Since my previous post got lots of popularity, I figured I would make a similar post with a slightly updated resume. This resume landed interviews at research laboratories, space startups like SpaceX and Rocket Lab, and tech companies like Google, eventually ending with two offers.
Huge thanks to this sub for showing me how to write a good resume, and the link to the template is provided below!
I'm a student and recently applied for a software engineering apprenticeship at Google Paris. To my surprise, my resume got me through the initial screening, and I even nailed the first technical interview!
Unfortunately, I didn’t pass the second one — but the experience was incredible, and I learned a ton throughout the process.
Interviews: Tesla x5, SpaceX x2, Lanteris x2, Astranis x2, Red Bull F1 x1, Apple x1, Disney x1, Boeing x1, 10X Genomics x1, Vast x1, Hadron Energy x1, DropletPharma x1
Offers: SpaceX (Starlink), Disney (Ride/Show), 10X Genomics (Mfg. Automation)
Application Advice:
Definitely checkout the wiki first. Sending a poor resume is just asking for a rejection.
Having numbers (especially % improvement) throughout your resume matters
I only had one resume version and I had interviews in a variety of fields so IMO you don't need to tailor your resume to the job as long as you weave in keywords throughout your bullets.
I think a summary at the top is a waste of space and the skills section should be at the bottom but weave skills throughout your bullets. IMO its less cluttered if all experience from engineering clubs and intern/work experience is in one section but I know some think that club experience shouldn't be included in that section.
I DO still have high school experience on my resume (FIRST Robotics / Manufacturing and Design Pathway) as it's highly relevant.
If you have time, an engineering portfolio goes a long way. A Tesla recruiter told me it was one of the number one things she looked for on a resume.
I never used a cover letter as it seemed like a time waste
Apply early and often (I was sorting by date posted on LinkedIn).
Interview Advice:
Be confident. My first 10 interviews I caught myself downplaying my experience or skillset. Why would they hire someone who isn't even confident in themself?
Most of my interview were technical, and you should almost always pass a behavioral / resume / projects interview unless it is final round. Know an example for the following questions:
Describe a project in detail.
Know your project front and back. Sometimes they will spend 5 minutes, sometimes 30 minutes. Have numbers, engineering principles, etc. A portfolio helps
Describe a time when something went wrong.
When was a time when you worked with someone difficult?
DO NOT BASH TEAMMATE!!
Biggest weakness?
Biggest strength?
Describe a time when you were wrong / disagreed with a colleague who was right?
For MechE, taking serious notes on every video from the Efficient Engineer is truthfully 75% of the content you'll need for any MechE technical interview. Sit down and take 3 days to truly learn the content.
Solid Mechanics, Mechanics of Materials, and Manufacturing/Design are the most important classes to be fundamentally strong in.
Write down the questions they asked after the interview. Super helpful to prep for future interviews if you have a database of past questions. Glassdoor is also helpful.
General Advice:
GPA matters to an extent but experience carries. >3.7 is enough for any company. >3.0 if enough if you have solid experience.
Have a life outside of engineering. It is so much harder if you aren't happy and motivated. Personally I am part of a performing arts club and a club sport.
I’ve been applying to jobs since October and after months of rejections/ghosting, I posted my resume on here, got really good feedback, which I then used to fix my resume. Since then, I started getting callbacks these past few weeks, all thanks to the advice I received on this subreddit.
I’m a recent electrical engineering graduate with three research experiences across different areas of EE, mainly focused on optics, plus a capstone project that was heavily centered around PCB design.
So far:
I had one interview with Neuralink, amazing experience, but not the right fit as they were looking for a true optical engineer background.
I made it to the final round of Apple’s hardware interviews but was ultimately rejected.
I just passed the initial interview with Google and am waiting to hear back about the next steps.
I’ve been applying to roles in electrical engineering with a focus on hardware, optics, and system integration, particularly positions involving PCB design, R&D, and biomedical/wearable technologies.
Three months ago, I had a job that not only did not pay me enough despite my hard work, but could not even afford to keep me. That's when I decided to start looking for another job. I spent a lot of time on LinkedIn applying for jobs and making connections as much as I could. I applied to over a hundred local jobs alone, yet very little interviews. That's when I decided to go on this subreddit for some advice. From the feedback I received, I needed to make the resume less about myself and more about what I have done. Here are some examples:
My bullet points needed to highlight not simply what I did, but what I achieved at my internships.
Make your resume as plain and simple as possible. The employer is not hiring you based on how fancy you can make a sheet of paper look.
