Re:Ask HN: How can I make my resume better?
by EllaMentry on Saturday April 06, 2013 @12:20PM
(#5504022)
I would currently not hire, based on this resume, things that are missing that I look for.
A clear story - What do you do now? What have you done in the past? What skills do you have? All I currently see now is a list of projects (some with very odd names).
An email address!? I have moved houses/apartments at least once a year for the last 7 years, and countries a few times in that, hence my resume does not have an address or phone number as those become out of date so fast! I instead have an email address under a domain I own which is used soley as a professional email address.
My CV is structured as follows
- Education
- Current Job
- Previous Job
- Job Before That
- Skills
- Open Source Projects
Granted, all of my experience is directly related to Computer Science Research / Software Development, but you can't hide where you come from!
Focus on roles not projects. Make it skim-able! On my first pass through I just saw a lot of names of projects which did not make any sense to me! I would present it in a format similar to the following:
A clear story - What do you do now? What have you done in the past? What skills do you have? All I currently see now is a list of projects (some with very odd names).
An email address!? I have moved houses/apartments at least once a year for the last 7 years, and countries a few times in that, hence my resume does not have an address or phone number as those become out of date so fast! I instead have an email address under a domain I own which is used soley as a professional email address.
My CV is structured as follows
- Education - Current Job - Previous Job - Job Before That - Skills - Open Source Projects
Granted, all of my experience is directly related to Computer Science Research / Software Development, but you can't hide where you come from!
Focus on roles not projects. Make it skim-able! On my first pass through I just saw a lot of names of projects which did not make any sense to me! I would present it in a format similar to the following:
- Software Developer (2007-Present) (subheading - Flightlogg.in)
Improve the English. Write in complete structured sentences.
And finally, I would recommend typesetting (http://www.latex-project.org/) there are lots of nice templates which give a professional look and feel.