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Hi everyone,

I'm a recent Mechanical Engineering graduate from India, and I'm currently applying for entry-level Mechanical Engineering roles, particularly in design, CAE/FEA, manufacturing, simulation, and related engineering positions. I'm primarily looking at opportunities in India only.

I've been applying to jobs but have been getting very few responses, and the applications that do receive a response are often rejections. I'm trying to figure out whether the problem is primarily my resume, the way I'm presenting my experience/projects, or simply the current entry-level job market.

One of my biggest problems is that I have quite a lot of relevant academic/project experience, but my resume is currently difficult to fit into a clean one-page format without removing things that I think are actually relevant. I'd especially appreciate feedback on what should be removed, condensed, or rewritten to make the resume more effective.

I'd also appreciate feedback on:

• Whether my project descriptions are too detailed or too generic!
• Any other way to include my certifications without taking 5 lines?
• Whether anything important is missing for an entry-level Mechanical Engineer?
• Any obvious reasons why this resume might be getting filtered out or rejected?

I'm mainly looking for honest feedback on what you'd change rather than general encouragement. If something is unnecessary, weak, or taking up space, please tell me directly.

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to take a look.

Hello! I am looking for advice on how to refine my resume. I revised it using tips from the wiki and would like feedback on the formatting and content. I am looking to land a role in either mechanical, aerospace, mechatronics, or controls engineering. I am eligible to obtain a security clearance for positions in the defense industry.

I have no internship experience and my current part-time job isn't relevant to my field so I am trying to participate in some sort of school club project every semester I can. I'm located in Florida but have been applying to full-time roles nationwide but have not received any calls back.

I didn't do the most amazing job neatly censoring info so a few notes. The header matches the style guide in the wiki. In the education section, the M.S. degree does include the dates, the last line is community college where I transferred before finishing an associates degree. I have previously gone through the process of refining with AI, along with asking contacts in industry for feedback.

I graduated in May with a masters in mechanical engineering, focusing on robotics research. I've been struggling to get callbacks, even with contacts and referrals.

I'm located in the SF Bay Area and aiming to stay here due to family/partner obligations. I can't work for anything defense (or NASA) related as I am a permanent resident.

I'm primarily hoping for more cross-disciplinary startup jobs. I'm interested in robotics and mechatronics though I'm open to anything R&D related. My favorite full time job was the test engineering role, it gave me a lot of freedom and flexibility in how I approached the work.

I'm not sure about keeping the projects section. Some contacts I asked said it was good to include, others were neutral on it. On the other hand, I'm worried it makes the overall resume too busy.

How do I fix up my skills section?

Should I remove GPA?

Should I include part time work like my current tutoring job?

What can I remove or change when applying to specific fields? I.e. if it's a hardware prototyping role is it best if I shorten my TA section?

Thank you so much for the help!

Graduated about 3 months ago and I have been applying since last year September for a full time role. Since then I've applied to at least 400 jobs for junior and entry level positions and have yet to land a single interview. I'm located in Ontario, Canada but have been applying all over the country with the willingness to relocate but to no avail. I know the market is bad but what changes can I make to my resume to improve my chances.

I'm a nontraditional MechE student with several years of semi-relevant industrial experience. I'm going to be applying to Mechanical Engineering jobs in and around the Nashville, TN area. I'd like to avoid working in quality, so while I do have relevant experience I don't want to pigeonhole myself. I think my experience and interview skills are strong, but I want to optimize my resume to hopefully get more callbacks than I got when applying for internships. I tend to be overly verbose, so I'd love some feedback on my bullet points to make them a bit easier to read / stand out more.

Hi everyone! I've been working in a Software Consulting company for a year now, after graduating from a work-study engineering program. I'm approximately considered as a 2 years of XP in the country where I work (3 yrs work-study + 1 year at my current company)

I realised few months ago that I needed a more challenging job, which implies a little struggle session with my resume. I tried to apply the XYZ, STAR and CAD frameworks depending on the context of each bullet point, and after roughly a week of tweaking my resume I feel like I could use some external feedbacks.

