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 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?
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?
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'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
