Questions tagged [resume]
Questions relating to resumes and curriculum vitae (CV).
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How to include unreleased products in your portfolio?
Currently, we have built products that are not yet out in the public. However, they make up quite a huge and important chunk of my portfolio.. to demonstrate what I've done for the project.
I am a ...
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What to do about lengthy CV?
I've been trying to rewrite my CV recently as I'm going to begin applying for some jobs. Even though I am young, I am constantly involved in various clubs, hobbies interests and short-term jobs which ...
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How should I explain employment gap taken intentionally for learning new skills?
I have been working as an Android developer for the past 1.8 years and recently left my job. Even though I have decent knowledge of Android development, I believe one can never rely only on one ...
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How to list company location on resume if you don't have a "home office"
I've worked for several years for a consulting firm (as a full-time salaried employee), but never exactly had a "home office" that I was based out of. Two of their offices are near-ish but I still ...
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How can I tailor my resume to avoid the appearance of job hopping? [closed]
I've had two back-to-back, one-year stints at different companies. I'm considering returning to the company I left one year ago, bringing my total to three jobs in three years.
Each change was ...
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How to construct Skills section for developer resume? [closed]
Currently, I have the following subsections under Skills:
Languages: Visual C#, SQL, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Java
Database: MySQL, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server
Tools: ...
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Incomplete degree on resume [duplicate]
I have an incomplete degree in Computer Science. I am about 75% complete. I don't, at all, want to touch on why it is incomplete. But It is something I would be completely comfortable discussing with ...
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Include mentoring Junior developers and interns in my resume? [closed]
I am a Software Engineer with 4 years experience and I was updating my resume recently. A good part of my current work as a Software Engineer involves mentoring a junior engineer and 2 interns.
Do I ...
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How to list non-academic fellowship on resume
I'm struggling to figure out how to list a fellowship on my resume, specifically whether I should list it under Professional Experience or create a new section for it near my Education section (or ...
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How to list related experience on my resume?
I'm currently looking for a new job, and found one listing on Craigslist that I feel would be a perfect fit. However, some of the related domain knowledge (for software development) is out of scope on ...
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How to indicate I finished top of my class on a UK-format CV?
I'm modifying my CV to a UK format, and I would like to mention that I've participated in a course and finished as one of the top students.
How do you go about indicating this on UK CV (if at all)?
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"Political" Content on a Web Design/Software Development Portolio?
I am currently setting up a portfolio website to include on my resume to try and showcase some of my software development skills, but I don't have too many examples of front-end web design. For this ...
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Should I put that I am a Day Trader on my resume?
I have been day trading for a few years now and have been quite profitable. I believe I have the skill set and knowledge to continue this indefinitely as a career however I recently found another ...
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My CV got sent to my current job and we are not currently recruiting [closed]
My CV was sent to my current job by a recruitment consultant who has a long standing relationship with my boss for about 20 years, without my consent. This has led to my boss being hostile towards me ...
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What is the correct job title? [closed]
I've been seeking Design Strategist positions for years. Product or systems design - bascally the jack of all trades, pseudo project manager/communicator between designers and developers/engineers who ...
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How do I indicate that skills on my resume are similar to skills required for a job? [duplicate]
I extensively used Silverlight to create applications in my past experience.
Now I am applying for a WPF position.
WPF and Silverlight are very similar and use pretty much the same technologies (e.g....
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I don't have a surname, so what should I use in my CV or LinkedIn?
I was born in Indonesia, where a surname isn't mandatory so I only have a given name, let's say "Samirah" on my passport. I am now in Belgium, in the last year at college, where I signed up using only ...
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How should I interpret candidates GPAs as someone unfamiliar with them? [closed]
I am currently involved interviewing to help replace an engineer on my team. This is a junior position so the candidates range from a few years work experience to being straight out of college. ...
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What's an alternative way of saying "references available upon request"?
If you're not supposed to put it in your resume, what's the alternative phrase to be used?
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Applying for jobs without showing my employment history
From what I've read on other threads on here regarding job-hopping / short-term employments, it seems that you should never state your reasons for leaving a job on your CV.
I believe I have ...
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Is it okay to Include my school achievements in Resume?
Generally in India, typical style is followed in Education Section of most Resumes:
Mention of HSC schooling
School Name,
High Secondary Certificate (HSC), Year of passing
...key points or ...
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Is it worth mentioning your advisors' qualifications in your CV? [closed]
I'm presently an undergraduate at college, started my junior year, and have done some internships at various places (one remote as a software dev, two at college as an undergrad researcher, and one ...
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Does leaving a new job because I'm moving look bad?
I work a retail job in a general store.
I'm a teenager.
I'm going into my first year of college in a few weeks.
When I started work, I thought I'd be able to stay and have my hours reduced for ...
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Submitting a resume easily parsed by applicant tracking systems (ATSs) or submiting a nicer one with which an ATS might have a bit of trouble parsing?
Is it better to submit a simply structured, well-organized, very blocky, dull resume that a parser can easily extract information from when submitting a job application online; or is it better to ...