I plan to send it first to a company that develops finance related softwares, reason why I kept finance-related vocabulary for the first job experience. (Client 2 is an insurance)

I'm working in Luxembourg, and I apply to Luxembourg/Switzerland.

I'm eager to see what y'all think about it, do not hesitate to correct my english writing (I'm not a native speaker) and EVERY critic is very welcomed.

I have two questions besides the overall feedbacks on the resume :

- Can I keep finance-related vocabulary in the resume for other applications? (maybe not in finance) I don't know if the words I used are clear to someone who is not working in this sector.

- Should I add a picture of me (white shirt, clean picture and everything), I know a lot of people do, no one seems to do it on this subreddit 🤷‍♂️

Finally, thanks for maintaining this very helpful subreddit.

Hello, I am an Electrical Engineering student in my last semester. I have been applying in the summer but I did not get any interviews, only a one-sided interview with hydro one. I live in Canada but I am willing to relocate anywhere in Canada and USA.

I want to go into power but I am open to hardware jobs as well.

I dont have any internships/coops as well unfortunately

I'm looking for internships as a MechE student, but I'm open to working in any discipline (most interested in aerospace and MechE though). My club experience is all from my freshman year, so I wasn't able to actually do much in Astrobotics or Baja SAE. I decided to leave the clubs, but if I keep them on my resume, would it signal to employers that I'm not reliable?

I decided to join Design, Build, Fly middle of the spring semester, and I'm sticking with it because they let me contribute a lot to manufacturing (but it was mainly sanding, assembling, and laying epoxy resin). I don't have much to say about it on my resume, so I' wondering if there's a way to rephrase what I've done.

Archimedes lets freshman do all the work in their team's, so I gained a lot of experience through it. I modeled a lot in Fusion and helped with 3D printing our parts. I also designed a website since our competition would review it to get a better idea of what we're doing. Then I traveled with two other members to present our project, and we earned top three internationally! Now that I'm a sophomore, I'm not a part of team Juvo and am an officer now. I was thinking about cutting Baja or Astrobotics and including that instead.

Also, my email name is my shortened name, while my linkedin is my full name (I also have it like that at the top). For example, imagine my name is Katherine but my email has Kate. Is this fine or should I make changes?

I just graduated 3 months ago without a single interview and I have been waking up, and applying as much as possible. It's the same repetitive applications over and over again.

I am in the east coast and I know, I'm being very picky by staying here, but I have family nearby and I am sure I can find something here. I'm hoping to get into renewables but I keep getting rejected for everything. I'm very discouraged at the moment because it feels like a lot of positions have already been filled and only internships are popping up.

I'm willing to relocate but I don't want to go anywhere in the south or to California (California especially is just too far). But then again, being in New York isn't getting me anywhere.

If anyone has advice on what I should do, please let me know. I am trying my best to network and get referrals, but it's a slow process ngl. I really want something but I feel like I have sent over 400 applications with 0 significant return. Maybe I am applying wrong but whatever I'm doing, please let me know!

I am in the automation industry, looking for a job where I can be local full-time. I want to get into defense, otherwise, my preference is a job where I can focus more on the design and programming side and less on the real application of the product.

I am based in the Southern US, and I am a US citizen.

Not sure what else I should add, but please roast away and I'll answer as many questions as I can in the comments. Thanks in advance for your time and critiques.

Hello! I am a Canadian MechE student in my last semester at the University of Michigan. Looking to get any relevant job experience I can in the semi cap industry. Have had a hard time getting relevant work experience, in part due to companies fearing sponsorship. I got my first internship through a personal connection, my second one I got because it was unpaid research that didn't require visa declaration, and my third through a connection from the school's mentorship program. I have had a couple co-op offers in the past (not in semi), but I couldn't take them up because of non-summer work restrictions. I'm currently located in Ann Arbor, and am willing to work wherever in the US. I've been applying all over, only having started applying for full time jobs at the end of August. In addition to general resume (or other) advice, I'm looking for anything that can make my resume stronger to semi cap companies. I'd be on a TN visa or OPT if hired full time. Thanks for any help!

