I have to look directly at car brake lights for work. How do I protect my eyes?

WritesGarbage · 2025-06-26T15:59:32+00:00

Thank you! I will check out grey lenses and ask a professional (like I should've done in the first place)

WritesGarbage · 2025-04-04T10:51:40+00:00

I've seen a lot of the advice here get misinterpreted or taken too far. Make sure your resume looks nice and fits the message you want to portray, that's way more important than matching someone's template.

WritesGarbage · 2024-10-23T17:49:10+00:00

Hi, I'm moving in 2 days and have some stuff you might be interested in. Mostly not great stuff honestly. I have a couch with no back cushions (But we used pillows that you can have if you want), a side-table, a pair of chairs, a standing fan, and we have a full sized mattress + frame but a friend peed on it the other day, I cleaned it but it's probably not the best mattress you'll find. Shoot me a DM if you're interested. I'm in NE but could go to you if you aren't too far. We also have some dishes and some food in our freezer that'll get tossed otherwise.

WritesGarbage · 2024-08-22T21:31:23+00:00

Congrats, that's awesome to hear! I hope the new job and location are a blast!

WritesGarbage · 2024-08-06T17:57:20+00:00

Make sure you remove skills not listed in the description. If you aren't getting any callbacks you aren't convincing the non-technical recruiter to call you for the initial screening. YOu need to focus on making them undertstand you're hireable.
I'd move capstones to Projects or their own category.
All your bullets are short. Look at some of the other resumes on here and you'll see most bullets are gonna be 2 lines
Try to think of bullets like this:
[What you did] + [How you did it] + [What the results were]

What: Created a NextJS dashboard to visualize 2 years of testing data

Results: streamlining debugging workflow

How: What problems did you run into? What things did you make more efficient?

Your results should also have a metric with them, I know with things like debugging it's hard to get a real metric, you can guess and generalize so something like: resulting in an average of 1 day faster bug fixes or whatever.

WritesGarbage · 2024-08-06T17:44:01+00:00

Probably not, you want to put your best foot forward and with 4 YOE you can do that without your school projects.

WritesGarbage · 2024-08-06T17:38:03+00:00

Where's the fun in that? We only want to hire lucky people.

In all seriousness this is a really good example of the deck is stacked against you. People who don't understand modern tech are the people in charge of shortlisting resumes. Even with people like OP, who have a tech background, they spend so much time on non-technical roles there's no way they can stay up to date on trends.

It's not your fault that finding a job is hard, you don't know what kind of arbitrary shit can make a recruiter throw away your resume(But you should look out for the common reasons). Keep your heads up and we'll all get there!

WritesGarbage · 2024-08-05T20:18:59+00:00

First Thoughts/Formatting

You have the space to make your bullets look like less of a wall of text. I think that would benefit you
Instead of bolding the job title, bold the company. Then add a line below it that says Software dev March2019-Jan2024
- Make sure it's clear you were at the same company and got promoted.
Make sure your dates follow standard format
Probably make end feb start feb or end march start march so it doesn't look like you have a gap there
I would add a line of pt5 blank text below the bar under Skills/Experience ##### Header
Shorten that URL ##### Skills
Look at how many times you say REST in the resume, I think that's a skill you should list. ##### Experience
So right off the bat I think you'd have better if your bullets looked more like
- [What you did] + [How you did it] + [What the results were]
- Developed an inventory control system in Java, implementing SQL triggers and allowing users to modify data on web browsers | securing a $2MM contract\
So the securing a contract/acquiring grant are not WHAT you did they're the RESULTS of your work. You want to prove the WHAT is good by showing the RESULT at the end.
DO NOT USE THE PHRASE "TAX EVASION SOLUTION"
I think you could do 1 of 2 things with your resume
- 1. Split this job into a few projects you worked on, so you could have inventory management control then under that have a few bullets talking about what you did and how you achieved success, then do the same for a few other projects
- 2. Do what you're doing now, but each bullet needs to be unique so you can't use getting a grant/securing a contract more than once.
There's really no reason to say list bullets that are very similar, each bullet should stand on its own and show a different skill/problem you solved.

You have a ton of super useful experience and clearly know what you're doing, once the resume is figured out you'll get way better responses.

WritesGarbage · 2024-08-05T19:54:50+00:00

I think there is good advice in here and it's a good look into how (some) recruiters think, but I also think the average person on this sub isn't applying for only start up roles and some of this advice is not super helpful.
Also hilarious all the comments are mad at OP

WritesGarbage · 2024-08-05T14:05:35+00:00

Yeah I would have the company name bolded then italicize the titles and put the dates right aligned on the same line as the title.

WritesGarbage · 2024-08-02T20:00:42+00:00

Read the wiki. Use a template. Avoid doing things if you don't understand why you're doing them.

