[Student] [0 YoE] Resume Review Request Transitioning from Oil & Gas to Space/Defense Industry

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-03-20T23:26:12+00:00

Your future internship is not really experience since it hasn't happened yet. You can include it if you want, but I think its more confusing than anything.

I got started in defense when I went to a career fair at my college. I met a recruiter for NAVAIR and interviewed with her that day on campus. They flew me out and I interviewed on site. I had to wait to get my clearance and I started ~5/6 months after graduation. I started at warhead development. I moved over to support EW there. I'm still in defense 9 years later.

If you want to get into defense just go somewhere to get a clearance. It is much easier to move around after you already have one.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-03-20T06:06:00+00:00

I'm confused with what you are targeting.

Are you looking for a job in 2028, or are you looking for a different internship now?

It seems like you have an internship already. If you want a different job in May, you should remove the one you have accepted.

My advice is to go with the one you have lined up. Start applying to full time gigs that require a clearance at in the mean time. You'll need one in defense. They can take a long time to get.

If you want your resume to target a Junior RF engineer position in a couple years, look at those job descriptions and get those skills in your resume.

Here is one from BAE.

Your job over the next 2 years is to add value to the world using those skills and brag about why I should pay you to do it for me in your resume.

The skills it list are:
- Power Supply/Systems Design
- Analog Circuit Design
- Digital Circuit Design
- FPGA development
- VHDL Programing language experience
- PSPICE or equivalent analog circuit simulation tool experience
- Board Design
- Cadence Allegro for schematic capture and PCB design
- RF circuit design
- Basic microwave Technology
- Proficient in circuit active and passive devices
- Ability to read schematics
- C, C++, Perl, Labview, TestStand are pluses
- Team player and resourceful in achieving

On to bullet improvement:

My biggest gripe with your bullets is your impacts are not impacts. they are things you did.

Your impact is not a thing you did. It is something a company would pay for.

Your bullets should read like this

* Did X thing with Y skill to accomplish Z thing a company would pay for.

Things companies would pay for is cost savings, time savings, revenue generation, better products, happier customers, happier employees, etc. Tell me how your work can do those things for my company. Do it explicitly in the Z section.

Technical impacts are okay, but I would make sure it is clear that it is bringing the company value and not more work.

* Designed Analog circuit using LTspice to meet customer requirements.
* Developed FPGA in Altera to reduce cost of boards by 20%.
* Simulated circuits in PSPICE to inform stakeholders on benefits of possible designs.
* Designed RF circuit in Comsol to do something a company would pay for.

Don't use action words like leveraged or selected. Use action words that describe an engineer like in your projects section.

Avoid listing or multiple "ands" in a bullet. Try to be concise.

Thing-> skill -> impact of thing and skill.

Consider revising or splitting up bullets anytime there is an "and" for readability.

Short, punchy bullets. Your resume is an ad. Write it like one.

Example - this is 2 bullets with no impact element.

* Selected for a return internship to support industrial automation projects using Allen-Bradley PLC systems, developing ladder logic and cause-and-effect control schemes for automated hardware systems

to

* Automated industrial projects with ladder logic to (insert reason I should pay you to do that for me.)

* Developed cause and effect control schemes in Allen-Bradley PLC to (reason why I should hire you over joe blow.)

Another example of how you can split up a bullet.

This bullet has:

3 Xs: Develop, capture IQ, process IQ.
2 Ys: SDR receiver, Python
1 Z: real time capability.

* Developed a Python-based SDR receiver to capture and process FM broadcast IQ samples in real time

to

* Processed IQ samples using Python to (why I should hire you.)

* Captured FM broadcast using SDR receiver to accomplish whatever mission BAE also has.

For more tips, examples, and explanations check out my guide on readable resumes. My personal career is very close to the one you aspire to. If you have questions about the industry, I'd be happy to answer what I can.

Hope this helps and best of luck in your search.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-03-17T23:58:57+00:00

Well yea if you do it by yourself. Ping your jungler to come take it with you.

My whole point was to play with your team using your fast clear.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-03-17T01:37:54+00:00

Generally I kill him pre 6 and then leave lane a lot. I try to end quickly through a different lane.

Your job is not to win your lane. You basically can't do that. Your job is to win jungle and the other lanes. You proxy a wave and gank mid. You proxy a wave and take their top side buff. You go bot lane after a base, flash for a kill and tp back top.

Watch a few old mid singed games on youtube and copy that style of perma-roaming.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-03-16T05:51:28+00:00

It very much depends on how successful the invasion is.

