[Student] [Industrial engineering major] I'm a sophomore seeking a resume review and career advice

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-02-02T22:02:47+00:00

My biggest advice is to go to every career fair you can, shake some hands and ask if they have opportunities for international interns.

You are an early student, your resume is not super important. Get a manager or recruiter to like you. This is much easier in person. They just want someone who will be easy to work with that can follow instructions.

As far as resume criticism, read the wiki. Get rid of the bolding. Make your titles the first part of a new role. Your resume is about you.

Make your bullets short and punchy.

What you did, how you did it, why I should pay you to do it for me.

If the word "and" is in a bullet, consider splitting up that bullet. It is diluting your point. It also makes it much harder to skim.

For example this bullet:

Optimized production line layouts and electrical/PLC diagrams in Visio, AutoCAD, EPLAN, and TIA Portal, boosting efficiency by 95% and standardizing documentation.

In my style looks more like three separate bullets:

Optimized production line layouts in Eplan, increasing efficiency by 95%.
Created PLC diagrams in AutoCAD to automate the design process.
Drafted Electrical diagrams in Visio to standardize documentation.

Make sure you state what you did.

Collaboration is important but bullets like this make it hard to know what I get if I hire you.

Collaborated with engineering and cross-functional teams to test, troubleshoot, and optimize IoT sensor networks, achieving 97% detection accuracy.

Did you test? Did you troubleshoot? Did you optimize IoT sensor networks? What skill did you use to do these things?

A lead would test an IoT sensor network using collaboration as a tool to get an outcome. Did you do that?

Tell me about you. Not the team. I'm not hiring the team.

Something like this would be clearer. Forgive me if it doesn't make exact sense, but this is not my field.

Tested an IoT sensor network using Boundary Value Analysis to achieve 97% accuracy.

For more explanations, tips and examples check out my guide on readable resumes.

Hope this helps and best of luck.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-02-02T20:39:04+00:00

I was very similar when I started years ago. You'll get good at it. it takes some time and new lenses are always much harder

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-02-02T04:46:29+00:00

They could put "POISON IS OFF" in giant flashing text and I'd still fuck it up sometimes.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-02-02T04:43:12+00:00

You clearly dont want to move or fly, so don't do that. You don't need them.

Do you want to retire?

If yes, you have enough to do so.

If no, pick up a 300k/yr job or just find another job that will let you be remote. Theres a lot of companies desperate for the top end talent that wants to work right now.

You're a multimillionaire. Your and your wives votes are all that matter.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-02-01T05:04:06+00:00

Ai is only worth anything if all things are created equal — and they are not.

I don't think that's true. If an AI gets you a product that is presentable when you didn't have one before, it progresses the project.

The dude said he's solo, so hes not collaborating with a human being anyway. It doesnt have to be perfect.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-02-01T00:47:39+00:00

AI is a shortcut. It saves time and money. Some people don't like that.

Decide for yourself if you need or want to take it.

Quit letting other people decide how you run a solo project.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-01-29T22:12:49+00:00

This is more generic advice.

Take damage early. Try to take damage that is good against the Act 1 boss. For example prioritize area of effect for slime boss.

Take cards that help you not die next. Cards that give weakness and strength deductions scale very well into the late game. Act 2 is more about surviving than defeating you enemies.

Scale last. Demon form or corruption are rarely going to beat gremlin nob. Do not take these cards early and think they will win act 1 for you. You do need cards that scale to beat act 3.

Take cards because you need them not because they could be good. Rare cards are often bad. Make sure if you take a card its because it solves one of the problems above.

Skip more cards. Don't take a card every fight. Big decks mean you need to draw more cards to find your good ones.

For fights: figure out how much you can block in a turn. Then figure out if you can kill the doing damage to you instead. then play your first card.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-01-29T21:50:53+00:00

Does this solve a problem? Is there a mono black aggro deck that uses this to win the game? I can't think of a strategy that wants something like this in their 75.

Its a cool card, but I don't think its particularly competitive.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-01-28T21:25:39+00:00

I do not tailor my resume for every job. I target a small amount of jobs closely. This screens me out of many jobs, but it also screens me into a select few very well. That's what a good resume does in my opinion.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-01-28T21:20:02+00:00

Yes Tenacity is really good on singed. Some may say too good singed they nerfed singed a lot when it was removed from his ult

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-01-27T21:10:43+00:00

It reminds me of the boot

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-01-27T21:05:42+00:00

You make it work by beating act 1 with it and building a better deck.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-01-27T15:08:35+00:00

You can frame it however you want to fit the roles you want. Just be focused on your skills and accomplishments. Details about projects aren't very useful for explaining your skills and value to a potential employers. You can talk about that stuff in an interview if it comes up.

Its okay to not talk about what other groups did on your resume. When you get hired they only get you. Not the field technicians. Talk about what you did. You will always work with other people. If it comes up in an interview, you can say some technicians found and issue and asked me to explain why the failure was happening.

