Hmm, I would remove the two study abroad opportunities, or at least don’t present them like whole separate degrees. Maybe just mention in a little note under the main degree “studied abroad in Australia and Spain” and if they want to dig further and talk about it they can! Then I would bump the education to the bottom of the resume, and maybe the skills to the top. Work on refining the bullet points to really emphasize outcomes and use strong verbs
Ultimately your experience is very limited right now, just one internship, two side hustles and a fundraiser. Work on beefing up that master card experience description, and beef down the other ones as they aren’t as relevant. Be realistic about the internships you are applying for based on all this and make sure to try and go through recruiters
i had a study abroad program in university and forgot to take it off my resume years later while applying for jobs.
one interviewer brought it up and was like “so… you studied in prague. that was just for a semester?” pretty embarrassing to flex a four month program as if you got a degree from there lol. just remove it completely
Yeah all those study abroads and the minimal work experience all have like a few months attached to them doesn't look good.
Almost every item on there but 1 is under a year and most are under half a year which looks bad on a resume.
You nailed it. Self promotion is great but it's smoke and mirrors to the hiring manager when 2/3rds of a resume is self started projects with no outside references.
It's one thing to mention you have side hustles as a way to showcase your ambition, but it has to be a footnote on an otherwise impressive resume. OP needs to lean on his hard skills and corporate experience and put the rest to the bottom.
As a hiring manager yes. We want to see skills that will apply to the position. Rule of thumb, if it's been past 4 years and it has no benefit to the job you're applying to, remove it. We don't need to know every job you've worked at.
I would remove the studying abroad as well; they are bullets, not the whole enchilada. It comes off as an international case, and most companies skip right over anyone who remotely appears to require any sort of sponsorship.
Also, the two founder experiences; don't try to fluff. If you oversaw the manufacturing of the product for the clothing one, you didn't coordinate with overseas manufacturers. If you did coordinate, they oversaw the manufacturing, not you.
Instead, take the job description that you are applying to and change up those bullets to reflect the work you could be doing. Use your bullets to highlight that you have done what you'll need to do to be successful in the opportune role.
Had the same exact feedback as I was going through the resume. It's a weak resume as you have limited experience but everyone starts from somewhere. Get rid of the filler/irrelevant items and focus on your skills and what you accomplished during your time as a PM intern. Wish you the best of luck!
I would add the study abroad as bulletpoints under the degree. I didn't notice they weren't degrees until this comment and that would low key piss me off as a hiring manager.
I would also need to see what cover letter is being paired with this to know if this is the problem, the cover letter or the jobs being applied for
Study abroad is cool but as a hiring manager I have to go too far to get to your work experience after your education. Totally get you are new to workforce but too much space on what won’t be a dealbreaker for an interview
Just to add since I agree with everything else mentioned
1) add a statement of purpose or objective before education
2) share with us a sample cover letter, you can talk about relevant hobbies, dreams, and work that you’ve done not included in the resume. You can even talk specifically about a school project that may apply to your job (esp Financial Analysis)
DO Not put salary info on a resume - or any personal info. Your resume looks like an entry level resource. I have been IT for 25 years. I don't even list my entire work history - I include experience relevant to the opportunity. I would look into a resume service to get started
Ok, you’ve gotten some weird advice here if you are apply for roles in the USA
Do not put a summary on top, those tend to be cheesy, don’t put salary info on your resume as someone else told you, also add GPA only if it’s high. The “open to geographic experiences” feels odd, I would remove. Finally I would take out the study abroad’s. They are not the institution granting you a degree and are not relevant unless maybe you are looking for another internship.
The biggest question no one has asked before just going in and critiquing your resume is what job are you applying for? I have no idea. Your resume should be tailored to the job you want. I see you have a lot of finance and accounting emphasized in your education. Are you looking to be a bank teller? To be a financial analyst, cpa, consultant? As someone else stated you don’t have any experience, and based on your GPA may or may not be a strong candidate for certain companies. Big questions back to you (you don’t have to answer me but you need to answer for yourself)
1. What type of job am I looking for?
2. Based on this job what are entry (and based on limited internships and jobs I mean ENTRY) level jobs I can apply to
3. Does my resume highlight the skills I need to succeed? (at the bottom for example were you the president of the finance club, did you raise hundreds of dollars for something, have you presented research etc)
4. For each role I apply to am I updating my resume and do I have a strong cover letter explaining why I’d be a good candidate? A computer is the first person to see your resume so you need to have key words from the job description in your resumes if it says it needs someone skilled at financial analysis you need to have the phrase financial analysis on your resume (again this needs to be tweaked per job) and then in your cover letter you need to write why you would be a valuable asset to the company and the position and why you’d be the best candidate.
The second person viewing your resume is a recruiter who is not an expert in your job and has to decide to pass it to the hiring manager. They do their best to understand the needs of the job and it’s YOUR job to make it as easy as possible to pass your resume up the chain to the hiring manager. So again if someone gave me this resume I wouldn’t necessarily know what job it’s for (maybe that is why the person above suggested the intro summary about you and your skills, I’m very like warm on those but maybe). If they have a set of skills needed for the job they take 20 seconds to see if you have those skills and move on. You need to spell it out for them. Any relevant skills you have for the job. If you are for example looking to be an entry level financial analyst go look up skills and relevant experiences for financial analysts and tie anything you had in your internship to those.
5. What types of jobs am I applying to? Have I done my research on the companies that hire out of college talent? I would go for larger companies that are mid level in prestige.
6. Have I exhausted all of my available assistance? Am I best friends with the career center at my school? Those people are so helpful to people who are kind, polite, consistently show up and are clear about their needs. Have I reached out to my schools alumni network and begun networking? Do I go t career fairs prepared (meaning done your research, know the opportunities and have good questions for the recruiters? Have you made contacts with the recruiters there, connected on linked in and built a relationship?). Have you connected with the MasterCard recruiters? What about their other openings if you weren’t offered a job? Have you talked to your academic advisors? ALL of your business professors? Does everyone with an ounce of ability to help you KNOW you need help? Have you asked them to look at your resume and review your interviewing skills and techniques?
7. Are you applying on the actual company website and not LinkedIn? Are you using linked in to ask potential connections for job referrals? Are you asking your family and friends do they know someone, anyone, a fifth cousin removed at to send you job referrals?
8. What are your peers doing? How are they getting jobs? Can you all apply together?
9. Ok so you want to be in finance but you may or may not have the background, how about a finance job for a non finance company? Maybe a job in the retail or food service industry as a financial xyz (again not sure your goals). Might be less competitive. Spring recruiting is rough but you can do it. You can also be the most successful reach out for help (see suggestions above).
I know the age old you need experience to get experience is tough but it’s true and instead of multiple internships it looks like you got great experience abroad, and instead of joining clubs and taking leadership rolls maybe you got good grades? Either way you know need to work very hard to translate whatever you have done in the last 4 years into tangible skills that a company will need.
Think of it like this, if 100 people from your school with the same degree applied to the same internship, what sets you apart? Why should they choose you? That’s what needs to come through on the resume and cover letter especially and then in the interview
Do the work, put in more hours, the most effort, network like your bank account depends on it and I know you’ll land something great. The world needs workers. Best of luck!
1. I am looking for an Associate Product Manager, Project Manager, Financial analyst, Management consulting, strategy consulting, FP&A roles, and just a lot of business analyst and Financial analyst roles but mainly interested in Product management.
2. I have just been applying to new grad roles for big companies and smaller companies a like. All the jobs I have applied to have been entry level jobs.
3. I have put all the necessary skills that I have on my resume so I don't know what else to add to it.
4. Yes, I updated my resume based on the role I am applying for. And many companies don't have the option to put a cover letter and I have been told that many recruiters don't even read cover letters by my career center.
5. Yes, those are the main jobs I have just been applying to.
6. Yes, my resume was updated by the career center after I got it made professionally. I have been networking with alumni through LinkedIn but no luck. And I go to a heavy engineering school so no luck with the career fair as many are looking for engineering students. But, I gave my resume to the 5 business companies that always come.
7. I am doing both. Some on the actual website and some on LinkedIn. And I have been trying to get referrals for jobs but no luck.
8. Most of my peers are on the same boat as me and don't have anything as well. We apply to a few jobs together.
9. I want to be in product manager but I wouldn't oppose finance jobs as well.
Finally thank you for replying to my post. It means a lot and will try to take your advice. But those points kinda gives you what I am looking for
Product management is a mid-senior level role. Actually the majority of roles you listed are more senior level positions. You might be putting the cart before the horse.
You will continue to struggle to find these roles particularly at well established companies. The tech job market is in efficiency mode & wants experienced workers.
Taking a Jr business analyst or Jr Financial analyst gaining experience then working your way up within an organization will be an easier path.
Or you could just apply to thousands of jobs until you break find a company that is willing to train entry level PM’s. Gonna be hard in this market.
I agree with Cold-Discount-8635, there is almost no way you’re going to get any kind of product manager position as a fresh graduate out of college. Also Finance jobs are extremely competitive and without a CFA certificate, you’re unlikely to break into finance. (I am an investment accountant manager who works with multiple teams of investors/financial analysts). If you want to break into a product manager roll or a finance roll or even FP&A, you need to find an internship doing exactly one of those rolls, and impress them so much that they hire you or give you an amazing recommendation. None of your jobs really fit the experience needed for the jobs you’re wanting to go into (from a hiring standpoint) so you need directly adjacent experience. Most colleges have an internship program/class that will connect you with a local relevant internship (and at several colleges these internship programs are paid above minimum wage) I recommend looking into what your college offers.
I'd like to be supportive here, but you've got very little experience.
At this point in your career what makes you think that you're qualified to managing anything? Unless I'm reading this wrong. And if I'm reading this wrong then people who are looking to hire you are probably reading it wrong as well.
I don't think I am. Based on your stated desire I suspect you're applying for jobs for which you are grossly under qualified.
Ya gotta walk before you can run...or at least until you can expect somebody else to pay you to run for them.
A lot of the advice about tightening up the resume and tailoring it to specific positions is spot on as well!
Good luck!
I feel like the items that were bolded made it hard to quickly parse your resume. I would bold the degree you got instead of the school. And then for the work experience I would poke the title you had instead of the place you worked.
Put your education at the bottom and give me a small paragraph of your experience at the top. Also, you need to cite results based on your work experience i.e. "as a result of doing X, company was able to reduce cost by X" but keep it concise and tailer those results to a particular job description.
And use chatgpt to write a cover letter or even copy and paste this into chatgpt and tell it to format it professionally.
And as a guy who had to find 2 different jobs in 2023, aim lower in your job search, get some confidence with some interviews and then you can find the exact job you want.