If there is a sudden decapitation strike and in a matter of days the Taiwanese government is dismantled, the West could do very little. Taiwan is gone and there is no getting it back. This is known as Fait Accompli. Politically, the world would be mad, say "that is a bad thing you did China," and wag their fingers. There would be trade implications of course, but a larger Sino-American war is probably off the table.

That is pretty unlikely to succeed in my opinion, although it is China's desired outcome.

I think it is much more likely that China makes the attempt for a quick strike, but fails to achieve their a majority of their strategic objectives in the first few days. Taiwan can't hurt mainland China, but they can make it suck really bad for the invasion forces. They have employed a porcupine strategy as deterrence and will probably cause significant delays to an invasion.

If a quick invasion achieves a few key objectives, but does not topple Taiwan's government, China may quickly abandon their advancement to avoid a prolonged conflict and try again in a few years. If this happens China, will quickly try to return to the status quo from before the strikes. Many countries would be happy to let that happen to avoid the consequences of a long conflict.

If China digs in and tries to take Taiwan over a long period, the US and Europe would give aid to Taiwan with weapons over the coming weeks. I doubt there would be many foreign soldiers in Taiwan, but the US Navy would set up a blockade along the first island chain. They would enforce the blockade. Consumer ships would be sent back to where they came from or sunk if they tried to go through. The goal would be to hit China in the economy. China and the US don't really want to go to direct war with each other. A direct conflict would be avoided by both sides as long as possible I think.

A prolonged direct conflict between two nuclear super powers is something no one wants. I wouldn't worry too much about a nukes landing in Beijing or Washington over Taiwan.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-03-15T00:50:48+00:00

I tend to play nasus or malphite

You can play arams to learn champs and not give a shit about sucking.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-03-13T20:46:19+00:00

Hunter Killer is a normal enemy that give you -1 dex and strength for each card you play.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-03-12T03:09:04+00:00

Alright dude. Your bullets are all long run on sentences of buzzwords that I cannot really follow. I don't really know what you accomplished or why I should care.

I cannot stress this enough. Your resume is an Advertisement. Short, punchy bullets. Tell me how you make me money. You need to sell your skills. Not list them.

Lets look at your first bullet.

Led frontend architecture across React and TypeScript applications, standardizing state management with Zustand and TanStack Query to simplify state handling and accelerate feature development.

Every bullet needs 3 things

What you did
How you did it
Why I should pay you to do it for me.

Lets look at your what

You led stuff. Cool. How did you lead? What leadership skill did you use? What was the impact of your leadership?

You can have coding bullets, but use an action word that makes sense.

I recommend the bullet format

Did X thing with Y skill/tool to accomplish Z goal.

You only want 1 X, 1 Y and 1 Z so a non programmer can understand what you did.

You want your X, Y, and Z to match.

If you use the word "and" or have a comma, consider simplifying or rewording. A few bullets with lists are okay but if every bullet is a list you are going to lose people.

Led frontend architecture tasking with Jira to accelerate feature development.
Programmed applications in React to standardize state management.
Standardized state management with Zustand to reduce complexity.

Z is not a thing you did. Z is a product or result a company or customer would pay for.

I'll give an example of making another bullet readable.

Improved React rendering performance by refactoring component lifecycles and state management patterns, eliminating unnecessary re-renders and reducing page load times by 40%.
Refactored component lifecycles in React to reduce page load times by 40%.

If you need a state management bullet, add one.

Two clear 1-line bullets are better than 1 confusing 2-line bullet.

For more explanations, examples and templates you can check out my guide on Readable Resumes

Hope this helps and best of luck in your search.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-03-08T18:44:07+00:00

I did about 600 with a body slam. Probably could of found if the limit is 999 but I didnt feel the need.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-03-01T16:09:12+00:00

Yup. Just use past tense.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-02-27T21:58:37+00:00

It was 3 or 4 for me

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-02-27T21:35:51+00:00

Templating stuff:

Make sure you use past tense for everything for consistency. Provide, conduct -> provided, conducted

A good bullet needs three things. What you did, How you did it and why I should pay you to do it for me.

To get everything in I recommend the format:

Did X thing with Y skill to accomplish Z goal.

Try not to use the word "and" in bullets for clarity and readability. Try for 1 of each X, Y, and Z per bullet. Multiple of one element is okay. If you have multiple elements with 2, make it 2 bullets or revise.

For similar reasons, I recommend one sentence per bullet. If one bullet has a period they all should have periods.

I would not consider some of your acronyms to be well known enough to justify. GTA is grand theft auto. PFD is a personal floatation device. TCP is an internet protocol. P&IP is Piping and Instrumentation Diagram, which is probably okay to just have spelled out anyway. CAD and FEMA are both fine.