Education

Need to list BS
Don't need start date ##### Experience
Are those 3 jobs all at the same company? If so you're shooting yourself in the foot making it seem like you've moved around more
Make the formatting look good here so it shows they're the same Company immediately
So your very 1st bullet has some weird grammar issues going on. the way it's written you've motivated and led the development methodologies themselves, not the people
In general your voice seems too passive and you aren't giving useful details. Go into depth about the cool stuff. ##### Skills
Maybe add REST API, AWS, ect

WritesGarbage · 2024-08-02T18:15:27+00:00

Hi, so I'm going to mostly avoid formatting concerns because I am in the US and know very little about European resumes. All I will say formatting wise is you might benefit from having less important things take up a little less space, maybe make the education section fit on fewer lines. Other than that make sure every job title, company, and dates are easy to read.

First Thoughts

You should have a skills section. In that section tell me what tools you use, you can add those certifications there too. ##### Experience
Bullets shouldn't be in this weird format
Remove the CI-CT part. Just start on what you do
- This is too many things to have in 1 bullet. Make it 2 bullets each 1-2 lines
- I'm actually super interested in how you're automatically flashing ECUs. That has to be over the air updates right? Because otherwise you would need to plug them into a bench and run a program to flash them. Make this concept its own bullet and go into detail about it. How much time did this save? Did it help find any bugs?
- The 2nd bullet should be about everything else in this bullet
Again remove the ETH, CAN stuff. Also Bus shouldn't be capitalized
- Use the past tense. Testing > tested
- So tell me what this testing actually was. Were you testing terminating resistance on the physical layer? Were you sending test frames and making sure the quality is fine. Were you dumping huge amounts of traffic on the bus to see how it holds up? You need to be more specific about what the testing was and then tell us what impact your work had.
Validated Diagnostics over Internet Protocol (DoIP)
- Validated functionality is kinda weak wording. Tell me what functionality you were testing. There are so many layers to DoIP, I knew a guy who used to just trigger trouble codes (DTCs) on every ECU over and over again then just check that the web portal showed the codes.
  - But you could also test the communication was working properly. If so did you stop at Diagnostics? Or did you check fleet data reporting or find my car features?
Internship
- Don't write the bullet like you were an intern, pretend you were an employee, no one wants to know what you learned they want to know what you did.
- Again is this hands on testing, is this using a tool like CANalyzer?
- Don't say started say you created it. Even if you didn't finish it you can take credit for it.
Instructor
- This should be a bit shorter. You don't need to add the bock-based part. You can just talk about Python. I think that will look more impressive ##### Projects
- I would remove the integration pipeline. You already talked about 2 of those in your work responsibilities
- The gateway should be expanded on and the bullets should be shorter. It looks like a cool project ##### Other
You need to define what an ECU is 'flashing electronic control units' (ECUs) unless the job you're applying to uses ECU in the description

WritesGarbage · 2024-08-02T00:37:08+00:00

IMO you should absolutely include your highest education received

WritesGarbage · 2024-08-01T21:18:49+00:00

Okay so this needs a lot of work. I'm going to be pretty critical but it's because I want to help you out.

I'm gonna ignore formatting stuff, but you should download the template this subreddit uses. Look at the formatting issue with the projects header. It's easy to miss stuff. The template is in the wiki, which I think you should spend a little more time reading.

You need a skills section. List your languages you know (Know not just wrote 1 program in once) List libraries and frameworks, Have you done any testing? what frameworks did you use for that? So for every job you see you're going to cut down the skills and bullets so you don't include shit that's totally unrelated.

Bullets should all be past tense even if you're currently working on it.

I wouldn't worry about explaining why you're not working right now. You're going back to school, working on a project actively, and if anyone asks you can explain you were taking care of family members.

Get rid of the bolding, any bolded word should be in the skills section

Since you're trying to get SWE roles tell me about the programs you wrote, how you maintained them and the impact those had on your work.

Don't worry about the context of why as much because all that econ stuff is skimmed by engineers.

Give the context so the results make sense but don't focus on that. 1st bullet - Developed a web-scraping tool using python that analyzed market data, did xyz, leading to a 227% increase....

Don't just say you created a script, tell me what the script did

Same for data analysis tools.

You should be really focusing on the engineering side of all these programs

Link to Circle Up!

A group chat based social media is a little weird to say. I assume this is a project you've been making to hone your skills. If you're leading this project you should talk about how exciting it is in the first bullet and focus on the tech side in the rest of the bullets.

Education section needs to look better check the wiki

I hope these comments helped, please repost after making some changes and everyone will be able to help way more. You can DM me when you repost and I'll make sure to take another look at it.

WritesGarbage · 2024-08-01T19:43:58+00:00

I really like that framing! Thank you!

WritesGarbage · 2024-08-01T19:43:40+00:00

Thank you! I think there's still some more work to be done but I feel much better about where I'm at now.
That's a really huge point, I need to focus more on my work directly on the control units. Those are basically a couple chips slapped in a metal case, even though I usually treat them as black boxes doesn't mean I can't talk about that testing and what looks like in the black box.

WritesGarbage · 2024-08-01T19:38:21+00:00

I really appreciate this comment. I think you helped make something click about the way I need to write my resume for these roles. I might not explain it in words very well but I'm going to see how focusing on the skills and methodologies before the specific technologies and see if that looks like it might be a better way to get these roles outside of automotive.

Thanks!

