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Listing the courses in your major underneath your degree?
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On your resume, if you feel you have taken some courses that might not be obvious in your major is it okay to call them out underneath the degree itself?
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Iristheangel Mod Posts: 4,133 Mod
I think that could be an iffy. It can take up valuable space in your resume or make it look cluttered. I would say to take the skills you were taught in those classes, from your major, from your certifications, etc and put it under your skills -
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ptilsen Member Posts: 2,835 ■■■■■■■■■■
Maybe on just-out-of-college resumes, but not for you, my friend. Your experience is much, much more valuable. If you degree has an emphasis, that is worth listing. Individual courses are probably not going to be worth the space they'll take. -
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dave330i Member Posts: 2,091 ■■■■■■■■■■
Its clutter.2018 Certification Goals: Maybe VMware Sales Cert
"Simplify, then add lightness" -Colin Chapman -
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MrBishop Member Posts: 229
I wouldn't but if it was a concentration that was apart of the degree I would add it. Example
B.S Information Technology - Security
Concentration Network EngineerDegrees
M.S. Internet Engineering | M.S. Information Assurance
B.S. Information Technology | A.A.S Information Technology
Certificaions
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NinjaBoy Member Posts: 968
Maybe on just-out-of-college resumes, but not for you, my friend. Your experience is much, much more valuable...
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N2IT Inactive Imported Users Posts: 7,483 ■■■■■■■■■■
Thanks for the replies.
I honestly was on the fence regarding this. -
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hiddenknight821 Member Posts: 1,209 ■■■■■■□□□□
I just revamped my resume last month, and I just added all my major classes under my degrees since I'm pretty much in the same situation as these college graduates. I was following several templates I found in this resume-building book specifically for recent college-grads. I plan to post my resumes here as well as my old one for critiques later if I am not having luck finding jobs. -
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the_Grinch Member Posts: 4,165 ■■■■■■■■■■
I list my courses, but only because I didn't have full time experience to cite. Soon I'll be taking them offWIP:
PHP
Kotlin
Intro to Discrete Math
Programming Languages
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listing what courses you took only helps if your fresh out of school without a lick of experience. i've also seen not only courses but some sort of development/team projects completed in class listed ex: in lab lead team in planning, documenting, developing, testing product. -
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Danielh22185 Member Posts: 1,195 ■■■■□□□□□□
Agreed. I would only ever list classes if you are a fresh college grad with little or no real world experience. You almost kind of need this as a resume real estate filler anyway. As times goes on remove the college courses and list the skills obtained by those courses and the on job experience.Currently Studying: IE Stuff...kinda...for now...
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