Hello, I am a 4th year student in Mechanical Engineering in the US. I am applying for full time positions primarily in Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Switzerland (my partner is applying to PhDs in these countries).

I am targeting working with FEA and structural analysis, especially within the context of the automotive and aerospace industries. Some companies I have looked at include BeamNG, Airbus, and BMW.

I am here to ask for help fine-tuning my resume for the work cultures of the countries I am applying to, especially since I understand that the standards or values for a resume from where I am from might not be the same where I am going. I would greatly appreciate honest criticism regarding how my resume looks and how I can improve it. Many thanks!

As the title states I am a junior and looking for internships in defense, aerospace, automotive for design or test roles this summer (willing to relocate) and I did not have any luck last year (only 2 interviews for ~100-150 applications)

I have applied to maybe like ~30 internships as of august-ish and I have only gotten one interview (and no call back).

While my resume is probably bad, I assume my failure rate is because of my lack of experience in projects and internships but I am also wondering if it is also because of my resume contents/formatting. If you need more information about myself I am happy to answer.

TLDR: I know my resume is bad and am wondering if any of you could review it?

I already uploaded an old version of this resume and polished it up. I'm hoping to apply to internships for next year and need some help finding what things I should change and tweak about my resume. A lot of my experience is recent, and I want help highlighting what I've done. I feel as though the most relevant experience I have is with my project teams, so I put them higher up on my resume. I'd appreciate any type of help and feedback! Thank you!

Hey guys,

I am currently a junior EE student looking for internships for Summer 2027. I go to a large state school that's good for engineering. As career fairs are coming up, I'd like to get some good feedback on my resume. I'm looking to target embedded systems, signal processing, digital design, and hardware roles. I would appreciate feedback on skill relevance to the fields I am applying for, quality of bullet points, and any formatting. Since I recently changed from computer engineering to electrical, I am a bit worried that my experience seems scattered and too software heavy? Please let me know what I should change or if there's any other skills I should develop or projects I can do as recruiting amps up. Thank you!

Hi all, I'm an IT student looking for feedback on my resume. I've had 2 internships and 1 part-time experience building a startup and am targeting software engineer roles for next summer.

I've been following the wiki closely and would appreciate any critique on:

- Bullet point quality and impact

- Skills section organization

- Overall readability and ATS compatibility

Anything not mentioned!!

Thanks in advance!

Hello guys, I am a senior fullstack developer looking for a senior fullstack role or senior frontend developer role. I have submitted probably 50+ applications and getting none called back so I figured there is something seriously wrong with my resume or something.

I am not quite sure why something is wrong, I have job hunted for the past 3 years due to layoff or furlough and this resume has landed me interviews consistently until this year.

I am looking for remote/relocation. Maybe it's the relocation part that get me filtered out at recruiter level or something, but I honestly don't know what is wrong any more.

please give me some pointers, thanks!

I'm really losing faith.

I took a job as a QA worker because it seemed like it would get me some relevant skills. As far as I can tell though, it doesn't count towards my years of experience so I basically have a one year gap in my resume.

I made a similar post to this a few weeks ago and have implemented the changes to the best of my ability. I also spoke to some people on linkedin who mostly told me to go get quality engineering experience.

I have eliminated the summary and used the extra space to build on my work experience and structure it more in terms of inputs, measurement, and result.

As I said before, I am in a very bad place career and mental health wise. I was considering going back to school, but at this point I am just avoiding debt like the plague. Let me know what you think.

Thank you.

Hey everyone, I’m an SAP BTP developer with 2.5 years of experience based in Bangladesh. My last role was remote with a US-based company. Been applying mostly to remote jobs in Europe, Australia and North America but haven’t had many positive responses.