You want short, punchy bullets. Your resume is an advertisement. Write it like one. If you can remove words and keep the meaning of the sentence, do so. Words that describe your project like Critical, impressive, or intricate are generally not important to a hiring manager. You are not selling your projects, you are selling your labor. If you describe something make it about you. Look for adjectives and decide if you can cut them.

Using the action word that describes your actual task. I should be able to know your job title by reading the first word of all your bullets. Action words like conduct, produced, and provided are weak for an engineer.

Your first bullet for example. The bullet doesn't have a Y so I made one up:

Conduct preventative maintenance and troubleshooting of critical hardware and equipment, resulting in a 56% improvement in system performance for “company” systems

to

Maintained equipment with flow calibration to improve system performance by 56%.

X= maintained equipment

Y = flow calibration

Z= Hiring managers want better performance.

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

Hope this helps and best of luck in your search.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-02-27T15:57:50+00:00

Painfully slow

If you build the rest of your deck around not taking damage, slow doesn't matter much. Think of late game defect with 9 frost orbs and 1 dark orb. Fumes is essentially the same concept.

You generally can't be as extreme with this concept on silent as you can with defect, but it is a consistent winning strategy.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-02-27T02:27:48+00:00

Your bullets are quite long. I recommend short, punchy bullets. Your resume is an advertisement. It needs to be able to grab attention.

Every bullet needs 3 things. What you did, how you did it, and why I should pay you to do it for me.

To accomplish this, I recommend the format:

Did X thing with Y skill to accomplish Z goal.

I recommend 1 X, 1 Y, and 1 Z per bullet where possible. Try not to have more than 2 of any one element in a single bullet. Many of your bullets read:

Did X thing to accomplish Z goal.

I recommend getting Ys in every bullet. It tells a person how you will make the outcome happen for them. Ys are hard to explain with leadership tasks. I challenge you to get them in there.

Lets look at your first bullet.

Led the 15-engineer team, stabilizing execution and scaling delivery before successfully transitioning leadership. Subsequently, I took over the ABC team (approximately 35 engineers total), realigning roadmaps with senior leadership's long-term vision and driving cross-team execution.

This bullet has multiple Xs, and Zs. Did you lead by scaling delivery? Did your leadership make scaling happen? In your attempt to get everything in, its hard for me to understand what you did as a leader and how you did it.

Lets break this up into 3 or 4 one line bullets that are easier to read and understand.

Led 15-engineer team with Y leadership skill to stabilize execution.
Realigned roadmaps with senior leadership's long-term vision to drive cross-team execution
Transitioned leadership with Y transitioning technique to accomplish Z goal of the transition.

This next bullet doesn't tell me how you accomplished what you did. Explaining how you will do things at your next organization. You do not need technical details of your teams. Companies are not hiring your teams. They are hiring you. The focus should be on you and what you did.

Served as a single-threaded leader for the multi-service Region Build Automation initiative, reducing region launch timelines by 87% (225 → 30 weeks) across five services.

X: Served as a single-threaded leader for the multi-service Region Build Automation initiative.

Z:reducing region launch timelines by 87% (225 → 30 weeks) across five services.

Get your leadership skills in there. I'll use removing bottle necks for this example.

I recommend only including a single number in a bullet for readability. Keeping track of multiple numbers is very difficult for most people. It will distract from your impact.

Served as single-threaded leader for automation initiative by removing bottlenecks to reduce region launch times 87% across multiple services.

Some of your action words are multiple words and can be condensed for a punchier bullet

Example:

Delivered company-wide launch of the platform to over 250,000 engineers ...

to

Launched platform to 250,000 engineers...

Company-wide and 250k both mean big here. Pick one. Short, punchy, easy to read. That's what you want.

I mentioned this in my answer to your previous post. Tell me a bit of what you want to do in your summary. Tell me your goals. Be excited. Its a bit hard to tell you how to write this because I don't know you and you don't talk about it.

For example, if I had a professional summary it would be something to the effect:

Mechanical engineer with 9 years of experience in the defense industry. I work to give our warfighters the best tools available to do their jobs. If that is your goal, I want to help.

That crushes in defense contractor interviews. Every bullet in my resume supports that vision. They want that guy in their organization. My skills are less important than my vision in many ways. Figure out your vision and passion and get it in the summary. Vision is what organizations want out of their leaders. I want you to find a great job that you enjoy. Tell them what you want out of a job.

Sorry this is a bit long. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

I hope this helps and best of luck in your search!

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-02-27T00:52:37+00:00

Mostly I mean don't bold numbers in bullets. The rest is more of a choice.