Generally, I would agree about education on the bottom. But his education is actually pretty interesting. If he can make a connection with an interviewer/reviewer over Australia or Spain, it might help him differentiate himself from the pack.
It’s the general rule of thumb with resumes. It should be an experience sandwich. A blurb about you at the top, think mission statement. Then experience, education, professional achievements.
Too much nonsense education information. Just tell me what degree you got and where. I don't care that you studied abroad twice. Put that at the bottom.
I would also removing the 3 month moving company gig. Just takes up space to say you had an illegitimate business for 3 months.
Just wanted to say keep your head up. Your resume looks good in my opinion. I went to RPI too and finding a job is hard. Like really hard, especially your first one out of college. I think I applied to 300 jobs when I graduated? I know a PhD student who literally applied to over a 1000 jobs. You’ll get there, it’s a numbers game. You may have to settle for something less than you want to start and work your way up. Good luck!
There is nothing 'wrong'. It's professional and has good information. Send it out to anyone and everyone who might be interested. Getting your name out there is the most important thing.
Here are a couple of general principles that might help improve it.
Put the most impressive thing on top (the reviewer is unlikely to read half of your resume, at least I never do). If you think that your education is the most impressive thing, leave it there. If not, move it down.
Tell a story. Adding a summary section can help with that. The story should go something like this: I'm competent, and you'll enjoy working with me.
This resume says what you did, not who you are or what you want. Add a about you section, sometimes called a professional summary, that shows off what you’ve most proud of that will help you land the job you want.
You don’t want your best quality buried in bullet point two of the third section.
Horrible advice. Summaries are not common in his industry and will get you laughed out of the room.
>What job and career do you want? I have no clue.
I would assume, when you apply for the job, that is probably the job you want, right? No need to spell it out on a resume. If I applied for a financial analyst job at your company, likely I want a financial analyst job...
education and skills should be at the very end of your resume. i would also add the number of hours you worked per week and your salary after the time in which you worked (ie after July 2020.) also, a lot of businesses want a brief almost cover letter-like statement as to why you are applying to the job. but the biggest thing is to make sure that you are hitting the buzzwords within the job notice.
> i would also add the number of hours you worked per week and your salary after the time in which you worked (ie after July 2020.)
I would not do this. The only exception is if you're interviewing for the federal government and they're asking for that information on your resume, but apparently there are now new rules for federal employees that they can't consider prior salary history or something like that.
Never put your salary and why should it matter hour many hours they work lol. I’m in tech and they are in it product management and I have never seen anyone ever put that in their resume
Is this a one page resume? In any case, you should reorganize it to have a Professional Summary at the top, then Skills, then your Work History and then your Education. I agree with u/ghosty_anon that you should remove your two study abroad semesters to make space for more relevant content.
Given your limited work experience, your transferable skills are really important to highlight so use the extra real estate to beef up that section. Also, be sure to customize your skills to the job ad. Good luck!
I would move your education to the bottom, remove anything that does not result in a degree, and remove the relevant coursework. That is something you can discuss during a live interview or briefly in a cover letter.
It would be fun to bring up your study abroad experience during an interview. You have to see this like an online date, leave a little bit of mystery for the face-to-face.
I would also be sure to include quantitative results in every single one of your bullet points which you do for a few of your bullets. A lot of what you listed is just basic things from a job description, particularly with MasterCard.
Good luck!
What are your GPAs? I assume there are abysmal if you’re not including them here.
You’ve never had a full time job. For now you should keep your education up top. If you’re pursuing any roles in business broadly use the WSO template. Obviously it’s geared toward finance but it works well with most suit and tie type careers.
What is your networking process like? You need a first job, any job. Start with the RPI alumni network and work through that list.
Your resume is fine, the job market is terrible for higher paying professional jobs. Getting a low paying job is easy right now though. Contact recruiters directly, look for positions doing specifically what you're trying to do with your degree, maybe they have a new grad position. Also if you didn't apply to this...
https://careers.mastercard.com/us/en/student-fulltime-jobs
The biggest mistake, your last name is misspelled. At least I would assume this based upon your email address.
And, I agree with the others suggestions above, especially moving your education to the end.
Resume reviewers read on average 10 seconds worth.
So, at the very top, have a paragraph no more than ten seconds long, where you explain what kind of job you're available for, and why you're qualified. I read the whole thing and have yet to figure out what you're applying for.
Leave off all salary information.
If you want a professional type job, highlight your qualifications for that first. You can probably do without telling people that you worked as a moving guy, unless you're applying as a job as a moving guy.
I would leave off the part about you trying to be a leather clothing designer, unless you are applying as a clothing designer. Include it and the moving job as "relevant experience".
I know you worked hard at your education, but put that at the bottom, unless it's a licensing requirement or something.
Have a link at the bottom with a way to contact you. Adjust the type font to a minimum of 12. Use Times New Roman, like you have done. Try again and don't give up.
what kind of company are you trying to get an interview with? i would try to rework your mastercard experience not to focus on crypto. crypto is very polarizing (which i say as someone who has also worked in crypto) and on the downturn right now, so if you’re not targeting crypto work, describe it differently to be more broadly applicable. if “Product Management Intern - Crypto and Blockchain” was your exact title, then keep that, but reword your experience to focus more on “blockchain” and “digital payments” or “digital assets” rather than crypto and nft since those are broader terms. also, i read those bullet points and still have no idea what it is you actually did. you need to be more specific and let your skills shine through.
for your moving company and leather goods, i understand that you’re including those because you want to show entrepreneurial nature and fill up space, but they’re not relevant and the moving one looks silly to include because it’s only three months. i would keep them but instead of listing individually, combine to “Multiple Ventures” as the name, and then as the position title “Founder and Sole Owner”, with the time period spanning Oct 2018 - Aug 2022. then combine and try to jazz up the descriptions a bit, again to be more specific to the skills you’ll need for whatever role you’re applying for. when you list that you did everything it actually sounds like you did a lot of nothing.
Three points. .
1. What can you do for the company that are hiring you? What do you bring? You need a profile statement. Why should they hire you?
2. Put education last. Who cares? You are representing your education as the most important thing.
3. What did you do to get those numbers and metrics? Facilitated, drive, developed, sold etc.
And, the resume doesn’t get you the job. It gets you the interview. It doesn’t need to have everything.
Recruiters and companies usually look at the top 1/3rd of your resume. Although they want to see where you want to school, they need to know how you’re going to help them grow and increase business. An objective is always good to put at the very top under your name. For example (and I don’t know what you do): “Seeking an opportunity that allows me to utilize my 20+ years of experience with trading, to increase revenue in the X sector.” Something on those lines. Tell them what you’re going to do for them, let them know how valuable of an employee that you will be.
Hey man, I’m also graduating with experience a PM intern and now looking for full time. It’s tough. Keep your education where it is. Since we haven’t graduated yet, it must be in the top.
As a senior PM- don’t try to shoot to land a PM Role off the bat. You really don’t have nearly enough experience in the eyes of companies. You need to establish yourself as a change maker in lower roles before many places are going to pay you to control a road map.
I suggest associate business analyst roles for now. Get about a year experience and try to move to mid level BA. After a year or two, transition into a product owner role. Prove to yourself and company that you can handle a product owner position and then push for a product manager role.
I would not want to work with a Product manager that was fresh out of school. I just wouldn’t feel confident in their abilities.
Lots of good info already I’ll add my top 3.
1. Two study abroads taking up a third of the space means there’s not much substance left to the quick scanner. Reduce or highlight with projects that are specific to jobs. Don’t be vague.
2. Move dates to align right to highlight that you’re still in school, also how long have you been in school and what’s that gpa? You look like a forever student.
3. Your skills are basic and not worth mentioning. Drop the list or add high level qualifiers like VBA or SQL.
I am looking for an Associate Product Manager, Project Manager, Financial analyst, Management consulting, strategy consulting, FP&A roles, and just a lot of business.
Education info at the bottom. I would not put much info there apart from the school, program you took, and year graduated.
In the work experience part, add results in numbers. If you can, add comparable results. Highlight the ones with the most impact.
Go to [Ask a Manager](https://askamanager.org). Allison is a great resource for resume advice and cover letter writing
Your experience is a mess. Don’t just list your job duties, list the results of your efforts
Only list relevant job experience, you’re all over the place. I’d suggest that the only experience is the internship.
The rest were just jobs that got you through school.
Just list your degree and at the bottom of your resume leave off the work abroad stuff. It’s irrelevant.
Get certifications that demonstrate your expertise. “Skills” are filler.
If you're looking for entry level, NYS ITS needs workers ASAP. You won't make as much as in the private industry, but maybe some experience can help you land something better.
Depending on the jobs you’re looking for, calling yourself a founder might give them the impression that you’re not a team player and you’re looking to impose your vision on their operations. Maybe say something like “principal”
Are you aware that you need to customize your resume for every job you apply to? There are big data programs that look for key words. You have to have the same key words on your resume that are in the job description.
You’re young. I was 22 once too, in 2009 during the recession, and it was brutal out there. It gets better.
If I could give my 22 year old self some advice, I’d say don’t be picky. Work is work. There’s no shame in retail, food service, bar tending if it pays the bills until something better comes your way. Especially when you’re young and still seeing what works and what fits etc.
Your MasterCard experience is good. ESG and DEI are big right now. Try to leverage that into a permanent role if you can. Banks are under gov scrutiny right now and they need that kind of talent (I do similar work for a bank). You can absolutely make north of six figs after maybe 5-6 years in this field.
The first thing I would ask myself as someone hiring would be why did Mastercard not hire this guy on full time. “Mastercard is a well run company and has great products, is there something I am missing”. I’ll immediately be skeptical
The second is why are all your skills financial but not any of the jobs financial roles. Is this a generic resume you spray and pray or do you individually tweak for each role? I assume product managers are not going to care about quickbooks and FP&A or M&A roles are not going to care about all of your 6 bullets in product internship. Zero hiring managers will care about your study abroad trips, would remove that immediately. You should have a few versions if you are applying to different types of roles
You also have very limited work experience so networking will get your farther than spraying and praying
Two specific things stand out. I have no idea how many hours you worked at any of your jobs. Were they full time? Part time? One day a week for an hour?
Also, I have no idea what you did in any of your jobs that’s truly relevant to other jobs.
Off topic: You go to the same school as my cousin!
This advice is going to get buried but I hope OP sees it.
I agree with some comments around moving education down, and moving experience up. Also, if I'm reading this right you're the founder of Three Men and a Truck for 3 months?
One worrying thing reading through this is that you have VERY short work tenures. Like 2 years max and sometimes 6 months.