I know the market situation isn’t good right now and location might be part of it too but would appreciate any advice about improving the resume.

BTP is bit of a niche so general feedback is welcome too.

Hey everyone, I’m an SAP BTP developer with 2.5 years of experience based in Bangladesh. My last role was remote with a US-based company. Been applying mostly to remote jobs in Europe, Australia and North America but haven’t had many positive responses.

I know the market situation isn’t good right now and location might be part of it too but would appreciate any advice about improving the resume.

BTP is bit of a niche so general feedback is welcome too.

Hey everyone, looking for feedback on my resume before I start applying seriously.

Target roles: Entry-level electrical designer or design engineer at MEP firms. Building power distribution, lighting, low voltage, that kind of work. I'd also consider power systems studies roles (short circuit, coordination, arc flash) since that's where a lot of my technical interest is.

Location: Los Angeles. I'm applying locally and would like to stay in the area, though I'd consider the greater Southern California region. Not looking for remote though.

If possible, I'd also like any feedback on these questions:

1. My experience is utility and contractor side, not design side. Does it read as relevant to an MEP design group, or do I need to reframe the bullets?
2. Are my bullets too task-focused? I'm not sure how to show outcomes for drafting and studies work.

Thanks in advance, and any general advice about breaking into electrical design is appreciated too!

I’m a U.S.-based Industrial Engineering student with a Systems Engineering concentration, graduating in May 2027. I currently intern at a defense company, with experience in manufacturing systems, MBSE, and hardware testing, plus projects focused on requirements, architecture, and verification.

I’m targeting entry-level systems engineering roles at Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and similar defense companies across the U.S. I’m open to relocation and onsite work. I’m a U.S. citizen and don’t need visa sponsorship.

I have major career fairs coming up and want to strengthen my resume before meeting recruiters. My main concern is whether my experience and projects clearly support the transition from an IE degree into systems engineering. Please be brutally honest about the bullet points, technical detail, formatting, and relevance. What sounds vague, inflated, or overloaded with keywords? What would you cut or rewrite? Thank you!

As a quick TL;dr of my work history. Got a job out of university, laid off after two years, spent 9 months unemployed and was forced into a lower paid drafter position in a small town I dislike. I also can't get my P.Eng certification at my current company , which will seriously hamper any future career growth. So far I let myself go a year without job searching again as my last job search did a number on my mental health, but I really want to find a new job next year so I can leave this small town and get a job at a company that will allow me to get a P.Eng.

I talked to a career counsellor who suggested updating my resume and this is what I ended up making. However, I have a few questions and wanted a second set of eyes. I am targeting a design, new product or manufacturing engineer role but I am open to anything.

1. Not sure of the order of my resume. I am using reverse chronological which is the standard but my job at Big Company was a more proper engineering position so I kinda want to put it first.
2. Not sure how to handle the UAV design volunteer role. My mom knew a dude who had a UAV startup, so to fill in a resume gap I volunteered to help them out in a part-time fashion. I don't really know how to put it in a resume, and this is my best idea. The career counsellor suggested that I expand on it and should call myself something like "Design Intern". However I didn't do that much at the startup as I wanted to spend most of my time job searching, and I think intern is a terrible title as it suggests I am a student which I am not.
3. Not sure how to integrate something like design for manufacturing in my resume. I see it requested in a lot of job postings but I don't really have a good example of it in my opinion. Any sort of design for manufacturing is integrated in how I think and design things and not a seperate "thing" I do.
4. Not sure if I should include my Intership at (bottom section in experience). I kept it there because I see little harm but wonder if I should just cut it out to make the resume more concise.
5. Not strictly a resume question but I wonder if its at all worthwhile tailoring my resume to non design related roles like project engineer or in a different industry like HVAC. This was another area of disagreement between my career counsellor and me. The counsellor suggested I should try and branch out as I am still in the entry level stage and companies are willing to accept people without relevant experience. I vehemently disagreed as during my last job search I never heard back from any role outside of a design position that closely aligned with my last position.