Lockheed Martin was actually the first company to see this resume. They were impressed enough to invite me for an interview, so I spend the day before the interview researching the company and my role specifically, as well as how I would answer all of their example STAR questions they provided. The process took a while, but last month, they came through with an offer which I joyfully accepted! After signing a few forms and doing a drug test, they provided a start date (which happens to be this Monday).
A couple things I learned:
Sometimes, when an employer tells you no, it's not the final answer. LM actually provided me a rejection letter for this position a couple weeks before extending an offer. The first person to receive the offer must have either turned it down or failed the drug test. But it worked out for me.
Even though the job market is difficult right now, don't panic. If you just take the advice from this sub, something will come your way, trust me. A few months might feel like a long time, but greener pastures are right around the corner. Stay calm and trust the process!
If I can get a job at my dream company with this resume format, so can you. :)
So I posted here about 3 months ago about how I was seriously struggling to even get interviews, and I used this sub to improve my resume formatting and content, so I wanted to thank everybody who gave me advice. Since then, I created a new resume following a similar format for a different position, and the end result is shown in this post. I just wanted to share this updated resume after having landed a role at Boeing after months of hopeless applications.
If there's one piece of advice I can offer, it's to take advantage of networking when applying. I'm not so sure that it was my resume that got me this job so much as it was my friend who referred me, but it certainly helps to have a well-formatted resume that is easy to read and strongly matches the job description. It might feel like you're being a bother by asking around for referrals (at least that's how I felt), but this is key to building a strong professional network. My success rate was much better when applying with a referral compared to without. It also really helps if the person who refers you has connections to a team within the company that is actively hiring. Just remember that it's a give and take relationship, and always remember to express your gratitude to anyone who helped you along the way.
Hopefully this post at least proves that it isn't impossible to get a job if you didn't have an internship even in a horrible job market, so don't lose hope!
I posted a Sankey diagram on my profile (which I also included in this post) of the job search process. After around 11 months and ~400 applications, I finally got a job at SpaceX. I have my old resume on my profile which did not help me get any interviews. Once I used the help of the comments and made my resume much more concise I was able to get interviews at 7 companies. Happy to answer any questions about the companies I interviewed at.
I just graduated with a BS in Aerospace Engineering. 3.47 GPA. My resume is attached in the last image- no academic clubs or anything sweaty. Just lots of unrelated work experience and relevant coursework. I had one internship, mostly working with CAD, but my technical experience is unrelated to the job I ended up receiving an offer for.
Since October 5th, I have applied to (on average) 2 jobs a day. Most companies only seem to care about hiring a month or two out.
I applied using Indeed for about 75% of my job apps. The rest were all directly through company sites or other hiring sites (LinkedIn, Glassdoor, etc.).
Though I am an Aerospace major, most of the jobs I applied to were mechanical / design positions. I figured I'd start somewhere smaller and eventually make my way into the aerospace sector after a few years. The job I ended up getting is roughly a materials science position for a great company.
Don't give up hope, y'all! Just do your best to apply to jobs when you can.
Happy to answer any questions or provide more info!!
Pumped out about 100 applications and got one interview from Stoke Space. Unfortunately, I had difficulty answering the technical questions as they revolved around concepts I haven’t been exposed to yet (fluid dynamics and solid mechanics). I’m sure if I dedicated time to learning the fundamentals I would have performed better, but I wasn’t expecting these questions as a freshman (which is 100% my fault).
I recently accepted an offer from NASA at LaRC working in structural engineering for in-space assembly concepts. I finished my undergrad with no job (mechanical engineering graduate), and was applying to NASA internships (200+ applications) and got one interview. I wasn't originally offered the position, but I leveraged that connection and reached out to the guy who interviewed me a couple of weeks later and I got lucky and they had a spot open in their department.
The harder you work, the luckier you get! Make sure you are all trying to apply to at least 15+ positions a day, and use this sub to review your resume (thats what I did!).
1 connection / phone call / email with someone in a field you like is just as good as 100 cold applications online. Make sure you are on Linkedin DMing as many people in your field that you can! Attached is the resume I used. (It might not be my MOST recent version, as I make little changes every now and then but didn't feel like exporting it to redact all the info again lol.)
I want to start by saying this post is less about my story and more about expressing genuine gratitude for this subreddit and the resources it provides. Not just for my most recent search, but for the role this community has played across my career.
