12 Tips on How to Level Up Your Resume - Issue #27

Hey friend! Hope you are having a great week! I am at a coffee shop writing this newsletter before I head to speak this afternoon at Code on the Beach in Jacksonville! And guess what I am talking on? Yes, you guessed it, social media and networking:) 

I’ve started to go back to being passionate about how to structure your resume and LinkedIn. I always struggle with talking a lot about this because I don’t want to be known as the ‘resume guy’. However, I want you to know, if you do want to work with me to write your resume I do offer 1 on 1 rates! 

But guess what, this email is free:) 

Tips on How to Write a Resume - Check out www.vaco.com/taylor and then go to free guides for my template!

However, if you don’t want to click the link here is a summary on how to write it

• Name and Email in the header (stop taking up ¼ of your resume with personal info)

• NO phone number or address - you need to direct all leads to one centralized place aka email

• Get a separate email address for resumes - you don’t want to accidentally email your mother about a family vacation and it went to a recent hiring manager you interviewed with 

• Consistent bolding and spacing

• Summary (this takes place of the ‘objective’ no one cares about that) – main technical skill sets or your main accomplishments (4-5 bullet points)

• 10+ years of overall software engineering experience

• 8+ years of Javascript development

• 5+ years react experience

• 3+ years of Angular 

• Any technical degrees or certifications

• Professional Experience – Company, start date (mm/yy) end date (mm/yy) position held, location, city, state

• Add a summary of the company 

• List project specific overview then a few bullets about the project

• Technical Skills – Platforms, tools, languages, technologies, frameworks etc.

• Certifications – include if you have Azure, AWS or GCP

• Education – If you are new in your career put education at the top. If you are senior in your career, put it at the bottom. If you have a technical degree and you are senior in you career you need to include it in the summary section

Key Takeaways

• If you are a junior developer seeking your first gig, professional experience can still be any volunteer experience. If you have deployed code outside of a code school or bootcamp…put it in professional experience

• If you have not done any volunteering, no coding bootcamps and nothing on your own. Get on them asap.

• Write your resume so the recruiter CAN understand what you have accomplished

Hot Jobs: I am trying to fill 15 Ruby on Rails positions! The sweet spot for these is 3+ years of experience. The company is pretty sweet. If you are somewhat interested, hit me back and I will fill you in! Reminder, I have a referral program:) 

Talk next week! 

-Taylor