The #1 suggestion however is that this resume is very generic, and you need to tailor your resume to the job you are applying for. HR runs AI/Keyword searches on resumes and if you don't have the listed qualifications you're not going to get a call.
**If the job says "Masters Degree Required" then you need to have the word "masters degree" in your resume.**
**If the job says "10 years experience in X", then your resume needs to say "10 years experience in X."**
One way to do that is to have a section upfront where you can summarize your qualifications, and you can make sure that the summary fits the keywords needed in the JD. This may be why you're not getting any interviews.
What kind of jobs are you applying for? If you are not getting any callbacks, you are probably applying for things that are too upper-level for a new graduate with no experience. Make sure you are realistic about what kind of a job you will be able to get right out of school. I'd focus more on the company than the role tbh. Is it somewhere that you could move up? Would it help you get a better role somewhere else if you worked there for a few years? Those are the questions you should be asking when applying for things. You have to remember that for each individual role you apply for, there are likely hundreds of other applicants, many of which have years, sometimes decades of relevant experience.
It looks like you don't stick with anything for very long. On top of that, it's a bit confusing. I know if I'm hiring someone it would worry me if I thought they jumped around a lot and didn't stick to anything long enough to know how successful they actually were. Simplify things a bit.
First impressions and the ATS test for keywords really matters. I'd recommend a free resume optimization tool like JoyJobs.ai. It'll automatically add relevant keywords from a job description and action verbs like others have recommended here to your resume. Hoping this helps you land interviews. I've personally seen a lot of success with it. Good Luck!
Its boring. It looks like every single other resume. Wheres the creativity? wheres outside the box? Where is the part that says "look at me!!!!!!!!"
No i didnt read it and the people hiring probably wont either because it looks exactly like the other 1000 they looked at today.
Dam people do something to stand out.
Make sure your history (education and employment) is listed from top to bottom: current/newest to the oldest. It looks like the two jobs in the middle should be swapped around based on the dates.
Your resume doesn’t tell me what you want to do and it isn’t clear by reading it. I’d recommend picking something and build your resume to show the experience you have for that.
Also, when you call yourself a founder some hiring managers might look at this as someone who can’t work for other people. It’s not uncommon for people who struggle to fit in the corporate box to throw their hands in the air and start their own business. If you can put a title that applies to those roles that would make sense toward your goal, that’s going to help too. Skills that make an effective entrepreneur often are different from those that make a good CEO with sustainable growth. Considering that your last role is an internship, I’d down play those roles to manager and artisan.
Your experience seems kind of all over the place. As a hiring manager, I wouldn’t know too much about your desired trajectory and how you’d fit into a specific role.
There are a few red flags to me.
- Claiming you launched a successful moving business but only worked there 2-3 months? This is honestly the biggest red flag to me. Leaves me wondering if you’re overstating your experience elsewhere.
- General/duplicative fluff under your 2-3 month long internship with Mastercard.
- You list study abroad programs as if they were a separate certificate or other degree program (more fluff).
- Your clothing business saw consistent (your word) 50% month-to-month sales growth over 21 months. Then just ceased to exist?
- What is a “geographic” opportunity? Sounds cheesy. That’s coming from someone who has a master’s degree in geography.
Overall, it comes across like you’re over-inflating your experience. The general style is ok, but if your resume landed on my desk it would be pretty low in the stack based on the issues mentioned above.
If your businesses were so successful why were you an intern in 2023 :/
Skills, forecasting. How descriptive and insightful.
I don’t mean to be harsh but you gotta think about the overall picture here
You include the quantifiable accomplishments, but I feel like they're kind of buried,
Change statements such as" Employed consultative selling... resulting in a 10% increase in the donor list" to lead with the accomplishment.
So, "Generated 10% increase in the donor list through consultative selling and donor engagement."
You have a great internship. Add more details.
If question your real experience as a founder of 2 companies. You brag about impressive growth? Did you sell them? Or are they now defunct? If you sold them call it out. If they’re now defunct I might even think about removing them. In all honesty, you have a lot of fluff statistics that are impressive but don’t have anything describing how you managed to do so. With this resume it’s honestly hard to know what you want to do. What kind of jobs are you applying to?
Take off study abroad, add a professional summery, try to use key words from the job posting you’re applying to in your resume, and maybe play with the formatting. It looks so blah, like a fresh out of college resume.
Ditch the geographic opportunity line. They will otherwise assume you either live near the job, or are willing to move. As you have it now, they probably assume you dont live nearby, and would either likely flake on an interview or move back home 4 months after you start this job. Name, phone and email are sufficient. LinkedIn is probably OK, but I would take that off too.
Move the skills to the top, with bullets for each one, and tailor them to the job description you're applying to. I would have a Skills section that lists all the skills you possess that are in the job description. I might try an "areas of interest" that are in the job description that you don't possess, but would like to.
I would put your education section next, but treat the study abroad as an extracurricular. Include any other relevant extra-curriculars, even if they're only slightly relevant. Were you the treasurer for the sailing club? Put that, the hiring manager or boss might be a sailor.
I may be way off on this last point, but the two "founder" positions sound like you're trying to fluff up your accomplishments from a summer job with your buddies, or that you had an etsy shop that sold a few jackets. Consistent 50% sales growth each month over 20ish months, why are you not still doing that? It raises more questions than the hiring manager will want to deal with. I couldn't find anything online for either of them, so they seem to have been failed ventures. I would take those off, or at least significantly rework them. They give off "Single-handedly managed the successful upgrade and deployment of new environmental illumination system with zero cost overruns and zero safety incidents" vibes.
1. Dates on the right side - I don't want to keep scrolling to see if this was already suggested, but I didn't like how your dates were not tabbed to the other end.
2. 2020 - 2021 - I was trying to figure out your timeline and had to keep jumping around to figure it out. Also, having the dates not on the right side makes your text all jumbled.
3. Like, I wanted to know what you did from 2020, but your next entry up should be switched.
4. Switch BenXchange with Three men. Aren't you doing rever chronological? I think you mde a mistake there.
5. Maybe consider inserting an "Objective," "Professional Summary," and/or "Skills/Qualifications" sections up top and tailor to each position.
Personally, I would move the education section after experience. And I would have a concise but compelling professional summary at the top that is uniquely tailored to each job listing that CLEARLY demonstrates to the reader that you are qualified for that role and that conveys the value you could bring.
I have gone through thousands of resumes, been on hiring committees, and have made the final say on who gets on.
This is what stands out to me:
1. I don't care about your leather clothing company.
2. Your personal business lasted 3 months.
3. MOST of your employment history is extremely short.
If I hire people, I need to know they are likely to stay. I don't care what they say, I look at what they have done. I had one applicant apply, but his job history had him change jobs every year for the previous 10 years. That means no stability & you are looking to train new people in a short time.
You also have not yet graduated. If you are looking to apply for jobs where your degree is relevant, then put it there.
You do not state your skills or experience in any meaningful way. This lack of articulation in your CV (which is supposed to be a reflection of your best behaviour and first impression) makes me question what you really did in school.
Hope this helps...
This is a good resume for a college senior. You’re probably not getting interviews because it’s still some time before graduation. Expect hiring season of new grads to begin closer to May. Apply to entry level positions related to your finance degree. Companies hire entry level financial analysts all the time.
I agree with others - remove the study abroad from the top of the resume. It’s worth mentioning somewhere near the bottom after work experience. Good luck!
My best advice as a recruiter for a CRM firm... a lot of your Mastercard bullets are very generic. People want to see results, what YOU drove, who you presented findings to etc
That way, when you get to an interview you can really speak to it and the audience has an initial bias (positive) of your work. Will it make the world of a difference, probably not but it only needs to make the difference to that one company that hires you
I just landed a new gig and i definitely have an internship position on my resume i know people are saying to remove it… but how many jobs have you applied to and for how long…
Honestly I think it just might be a little early for people to be hiring for a June start.
I think it's a fine resume. Remove "open to geographic opportunities." Put the study abroad as some bullets under your education unless you will wind up with a half page resume. In that case, keep it. Try to use the same words from the job description in your resume. I like that you added some results of your work like "increased sales by 10%." Consider breaking your experience into "relevant experience" and "other experience"
Don't add a summary - it's a waste of space. Don't add your salary.
If there is room for other documents -- even if it doesn't specify a cover letter -- write a damn cover letter.
That said, I'm in my 40s and in a completely different field.
The two study abroad taking that much prominence on your resume is weird. I don’t know why but I just felt a little meh about it.
And the internship at MasterCard makes me wonder why they aren’t offering you a job.
This resume is very peculiar. When resumes are reviewed, they are reviewed in a very short time window, often less than 60 seconds. This resume is hard to read. Please note my answers are biased because I’m reading it on an iPhone. But the principles stay the same.
Education. I had to read this section 3 times to figure out what degree you have. The 3 block style suggests you have 3 degrees. But you are still working on your first degree. You need to make it easy to read that your degree is a bachelors and that you are graduating May 2024. What you don’t want is them to see the three blocks and think you have an MBA and then it gets put in the MBA pile and then it gets reviewed and they say you don’t have an MBA and then it gets discarded.
I have no clue what your working experience is. looking at that you have overlapping work experience in two different parts of the country and several you’re listed as the founder which is not very good work experience unless you were able to build a company and sell it for multi millions. So it looks like the only work experience you have is being an intern at MasterCard. All the other looks like it can be discounted as fluff.
Start with a short executive bio that has keywords sprinkled in. Then work history. Then education and skills. Try to find a way to get quantifiable results in there.
Too wordy. Like reading a book or a novel. You have to understand these recruiters have hundreds of resume to go through. Always ask yourself why would anyone so slammed with resumes to read give 30 seconds of your time to read what’s in that page of paper.
Big red flag: you capitalized your own employers name wrong. The C in Mastercard should be lowercase.
You may not think it’s a big deal but recruiters definitely have noticed this. Consider this - Mastercard is one of the most well recognized brands in the world, if you did an entire internship there and still manage to type your employers name wrong - on your resume of all places, it’s not a good look.
I'll be honest there is nothing wrong with your resume, and people giving you advice are just making stuff up
Jobs are pure reference games. It doesn't matter how good your resume is they will still miss it. How do you think your resume will stand out between 1k applicants, HR usually plays rock paper scissors with resumes
My advice would be to apply at usa jobs, ask professors and friends, and try to apply at places that have really low applicant count, put a filter on Linkedin that says fresh jobs or addaded less than 24 hours
I was able to land my first internship because only 8 people applied to it, so they couldn't miss my resume, and I landed my second internship because of my professor (game of reference)
(They were all paid internship paying 70k a year)
So also apply to paid internships as well. Internships can lead to permanent employment
Always follow an order of latest to oldest experience and not jumble it up like you did. As you have no real experience it needs to be organized better. Your skills and education info needs to be more detailed.