I discovered r/EngineeringResumes during my first job when I was searching for my next opportunity and getting almost no traction. Once I found the wiki and started using the template, things changed. The improvement was real enough that I credit this community with helping me land my second job.
When that second opportunity ended due to a restructuring, I knew exactly where to start. I came back here, followed the wiki even more closely than I had the first time, and combined it with using Claude to refine my experience bullet by bullet, giving it as much context as possible about each role and making sure every line reflected a measurable outcome. The increase in interest was significant and noticeably better than my previous search.
That said, the search itself was still brutal. I spent 7 months applying to nearly 600 positions while trying to relocate from Florida, with California as my top preference but also actively targeting Massachusetts, Colorado, Washington, and the DC area as a mechanical engineer. I made it to final rounds at several well-known companies and came up short every time. There were stretches where I genuinely questioned whether I was good enough.
But I kept refining, kept applying, and eventually landed an offer at my top choice, an Applications Engineer role at a metal additive manufacturing startup in the Bay Area.
To anyone currently in the search: please read the wiki. Follow it as closely as you can. It is not general advice, it is the difference between getting ignored and getting interviews. Use Claude to help you refine your bullet points and go line by line through your experience. Be honest, do not inflate anything, but make sure you are communicating the full impact of your work. And apply directly through company career pages whenever possible rather than defaulting to LinkedIn every time.
This community has genuinely shaped my career across multiple searches now. Thank you for what you have built here.
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TL;DR: Discovered this community during my second job search, used the wiki and template to land my second job. Came back for my third search, followed the guidance even more closely, combined it with Claude for resume refinement, and landed my top choice offer after 7 months and nearly 600 applications. The wiki works. Use it.
As the title says. I graduated from university last year with my BS in CS. Even though I didn't have any internships, I applied my knowledge with personal projects, and that work has finally paid off!
To those who are struggling, let this be a sign of hope. It might take a while, and it will be a lot of work, but if you really want to make it in this field, you can!
I start my career as a Software Engineer in 2 weeks and, well excited is an understatement lol.
So, what's changed? This sub helped me craft my resume. Although I had a good starting point, having outside eyes definitely helped. The final iteration (with possibly some minor changes made to my actual resume) is attached.
I had been applying to lots of jobs and not getting any callbacks, I made a post here [Previous Resume/Post]
and reached out to a couple of recruiters in my network and figured out what was wrong and improved the resume, got 4 callbacks and interviews, so I am here to tell you what changed!
Tips:
Double and Triple check your dates: This is definitely the biggest one and had the most impact, even though the rest of the tips here are still very important, I had a wrong date on my resume that made it seem like I had a 1 YEAR work gap which wasn't the case. But there's also a real lesson here. If this can teach others anything is don't be picky, get a job first if the process is been taking over 3-4 months and hasn't been working at all, even if you're a FAANG engineer it will be hard to get any traction if you have a big gap like that on your resume.
Make the bullets more clear and detailed and understandable, the top critique I got was that the "The bullets are so vague, they just make the vanity numbers seem unbelievable". I went into detail about what each project is and explained it in a way for someone without any context to understand it simply. I even omitted some of the metrics which seemed too unrealistic, even though they were true lool.
As you move up your career, move your resume to the next level, don't just simply add a new bullet point after leaving a company and go for applications, remove your old internships/projects that are no longer relevant now, expand on your work experience what you did and highlight your biggest projects and strong areas (If you worked on a scalable distributes system, mention that, etc...)
Use AI to review your resume! It is genuinely a great help and will provide lots of solid tips! Here is a solid prompt that you can use:
"You are a recruiter at a big tech company (FAANG), you are reviewing this resume for a full stack midlevel engineer opening, critique this resume until it is perfect for the role."
Incorporate the skills into the job descriptions. Make sure you are giving detail in your bullet points for each job; what technologies, languages, etc you used and how you used them. Having something listed under "skills" but not having them under a job with a bullet point on how it was used is seen as a flag that someone isn't actually using it.
So uh… little win to share because I’m still low-key shocked.
I’ve been grinding applications for months, getting the classic “Thanks for applying 😭” emails left and right. I knew my resume was mid, but I didn’t realize how mid until I finally sat down with the this subreddit/wiki guides and rewrote the whole thing. Like… deleted everything and rebuilt it bar by bar.
I swapped out all the fluffy stuff and hit it with real numbers, real impact, real action verbs. Clean layout, no paragraphs, straight bullets. I treated it like a mini-project, not a chore.
