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Looking to improve my career prospects. Where should I go from here with my career and how else can I improve my resume? I don't care much for work life balance right now. Just trying to pull myself out of unemployment basically and push on with my career and be successful.

I do have more certifications and work experience, but they could be considered irrelevant when it comes to where I aim to take my career.

I was born in Portugal but I’ve been living in Brazil since I was 13. I enjoy my current job but I want to go back to Europe, pretty much anywhere in the EU is fine, but I'm currently focusing on Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Ireland or the Netherlands (because I know English and I'm learning German). I've been working at a big European company for 8 months and to be transferred I need 5+ years of experience.

I'm interested in Field Service, Maritime, Commissioning or Maintenance Engineering openings, maybe in industrial automation, but I'm open to other areas.

I'm not in a hurry to get a new job, I'm OK where I am, but I've started applying to openings on LinkedIn and I'm looking for feedback on my resume. Are there any problems with it? Any places I can improve it? Does it look too... maritime?

I'm looking for a more corporate customer service/experience role or SDR. I just want to get out of retail.

Applied to around 120 jobs, two interviews, one of them I got because I cold called the manager (SDR role). I'm learning how to do interviews, but for now I need to know if my resume is okay or if I'm messing up somewhere.

Note: I need to change the 30% program thing. More accurately, I got 1/3 customers to join in store programs.

Other than that, what is missing on here?

I'm currently a junior in college, studying economics, aiming for a consulting internship to break into the industry. I have no idea what the heck to put on my resume, so I just put whatever I thought would present both me and relevant experience. Please submit any and all honest criticism or feedback you have. Thanks so much!

I’m a 3rd-year BTech CSE student aiming for SDE / AI/ML internships, and I’d really appreciate honest, critical feedback on my resume.

Hello everyone! Soon to be IO Psych Masters student. Wanting to break into the learning development and talent management side of things.

Any feedback is appreciated!

Hey everyone!

I have been applying relentlessly for the past 6 months to any graduate SWE / DS / DE positions I could find on LinkedIn, but about 97% of the time I'm hit with "After careful consideration, we regret to inform you...". I understand the market is really tough right now, but I do feel like there's a lot of room for improvement and better positioning of my skills and expertise.

Here's a breakdown of why I believe things are / aren't working out for me, and I just wanted to get some feedback from the actual human beings (a bit tired of always passing my new resume through ChatGPT and hearing "You have solid foundations, but..." advice which is not exactly working). Any critique, advice, suggestions, or thoughts is massively appreciated!

Things causing rejections:

• No tech internship experience
• Third project is weak, outdated, and doesn't have a github repo (unfortunately access was lost)
• No distinction for university (in the UK distinction = 70%+, considered as achieved excellence)
• On a graduate visa with no long-term right to work (would need visa sponsorship)

Things working in my favour:

• Strong thesis project, most of the interviews I got were from scale-up FinTech firms
• Strong second project – good results, uses in-demand industry frameworks
• Relevant and good education (Mathematics + Data Science is rather strong in tech imo)
• Some leadership / work experience is better than nothing and shows teamwork / collaboration / etc.

How I'm changing my strategy & improving my position in the market:

• I'm working on a financial project as an extension to my thesis. I'm planning to incorporate in-demand technologies (e.g. deployment on GCP, Apache Kafka, Spark, sentiment processing, etc.). The logic here is to replace the third project with something useful and "demo-able" that can both trigger ATS with the keywords and look impressive to any human reading
• I'm shifting my strategy to cold applying to smaller tech firms and scale-ups, while trying to get referrals through my uni alumni network (didn't do this before as was anxious to reach out to people). Also a bigger focus on fintech as it seems to get more responses
• I'm trying to find a part-time tech volunteering position. The logic here is it would be a more relevant experience to the industry than tutoring and business analyst. Struggling in this regard as well, but hoping it would be a bit easier to land something
• I have a portfolio website, so I was thinking about writing more blog posts there, but 50/50 here on if it's a good time investment

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Review my resume and suggest improvements please. For the skills section, I heard that having it in "categories" may impact the ATS systems, is that right?

I feel so stuck and lost. I need to make a decision and just go for it.

I’m 37, and I really just want to feel like I’m committing to something career-wise.

I started out my education in law and ended up kinda hating it when I realized there’s no much justice at all in the legal system. Ended up in finance/compliance type roles. Had first kid in 2016 another in 2020 and then 2022.

Been coasting since having kids in working jobs that enable me to have work life balance, but I feel like I’m not at my earning potential and I want a better quality of life. My current job is so stressful and doesn’t pay that well, but it allows me to work from home which works because of kids and school pick ups etc.

If I want to practice law out here in Texas I need to do my LLM, and then sit the bar. Timely and costly so I had considered trying that once my 3 year old is in kindergarten.

Here’s a photo of my resume.

What would you do?

Hi all,

I’d like some advice. I know mine is a bit peculiar.

I have been in Data Operations (for Legal Compliance/Financial for over 2 years and Product/Digital Execution as a short stint during my time abroad in Canada for 7 months). Was in Hospitality operations before I finished my Master of Laws (Area Manager). I’m Irish, and recently relocated to London and have literally been getting rejection after rejection. Never had that problem back in Ireland or even in Canada. I know I definitely need to move my skills up (after seeing all of your guys ones) but I’m really worried the short stint in Canada (it was on a Working Holiday visa) makes me look like a job hopper.

Any advice would be much appreciated🥲