Ask HN: Can someone help critique my resume?

Re:Ask HN: Can someone help critique my resume? by zhte415 on Friday March 11, 2016 @01:28AM (#11264987)

I agree with bradley_long on making the business impact of what you've done clear. $XX saving or creating $YY revenue or saving ZZ hours for a team. It shows that you understand the business impact of your role, the 'value' you create, as you surely do create value.

Perhaps also put a short mission statement on the top, with 2-3 bullets of who you are and what you seek.

Great on keeping it on one page for 8 years experience. Also have a backup which may span multiple pages when a HR or headhunter wants to learn more.

Deal with the gaps. For example, 2009-2012, what was going on? I have similar gaps on my CV. Easily document them, for me it was a 2 year paternity break, and another break of 3 years freelancing. A HR or manager is going to ask, and may waste-paper-bin-it based solely on self-prejudice.

I like you put 'willing to relocate' right at the top. If you speak other languages, also put that in the header. It can be an unexpected bonus for a feature of a role not in the JD.

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Re:Ask HN: Can someone help critique my resume? by HAL9OOO on Monday March 14, 2016 @11:33AM (#11283408)

Thanks for the suggestions! I've been thinking of ways to show the impact of the projects but I can't think of any hard numbers for them. Most of the projects at my old job were for clients but I only ever had a vague sense of how much money we were billing them for and my current job is a government contract, I just listed that we increased the rate of study completion which we have since before the system didn't exist/wasn't digitized.

Also I graduated in 2011, but I did have a gap last year since I was hiking the AT/traveling. I've gotten mixed advice on whether to keep it on my resume or not hmm.

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