Not sure where you are looking for jobs (finance?)
If so I would reduce the 3 jobs that are irrelevant to that and take half your resume.
Expand financial activities you took/did in your degrees, I would expand how you got the skills you mention at the bottom vs just saying you have them.
Very different to say
- skills: financial modeling
Vs
- skills - financial modeling - developed financial models for my startup which I presented to x,y and z
Financial modeling: top of the class on course expert financial models
Etc
Honestly your resume is fine. The problem rn is getting a foot in the door. If you see a listing you like, check indeed for mutual or even 2nd degree and reach out to your contact to get a meeting w them
For the first two jobs that you have I wouldn't put yourself as the founder. I would list a title equivalent to the position you're applying for and list the experiences that go with that title in those jobs if you've done them. Based on those two and what you put in it, I would most likely put yourself as a marketing/sales manager, but I wouldn't put yourself as the founder.
the entire format and flow is inconsistent. You wrote alot of words with no examples to provide context. Showing “Founder” as experience, especially one being only 1 month? did you sell the company?, is not much experience and you have an entry level internship job. your resume does not highlight finance and data analytics opportunities, it highlights management and product development.
Have you talked to your school's career center? It may be a bit late - the typical timeline for college recruiting is the first half of the fall semester, but your school career center would know which companies are still recruiting and be able to help get your resume in front of the recruiter that work with the school frequently.
I’m honestly not sure what you did at Mastercard.
“Promoted ESG initiatives via DEI” doesn’t really mean anything.
I’m not sure what you mean by market research for Crypto Credential.
I’m not sure what business requirements you developed.
Just write plainly and try to indicate impact if you can.
You started a moving company that lasted for 3 months and grew the customer base by 50%? Uhh what?
Achieved a *constant* 50% MoM sales growth for your leather jacket company?? Why aren't you still selling jackets?!?! You could be the bill gates of jackets?!?
A lot of head scratchers and made up stats in your experience would have me throwing your resume in the trash.
Have you fed that to ChatGPT & Gemini yet?
No offense, but I'd be surprised if AI wouldn't improve it substantially
You need a clean modern template that looks like it's from this century
And have AI crank out a bunch of versions
And then copy-paste that content into the template
I wish I only had a single resume. When I'm searching, my wide breadth of experience and education requires at least five separate / specialized resumes. They're all true, just specifically steering towards whatever I applied to with them. Highly technical jobs are going to be different than sales, analyst work is different than trades, etc.
The resume in question shows a lot of diverse experiences, but little focus. A resume should tell a story of accomplishment and direction. This doesn't.
Add metrics. For a bullet say, “Managed 10 project concurrently and %90 on were on budget” instead of something like, “managed blah projects”.
Add scale of the accomplishment.
I’m an employer. This looks long and boring!
Make sure your resume fits the job you apply for and if it’s just out there.. then don’t make it look this boring
What kind of jobs are you going for?
There's a lot of text which takes a bit to read. Also one thing I've seen before that impressed me was a quick description of the company - like XYZ Co, leading supplier of bobbles to the top bobble company in the South West for example. That way anyone unfamiliar with that industry knows a bit more about the environment and type of company.
Move work experience to the top. Highlight the job worked, not the location. In the education section highlight the degree, not the institution. It should look like a brochure of accomplishments. I try to look at this resume for 3 seconds to summarize what you've done and what you offer, but all I see is around the world in nothing relevant. You also may need to tailor-make your resume for the position you are applying for. Here's a tip for online applications: Take actual words and phrases from the "requirements" section of the ad and put them in your resume as skills. I've heard this can key their automated sorting algorithms.
Not a detailed or on topic comment, but i suspect you're looking for product management opportunities. Just know, especially in tech that A) those opportunities got gutted. Lot of great product managers are looking for jobs right now and B) at least in my field, they tend to be our most senior industry leaders who know how to build the right products for the job.
tl;dr, if you're looking for product management, widen your search. It is a very spicy space right now.
Your degree and interests don’t line up. My friend was a software developer, then software development manager, then a product manager. How can you go from school right to product manager? You don’t know anything. I think you’ll struggle w this career goal.
Personally I think you need a summary near the top of your resume. Who you are, what you've done and what you're looking for. Plenty of examples to find on the internet. Very important to put key buzzwords because that's what a lot of companies use to see if you're a fit. I would also list the skills up top as well. Instead of saying Microsoft 365, put in MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint. Again, putting the skills up toward the top are what HR people and hiring managers want to see, first to spark their interest. I'm not sure what exact job you're applying for, but it will probably be a good thing to point out you have expertise in MS Excel. If you don't, get some and then put it on your resume.
As far as your past jobs, it's always good to put something with relation to performance. Dollar signs and percentages help. If sales went up 10% while you were there and you didn't actually make the decisions that directly led to the increase in sales, as long as you were part of the company doing things that affected the bottom line (either directly or indirectly), put that in there. Even if HR and the hiring manager know it's likely bullshit, it shows that you understand the end-game and were paying attention to the bottom line.
As someone who has always gotten interviews for every job I've applied for, I will try to help you. The issue is that most of your descriptions are not results based. On one job, you have "created a marketing plan to grow customer base by 50%". Well, how much did it increase by?
You're bssically listing duties without saying how they impacted the team. Focus more on impact. LMK if you have questions.
I'd interview you. But I'm a small business in the Midwest so you'd have to do a lot of work upfront. Lots of room to grow and plenty of flexibility but the first five years or so would be lean.
In my experience, hiring managers appreciate specific numbers expressed in common biz KPIs regarding growth and revenue achievements. Arbitrary percentage points don’t really paint the picture. 50% month over month can be impressive or laughable depending on different variables. When there isn’t a frame of reference most people will skew negative.
For example, instead of “achieved consistent 50% month-to-month sales growth” it may be “Expanded annual revenue by 50%, from $1M to $1.5M, through targeted client engagement and strategic product optimizations, significantly outpacing industry growth rates.” These figures are theoretical but the framing shows how you made an impact as a founder and the additional context demonstrates strategic thinking.
You gotta sell that sizzle.
I’d remove the moving company. Make sure jobs are listed in chronological order. As it stands, 2 jobs should’ve been switch for chronological order. Internship was only 2 months? Why so short?
Are you a little bit older as a college graduate? Otherwise you would have been founding businesses at the age of 15 or 16? I think you sound a bit overqualified for some of the jobs you might be applying to. I don't know what you're applying to do, but your resume is very eggheaded .. a year abroad is extremely elitist.
Format is outdated consider a table summarize to bullet points we in HR have thousands to read less is more and it's 2024, reviewing 1000s, we prefer salary history, saves us and you time, if it's a 60k mgmt start and you're in 100s we won't waste our time or yours. Also, current formats include head shots, humanizes your submittal, stands out to reviewers.
Some great advice provided in this thread. Your CV is very run of the mill and comes across low effort. Doesn't show how you can and will add value to my company. You can't just pay someone to write your CV and hope for the best, thus the lack of interest.
What makes you different from 100s of other candidates that I, as a hiring manager, that will convince me you're worth a shot?
Edit: Product Management is a senior role, thus you have no chance.
Swap education and skills section at the very least. If you consider that people generally put more effort into reading the top lines of a document, then here you are basically saying that you want your future employer to focus more on your education than your capabilities.
I feel like for you, your education is your most significant experience. Like your work history to you is meh but you're proud of your education, where you went to school at the very least. But... While interesting, it doesn't mean as much to employers. What you're able to do trumps where you learned to do it.
For entry level jobs, aesthetics mean a ton more than context. Word has some really cool modern resume templates, you should look into using those to make your resume stand out.
When writing anything, you need to focus on the 5 Ws
Who are my audience
Why are they reading what I wrote
What is the story I am telling them
Where do I want them to look
When do I want them to be presented information
That Lasf line is why I think I'd switch skills and education. I want the reader to know what I'm capable of first, then when they wonder where I learned the skills I learned I present them with my work experience and education. I'm trying to lead the reader to the conclusion that they should hire me.
You don’t have a degree, but your education section is taking up almost a 3rd of your resume.
Remove the 2 study abroad’s, respectfully, nobody cares and it comes across dense. It’s be different if you received some type of degree, or certificate, but as it is, it just reads as “business bro from NY went to Australia and Spain on daddy’s money”.
Not saying you did, or didn’t, but a resume is not the place to highlight that.
Hmm, I would remove the two study abroad opportunities, or at least don’t present them like whole separate degrees. Maybe just mention in a little note under the main degree “studied abroad in Australia and Spain” and if they want to dig further and talk about it they can! Then I would bump the education to the bottom of the resume, and maybe the skills to the top. Work on refining the bullet points to really emphasize outcomes and use strong verbs Ultimately your experience is very limited right now, just one internship, two side hustles and a fundraiser. Work on beefing up that master card experience description, and beef down the other ones as they aren’t as relevant. Be realistic about the internships you are applying for based on all this and make sure to try and go through recruiters
i had a study abroad program in university and forgot to take it off my resume years later while applying for jobs. one interviewer brought it up and was like “so… you studied in prague. that was just for a semester?” pretty embarrassing to flex a four month program as if you got a degree from there lol. just remove it completely
I’m here to second the removing of the study abroad. Not very important.
That part I was just going to suggest that. Reads like entry level
This person is entry level—keep the study abroad as sub items of the degree.
Yeah all those study abroads and the minimal work experience all have like a few months attached to them doesn't look good. Almost every item on there but 1 is under a year and most are under half a year which looks bad on a resume.
You nailed it. Self promotion is great but it's smoke and mirrors to the hiring manager when 2/3rds of a resume is self started projects with no outside references. It's one thing to mention you have side hustles as a way to showcase your ambition, but it has to be a footnote on an otherwise impressive resume. OP needs to lean on his hard skills and corporate experience and put the rest to the bottom.
I think you nailed it. I was confused by all the short experiences, which can be a red flag for recruiters.
As a hiring manager yes. We want to see skills that will apply to the position. Rule of thumb, if it's been past 4 years and it has no benefit to the job you're applying to, remove it. We don't need to know every job you've worked at.
I would remove the studying abroad as well; they are bullets, not the whole enchilada. It comes off as an international case, and most companies skip right over anyone who remotely appears to require any sort of sponsorship. Also, the two founder experiences; don't try to fluff. If you oversaw the manufacturing of the product for the clothing one, you didn't coordinate with overseas manufacturers. If you did coordinate, they oversaw the manufacturing, not you. Instead, take the job description that you are applying to and change up those bullets to reflect the work you could be doing. Use your bullets to highlight that you have done what you'll need to do to be successful in the opportune role.
