Anyone mind taking a look at my resume?

nhpr

Here's my first draft. At the moment I'm trying to get some sort of Linux sys admin job (or more realistically an internship for production environment experience). Any suggestions would be welcome.

EDIT: Took off attachment from dead thread.

zaxbysauce

Man you have all those skills and abilities, but the experience section doesn't back you up. That is going to hurt some. Your certs will certainly help prospective employees give you a shot but getting in to more than an entry level position with little relevant experience is going to take a combination of luck with the hiring manager and good interview skills. Overall the resume looks pretty decent though.

whatthehell

Yep I definitely agree ... you rock in the cert areas, but need way more practical experience. Perhaps a paid internship or something entry level, just to more easily get a job and get more experience quickly?

Or start a tech consulting company?

Xcluziv

whatthehell wrote: »

Yep I definitely agree ... you rock in the cert areas, but need way more practical experience. Perhaps a paid internship or something entry level, just to more easily get a job and get more experience quickly?

Or start a tech consulting company?

I agree with zax and wtth, looks decent. You need to beef up on the experience some to leverage how the certs were effective in real world scenarios

nhpr

I need to clarify the original post. I'm looking for comments on the resume itself -- style, etc. I'm editing it to send for internships/cheap labor offers, so I'm well aware of my lack of experience working for other people in IT

sandman748

Your summary statement is more of an objective statement. I prefer the former. As an example...

“A self-motivated recent graduate looking for a challenging position in software development.”

or

“A results-driven Software Developer with demonstrated success in the design, development and deployment of large-scale enterprise applications for the financial industry.”

Which do you feel is stronger?

While you may not have any direct experience that relates to IT, I am sure many of the "soft skills" are common with your current career that are used in IT.

And this is just my opinion, but I think one of your biggest assets is your education. Hiding it all the way at the bottom is doing yourself a disservice.

kingslayer

Your skills section is very vague, Im not a hiring manager but If I were I would prefer to see people actually give me real tangible explanations of what they can do with certain technologies.

If you write 'PHP' on a resume, that means nothing to me. What can you do with PHP? What have you done with PHP? Was it in a commercial setting or just playing around on your laptop at home?

I think you have listed a lot of different skills but very little to back it up, I would rather see someone list 2 or 3 things but provide me detailed explanation of what they can actually do with that technology.

Then in an interview I am intrigued and want to ask more.

nhpr

sandman748 wrote: »

Your summary statement is more of an objective statement. I prefer the former.
...
And this is just my opinion, but I think one of your biggest assets is your education. Hiding it all the way at the bottom is doing yourself a disservice.

Done and done!

kingslayer wrote:

I think you have listed a lot of different skills but very little to back it up, I would rather see someone list 2 or 3 things but provide me detailed explanation of what they can actually do with that technology.

This is another good point. I mentioned writing a custom CMS at the bottom, but that could be missed by people skimming it quite easily. I thought that the interviewer would establish exactly what the applicant could do with whatever technology, but additional details can always help. Any examples of how I might smoothly incorporate something like that into the resume? I also did some minor contract coding, and I couldn't figure out where to stuff that either.