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These days I'll take anything short-term, even remote.

For a long-term career I have the education & work experience prerequisites for New Zealand's Skilled Migrant Category, Australia's 186, and Canada's Express Entry.

In the past, I did two remote contracts (Pixelgarde and AnswerTo), but in both cases the employer reached out to me first. I'm not really sure how to find jobs. My résumé is here:

http://peterburk.free.fr/PeterBurkimsherResume.pdf

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I’m much younger and less experienced, so what I’m going to say could be irrelevant, but your resume seems too busy.

I’d cut it to 1 page, remove all the symbols, flags and logos. I’d also remove most of the extra stuff (personal interests, volunteering, objective, references).

Essentially, almost anything that doesn’t show that I’m a very talented engineer should go. Also, I’d consider using latex if not already and go for a more sobre style that focuses on ease of reading. The way your education part is indented is great, the work experience part seems to have something wrong with it.

Your advice is on point; I would find this resume very difficult to skim (and very easy to skip), need to treat it like a landing page, and distil the important parts.

As someone mentioned above, you absolutely need to sort out your CV. Here's a couple of points that differ from the other commenters:

- make it a one page CV - remove any work experience that's not relevant - write in active voice about each experience. Quantifying your contributions - remove hobbies, particularly anything related to religion. It's not relevant, and is recommended not to include such personal info in your CV. - only show your undergraduate degree. No one cares about GDE (unless applying to grad school) or your high school grades. - remove personal interests; no one cares. It's distracting from selling your work experience. - remove references and write "available on request". Background check happen after interviews. - remove languages unless relevant to the job. - remove volunteering experience; why on earth have you included CouchSurfng there? - remove your address. Too personal. - add link to your LinkedIn. - remove objective. This should come through in your experience what you're interested in. - remove those images. They offer no value to the ready and take up 20% of both pages.

You find jobs by applying. That simple. Your CV must sell your work experience as valuable to the employee and current yours does not.

Assume employers will spend 30 seconds skimming it before deciding if you will get a chance. Your current CV does not cut it.

These people are going easy on you. This resume is abysmal and makes you seem unhinged. Take every flag, symbol, or non-business related piece of information off of it. Don't advertise languages unless you can communicate in them at a professional level. Include your accomplishments at each job. When looking at your resume, a potential employer needs to see immediately why you would be valuable to their organization.

There are dozens of sites that advertise remote jobs (google). Weworkremotely is one example.. most of the recruiters will reply within a week atleast. You definitely need to narrow down your skills and/or presentation of it(cv). Just go through any public cv and just copy it.. learning web development might give higher chance of securing a job but is not necessary.. wish you good luck!

You should take the resume advice to heart.

I’ve hired a number of engineers and I would likely not look at this one for more than a few seconds. When recruiting, you get a deluge of resumes, there’s simply not time to carefully read them all, so the sad truth is you have to resort to heuristics and look for anything at all that lets you discard.

Please comment back if you need help editing your resume, happy to provide some help.

While LaTeX is cool, my advice would be to grab a resume template from a university career center and use it with zero style modifications.

Check out Gayle’s advice: https://www.careercup.com/resume

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