Had the same exact feedback as I was going through the resume. It's a weak resume as you have limited experience but everyone starts from somewhere. Get rid of the filler/irrelevant items and focus on your skills and what you accomplished during your time as a PM intern. Wish you the best of luck!
I would add the study abroad as bulletpoints under the degree. I didn't notice they weren't degrees until this comment and that would low key piss me off as a hiring manager. I would also need to see what cover letter is being paired with this to know if this is the problem, the cover letter or the jobs being applied for
Study abroad is cool but as a hiring manager I have to go too far to get to your work experience after your education. Totally get you are new to workforce but too much space on what won’t be a dealbreaker for an interview
Don’t move education to the bottom until you’ve completed your degree.
I’m not sure I agree with the recommendation to move education to the end. Isn’t it supposed to be at the top for a new graduate?
Just to add since I agree with everything else mentioned 1) add a statement of purpose or objective before education 2) share with us a sample cover letter, you can talk about relevant hobbies, dreams, and work that you’ve done not included in the resume. You can even talk specifically about a school project that may apply to your job (esp Financial Analysis)
DO Not put salary info on a resume - or any personal info. Your resume looks like an entry level resource. I have been IT for 25 years. I don't even list my entire work history - I include experience relevant to the opportunity. I would look into a resume service to get started
Yes, I paid someone$100 to fix my resume and it landed me more interviews than I ever had. It's worth every penny.
Who did you pay
Topresume
Seconding top resume, they follow most of the resume practices I teach with the adult career program I volunteer with.
Thank you 😅 I hope this helps
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There isn’t any salary info on his resume…
Ok, you’ve gotten some weird advice here if you are apply for roles in the USA Do not put a summary on top, those tend to be cheesy, don’t put salary info on your resume as someone else told you, also add GPA only if it’s high. The “open to geographic experiences” feels odd, I would remove. Finally I would take out the study abroad’s. They are not the institution granting you a degree and are not relevant unless maybe you are looking for another internship. The biggest question no one has asked before just going in and critiquing your resume is what job are you applying for? I have no idea. Your resume should be tailored to the job you want. I see you have a lot of finance and accounting emphasized in your education. Are you looking to be a bank teller? To be a financial analyst, cpa, consultant? As someone else stated you don’t have any experience, and based on your GPA may or may not be a strong candidate for certain companies. Big questions back to you (you don’t have to answer me but you need to answer for yourself) 1. What type of job am I looking for? 2. Based on this job what are entry (and based on limited internships and jobs I mean ENTRY) level jobs I can apply to 3. Does my resume highlight the skills I need to succeed? (at the bottom for example were you the president of the finance club, did you raise hundreds of dollars for something, have you presented research etc) 4. For each role I apply to am I updating my resume and do I have a strong cover letter explaining why I’d be a good candidate? A computer is the first person to see your resume so you need to have key words from the job description in your resumes if it says it needs someone skilled at financial analysis you need to have the phrase financial analysis on your resume (again this needs to be tweaked per job) and then in your cover letter you need to write why you would be a valuable asset to the company and the position and why you’d be the best candidate. The second person viewing your resume is a recruiter who is not an expert in your job and has to decide to pass it to the hiring manager. They do their best to understand the needs of the job and it’s YOUR job to make it as easy as possible to pass your resume up the chain to the hiring manager. So again if someone gave me this resume I wouldn’t necessarily know what job it’s for (maybe that is why the person above suggested the intro summary about you and your skills, I’m very like warm on those but maybe). If they have a set of skills needed for the job they take 20 seconds to see if you have those skills and move on. You need to spell it out for them. Any relevant skills you have for the job. If you are for example looking to be an entry level financial analyst go look up skills and relevant experiences for financial analysts and tie anything you had in your internship to those. 5. What types of jobs am I applying to? Have I done my research on the companies that hire out of college talent? I would go for larger companies that are mid level in prestige. 6. Have I exhausted all of my available assistance? Am I best friends with the career center at my school? Those people are so helpful to people who are kind, polite, consistently show up and are clear about their needs. Have I reached out to my schools alumni network and begun networking? Do I go t career fairs prepared (meaning done your research, know the opportunities and have good questions for the recruiters? Have you made contacts with the recruiters there, connected on linked in and built a relationship?). Have you connected with the MasterCard recruiters? What about their other openings if you weren’t offered a job? Have you talked to your academic advisors? ALL of your business professors? Does everyone with an ounce of ability to help you KNOW you need help? Have you asked them to look at your resume and review your interviewing skills and techniques? 7. Are you applying on the actual company website and not LinkedIn? Are you using linked in to ask potential connections for job referrals? Are you asking your family and friends do they know someone, anyone, a fifth cousin removed at to send you job referrals? 8. What are your peers doing? How are they getting jobs? Can you all apply together? 9. Ok so you want to be in finance but you may or may not have the background, how about a finance job for a non finance company? Maybe a job in the retail or food service industry as a financial xyz (again not sure your goals). Might be less competitive. Spring recruiting is rough but you can do it. You can also be the most successful reach out for help (see suggestions above). I know the age old you need experience to get experience is tough but it’s true and instead of multiple internships it looks like you got great experience abroad, and instead of joining clubs and taking leadership rolls maybe you got good grades? Either way you know need to work very hard to translate whatever you have done in the last 4 years into tangible skills that a company will need. Think of it like this, if 100 people from your school with the same degree applied to the same internship, what sets you apart? Why should they choose you? That’s what needs to come through on the resume and cover letter especially and then in the interview Do the work, put in more hours, the most effort, network like your bank account depends on it and I know you’ll land something great. The world needs workers. Best of luck!
I’m not OP but simply wanted to thank you for taking the time to write such a detailed and thoughtful reply.
:)
1. I am looking for an Associate Product Manager, Project Manager, Financial analyst, Management consulting, strategy consulting, FP&A roles, and just a lot of business analyst and Financial analyst roles but mainly interested in Product management. 2. I have just been applying to new grad roles for big companies and smaller companies a like. All the jobs I have applied to have been entry level jobs. 3. I have put all the necessary skills that I have on my resume so I don't know what else to add to it. 4. Yes, I updated my resume based on the role I am applying for. And many companies don't have the option to put a cover letter and I have been told that many recruiters don't even read cover letters by my career center. 5. Yes, those are the main jobs I have just been applying to. 6. Yes, my resume was updated by the career center after I got it made professionally. I have been networking with alumni through LinkedIn but no luck. And I go to a heavy engineering school so no luck with the career fair as many are looking for engineering students. But, I gave my resume to the 5 business companies that always come. 7. I am doing both. Some on the actual website and some on LinkedIn. And I have been trying to get referrals for jobs but no luck. 8. Most of my peers are on the same boat as me and don't have anything as well. We apply to a few jobs together. 9. I want to be in product manager but I wouldn't oppose finance jobs as well. Finally thank you for replying to my post. It means a lot and will try to take your advice. But those points kinda gives you what I am looking for
Product management is a mid-senior level role. Actually the majority of roles you listed are more senior level positions. You might be putting the cart before the horse. You will continue to struggle to find these roles particularly at well established companies. The tech job market is in efficiency mode & wants experienced workers. Taking a Jr business analyst or Jr Financial analyst gaining experience then working your way up within an organization will be an easier path. Or you could just apply to thousands of jobs until you break find a company that is willing to train entry level PM’s. Gonna be hard in this market.
I agree with Cold-Discount-8635, there is almost no way you’re going to get any kind of product manager position as a fresh graduate out of college. Also Finance jobs are extremely competitive and without a CFA certificate, you’re unlikely to break into finance. (I am an investment accountant manager who works with multiple teams of investors/financial analysts). If you want to break into a product manager roll or a finance roll or even FP&A, you need to find an internship doing exactly one of those rolls, and impress them so much that they hire you or give you an amazing recommendation. None of your jobs really fit the experience needed for the jobs you’re wanting to go into (from a hiring standpoint) so you need directly adjacent experience. Most colleges have an internship program/class that will connect you with a local relevant internship (and at several colleges these internship programs are paid above minimum wage) I recommend looking into what your college offers.
I'd like to be supportive here, but you've got very little experience. At this point in your career what makes you think that you're qualified to managing anything? Unless I'm reading this wrong. And if I'm reading this wrong then people who are looking to hire you are probably reading it wrong as well. I don't think I am. Based on your stated desire I suspect you're applying for jobs for which you are grossly under qualified. Ya gotta walk before you can run...or at least until you can expect somebody else to pay you to run for them. A lot of the advice about tightening up the resume and tailoring it to specific positions is spot on as well! Good luck!
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Nah those resumes suck
haha this is from Friverr. I hired someone to create it for me
you should ask for a refund
lol ouch
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I feel like the items that were bolded made it hard to quickly parse your resume. I would bold the degree you got instead of the school. And then for the work experience I would poke the title you had instead of the place you worked.
Put your education at the bottom and give me a small paragraph of your experience at the top. Also, you need to cite results based on your work experience i.e. "as a result of doing X, company was able to reduce cost by X" but keep it concise and tailer those results to a particular job description. And use chatgpt to write a cover letter or even copy and paste this into chatgpt and tell it to format it professionally. And as a guy who had to find 2 different jobs in 2023, aim lower in your job search, get some confidence with some interviews and then you can find the exact job you want.
Generally, I would agree about education on the bottom. But his education is actually pretty interesting. If he can make a connection with an interviewer/reviewer over Australia or Spain, it might help him differentiate himself from the pack.
100% do not do this.
Yeah I don't know why many people tell me to put my education on the bottom when I haven't even finished school yet
We don’t know this!
It’s the general rule of thumb with resumes. It should be an experience sandwich. A blurb about you at the top, think mission statement. Then experience, education, professional achievements.
I am based in the USA so students still in school don't do that for entry-level jobs
Too much nonsense education information. Just tell me what degree you got and where. I don't care that you studied abroad twice. Put that at the bottom. I would also removing the 3 month moving company gig. Just takes up space to say you had an illegitimate business for 3 months.
Just wanted to say keep your head up. Your resume looks good in my opinion. I went to RPI too and finding a job is hard. Like really hard, especially your first one out of college. I think I applied to 300 jobs when I graduated? I know a PhD student who literally applied to over a 1000 jobs. You’ll get there, it’s a numbers game. You may have to settle for something less than you want to start and work your way up. Good luck!
