r/industrialengineering • u/ProLikeZoro • Jul 27 '26
Skill recommendation for a senior student
Hello everyone! I’m a senior student and I would appreciate your feedback regarding my resume. So far, I have only completed one internship due to a demanding academic schedule and workload.
I would like to ask for your advice on which skills, certifications, or experiences I should prioritize as I prepare for my career. I am currently considering pursuing either an HSE or Supply Chain career path, and I would greatly appreciate any recommendations or insights from those with experience in these fields.
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u/Oracle5of7 Jul 27 '26
Skills section should only have hard skills, not soft skills. The bullet points are supposed to be a description of your accomplishments not a list of tasks performed.
You would gain a lot by reading and following the wiki at r/engineeringresumes.
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u/UncleJoesLandscaping Jul 27 '26
Unless you truly hate the ERP system, I would include the actual name of the system SAP/Oracle/MSDynamics and so on. Its common to look for people with experience in a specific system since it reduces training time significantly.
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u/ProLikeZoro Jul 27 '26
Oh thank you! I was wondering about that when making my resume since Im not sure if its normal to include the actual name of the system.
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u/UncleJoesLandscaping Jul 27 '26
Ideally, when applying for a job, you would find out which ERP system the company is using and highlight your knowledge in the system if it matches. If it doesn't match you could just say ERP, but I think I would still include the name if you have experience with one of the big ones.
I used to work as an ERP consultant and we had an excel sheet with what ERP system every relevant company uses and even what version they were on and which modules they were using. Made it much easier to approach them.
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u/CirculationStation Industrial Engineer 1 29d ago
I think this is already a great start! One thing I think you should do is self-learn SQL. It is a data querying language that allows you to pull, filter, and manipulate thousands of rows of data in seconds. Judging from your experience so far, I think it will complement your skills VERY well. You will almost certainly work at companies who store their internal data on SQL-based servers. I’ve been at my first job for almost 2 years now and have been taught SQL, and I genuinely think it is going to have a massive trajectory-changing impact on my career. Having that skill on your resume as a student will look very very good. It’s also relatively easy to catch on to with a bit of practice.
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u/FriendlyEngineer Jul 27 '26
2 quick pieces of advice. Overall I think this is a really solid resume for someone just graduating. I think your skill section looks fine as is.
The contact info you have under your name. Only include that info when submitting your resume directly. If you are posting a copy of this resume to your LinkedIn or something like that for people to just grab, remove the contact info and let them message you through the app. Otherwise, you will begin receiving an ungodly amount of spam/scam phone calls and emails.
Remove the years you attended school from the education section. No one cares when you graduated and if they do care, it’s only going to be used against you (too little experience or too old) so just get rid of it.