Submitted by Beachside32 on Thu, 02/05/2009 - 22:12.
After reviewing your resume file, I thought you did alot of correct things in tailoring your resume. The way you design your heading, making your resume scanner friendly, and job experience description were good in my opinion. On the other hand, I discovered some other areas to which you could improve your resume in.
One part of your resume I thought you could change, is adding a date for your experience at Ed Air Inc. I think all companies would be interested to know the duration of this job experience. When I look at the body of the resume, my eyes for whatever reason goes directly towards the job title. The job position you stated for Ed Air Inc., should maybe be move over to the left ,move the job experience title over towards the center and maybe try not making it bold. With the GPA scale, I'm not sure if you have to put 3.5/4.0 to let the employer know it's out of a 4.0 system. I'm guilty of not doing this on mine resume, but it would probably wouldn't be a bad thing to change.
When I first open up the .pdf file, your heading looks very professional displayed. I thought the font size was a great selection to use with the addition of long line to draw attention to your name. The layout order of your resume is properly organization, to help the audience find exactly what they are looking for right away. By avoiding using italics or underlining keywords, your resume passes the scanable resume test. The job experience description is done well in detailing what exactly you did.
Submitted by HiggsBoson on Thu, 02/05/2009 - 23:18.
Here we go, no fluff critique.
The first thing I noticed was the dead space, particularly in the lower right side of the page. Section headings do not stand out enough and sort of meld with the other text. There isn't really a distinction between "Education:" and "Purdue University", also on that note-"West Lafayette, IN" and "Oaktown, IN" should probably be the same format as the stuff just before it. There are too many bullets in the job experience entry, limit this to 1-2 bullets: what you did and what you learned/skills obtained. You might consider adding a "relevant skills" section (or something along those lines) and include a couple entries from the 'Flight Experience' section that are above the requirement for the job-and/or simply state that you meet flight requirements. Of course add any additional skills that are relevant. I would consider lumping the Job Experience section into a more generalized 'Experience' section so you can include more entries that are not necessarily professional job experiences-like team projects (big ones) or if you are an officer in any club, ect. One last thing-for the education section add your intended graduation date. Don't be afraid to put things on your resume because you think they aren't relevant-put them on there and tie it back somehow to your objective statement.
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After reviewing your resume file, I thought you did alot of correct things in tailoring your resume. The way you design your heading, making your resume scanner friendly, and job experience description were good in my opinion. On the other hand, I discovered some other areas to which you could improve your resume in.
One part of your resume I thought you could change, is adding a date for your experience at Ed Air Inc. I think all companies would be interested to know the duration of this job experience. When I look at the body of the resume, my eyes for whatever reason goes directly towards the job title. The job position you stated for Ed Air Inc., should maybe be move over to the left ,move the job experience title over towards the center and maybe try not making it bold. With the GPA scale, I'm not sure if you have to put 3.5/4.0 to let the employer know it's out of a 4.0 system. I'm guilty of not doing this on mine resume, but it would probably wouldn't be a bad thing to change.
When I first open up the .pdf file, your heading looks very professional displayed. I thought the font size was a great selection to use with the addition of long line to draw attention to your name. The layout order of your resume is properly organization, to help the audience find exactly what they are looking for right away. By avoiding using italics or underlining keywords, your resume passes the scanable resume test. The job experience description is done well in detailing what exactly you did.
-Gary
Critique
Here we go, no fluff critique.
The first thing I noticed was the dead space, particularly in the lower right side of the page. Section headings do not stand out enough and sort of meld with the other text. There isn't really a distinction between "Education:" and "Purdue University", also on that note-"West Lafayette, IN" and "Oaktown, IN" should probably be the same format as the stuff just before it. There are too many bullets in the job experience entry, limit this to 1-2 bullets: what you did and what you learned/skills obtained. You might consider adding a "relevant skills" section (or something along those lines) and include a couple entries from the 'Flight Experience' section that are above the requirement for the job-and/or simply state that you meet flight requirements. Of course add any additional skills that are relevant. I would consider lumping the Job Experience section into a more generalized 'Experience' section so you can include more entries that are not necessarily professional job experiences-like team projects (big ones) or if you are an officer in any club, ect. One last thing-for the education section add your intended graduation date. Don't be afraid to put things on your resume because you think they aren't relevant-put them on there and tie it back somehow to your objective statement.