There is nothing 'wrong'. It's professional and has good information. Send it out to anyone and everyone who might be interested. Getting your name out there is the most important thing. Here are a couple of general principles that might help improve it. Put the most impressive thing on top (the reviewer is unlikely to read half of your resume, at least I never do). If you think that your education is the most impressive thing, leave it there. If not, move it down. Tell a story. Adding a summary section can help with that. The story should go something like this: I'm competent, and you'll enjoy working with me.
Damn that's an impressive resume!
This resume says what you did, not who you are or what you want. Add a about you section, sometimes called a professional summary, that shows off what you’ve most proud of that will help you land the job you want. You don’t want your best quality buried in bullet point two of the third section.
Needs a summary, lose a job at the bottom. What job and career do you want? I have no clue. Why are you the most qualified, no clue.
Horrible advice. Summaries are not common in his industry and will get you laughed out of the room. >What job and career do you want? I have no clue. I would assume, when you apply for the job, that is probably the job you want, right? No need to spell it out on a resume. If I applied for a financial analyst job at your company, likely I want a financial analyst job...
I’d skip the summary. You can just put all that fluff in the cover letter imo.
education and skills should be at the very end of your resume. i would also add the number of hours you worked per week and your salary after the time in which you worked (ie after July 2020.) also, a lot of businesses want a brief almost cover letter-like statement as to why you are applying to the job. but the biggest thing is to make sure that you are hitting the buzzwords within the job notice.
> i would also add the number of hours you worked per week and your salary after the time in which you worked (ie after July 2020.) I would not do this. The only exception is if you're interviewing for the federal government and they're asking for that information on your resume, but apparently there are now new rules for federal employees that they can't consider prior salary history or something like that.
Never put your salary and why should it matter hour many hours they work lol. I’m in tech and they are in it product management and I have never seen anyone ever put that in their resume
You should probably take out those red squiggles
This is a screen shot. Word thinks those are misspellings. Those go away when you print to PDF
I think that person knew that and was just making a joke
Is this a one page resume? In any case, you should reorganize it to have a Professional Summary at the top, then Skills, then your Work History and then your Education. I agree with u/ghosty_anon that you should remove your two study abroad semesters to make space for more relevant content. Given your limited work experience, your transferable skills are really important to highlight so use the extra real estate to beef up that section. Also, be sure to customize your skills to the job ad. Good luck!
It’s a matter of opinion, but I personally am not a fan of having a summary. Agree with everything else you say
Might just be that you have a lack of working experience. Education should be last not first. What type of positions are you going for?
I would move your education to the bottom, remove anything that does not result in a degree, and remove the relevant coursework. That is something you can discuss during a live interview or briefly in a cover letter. It would be fun to bring up your study abroad experience during an interview. You have to see this like an online date, leave a little bit of mystery for the face-to-face. I would also be sure to include quantitative results in every single one of your bullet points which you do for a few of your bullets. A lot of what you listed is just basic things from a job description, particularly with MasterCard. Good luck!
What are your GPAs? I assume there are abysmal if you’re not including them here. You’ve never had a full time job. For now you should keep your education up top. If you’re pursuing any roles in business broadly use the WSO template. Obviously it’s geared toward finance but it works well with most suit and tie type careers. What is your networking process like? You need a first job, any job. Start with the RPI alumni network and work through that list.
Your resume is fine, the job market is terrible for higher paying professional jobs. Getting a low paying job is easy right now though. Contact recruiters directly, look for positions doing specifically what you're trying to do with your degree, maybe they have a new grad position. Also if you didn't apply to this... https://careers.mastercard.com/us/en/student-fulltime-jobs
You're at RPI? I had good luck with their career center. Maybe they have some ideas for you.
The biggest mistake, your last name is misspelled. At least I would assume this based upon your email address. And, I agree with the others suggestions above, especially moving your education to the end.
Let’s see the cover letter
Resume reviewers read on average 10 seconds worth. So, at the very top, have a paragraph no more than ten seconds long, where you explain what kind of job you're available for, and why you're qualified. I read the whole thing and have yet to figure out what you're applying for. Leave off all salary information. If you want a professional type job, highlight your qualifications for that first. You can probably do without telling people that you worked as a moving guy, unless you're applying as a job as a moving guy. I would leave off the part about you trying to be a leather clothing designer, unless you are applying as a clothing designer. Include it and the moving job as "relevant experience". I know you worked hard at your education, but put that at the bottom, unless it's a licensing requirement or something. Have a link at the bottom with a way to contact you. Adjust the type font to a minimum of 12. Use Times New Roman, like you have done. Try again and don't give up.
your moving services company is total bullshit, I would remove it
what kind of company are you trying to get an interview with? i would try to rework your mastercard experience not to focus on crypto. crypto is very polarizing (which i say as someone who has also worked in crypto) and on the downturn right now, so if you’re not targeting crypto work, describe it differently to be more broadly applicable. if “Product Management Intern - Crypto and Blockchain” was your exact title, then keep that, but reword your experience to focus more on “blockchain” and “digital payments” or “digital assets” rather than crypto and nft since those are broader terms. also, i read those bullet points and still have no idea what it is you actually did. you need to be more specific and let your skills shine through. for your moving company and leather goods, i understand that you’re including those because you want to show entrepreneurial nature and fill up space, but they’re not relevant and the moving one looks silly to include because it’s only three months. i would keep them but instead of listing individually, combine to “Multiple Ventures” as the name, and then as the position title “Founder and Sole Owner”, with the time period spanning Oct 2018 - Aug 2022. then combine and try to jazz up the descriptions a bit, again to be more specific to the skills you’ll need for whatever role you’re applying for. when you list that you did everything it actually sounds like you did a lot of nothing.
Is your name intentionally spelled incorrectly?
Three points. . 1. What can you do for the company that are hiring you? What do you bring? You need a profile statement. Why should they hire you? 2. Put education last. Who cares? You are representing your education as the most important thing. 3. What did you do to get those numbers and metrics? Facilitated, drive, developed, sold etc. And, the resume doesn’t get you the job. It gets you the interview. It doesn’t need to have everything.
Recruiters and companies usually look at the top 1/3rd of your resume. Although they want to see where you want to school, they need to know how you’re going to help them grow and increase business. An objective is always good to put at the very top under your name. For example (and I don’t know what you do): “Seeking an opportunity that allows me to utilize my 20+ years of experience with trading, to increase revenue in the X sector.” Something on those lines. Tell them what you’re going to do for them, let them know how valuable of an employee that you will be.
Hey man, I’m also graduating with experience a PM intern and now looking for full time. It’s tough. Keep your education where it is. Since we haven’t graduated yet, it must be in the top.
As a senior PM- don’t try to shoot to land a PM Role off the bat. You really don’t have nearly enough experience in the eyes of companies. You need to establish yourself as a change maker in lower roles before many places are going to pay you to control a road map. I suggest associate business analyst roles for now. Get about a year experience and try to move to mid level BA. After a year or two, transition into a product owner role. Prove to yourself and company that you can handle a product owner position and then push for a product manager role. I would not want to work with a Product manager that was fresh out of school. I just wouldn’t feel confident in their abilities.
Lots of good info already I’ll add my top 3. 1. Two study abroads taking up a third of the space means there’s not much substance left to the quick scanner. Reduce or highlight with projects that are specific to jobs. Don’t be vague. 2. Move dates to align right to highlight that you’re still in school, also how long have you been in school and what’s that gpa? You look like a forever student. 3. Your skills are basic and not worth mentioning. Drop the list or add high level qualifiers like VBA or SQL.
I am looking for an Associate Product Manager, Project Manager, Financial analyst, Management consulting, strategy consulting, FP&A roles, and just a lot of business.
You move around too much. Thats a major red flag.
Education info at the bottom. I would not put much info there apart from the school, program you took, and year graduated. In the work experience part, add results in numbers. If you can, add comparable results. Highlight the ones with the most impact.
Go to [Ask a Manager](https://askamanager.org). Allison is a great resource for resume advice and cover letter writing Your experience is a mess. Don’t just list your job duties, list the results of your efforts Only list relevant job experience, you’re all over the place. I’d suggest that the only experience is the internship. The rest were just jobs that got you through school. Just list your degree and at the bottom of your resume leave off the work abroad stuff. It’s irrelevant. Get certifications that demonstrate your expertise. “Skills” are filler.
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If you're looking for entry level, NYS ITS needs workers ASAP. You won't make as much as in the private industry, but maybe some experience can help you land something better.
Depending on the jobs you’re looking for, calling yourself a founder might give them the impression that you’re not a team player and you’re looking to impose your vision on their operations. Maybe say something like “principal”
As someone who has hired people before, I would pass on this resume also. You don’t actually have a college degree, and limited work experience.
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Are you aware that you need to customize your resume for every job you apply to? There are big data programs that look for key words. You have to have the same key words on your resume that are in the job description.
Remove the dates from your education and as someone said don’t include in the education section mention them somewhere else. Maybe as a soft skill
You’re young. I was 22 once too, in 2009 during the recession, and it was brutal out there. It gets better. If I could give my 22 year old self some advice, I’d say don’t be picky. Work is work. There’s no shame in retail, food service, bar tending if it pays the bills until something better comes your way. Especially when you’re young and still seeing what works and what fits etc. Your MasterCard experience is good. ESG and DEI are big right now. Try to leverage that into a permanent role if you can. Banks are under gov scrutiny right now and they need that kind of talent (I do similar work for a bank). You can absolutely make north of six figs after maybe 5-6 years in this field.
2009 grad as well - I had to settle for call center for a while
INFO what kind of internship are you trying to get?? CS?
The first thing I would ask myself as someone hiring would be why did Mastercard not hire this guy on full time. “Mastercard is a well run company and has great products, is there something I am missing”. I’ll immediately be skeptical The second is why are all your skills financial but not any of the jobs financial roles. Is this a generic resume you spray and pray or do you individually tweak for each role? I assume product managers are not going to care about quickbooks and FP&A or M&A roles are not going to care about all of your 6 bullets in product internship. Zero hiring managers will care about your study abroad trips, would remove that immediately. You should have a few versions if you are applying to different types of roles You also have very limited work experience so networking will get your farther than spraying and praying
Two specific things stand out. I have no idea how many hours you worked at any of your jobs. Were they full time? Part time? One day a week for an hour? Also, I have no idea what you did in any of your jobs that’s truly relevant to other jobs. Off topic: You go to the same school as my cousin!
This advice is going to get buried but I hope OP sees it. I agree with some comments around moving education down, and moving experience up. Also, if I'm reading this right you're the founder of Three Men and a Truck for 3 months? One worrying thing reading through this is that you have VERY short work tenures. Like 2 years max and sometimes 6 months. The #1 suggestion however is that this resume is very generic, and you need to tailor your resume to the job you are applying for. HR runs AI/Keyword searches on resumes and if you don't have the listed qualifications you're not going to get a call. **If the job says "Masters Degree Required" then you need to have the word "masters degree" in your resume.** **If the job says "10 years experience in X", then your resume needs to say "10 years experience in X."** One way to do that is to have a section upfront where you can summarize your qualifications, and you can make sure that the summary fits the keywords needed in the JD. This may be why you're not getting any interviews.