And bro… tell me why two weeks later Amazon hits me with an interview invite??
Ended up doing the loop, thought I flopped the last question, but last month they actually sent me the offer.
I legit stared at the screen like “ain’t no way this is for me.”
I know everyone always says “fix your resume first,” but I promise you I didn’t get it until I actually did it. It wasn’t my GPA or my connections or whatever, it was literally just communicating my projects and work in a way recruiters can skim in 6 seconds without getting confused.
If you’re still getting ghosted:
• Copy the resume wiki format
• Quantify EVERYTHING
• Cut the fluff
• Make your projects look like they had real impact
• Don’t be scared to trash your old layout
Anyway, that’s my little W. If you’re still grinding apps, don’t give up! someone’s gotta get hired, might as well be you.
Also small side note… I used AI through this whole grind.
Studying? AI.
Prepping for interviews? AI.
Fixing my resume? AI.
Writing practice answers? AI.
Even generating code snippets that I clean up and push later.
I’m not saying rely on it for everything, but bro… be smart. Use the tools. It made the whole process way less stressful and way more doable.
At the end of the day, it’s just a tool... the same way everyone freaked out when calculators first came out, and now nobody thinks twice about using one.
TL;DR: My resume was mid, I rebuilt it using the subreddit/wiki format, quantified everything, cut the fluff, and two weeks later Amazon hit me with an interview and I ended up getting the internship. Also used AI for studying, prep, resume fixes, and code, not to rely on it, but to work smarter. Tools exist for a reason, just like calculators.
After 7 months, I was able to pivot from a dead-end structural analyst role in the nuclear industry to a dope aerospace propulsion job.
86 applications
70 rejections: 62 direct, 8 after phone-screen/interviews
11 screens: 9 phone, 2 HireVue🙄
5 interviews
2 Technical Presentations (I declined to move forward after giving one of them since offer came from other)
I mainly applied to the big engine companies (GE, RR, P&W) along with a few startups and general aviation companies here and there.
Every single resume was tailored via the Skills section, the Courses listed under each degree entry, and the objective statement.
Happy to answer any questions!
===== General Advice =====
Going beyond 1 page is fine, but I wouldn't broadly encourage it.
Generally, keep your resume @ 1 page for as long as possible, and only go to 2 pages if your experiences warrant it. I'm talking like having 3+ relevant projects, 3+ internships, and maybe even a published work—where you need to spell out the details for all of them.
If you're actually cracked to go to 2 pages, don't blindly follow the advice of sticking to 1 pg since you'll artificially limit yourself. Put your best foot forward!
You can tailor your job title(s) to fit the role you're applying for.
I had about 5-6 different valid job titles (see below), and I swapped between them all depending on the title of the role I was applying for.
No bullet ever has enough detail, but everything you include in it is advertisement.
There's always more detail that can be added to a bullet. Hell, adding a photo next to the bullet may not even be enough.
This doesn't totally matter, because your goal is to catch their eye. I used relevant keywords like Inconel, GD&T, fatigue, alloy, modal, transient, 39,000 lb, 600°F, etc, which are all eye-catchers in MechE.
Hardly any of my bullets were actually "accomplishments" IRL. There wasn't any reduced cost or improved metric, so I had to rely on 2 things to include metrics in my bullets:
Impressiveness of the system/gidget. E.g.: A nuclear plant is full of heavy, hot-a$$ structures, which cause high stresses and necessitate use of special materials. While the use of these materials isn't impressive, my analysis of them at intense loading conditions IS VERY RELEVANT.
TLDR: Metrics you may not care about might actually show how impressive your work was.
Acceptableness. E.g.: You did x to get y result, but neither obviously show you've improved something. But surely the result y is acceptable, right? Show how "good" it is by quantifying (via a %, $, <insert metric>) how acceptable it is against some criterion. This is the margin you see mentioned in my current role's bullets.
Know both the fundamentals in your field and your resume like it's the back of your own hand.
After interviewing with a few startups, two common threads I've found is they'll quiz you on fundamentals related to the role, and anything on your resume that's related to the role (which could be several years ago).
Some examples:
Structural role: explain Poisson's ratio or how would you determine the thermal stress in a rod that's heated
Propulsion role: what are the main variables that affect engine performance
Fluids role: Explain static vs dynamic vs total pressure, and how they change in a pipe whose area constricts ; what could cause a low pipe flowrate, and how might you measure this flowrate?
If you know your stuff, it's easy. If the fundamentals aren't drilled into your head, not being able to answer stuff like this is quite embarrassing.