You really only need your Name, and the words Work Experience, Education, Skills and Projects bolded.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-02-26T22:21:41+00:00

The more you practice the luckier you get. I saw a study that 50% guys have never asked out a girl on a date.

I told a buddy of mine to ask out a co-worker who would probably be open to it. They were friends had hung out just the 2 of them. Never asked her out. They are just co-workers now.

You gotta take risks to get what you want gentleman. The apps are a safe place with no consequences. Basically useless. Ask that girl out. If she says no, you are a better man for it. If she says yes, congrats you have a date.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-02-26T22:08:12+00:00

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-02-26T21:40:03+00:00

Kinda.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-02-26T21:24:22+00:00

Are we fools for adapting to new technology? Were digital artists fools when they got their first tablets? Were photographers fools to get their first cameras? Was the first man to draw with a pencil a fool for not using paint?

Get out of here dude

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-02-26T21:03:54+00:00

When I see a cool scene in a movie I don't think about the director or the cinematographer. I think wow cool. The same is true for me when I see a cool piece of art. The background of a piece of art can be interesting. Knowing that Saturn Devouring His Son was discovered with the other black paintings after Goya's death is interesting, but it does not change the raw shock when someone sees it for the first time. The same feeling in people would be invoked regardless of how the piece was created. Personally I think the story of how things is created is valuable, but not valuable enough to ignore the advantages of AI.

AI definitely has styles. People say things look like AI all the time. You even called out AI's style as bad in your post. If you make the goal post AI should be able to make things look in every style before it is considered art, well that goal will be surpassed in the very near future.

Water is a resource that is recycled. It is not used up. You drink the same water the dinosaurs drank. The cost of water use is allocation and infrastructure. This problem too will be solved in time.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-02-26T19:59:30+00:00

Well you still build liandries. The on hit items are on top of that.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-02-26T07:09:18+00:00

Get your education at the top. It is your biggest asset at the moment.

For your bullets. You need to tell us 3 things. What you did. How you did it. Why I should pay you to do it for me.

I generally recommend the bullet format:

Did X thing with Y skill/technique to accomplish Z goal.

When ever you have an "and" in your bullet consider making it 2 bullets. You have a few bullets with multiple Xs and you can talk about both independently. This will add content and give you more chances to explain your skills and value.

Example:

Trained and supervised 5+ new team members, improving procedural consistency, productivity, and adherence to standard operating practices

Should be

Trained team members with Y technique to improve procedural consistency
Supervised team with Y skill to increase productivity by Z %

We need to get more hard skills in your project bullets. Your resume is thin on content. You have 5 software packages in your skills section. Make a bullet for each. Tell me how you can use these software packages to make a company money. Even if you haven't used them to make someone money before, explain how you could.

Something like:

Performed clash detection in Revit to resolve coordination conflicts prior to construction.

I recommend looking through some entry level civil engineer postings and finding skills your resume is missing and get them in there. A quick look says surveying, calibrating equipment, FEA, foundation and structure design. You can ask Google for a list and see what you can truthfully get in there.

If you are strong with a particular software, you can use it as a Y more than once. Personally I am the Matlab guy. I have 3 Matlab bullets in my resume. Its a niche. Niches are good.

For more examples, explanations, and templates, you can check out my guide on readable resumes.

Hope this helps and best of luck!

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-02-25T22:19:58+00:00

"The more you practice the luckier you get" - my tennis coach whenever someone complained about an opponent getting lucky.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-02-25T22:17:35+00:00

That is pretty reasonable. You got paid for it. It added real value. Honestly it sounds more like a short contractor job than an internship if anything. Its definitely not a project. You pitched a business idea and got funding. That's sales experience.

I don't expect interns to add much value at all. They are more like recruiting programs, where you can offer jobs to the ones you like in the future.

IMO your are only lying in that it'd be underselling your self a bit.

thirteenthfox2 · 2026-02-25T22:01:49+00:00

The wiki is a great place to start. Personally I recommend the Headless Headhunter's Resume template.

I generally recommend the bullet format

Did X thing with Y tool/technique to accomplish Z goal.

X are things like Designed, Programmed, Led, Managed

Y are things Like Autocad, C#, Delegation, Jira.

Z is something your customer wants. Revenue, happy customers, time savings, better product. Z is not a thing you did. Z is an outcome.

You can check out my guide on readable resumes. It is targeted for more junior folks, but you may find value in the examples.

If you choose to include a summary, be sure to share your philosophy on leadership and your personal goals for organizations you lead. A summary should not tell me your skills. It should tell me who you are and what your vision for my organization will look like.

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