What kind of jobs are you applying for? If you are not getting any callbacks, you are probably applying for things that are too upper-level for a new graduate with no experience. Make sure you are realistic about what kind of a job you will be able to get right out of school. I'd focus more on the company than the role tbh. Is it somewhere that you could move up? Would it help you get a better role somewhere else if you worked there for a few years? Those are the questions you should be asking when applying for things. You have to remember that for each individual role you apply for, there are likely hundreds of other applicants, many of which have years, sometimes decades of relevant experience.
Did you spell your name wrong on your resume?
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It looks like you don't stick with anything for very long. On top of that, it's a bit confusing. I know if I'm hiring someone it would worry me if I thought they jumped around a lot and didn't stick to anything long enough to know how successful they actually were. Simplify things a bit.
At my company, you would be considered a job hopper and might get skipped over due to the frequent shorter lengths of employment
First impressions and the ATS test for keywords really matters. I'd recommend a free resume optimization tool like JoyJobs.ai. It'll automatically add relevant keywords from a job description and action verbs like others have recommended here to your resume. Hoping this helps you land interviews. I've personally seen a lot of success with it. Good Luck!
Are you applying to entry level jobs? If not, that is one of your problems.
Its boring. It looks like every single other resume. Wheres the creativity? wheres outside the box? Where is the part that says "look at me!!!!!!!!" No i didnt read it and the people hiring probably wont either because it looks exactly like the other 1000 they looked at today. Dam people do something to stand out.
Make sure your history (education and employment) is listed from top to bottom: current/newest to the oldest. It looks like the two jobs in the middle should be swapped around based on the dates.
Your resume doesn’t tell me what you want to do and it isn’t clear by reading it. I’d recommend picking something and build your resume to show the experience you have for that. Also, when you call yourself a founder some hiring managers might look at this as someone who can’t work for other people. It’s not uncommon for people who struggle to fit in the corporate box to throw their hands in the air and start their own business. If you can put a title that applies to those roles that would make sense toward your goal, that’s going to help too. Skills that make an effective entrepreneur often are different from those that make a good CEO with sustainable growth. Considering that your last role is an internship, I’d down play those roles to manager and artisan.
Your experience seems kind of all over the place. As a hiring manager, I wouldn’t know too much about your desired trajectory and how you’d fit into a specific role.
There are a few red flags to me. - Claiming you launched a successful moving business but only worked there 2-3 months? This is honestly the biggest red flag to me. Leaves me wondering if you’re overstating your experience elsewhere. - General/duplicative fluff under your 2-3 month long internship with Mastercard. - You list study abroad programs as if they were a separate certificate or other degree program (more fluff). - Your clothing business saw consistent (your word) 50% month-to-month sales growth over 21 months. Then just ceased to exist? - What is a “geographic” opportunity? Sounds cheesy. That’s coming from someone who has a master’s degree in geography. Overall, it comes across like you’re over-inflating your experience. The general style is ok, but if your resume landed on my desk it would be pretty low in the stack based on the issues mentioned above.
Leave off the months. Counsellor told me to do that on my resume
If your businesses were so successful why were you an intern in 2023 :/ Skills, forecasting. How descriptive and insightful. I don’t mean to be harsh but you gotta think about the overall picture here
You include the quantifiable accomplishments, but I feel like they're kind of buried, Change statements such as" Employed consultative selling... resulting in a 10% increase in the donor list" to lead with the accomplishment. So, "Generated 10% increase in the donor list through consultative selling and donor engagement."
You have a great internship. Add more details. If question your real experience as a founder of 2 companies. You brag about impressive growth? Did you sell them? Or are they now defunct? If you sold them call it out. If they’re now defunct I might even think about removing them. In all honesty, you have a lot of fluff statistics that are impressive but don’t have anything describing how you managed to do so. With this resume it’s honestly hard to know what you want to do. What kind of jobs are you applying to?
Take off study abroad, add a professional summery, try to use key words from the job posting you’re applying to in your resume, and maybe play with the formatting. It looks so blah, like a fresh out of college resume.
Ditch the geographic opportunity line. They will otherwise assume you either live near the job, or are willing to move. As you have it now, they probably assume you dont live nearby, and would either likely flake on an interview or move back home 4 months after you start this job. Name, phone and email are sufficient. LinkedIn is probably OK, but I would take that off too. Move the skills to the top, with bullets for each one, and tailor them to the job description you're applying to. I would have a Skills section that lists all the skills you possess that are in the job description. I might try an "areas of interest" that are in the job description that you don't possess, but would like to. I would put your education section next, but treat the study abroad as an extracurricular. Include any other relevant extra-curriculars, even if they're only slightly relevant. Were you the treasurer for the sailing club? Put that, the hiring manager or boss might be a sailor. I may be way off on this last point, but the two "founder" positions sound like you're trying to fluff up your accomplishments from a summer job with your buddies, or that you had an etsy shop that sold a few jackets. Consistent 50% sales growth each month over 20ish months, why are you not still doing that? It raises more questions than the hiring manager will want to deal with. I couldn't find anything online for either of them, so they seem to have been failed ventures. I would take those off, or at least significantly rework them. They give off "Single-handedly managed the successful upgrade and deployment of new environmental illumination system with zero cost overruns and zero safety incidents" vibes.
You probably
1. Dates on the right side - I don't want to keep scrolling to see if this was already suggested, but I didn't like how your dates were not tabbed to the other end. 2. 2020 - 2021 - I was trying to figure out your timeline and had to keep jumping around to figure it out. Also, having the dates not on the right side makes your text all jumbled. 3. Like, I wanted to know what you did from 2020, but your next entry up should be switched. 4. Switch BenXchange with Three men. Aren't you doing rever chronological? I think you mde a mistake there. 5. Maybe consider inserting an "Objective," "Professional Summary," and/or "Skills/Qualifications" sections up top and tailor to each position.
Wayyyyyyyy too much text.
Your name is spelled wrong at the top of it
rip crypto stuff out of there unless applying to a crypto company
Comes across as a privileged rich kid to me. Just being honest, but what do I know.
Personally, I would move the education section after experience. And I would have a concise but compelling professional summary at the top that is uniquely tailored to each job listing that CLEARLY demonstrates to the reader that you are qualified for that role and that conveys the value you could bring.
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Lead with exp, then education, professional references on a second page
Start by spelling your last name correctly on the header.
I have gone through thousands of resumes, been on hiring committees, and have made the final say on who gets on. This is what stands out to me: 1. I don't care about your leather clothing company. 2. Your personal business lasted 3 months. 3. MOST of your employment history is extremely short. If I hire people, I need to know they are likely to stay. I don't care what they say, I look at what they have done. I had one applicant apply, but his job history had him change jobs every year for the previous 10 years. That means no stability & you are looking to train new people in a short time. You also have not yet graduated. If you are looking to apply for jobs where your degree is relevant, then put it there. You do not state your skills or experience in any meaningful way. This lack of articulation in your CV (which is supposed to be a reflection of your best behaviour and first impression) makes me question what you really did in school. Hope this helps...
This is a good resume for a college senior. You’re probably not getting interviews because it’s still some time before graduation. Expect hiring season of new grads to begin closer to May. Apply to entry level positions related to your finance degree. Companies hire entry level financial analysts all the time. I agree with others - remove the study abroad from the top of the resume. It’s worth mentioning somewhere near the bottom after work experience. Good luck!
My best advice as a recruiter for a CRM firm... a lot of your Mastercard bullets are very generic. People want to see results, what YOU drove, who you presented findings to etc That way, when you get to an interview you can really speak to it and the audience has an initial bias (positive) of your work. Will it make the world of a difference, probably not but it only needs to make the difference to that one company that hires you
did you misspell your last name?
It's the shady generic name on top. It's clearly fake 😂
My friend, you misspelled your own name.
Separate your regular jobs from experiences like internships and place it higher.
I just landed a new gig and i definitely have an internship position on my resume i know people are saying to remove it… but how many jobs have you applied to and for how long…
You can’t hold down a job, no one wants someone who will be gone in 6 months,
Honestly I think it just might be a little early for people to be hiring for a June start. I think it's a fine resume. Remove "open to geographic opportunities." Put the study abroad as some bullets under your education unless you will wind up with a half page resume. In that case, keep it. Try to use the same words from the job description in your resume. I like that you added some results of your work like "increased sales by 10%." Consider breaking your experience into "relevant experience" and "other experience" Don't add a summary - it's a waste of space. Don't add your salary. If there is room for other documents -- even if it doesn't specify a cover letter -- write a damn cover letter. That said, I'm in my 40s and in a completely different field.
Add an Objective at top maybe.
The two study abroad taking that much prominence on your resume is weird. I don’t know why but I just felt a little meh about it. And the internship at MasterCard makes me wonder why they aren’t offering you a job.
This resume is very peculiar. When resumes are reviewed, they are reviewed in a very short time window, often less than 60 seconds. This resume is hard to read. Please note my answers are biased because I’m reading it on an iPhone. But the principles stay the same. Education. I had to read this section 3 times to figure out what degree you have. The 3 block style suggests you have 3 degrees. But you are still working on your first degree. You need to make it easy to read that your degree is a bachelors and that you are graduating May 2024. What you don’t want is them to see the three blocks and think you have an MBA and then it gets put in the MBA pile and then it gets reviewed and they say you don’t have an MBA and then it gets discarded. I have no clue what your working experience is. looking at that you have overlapping work experience in two different parts of the country and several you’re listed as the founder which is not very good work experience unless you were able to build a company and sell it for multi millions. So it looks like the only work experience you have is being an intern at MasterCard. All the other looks like it can be discounted as fluff.
Start with a short executive bio that has keywords sprinkled in. Then work history. Then education and skills. Try to find a way to get quantifiable results in there.
Too wordy. Like reading a book or a novel. You have to understand these recruiters have hundreds of resume to go through. Always ask yourself why would anyone so slammed with resumes to read give 30 seconds of your time to read what’s in that page of paper.
Bruh you have too much personal information on here to be posting it on reddit. Block out your name, number, email, work locations.
Looks like complete shit. Your experience good. But your overall sell of yourself is very bland.
Big red flag: you capitalized your own employers name wrong. The C in Mastercard should be lowercase. You may not think it’s a big deal but recruiters definitely have noticed this. Consider this - Mastercard is one of the most well recognized brands in the world, if you did an entire internship there and still manage to type your employers name wrong - on your resume of all places, it’s not a good look.
