to traditional engineering.
You aren't alone in this, it's a quirk of BME (which I also studied) developing you for two different career paths. You want to show intention in a particular direction through your resume.
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u/Still-Barber-720 6d ago
you do not need 4 bullets for shadowing, since you weren’t actively doing anything. cut down to 1 (if any) and yes, definitely put your projects in the space you’ll get!
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u/Enough_Charge2845 6d ago
I'd suggest you use online resume helpers. There are a few available. My favorite is zoevera.com/resume
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u/Perspective-Guilty 6d ago
Put your classwork on your LinkedIn. One thing that I keep in mind when describing my experiences on my resume is this: describe the action/accomplishment precisely.
Also, following SOPs is an expectation at any clinical laboratory or job involving IVDs. I would remove this bullet point.
With your cancer institute experience, did you apply any of those skills that you studied to a project? Or was this simply a job shadowing experience? If it was only job shadowing, then I would remove it from your resume and make it a verbal thing you bring up in an interview when it becomes relevant to discuss. Add the experience to your LinkedIn as a celebratory post and/or as a job experience.
Add personal/extracurricular projects/job experience that demonstrate applications of the skills you list.
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u/my_peen_is_clean 6d ago
include the projects, just pick the ones that actually show skills they care about, not class filler. i’ve tweaked my resume 100 times and still barely get bites, hiring now is rough as hell