Job Skills Resume Help and Career Guidance - EE Grad

[tinhat]

Hello, Could I have some feedback on this resume. What can be done to improve it. Thanks.

 

[berkeman]

Welcome to PF.

Nice resume! My only comment would be that it looks like you have inserted extra spaces in hyphenated words like time - sensitive. There should not be any spaces around the hyphen.

Also, on the soft copy of the resume it's good to provide links to your patents to make it easy to review them.

Good luck!

 

[bryantcl]

Just a few thoughts as I was on the job market recently (within the past year). Listing skills first before employment history for an experienced professional is suspect to some recruiters as it's looked at as trying to hide lack of experience. So if you are an experienced professional, list employment history before skills and education. If you a new graduate then skills and education first is fine. This resume lacks a statement of purpose. I know a lot of people hate doing them as the resume should speak for itself but alas, this is the current paradigm. As a final recommendation, if you can swing it financially, get professional help with your resume.

Best of luck.

 

[WWGD]

Isn't there some AI or other app that can help you? IIRC, there are ones that can start with a template and then change for different job ( Edit: Types/Applications).

 

[CrysPhys]

Just a few thoughts as I was on the job market recently (within the past year). Listing skills first before employment history for an experienced professional is suspect to some recruiters as it's looked at as trying to hide lack of experience. So if you are an experienced professional, list employment history before skills and education. If you a new graduate then skills and education first is fine. This resume lacks a statement of purpose. I know a lot of people hate doing them as the resume should speak for itself but alas, this is the current paradigm. As a final recommendation, if you can swing it financially, get professional help with your resume.

Best of luck.

<<Emphasis added.>>I haven't been involved with resumes for ~10 yrs, so I'm not in touch with the latest practices. But I'm puzzled by the sentences I've bolded. If you are an experienced professional, I would think that you would still want some sort of "Professional Summary" near the beginning of the resume before the detailed reverse-chronological employment history. E.g., if you have a PhD in Physics, you would want to highlight that credential right away (details of schools and degrees should indeed be listed at the end). And you would want to highlight your key skills and experiences right away. It's important to present the highlights upfront and not force the reader to wade through your employment history to extract them ... which the reader might not have the time or patience to do.

The advice given to me by several professional career coaches many moons ago was to never cast an entire resume in functional form; i.e., configure the resume according to skills and experiences instead of reverse-chronological order. Because indeed that could set off red flags concerning gaps in employment. But that's an entirely different beast from an introductory "Professional Summary" to grab the attention of the reader right away. If the reader is interested, they would then take the time to read the detailed employment history. To me that logic would still apply today.

 

[CrysPhys]

Isn't there some AI or other app that can help you? IIRC, there are ones that can start with a template and then change for different job types.

While driving last week, I happened to hear a radio program on this topic. The speaker said to be careful that the AI-generated resume does not match the job post too closely (say 100%) as scored by the employer's AI-screening software, because that would set off a red flag that the applicant submitted an AI-generated resume. The speaker said to use AI-assisted software that would generate an ~80% match, high enough to get by the employer's AI-screen, but not so high as to set off a red flag. This is yet another battle of AI's. Akin to students using AI programs to write papers, and instructors using AI programs to catch students submitting AI-written papers.

 

[WWGD]

While driving last week, I happened to hear a radio program on this topic. The speaker said to be careful that the AI-generated resume does not match the job post too closely (say 100%) as scored by the employer's AI-screening software, because that would set off a red flag that the applicant submitted an AI-generated resume. The speaker said to use AI-assisted software that would generate an ~80% match, high enough to get by the employer's AI-screen, but not so high as to set off a red flag. This is yet another battle of AI's. Akin to students using AI programs to write papers, and instructors using AI programs to catch students submitting AI-written papers.

Maybe applicants can slightly tweak the application that was outputed by the app? Or would this be too much work or otherwise not viable?

 

[CrysPhys]

Maybe applicants can slightly tweak the application that was outputed by the app? Or would this be too much work or otherwise not viable?

I have no experience with such software. But the main problem with that approach is: How would an applicant know what to tweak, and by how much? I think if I were to play that game, I would have to hire the services of a professional career coach who has access to current screening software used by employers. That person could then run the applicant's resume (however generated) through the screening software and see what the score is.