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[5 YoE, Unemployed, Targeting Entry-Level/Internships, East Coast USA]

[5 YoE, Unemployed, Targeting Entry-Level/Internships, East Coast USA]

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.

u/HKEnthusiast — 2 hours ago
[1 YoE, Field Service Engineer, Field Service / Maritime / Maintenance / Commissioning Engineer, DACH, the Netherlands and Ireland]

[1 YoE, Field Service Engineer, Field Service / Maritime / Maintenance / Commissioning Engineer, DACH, the Netherlands and Ireland]

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?

u/AtemGansei — 2 hours ago
[1 YoE, Personal Shopper, SDR/corporate customer experience, Canada]

[1 YoE, Personal Shopper, SDR/corporate customer experience, Canada]

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?

u/Traditional_Level687 — 1 hour ago

[4 YoE, Masters Student, Software Developer, Germany]

From my pro exp, I have only exposure of process(not in-depth) should I still keep those points? I need your genuine/brutal feedback, suggestions on my resume. Thanks.

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u/Apprehensive-Set-298 — 6 hours ago
[2 YoE, Student, Consulting Intern, USA]

[2 YoE, Student, Consulting Intern, USA]

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!

u/Difficult-Rip-3874 — 2 hours ago
[0 YOE, Student, Intern, India]

[0 YOE, Student, Intern, India]

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.

u/sandeep_8ui — 2 hours ago
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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!

u/MortgageEuphoric12 — 19 hours ago
[0 YoE, Unemployed, Software Engineer, UK] Any advice would be highly appreciated

[0 YoE, Unemployed, Software Engineer, UK] Any advice would be highly 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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u/AlexDronovPaused — 5 hours ago

[9 YoE, Unemployed, Service Desk Manager/Service Manager, UK]

Hi all,

I am a recently(December) redundant Service Desk team leader for a large data centre company in the UK. As from the CV, I took a position as a remote hands team supervisor, and our company was purchased by a much larger company. We stopped physical remote hands work and turned to solely service desk activities, covering all avenues of contact for all services(remote hands, networking, power, cooling etc) for clients.

I have been working mostly remotely for the past 5 years, coordinating efforts to improve the team, services, shifting left, supplier reviewing, incident management, while my managers focused on our overall strategy, budget etc. working on-call for incidents, team issues, client escalations. I've been progressing to ITIL expert using company training and would like to continue that as required.

I've had some trouble updating my older CV, because even though I have been part of the hiring process for a decade, I can't remember seeing a single good CV of course.

I would like to progress to Service Desk Manager, or, to become a service manager type position.

I have managed to snag one interview as a Service Manager for next week with an old CV, but I have recently updated and would just like an honest opinion. Can elaborate as necessary. Thank you in advance.

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u/ultrarichard69 — 6 hours ago
[4 years, unemployed, Frontend Engineer, Middle East]

[4 years, unemployed, Frontend Engineer, Middle East]

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?

u/Conscious-Stuff4630 — 10 hours ago

[3 YoE, Student, Helpdesk Technician, USA] Looking for critiques and feedback

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I'm currently a student and an employee for my city government's IT department. Looking to get a job as a network administrator, so i started doing my home server project to increase my technical prowess in networking. I tried to keep everything concise and on one page so its easier for the recruiter to read while still keeping enough information to highlight my skills. Is there anything that can be improved?

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u/Isntagram — 17 hours ago

Does a short job help resume or make it worse?

I’m a 17 year old guy who’s been working in the food industry for over a year now.

I started at McDonald’s for 2 days, then worked at Chick-fil-A for about 8 months. After that I worked at Starbucks for around 1.5 months, and I’m currently at Panera Bread but planning to leave soon and have only worked here for about 2 weeks.

I’ve gotten a pay increase at every job, going from $15.50 to about $18 an hour now, however I’m tired of working with food and so I’m trying to switch into retail now.

My issue is that some of my jobs were really short and so I’m not sure what to put on my resume.

I know I will definitely put Chick-Fil-A as that’s my longest and best experience. I’m stuck on whether I should include Starbucks or not. It’s my second longest job and I know Starbucks is a great name to have on my resume but I’m not sure how employers will react when they see less than 2 months.

Would including Starbucks actually help my resume (now looking for retail jobs), or would it be better to just leave it off and keep Chick-fil-A since I worked there longest?

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u/TowelDifferent4027 — 19 hours ago
[14 YoE, Claims Adjuster, Attorney maybe?, US]

[14 YoE, Claims Adjuster, Attorney maybe?, US]

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?

u/teenybop7 — 17 hours ago
Image 1 — [10 YOE, currently unemployed, Data Operations, London, UK]
Image 2 — [10 YOE, currently unemployed, Data Operations, London, UK]

[10 YOE, currently unemployed, Data Operations, London, UK]

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🥲

u/LegalDyl1027 — 18 hours ago
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