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Mbo

Hello, Here is my Resume/CV. I welcome any feedback

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Molly Struve (she/her)

Hi!

You have a lot of great experience on here but due to that and some of the other sections it is a bit long. I would highly suggest getting it down to 1 page. I think if you change your formatting a bit plus remove a few things it would probably be easier than you think.

  • Formatting: Right now the section headers like EDUCATION and then the bullets under them are all the same size which makes the section not really stand out. For example look at @turfaa's resume here. See how the sections are very obvious, try for something like that.

  • Experience: If you are not going into hardware I think you could remove Lambert Electromec. and Karim Enterprises and focus on the software experience. OR make those two jobs a little smaller by paring down the list of things under them. Overall you want to make sure you are conveying that you have the skills that the employer is looking for so anything that doesnt add to that you can get rid of. I would also move this to the top followed by Education.

  • Education: Good

  • Skills: move these up so they are under experience or education. Then I would put extra curricular activities/projects under this.

  • References: Rather than list these out I would save some space and just write "References available upon request"

Overall you have a lot of really neat experiences on here but make sure to only use what will be relevant to the job you are applying for. If you focus your resume it will be a lot easier for people to see that you are a fit for the job.

Hope that helps!!!

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Mbo

Thank you very much.

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Mbo

Hello Molly,

I have made some edits on it can you take another look? Thanks.

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Molly Struve (she/her)

Looks so much better!!! I love that you can tell where each section starts and ends. I would still work on getting it to one page. Bullet points like:

  • Handled team registration for competition.
  • Organized team logistics in coordination with team supervisors.
  • Sourced financial (of 100,000 Naira) and technical support. Are all pretty general and not necessarily relevant to a dev job. I think you could combine all these into one bullet point that explains you have all those soft skills employers want.
  • Led and coordinated team logistics while sourcing financial and technical support

Up under experience I think you could be more detailed still

  • Studied already existing projects written by other software engineers. What kind of projects? Were you just reading them or were you expected to provide feedback. Things like that will help paint a better picture of your experience.

Feel free to checkout my post Resume Writing Tips as you are editing it :)

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Mbo

Thank you very much Molly. For some reason I find it difficult to bring it down to a page. But I'll keep trying as time goes on.

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Mbo

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