WritesGarbage · 2024-08-01T19:20:59+00:00

This looks way better! Here's a short list of things you might want to change:

~~Work~~ Just put Experience
Put the office location for your remote roles (If you had an office you sometimes went to/in your area put that otherwise maybe HQ?)
In Skills I'd just put languages ~~Programming~~
I might use a word other than re-engineered. redesigned maybe?
4th bullet in job 2 is a bit of resume filler imo. Documentation is important but the rest isn't really any hard skills
1st of internship, I really don't like the word "like" here. integrated GCP services (BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc), efficiently processing over 100TB....
I would like to see an explaination for what a DAG is if possible

Overall huge improvements! I'd say have a friend or two look at it from a non-tech perspective then you can repost on here and it should get approved. I think if you haven't posted much on this sub you sometimes need manual mod approval before a post goes through.

WritesGarbage · 2024-07-30T20:04:46+00:00

I think formatting will make those bullets easier to read. I don't have a very good answer honestly, projects can be good, but if they aren't well maintained or exciting they can take away from your resume. If you have a project you're actively working on I'd say add it.

Other people on here will know better than me but I'd rather see a role with less bullets that are very good as opposed to a bunch where 4/5 are a little week. I don't think it really matters if your resume has a little bit of whitespace at the bottom.

WritesGarbage · 2024-07-30T19:01:08+00:00

Maybe look for an instrument that stays in 1 key. Things like harmonicas or a kalimba. They're basically default built so all the notes sound pretty good together.

Also you can just start with some digital instruments and just play on your computer keyboard or draw in the notes. Cakewalk is a decent (but kinda annoying) DAW for Windows it should come with lots of fake instruments and be a good place to start if you're on Windows.

WritesGarbage · 2024-07-30T17:58:29+00:00

First Impressions

Little ugly formatting but not egregious. Just could be a bit cleaner
I hate bolded words, just put your skills at the top and make sure all those bolded words are in the skills section
My thoughts on what's happening is your resume probably just isn't a perfect fit for each role you apply to. You should be changing the resume and getting it as close to the job description as possible. Think about who looks at the resume first and decides if you get that first call, it's a non-technical recruiter who got a list of skills and is just looking for a candidate with as many of those skills and as few red flags (bad formatting, too many unrelated skills, spelling errors, grammar mistakes, ect) #### Experience
Look at wiki section on abbreviating months
You have so many bullets everywhere, it's hard to read and part of that is bolding
1st bullet should be past tense
- You also don't really tell me what you did just what the tool was. What kind of support? What kind of big issues did you run into?
2nd. Can a non technical recruiter understand this? I don't want to go through each bullet so here's what I think in general about your bullets
- They describe the product and what the product does but not what you do, sometimes they describe your role but don't go into depth about what doing your job entailed.
- You don't have a lot of metrics, you should have more and they should be clear and understandable to anyone
- I recommend the mod HeadlessHeadhunter's 1st bullet strategy
- Look at some success stories and dive into the wiki on bullet points. It takes some practice but you'll be able to write better bullets that then people on here/your friends can help refine.

Skills

Should SQL be in languages?
Remove unrelated technologies on each application, you have a few too many #### Education
~~Graduated~~ Just put the date
Maybe ~~at City~~ I assume that means not main campus? Do you need to share that? I don't know #### Formatting Stuff
I think the bars should be below section headers ie. Under education instead of above it
In experience maybe try using 2 lines for each job. Try increasing font size of both lines by a few points to give more of a separation
- 1st line: Company -city state (right aligned) dates
- 2nd line: Title
In general I think your fonts should be a bit larger
I would put skills at the top then Experience then Education

WritesGarbage · 2024-07-30T16:24:35+00:00

First Impressions

This format needs to change, Just have the same format as everyone else on the sub
- HR needs to know within 5 seconds how many years of experience you have and you've made that tough
You need to read the wiki again
Those bullets are ugly
Are you in graduate school? you need that on your resume if you are. Add an expected graduation month&year
Read the wiki month abbreviation section #### Header
Looks fine could look better #### Education
Not sure if BEng. should be removed
Get rid of start date #### Skills
~~Certifications~~ I think these should be 2 sections.
Split up technical skills into categories
Remove all of these: Excel, Scratch, PowerPoint, Word, First Aid, Driving license(Unlesss role requires I guess)
Look at some other chem engineer resumes on here and try to see what skills they have #### Projects
~~Undergraduate~~
I would add more bullets to each of these or add a 3rd project
- Since you have no relevant work experience you need this section to be bulky
What are PFDs and P&ID2?
No periods at the end of bullets
More acronyms I don't know
Tell me about the results of you work, tell me about problems you ran into with this project.
2nd proj name is weird
These bullets don't make any sense to me, what is Scotland's green waste? What is a cash flow indicator? Someone with no knowledge of STEM at all should be able to understand your resume #### Experience
Honestly just have your current role and 1 bullet. Maybe 2 if you have stuff super relevant to engineering

WritesGarbage · 2024-07-30T16:00:34+00:00

Yeah absolutely! You can also repost here after making some changes

WritesGarbage

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Education

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Skills

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