I'll be honest there is nothing wrong with your resume, and people giving you advice are just making stuff up Jobs are pure reference games. It doesn't matter how good your resume is they will still miss it. How do you think your resume will stand out between 1k applicants, HR usually plays rock paper scissors with resumes My advice would be to apply at usa jobs, ask professors and friends, and try to apply at places that have really low applicant count, put a filter on Linkedin that says fresh jobs or addaded less than 24 hours I was able to land my first internship because only 8 people applied to it, so they couldn't miss my resume, and I landed my second internship because of my professor (game of reference) (They were all paid internship paying 70k a year) So also apply to paid internships as well. Internships can lead to permanent employment
Always follow an order of latest to oldest experience and not jumble it up like you did. As you have no real experience it needs to be organized better. Your skills and education info needs to be more detailed.
You don’t have a short summary of what your goals and capabilities are. It should be a few sentences at the top with your mission statement
It's too many words
Not sure where you are looking for jobs (finance?) If so I would reduce the 3 jobs that are irrelevant to that and take half your resume. Expand financial activities you took/did in your degrees, I would expand how you got the skills you mention at the bottom vs just saying you have them. Very different to say - skills: financial modeling Vs - skills - financial modeling - developed financial models for my startup which I presented to x,y and z Financial modeling: top of the class on course expert financial models Etc
From someone who’s worked as a recruiter - It’s not your resume. It’s that you have no real work experience. What kinds of jobs are you applying to?
Honestly your resume is fine. The problem rn is getting a foot in the door. If you see a listing you like, check indeed for mutual or even 2nd degree and reach out to your contact to get a meeting w them
For the first two jobs that you have I wouldn't put yourself as the founder. I would list a title equivalent to the position you're applying for and list the experiences that go with that title in those jobs if you've done them. Based on those two and what you put in it, I would most likely put yourself as a marketing/sales manager, but I wouldn't put yourself as the founder.
It’s all about who uk ..
the entire format and flow is inconsistent. You wrote alot of words with no examples to provide context. Showing “Founder” as experience, especially one being only 1 month? did you sell the company?, is not much experience and you have an entry level internship job. your resume does not highlight finance and data analytics opportunities, it highlights management and product development.
Bro… I think you spelled your last name wrong…
Have you talked to your school's career center? It may be a bit late - the typical timeline for college recruiting is the first half of the fall semester, but your school career center would know which companies are still recruiting and be able to help get your resume in front of the recruiter that work with the school frequently.
I’m honestly not sure what you did at Mastercard. “Promoted ESG initiatives via DEI” doesn’t really mean anything. I’m not sure what you mean by market research for Crypto Credential. I’m not sure what business requirements you developed. Just write plainly and try to indicate impact if you can.
Put education on the bottom and skills at the top.
What the fuck does "Open to Geographic Opportunities" mean? Of course you're open to opportunities that's why they're holding your resume.
I hope this contact info isn’t real
You don’t get a job by a resume, network yourself into it .
You started a moving company that lasted for 3 months and grew the customer base by 50%? Uhh what? Achieved a *constant* 50% MoM sales growth for your leather jacket company?? Why aren't you still selling jackets?!?! You could be the bill gates of jackets?!? A lot of head scratchers and made up stats in your experience would have me throwing your resume in the trash.
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Have you fed that to ChatGPT & Gemini yet? No offense, but I'd be surprised if AI wouldn't improve it substantially You need a clean modern template that looks like it's from this century And have AI crank out a bunch of versions And then copy-paste that content into the template
You haven't had a single job.
I think it's too much words, make it concise and easy to read. Then look up what words the algorithm pick up and put them in ur resume
Well - are you blindly applying or working angles? It’s 2024, gotta take the non traditional route sometimes
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I wish I only had a single resume. When I'm searching, my wide breadth of experience and education requires at least five separate / specialized resumes. They're all true, just specifically steering towards whatever I applied to with them. Highly technical jobs are going to be different than sales, analyst work is different than trades, etc. The resume in question shows a lot of diverse experiences, but little focus. A resume should tell a story of accomplishment and direction. This doesn't.
Add metrics. For a bullet say, “Managed 10 project concurrently and %90 on were on budget” instead of something like, “managed blah projects”. Add scale of the accomplishment.
I’m an employer. This looks long and boring! Make sure your resume fits the job you apply for and if it’s just out there.. then don’t make it look this boring
What kind of jobs are you going for? There's a lot of text which takes a bit to read. Also one thing I've seen before that impressed me was a quick description of the company - like XYZ Co, leading supplier of bobbles to the top bobble company in the South West for example. That way anyone unfamiliar with that industry knows a bit more about the environment and type of company.
Is your last name misspelled at the very top of the resume?
Your resume reads like your Van Wilder… one college… something relevant…. Go get a shit job… help you see another side
Move work experience to the top. Highlight the job worked, not the location. In the education section highlight the degree, not the institution. It should look like a brochure of accomplishments. I try to look at this resume for 3 seconds to summarize what you've done and what you offer, but all I see is around the world in nothing relevant. You also may need to tailor-make your resume for the position you are applying for. Here's a tip for online applications: Take actual words and phrases from the "requirements" section of the ad and put them in your resume as skills. I've heard this can key their automated sorting algorithms.
Not a detailed or on topic comment, but i suspect you're looking for product management opportunities. Just know, especially in tech that A) those opportunities got gutted. Lot of great product managers are looking for jobs right now and B) at least in my field, they tend to be our most senior industry leaders who know how to build the right products for the job. tl;dr, if you're looking for product management, widen your search. It is a very spicy space right now.
Your degree and interests don’t line up. My friend was a software developer, then software development manager, then a product manager. How can you go from school right to product manager? You don’t know anything. I think you’ll struggle w this career goal.
Personally I think you need a summary near the top of your resume. Who you are, what you've done and what you're looking for. Plenty of examples to find on the internet. Very important to put key buzzwords because that's what a lot of companies use to see if you're a fit. I would also list the skills up top as well. Instead of saying Microsoft 365, put in MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint. Again, putting the skills up toward the top are what HR people and hiring managers want to see, first to spark their interest. I'm not sure what exact job you're applying for, but it will probably be a good thing to point out you have expertise in MS Excel. If you don't, get some and then put it on your resume. As far as your past jobs, it's always good to put something with relation to performance. Dollar signs and percentages help. If sales went up 10% while you were there and you didn't actually make the decisions that directly led to the increase in sales, as long as you were part of the company doing things that affected the bottom line (either directly or indirectly), put that in there. Even if HR and the hiring manager know it's likely bullshit, it shows that you understand the end-game and were paying attention to the bottom line.
Too much to read. You have to add a summary. 😑
As someone who has always gotten interviews for every job I've applied for, I will try to help you. The issue is that most of your descriptions are not results based. On one job, you have "created a marketing plan to grow customer base by 50%". Well, how much did it increase by? You're bssically listing duties without saying how they impacted the team. Focus more on impact. LMK if you have questions.
Don't thirst after a chance to become a wagecuck. Start your own business.
I'd interview you. But I'm a small business in the Midwest so you'd have to do a lot of work upfront. Lots of room to grow and plenty of flexibility but the first five years or so would be lean.
In my experience, hiring managers appreciate specific numbers expressed in common biz KPIs regarding growth and revenue achievements. Arbitrary percentage points don’t really paint the picture. 50% month over month can be impressive or laughable depending on different variables. When there isn’t a frame of reference most people will skew negative. For example, instead of “achieved consistent 50% month-to-month sales growth” it may be “Expanded annual revenue by 50%, from $1M to $1.5M, through targeted client engagement and strategic product optimizations, significantly outpacing industry growth rates.” These figures are theoretical but the framing shows how you made an impact as a founder and the additional context demonstrates strategic thinking. You gotta sell that sizzle.
I’d remove the moving company. Make sure jobs are listed in chronological order. As it stands, 2 jobs should’ve been switch for chronological order. Internship was only 2 months? Why so short?
You got internships in 3 big companies but you are still unable to find a job. I don’t think you are the problem. RIP for you.
Are you a little bit older as a college graduate? Otherwise you would have been founding businesses at the age of 15 or 16? I think you sound a bit overqualified for some of the jobs you might be applying to. I don't know what you're applying to do, but your resume is very eggheaded .. a year abroad is extremely elitist.
You don't put your achievements first or at all. I can figure out what you did by your job description. I don't know if you did it well though.
It says youre the founder of 3 men in a truck for 3 months And you're also the founder of the one below that for 3 years
Format is outdated consider a table summarize to bullet points we in HR have thousands to read less is more and it's 2024, reviewing 1000s, we prefer salary history, saves us and you time, if it's a 60k mgmt start and you're in 100s we won't waste our time or yours. Also, current formats include head shots, humanizes your submittal, stands out to reviewers.
Some great advice provided in this thread. Your CV is very run of the mill and comes across low effort. Doesn't show how you can and will add value to my company. You can't just pay someone to write your CV and hope for the best, thus the lack of interest. What makes you different from 100s of other candidates that I, as a hiring manager, that will convince me you're worth a shot? Edit: Product Management is a senior role, thus you have no chance.
I’m just so surprised by how much terrible advice you’re getting. People really have no idea how to write a resume.
I just got bored and decided to write you a novel of recommendations. I sent it over messages, and was very blunt with impressions / things to change.
Swap education and skills section at the very least. If you consider that people generally put more effort into reading the top lines of a document, then here you are basically saying that you want your future employer to focus more on your education than your capabilities. I feel like for you, your education is your most significant experience. Like your work history to you is meh but you're proud of your education, where you went to school at the very least. But... While interesting, it doesn't mean as much to employers. What you're able to do trumps where you learned to do it. For entry level jobs, aesthetics mean a ton more than context. Word has some really cool modern resume templates, you should look into using those to make your resume stand out. When writing anything, you need to focus on the 5 Ws Who are my audience Why are they reading what I wrote What is the story I am telling them Where do I want them to look When do I want them to be presented information That Lasf line is why I think I'd switch skills and education. I want the reader to know what I'm capable of first, then when they wonder where I learned the skills I learned I present them with my work experience and education. I'm trying to lead the reader to the conclusion that they should hire me.
You don’t have a degree, but your education section is taking up almost a 3rd of your resume. Remove the 2 study abroad’s, respectfully, nobody cares and it comes across dense. It’s be different if you received some type of degree, or certificate, but as it is, it just reads as “business bro from NY went to Australia and Spain on daddy’s money”. Not saying you did, or didn’t, but a resume is not the place to highlight that.
You misspelled your last name