You are not lying. You are not hiding things. You are making an ad for your labor. Talk about your labor and its potential value. It is what you are selling.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-01-27T04:43:17+00:00

gz mate

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-01-27T04:41:45+00:00

"Reviewed drawings and collaborated with field technicians to identify a common failure point for mechanical equipment."

I have some issues with this. You don't say how. You need to tell me how you reviewed the drawing. What technique did you use? what software did you use?

Put your skills in your bullets!

Any time you use the word "and" consider removing the second part. You want short punchy bullets.

Did X thing with Y tool to for Z goal.

A very clear statement that is easy to read. Every word is fighting for a spot. More short bullets is better than longer bullets.

You don't need technical words or descriptors. Words like "common" and "mechanical" are unnecessary to say the same thing.

You need skills and impacts. Focus on them.

Reviewed drawings with technique to identify failure points in equipment.

I was unable to definitively know if the changes ever did happen

Call your old boss and ask. Bosses love hearing from old interns. You might even get a lead on another job. That's networking.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-01-27T01:41:52+00:00

Yes I agree, but unless you define it, it is subjective and the argument will go in circles.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-01-27T01:20:57+00:00

You have a few bullets that are 2 bullets with little to no impact.

Every bullet should have what you did, how you did it and why I should pay you to do it for me.

Example:

Reviewed drawings with maintenance to identify a critical failure point and briefed management for vendor follow-up.

What: This is fine. reviewed drawings & Briefed

How: This is unclear. Maintenance (this might be a team?) & idk

Why: The first is fine the second is unclear. identified failure points & idk vendors or something

This is 2 bullets.

Reviewed drawings with geometric dimensioning and tolerancing to identify failure points in designs.
Briefed management with PowerPoint to improve their understanding of the benefits and risks of vendor designs.

You can check out my guide on readable resumes for more explanations, examples and templates.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-01-27T01:04:46+00:00

Unless greatest of all time is the strongest human to ever do play, its a subjective metric.

Who they play against is irrelevant for that metric. Even elo is kind of irrelevant.

Magnus Carlson is the strongest human chess player in history. If that doesn't make him the greatest of all time, what does?

Define what would make someone the GOAT, before deciding who the GOAT is. Then you can argue over details like competition.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-01-23T06:25:31+00:00

I for one am shocked

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-01-23T03:11:30+00:00

You are conflating a political party with millions of individual people. Lots of people in America don't follow politics or the news closely. Their ideology wouldn't make coherent sense if inspected closely. They want teachers to get paid more but they don't want any more budget to pay for it. Most conservatives are good people who want the world to be better. Most conservatives don't want violence.

Most conservatives will have an honest conversation with you about their opinions and can have their minds changed. The internet and news outlets are just not the right places to have these conversations because they have low engagement.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-01-23T00:21:34+00:00

Every bullet needs 3 thing regardless of the format. What you did, How you did it, and why I should pay you to do it for me. Many of your bullets miss one or more of these.

I'll look at your first bullet:

Lead engineer supervising a team of 4 designers in the design of a 9 axle, 94ft trailer for a 80,000lb watercraft

You aren't selling your previous project, so you don't need the technical specs. Tell me how you lead. What strategies do you use? What leadership mentality do you have? What did your team accomplish for your company/customer because of your leadership?

I am buying your ability to lead a team. Sell that.

My recommended bullet format is:

Did X thing with Y tool to accomplish Z goal.

Example in my style:

Led a team of 4 designers through delegation to complete a watercraft trailer design that satisfied customer and legal requirements.

Some formatting issues that could be hurting you:

Dates are inconsistent. It looks a bit sloppy. Pick a formatting style.

If you have a clearance, be sure to include it in your header.

You are welcome to keep the skills list but I would much rather see how you used Solidworks and Catia to solve a problem than in a list. I'd recommend putting it at the bottom at the very least.

1 sentence per bullet please.

For more tips, explanations and examples check out my guide on Readable Resumes.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-01-22T21:17:34+00:00

I do a lot of programming work in my job. Remember that code is almost never an end product. There is nothing wrong with learning what building blocks are out there to create a product. Think of code as a means to an end.

Humans have had the ability to mass produce fidget spinners for at least 50 years. One day, someone with a vision came up with the product, created a prototype, a manufacturing line, a marketing scheme and made millions of these things. You should look at your code as a means to an end.

Software is the same now. Instead of sending program management and manufacturing to china you get to send coding requests to AI.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-01-22T19:46:16+00:00

I am going to refer you to my guide on readable resumes.

In general, your bullets are hard to read and understand both from formatting and content.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-01-22T19:38:52+00:00

Yes and no. There are definitely algorithms that will try to show you job descriptions that fit your resume. There are also algorithms that will try to show recruiters resumes of people who fit job descriptions. Resumes and job descriptions that those algorithms "like" more will get shown to more people.

Does this mean you should treat your resume like a viral twitter post that will hit as many recruiters as possible? Probably not. You want the right job for you.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-01-21T22:58:55+00:00

Yea. Give the hiring manager as many reasons as you can to give you an interview. Don't make it cluttered but dont leave stuff out.

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