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Luke Duncan • Edited

Hey Jake -

I think it's overall a very good resume. All of your skills and experience look great and I think you'll be able to find a job in no time!

Here are some recommendations:

1) I would make your name larger on the document to make it stand out. Keep in mind, you are going against hundreds of other people when applying for a job, so you want to try and get your name stuck in people's heads as much as possible.

2) This is very picky of me, but when I look at resumes, another way to stand out is by using a really nice font. Or at least a font that is different from your basic Arial, Times New Roman, Google font etc. This is a site I like to use: open-foundry.com/fonts. I know these aren't free but there are a bunch of free font resources on the web if you search.

3) Might just be me, but I often leave the summary out of the resume portion. The resume portion is simply to show your work experience. I like putting summary type of things into cover letter instead. Often times you can go into more detail and you won't have to worry too much about consuming space in your actual resume.

Engineers I talk to often get scared when I say this. Because they think their resume portion looks "thin" if they don't have much experience. All the teams i've been on - we value both the cover letter and resume equally (maybe even slightly more on the cover letter because it's easy to sense enthusiasm).

Also, the links that you have within the summary, like your website - you could include in the header alongside your name. I would probably remove your phone number and mailing address - nobody looks at it.

4) I would remove the "proficient with", and "familiar with" and just include all those skills in one line. If you are familiar with certain frameworks or languages, I put enough trust in you that if you really needed to learn more about it, you could very easily.

Anyways good luck on the job hunt! And if you need any further help, you can definitely shoot any questions my way.

[EXTRA] - When I was applying for jobs as a Junior, I would apply for a job and I would literally create a page on my website that was the cover letter for that company.

E.g. I highly recommend having your own website for this reason. If I was applying for a job at Dropbox, I would create a page (this link is just an example) - lukeduncan.me/dropbox. And my cover letter would be typed on that page. I know this is time consuming but when is a job search not time consuming :) My rate of call backs exponentially grew because the application had that special touch and I think companies knew I spent time on it.