Those looking for a job: please post a link to your resume.
Everyone else: help someone out!
I just started looking for jobs and haven't had much luck. I bought into the craze of coding bootcamps and although I learned a lot, I feel like it isn't enough to stand out. Would appreciate any tips and thinks to change/remove/add into the resume.
And in case anyone wants to give some input on my portfolio site as well: http://synclairwang.com
One great starting point is the sample resume that Gayle McDowell provides on Career Cup: https://www.careercup.com/resume
* I'm not a fan of the design, but that's just my opinion. You can search for better resume templates
* Add a section where you point out what languages you know
* Another section for all the frameworks, tech stack, experiences and etc.
* "Netted over 700 hours...", I'm not sure if quantifying something like that is a good thing. 700 hours is kind of arbitrary, even as a developer I don't know that that really entails. You should just say you know how to build web apps, you're a full stack eng. and etc.
* "After learning about this word from a friend...", totally irrelevant. I don't think a recruiter cares about this. It is a good story to tell in an interview, but just not an a resume. Just get to the point as fast as possible while describing what the app does
* Overall the resume tells me what your projects do but it doesn't tell me too much about you. Tell me what you did, what you learned, obstacles you overcame, etc. This is a good area to quantify things. i.e. "Used CSS to develop convolutional neural network to improve efficiency by 100000000%"
* I'm not sure if your other two work experiences are relevant for a web dev, but you did a good job in making it sound relevant to who you are
Thoughts on a resume builder web app? Want to see one exist?
Lots of redundant content, looks messy because of all the images/logos, sub-header 'blocks' take up too much space, font sizes are all over the place, could be condensed to 1 page, etc.
This is one of those things that I have A/B tested quite a bit :-)
When it comes to design, I immediately notice that the font size for your name is much too big (especially compared to the email address). Then there is the page header (Qualifications) which takes up around 10% of the page on its own. Under the 'Related History' section, the name of the projects take up way too much space while the font-size of your job title and duration of stay are hard to read. Why do you need that empty white block next to the name of the projects? All this wasted space not only makes the resume's layout ineffective but also makes it look very unprofessional.
Content-wise, the core of your resume should be what you have under 'Related History'. I want to be able to get a good idea, quickly, of what you did in your past positions. Based on that information I can get a good idea of pretty much everything you have under 'Qualifications'. I would cut all of 'Qualifications' out and summarize everything in there into 3 - 4 bullet points/short sentences. Also, why did you bold seemingly random words like 'CMS' and 'infrastructure'?
Honestly, I would just stick to something like https://www.careercup.com/resume. Remember, the key point of your resume is to quickly communicate your past experience and highlight relevant information.