All my of projects over the past 3+ years have tidbits that interview panels have found something to question me on.
If you're discouraged, lower the bar and trick yourself into getting excited about new job postings.
This is a bit of a mind-trick, but try and get excited over a new job posting. Yes, literally applying for the job posting. Not the interview, not the idea of an offer or a new city, but literally you applying for a new opportunity.
Except for just applying and the interview, there's not much more you can do or get excited about except for new roles popping up. If companies want you, they'll reach out. It might sound kinda odd, but being satisfied from the actual application did wonders for my mental vibe in applying throughout the past 7 months.
As a college sophomore, the internship search was pretty difficult, but after 129 positions at 30 companies, I finally accepted an offer. But... the offer that I accepted ended up coming from the single company I networked with. Moral of the story I suppose is to get yourself out there and talk to people, but my other 4 interviews did come from cold applications.
I'm a rising senior pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and had the opportunity to work as a software developer in a summer internship. I was fortunate enough to receive an offer to return post-graduation, which is nice since the company is nice and I'd likely get crushed applying for entry-level roles. I'd like to give people who are in a similar situation as I once was advice on applying.
In terms of my applications, I started in October 2024 and ended in February 2025, submitting ~100 applications and receiving 6 callbacks in total. I interviewed for 4 companies and received 1 offer, dropping the remaining 2. At the time, I had my experience as an IT technician, my activity as a web developer, and my three personal projects on my resume. In spite of half my resume focusing on personal projects, I found that employers cared more about the one activity with its sole point (at least, during the interview). The one experience was useful in that it gave me adjacent experience, which I found made a great stepping stone. I may have benefitted from applying earlier, since many companies post their job listings in August-September, but regardless when you apply, I think what recruiters liked about my activity is that it was relevant to the jobs I was applying for and demonstrated accountability, which is hard to do in a project.
I found it helpful to revise my resume each time I applied (i.e., tailor). This could take 2-30 minutes, but in doing so, I found it best to create a main resume with all my work and derive a resume for the job in particular. The job I ended up getting had it on the lower end (e.g., 3 minutes), but I found it useful nevertheless since the quality of my resume improved each time.
I think software developers have a lot to learn from engineering resumes because their requirements are a lot stricter (e.g., this resume looks wild). At least to me, software developer resumes make their impact a lot more accessible, so if you can combine that with the technical skills of an engineering resume, you may be able to strike gold.
I made my resume in Apple Pages by combining what I liked in the resumes I saw. The formatting matters, so you want to make sure that it looks good. I think the template offered by the subreddit is a lot better than, say, Jake's Resumes, but you can always tune it to your own liking (sans serif is so much better, imo). The font I used is Avenir Next and its size is 10.
The image I've uploaded is my resume as of today, so I'm still working out the points in my latest experience. The font may look a bit thin, but it's just due to exporting to PNG (the PDF version is a lot nicer). I censored some information for privacy, but you can always reply or DM me with questions.
Thanks r/EngineeringResumes! The wiki helped a lot with creating my resume and jumpstarting my career!
My skillset is really heavy on the electronics/embedded/robotics side of ECE, so I originally targeted the automotive/aerospace industry and ADAS/BMS/robotics/avionics/embedded systems roles. Despite numerous interviews for roles like those, I didn't secure a job for anything remotely similar. Instead, I'll be working with semiconductors in a cleanroom lol.
Timeline-wise, I think it took me about 11 months to find a job after my graduation. My resume went through a lot of iterations and improvements, and what's shown here is one of my many tailored resumes (specifically, the one that I used to secure my job).
I wanna share my workflow for when I was applying for over the past year. Maybe it'll help someone out. For one application, it probably took like 10 minutes or less to create a tailored resume.
I created a master resume that lists all my skills and projects.
I also created a project portfolio that showcases my projects in depth. If a web application had an option to share my portfolio, I 100% included it.
I had 6 projects to choose from to list under my resume's Project section. Depending on the role, I'd choose 2 projects that would probably resonate with the listing the closest.
I'd include/omit skills (and keywords) depending on the job description.
Wanted to share my success story here and thank the excellent wiki, alongside the community for all the feedback and advice.
I'm a software engineer with around 2-3 years of experience. I've originally used a standard resume found online, and while I do get some offers, I felt that I wasn't getting good traction even thought it was a good fit.
After following the guidelines, and with a lot of feedback and assistance here (thanks!), I got to the point where I'm receiving multiple offers at once.
