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Manh Do
Manh Do
5,138 Points
Posted by Manh Do
Manh Do
5,138 Points

Critique my resume please

Hey fellow members of treehouse. This is my attempt in making a resume as I would like to start looking into doing an intern. I don't have any work experience so I put my projects (academic and personal) and some course work to fill up the space. Also, I didn't put any of the treehouse projects as I didn't know if i could put them on there. Lastly, I strongly feel my description for my projects are lacking and weak. Any help would be very much appreciated.

dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f0pamsqleejm5mg/redditResume.docx?dl=0

google docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gYqDEVnYu9A9Scg2-TWXFiITAypkciceqhcwov4acvE/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks,

Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points
Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points

It's pretty impressive for a graduate, but you could benefit from having a personal project or two in a state where you could show it via your github page. You cant go into full detail with uni projects in a resume and they can ask you for more details or a demonstration. humble opinion.

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Karen Freeman-Smith
Karen Freeman-Smith
29,248 Points
Karen Freeman-Smith
Karen Freeman-Smith
29,248 Points

I would swap the education and skills sections so that the skills are at the top - front and center.

I don't like the "familiar" in the programming skills, it makes it sound like you don't know much (and you probably know significantly more than the impression it gives me...don't be too humble!)

My boyfriend JUST graduated a 3 month bootcamp (with a BA in French to back up his new skills) and landed a senior developer position at one of the leading IT firms in our area. I think that your resume looks as good as his under the microscope, so for an intern position - go for it. Maybe even some jr. developer positions if you can find them. It seems that the market is really good right now for programmers.

Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points
Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,694 Points

The advise i've gotten is that a new graduate's chief selling point is their shiny new degree. so they should lead with that, whereas someone with a couple years is going to trade more on having a killer skillset, so should have skills ahead of education. 'familiar' may be unnecessary, i'd agree.

Manh Do
Manh Do
5,138 Points
Manh Do
Manh Do
5,138 Points

Thank you so very much for the advice. Reading your comment also gave me some confidence as I was kinda lacking that since its my first resume so again thanks.

Also I am still in school and all of my projects are listed on my github.