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I have a good CV, what now? [closed]
I spent some years obtaining a good CV. Finished a bachelor without ever failing a subject, good grades, went international (I'm European) to obtain a good master degree and international experience, ...
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How to properly describe a half-finished student project on my resume
I was doing a double degree program where I worked on a project counting for both degrees. Only the first half of the project counted for my first degree while the whole project counted for my second ...
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How to explain jobs unrelated to profession?
I am a healthcare professional. I took time off to care for both my parents with terminal illness at different times, but within a 5 year period. I was burnt out on nursing and just wanted a routine ...
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Can I send an updated version of my resume after I've applied?
I applied for a graduate job last week through the usual online portals that many large companies have. Since applying I found a very useful CV guide provided by my university, so I've been making ...
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Should we measure candidate based on resume and it's format [closed]
I am very confused. I am senior technical manager and member of our company interview panel. We are total 5 people in interview panel.
I have been noticing since long time that 2 people from team are ...
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Order of work experience
I have a question regarding what order I should place my work experiences on my CV. I have had two part-time jobs at University. I am now going into my final year, so I am still employed at these. ...
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How to establish credibility/readiness in resume as a self-taught iOS developer [closed]
I'm a self-taught iOS developer with no experience and a degree in an unrelated field.
having trouble translating the work I've done into meaningful points that will show my strengths and ...
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Do you need a personal statement in CV
For some countries, like UK, people include a personal statement in their CVs. However, I've been told that I should keep my CV short and sweet, and no more than one page. So, What should I do? Or ...
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Including physical fitness on resume for a manual job when I have no relevant experience
I am looking to get into a hard manual labor field. I have no relevant professional experience, but I do have a moderate amount of non-paid experience — I know how to hammer, screw, lift, carry. I am ...
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Applying for internships - should I include 3 days' work experience from Year 10?
Back in year 10, I did 3 days of work experience (the school made all students do work experience). I am now a university freshman applying for internships, and am not sure whether to include it on my ...
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How to update resume/LinkedIn after getting promoted from an intern to a steady job?
I just finished my final year internship at a company A, I was offered a job (by the same company) and I accepted it. I'll be continuing to do what I have been doing during my 6 months internship but ...
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Highlight my masters experience in my resume, when I won't be finishing the degree?
In Ontario, Canada.
I'm feeling like I'm doomed after reading multiple articles online regarding an unfinished masters as a black mark of death.
So, like many other students, I have not flourished in ...
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How to make rotations look good on a CV/Resume?
I am at the end of a two year engineering graduate role in which I was encouraged to rotate through different departments and disciplines to find our niche, and gain exposure to the company.
During ...
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Updating Resume/LinkedIn to show that you have an offer after internship? [duplicate]
Background: I'm a college senior who recently was offered a full time position at a fortune 100 company when I graduate after completing a summer internship this summer but am still applying to other ...
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Impact of time needed to go through university on a resume
If someone has just got his diploma, usually his resume will contain very few actual work experience in his field. Most student jobs are not in your field of work, so they are barely relevant to a ...
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Alternatives to open source work (on a CV) [closed]
These days in the IT Sphere it seems nearly mandatory to have some open source work in accessible GitHub account listed on your CV.
As someone cursed with a laser-like focus when it comes to ...
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Should the resume be exactly in chronological order? [duplicate]
A friend of mine switched roles a few months ago, and she feels as though her current job experience is a step down from what her previous role used to be (there is some regret in switching as a ...
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Attending training school while looking for a job
I have a gap in my resume not working in period of one year and half, but during that period I was attending in professional training school for 8 months and the rest was study for exam and got couple ...
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Can I ask a former employee to correct inaccurate employment dates on their resume?
A former employee of my business recently reapplied for a job. Their resume lists the dates of employment as July 2016 – December 2016, when in fact they were fired after less than a month. I feel ...
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Should I write a referral cover letter?
I recently applied for a job at a public organization(which functions like a government) externally, and today one of my references who is internal to the organization highly recommended me to the ...
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Explaining three four month jobs within a year [duplicate]
Last year I left my first post-university job at which I did 2.5 years, to join a big 4 where I did 4 enjoyable months, then left as I was headhunted for a startup job with a 40% pay rise. As it ...
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Is it ethical to place Company projects in CV.?
I want to place some of the projects I did in my company as an Associate Software Engineer in CV. There are two kinds of a project I got involved with.
Projects where a number of developers got ...
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Should I include controversial achievements in my resume?
I'm writing a resume for a position in computer security software development. Should I include the facts of slightly borderline nature I'm well proud of?
For instance, I've programmed and currently ...
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Providing references as a part of my resume --- should I or shoudn't I?
I am trying to apply for a job at a local hospital. I am not required to provide references as a part of my job application, but I am tempted to -- and here is why:
The hospital and the organization ...
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How to write a resume when all my work experiences look the same?
I'm a software developer with 5 years of work experience. I've never had problems finding jobs, so I think my resume is at least good, but I want to make it awesome.
The biggest struggle I have, is ...
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Why Resume and Cover letter are location specific?
I have been getting lot of calls from Job Websites. They are claiming that my Resume/Cover letter is not as per Canadian, US, Singapore format. They are charging lot of money to change it into country ...
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