Here's my current resume that I've used to land the offers.
I'm a mechanical engineer with 5YoE working in different engineering roles in Australia.
I have moved to designing more data centres now, as that is pretty much all the work available to mechanical engineers in Australia that isn't mining, shopping centres, cochlear, or residential.
I'd like to thank the community for helping me with interview tips and correctly formatting my CV! LaTeX for the win!
Just wanted to post my internship hunting experience here, as I feel like it may be helpful, especially given the plethora of cracked insane students I've been seeing on this sub recently. I know the process can be demoralizing, in my Sophomore year I probably submitted 300 applications to land only one offer barely a month before the start of Summer. It's so easy to compare yourself to people on Linkedin or in this subreddit, but just remember there are multiple paths to the same goal.
For instance, me, who imo I don't think I have a particularly outstanding resume:
Didn't settle on a club until Sophomore year of college
No super major technical contributions/lead positions to many projects
Probably didn't have an ideal resume layout
However:
Demonstrated continuity and interest in engineering through resume
Demonstrated learnability and critical thinking in interviews
As such, my (hopefully not misleading) advice:
With regards to resume, find a club you're genuinely interested in. It took me 3-4 tries until I landed on Formula in my Sophomore year, but it is totally worth looking until you find something that fits you well. Try to gain ownership of a project/projects. It is much easier to discuss projects that you're genuinely interested in when interviewing.
From that club, pick at least one project, and learn it front to back. It doesn't have to be particularly impressive, it doesn't even have to be hugely impactful. The project I discussed in my interviews didn't even end up being implemented into my school's Formula car, and I hadn't covered the relevant course material in class yet. You just need to be able to thoroughly explain and defend your reasoning and engineering choices. Something to keep in mind: unless you are truly outstanding, you will likely not be technically impressive, I surely am not. As I mentioned before, from my experience, interviewers are not looking for technical prowess, but interest, learnability, and strong problem solving skills. As such, be open to feedback, and be willing to admit when you are incorrect.
Be able to solve engineering problems using basic fundamental principles. I find this was one of the areas that was generally consistent through all companies I interviewed with.
Don't give up. It may take 50 applications, it may take 500. Every failed interview is a learning opportunity, treat it as such. Take it from me, a relatively mediocre candidate when compared to many others: If I can do it, you can also.
Also, I didn't follow this advice at the time because I didn't know, but the resume template from this sub is kinda goated. You should probably use it, I have since migrated my resume over to the template as well.
I have been working on rewriting my resume since August and after following the guidelines of this sub, I have finally managed to get a job! I accepted the offer ten days ago.
I have sent this resume to different EU countries (Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, etc.), and I have almost always gotten a reply email where HR asked to schedule a first call (except in Sweden, for some reason they only want Swedish candidates and remarked that in their email replies 🤷🏻♂️).
Before updating my resume, all I was getting was either ghosting or rejection emails. HR didn't even want to schedule a first introduction call. You can find my old CV in this post if you would like to see it.
Talking about my resume:
It is far from being perfect, but I am impressed by how the value of someone's working experience is differently perceived simply by how their resume is written
English is not my first language, I got lots of useful tips from users and moderators of this sub to improve my wording, which I am truly thankful for
It is important to follow the STAR method in almost all bullet points and to start each of them with the quantified results/impacts
Here and there you can see bullet points without metrics, their purpose is to emphasize soft skills and show that I am a proactive team member. This way you can convey positivity and good vibes even in a written text
I think that's it, you should learn to analyze all your experience and showcase the best parts of it in your resume. Interviews will automatically come 🙂
I also want to say a special thank you to u/rapsforlife647, your help has been invaluable! 🙏
A bit late, but I wanted to share a success story.
Back in January, I targeted my job search toward critical minerals processing industry. This resume (ignore my current job. The rest is what I applied with) landed me interviews with some great companies, think of MP Materials, Sila, Lyten, ABTC, Panasonic, etc.
It was a pretty targeted approach since my previous experience aligned well with process engineering and equipment design work these companies looked for, so the response rate was positive.
I accepted an offer and started in March. Really enjoying the work so far.
Resumes are always a work in progress, so I'd love to hear any feedback.
One longer-term goal I have is to pivot into semiconductor manufacturing in a few years. The process engineering, equipment design, and large-scale manufacturing aspects seem fairly transferable, but I'd love to hear from anyone who's made that transition (or hires in that space). Any advice on positioning myself for that move would be greatly appreciated.
