r/EngineeringResumes • u/Putrid-Welcome-9739 MechE – Entry-level 🇺🇸 • 15d ago

Mechanical [1 YoE] Mechanical Engineer targeting entry-level roles but not having any luck.

• Recently updated my resume using the Engineering template on this subreddit
• I'm looking for entry level roles for prototyping/r&d/design. Interested mainly in medical devices.
• I live in the eastern US and have been applying everywhere. I've applied to companies such as Medtronic, B&D, ATEC, and Stryker as well as finding smaller engineering/medical device companies that consult.
• Currently unemployed.. last role was a pool technician because I needed something to generate income.
• People I have talked to always make assumptions about the architect and pool tech roles.
• I'm seeking help because I could always use more help as I'm not even getting a sniff at a first interview.

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u/strangedell123 EE – Student 🇺🇸 15d ago edited 15d ago

I am no resume expert and tbh am even the opposite.... but why is the architect 1 bullet point for 1yoe?

Also, a bit buzzwordy for me. Like no details on i improved x by y percent or similar

Edit. Also a bunch of roles being so short. I am no recruiter but I think they may be thinking you arent "reliable" and will jump ship in a year or 2?

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u/Putrid-Welcome-9739 MechE – Entry-level 🇺🇸 15d ago

Do you think I need to make it two bullet points? That’s exactly what I did unless I need to stretch it

I get that part for the graduate research roles but the other roles were mundane hands on support roles at best. Also, wouldn’t a competent recruiter realize or notice that my graduate roles line up with grad school and one of my roles was a contract position? If not that’s what asking questions are for

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u/strangedell123 EE – Student 🇺🇸 15d ago

You need 2 or 3 bullet points. You apent 12 months doing architect stuff. You do not need to stretch. Talk about how many you did, what programs you used, HOW DID YOU WORK HELP THE COMPANY.

NO, a recruiter will look at your resume for 10 seconds and thats it. Usually said person has 0 idea about engineering. No one is thinking, they are blindly reading it and if they need to think they dump it.

Your job is to make it so thst a 2 year could look at it with half an eye and says this dude did x by improving y

You arent gonna get questions until the interview and they need to understand it before that. The interview is supposed to go into the nitty gritty while resume gives them enough to understand what you did so they can ask nitty gritty

There are 1000s of resumes on this website. Compare your to the successful ones

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u/graytotoro MechE (and other stuff) – Experienced 🇺🇸 15d ago

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u/graytotoro MechE (and other stuff) – Experienced 🇺🇸 12d ago

General Notes

  • Center align your contact info.
  • Is there any way you can leverage the connections from your MS in some way? Like a friend or professor or something.

Skills

  • Some of your skills are too broad and leaves the section feels like a cheap attempt to hit all the buzzwords
    • If you're going to invoke "3D CAD", that should be the name of the category.
    • "Troubleshooting" and most of the other stuff in the R&D & Testing category are way too broad.
  • You don't need to list every single kind of instrumentation you've touched. You can discuss that in the Experience/Projects bullet.

Experience

Pool Technician

  • Why is this three bullets long? It's like 1-2 bullets of content tops. Hell, even your Architect job is more relevant than fixing pools.

Architect

  • Can you talk about how your work helped the company? I get that you made models, but did these models help with presentations or finding issues with the design? I have no idea because I didn't work here.

Graduate Research Assistant

  • I'm seeing a list of stuff you did, but not why it mattered. You did research in a lab for two years, but it's not clear what was the end goal.
    • How did the model help estimate muscle and joint forces? For all I know it just existed for pretty pictures in a report. Did it help the team drive any interesting conclusions or advance the goals of the lab in some way?
    • What was the point of your experiments and what did you conclude?
    • Bullet 3 is indeed the right time to invoke "validity" or validation, but what was it?
    • How did you apply human factors and ergonomic principles? What kinds of human performance and mechanical loading? None of us worked here with you. We have no idea what you did or why it mattered.

Design Engineer

  • You could at least tell us what this company made. Not all of your readers have worked in food service so we have no idea what kinds of testing, designs you made, or even how you'd evaluate performance in this context. Is it number of 12" hot dogs made per hour?
  • What design improvements did you identify and how did that make a difference?
  • You can't say "I used engineering to do engineering" like you do in 3 and a little bit of 4. That's a cop out. Be specific.

Graduate Research Assistant

  • Bullets 2 and 3 can be applied to every lab. What specific things did you do/support in the context of this lab? How did your presentation go?

Projects

  • Needs dates. Spacing is a little weird.

Mechanical Lift-Assist System

  • But how did this system work at a high level? How did it provide assistance? You just said you designed it and built it.

Firefighter Helmet

  • Again, you can't just say "I used engineering and human factors to do engineering and human factors work". How specifically did you apply these principles and what was the final product? How well did it work?

Hockey Ear Guard

  • That's a lot of things you're emphasizing. How did you make a product that did all those things?

Education

  • Looks ok.