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  • OsrsNeedsF2POP
    3·
    1 year ago

    Some quick feedback -

    Non-bulletpoint Feedback:

    • Put your education way at the bottom, recruiters quickly scan top and bottom to see if you have a degree
    • Take out your Strengths

    Bulletpoint Feedback:

    • Your bulletpoints have a good mix of Situation/Task, Action and Result, but they very rarely touch on more than one at a time. In general it seems like some of them should be condensed or combined.
    • For projects, start bulletpoints with “Developed website for …” rather than “A website for …”
    • Tie how you used different techs into your bulletpoints
    • Add numeric data to your bulletpoints to show off results

    i.e. “Created Account Aggregation Service resulting in instant customer account verification and faster loan journey.”

    Should be “Redesigned Account Aggregation Service in Kotlin and MongoDB resulting in <1 second account verification and 50x faster loan journey”

    i.e. “Enabled faster courier journey and enhanced security through integration of items with barcode scanners.” - This is actually good because it has some Action, but it can be better

    Change to “Enabled 4% faster courier journey and enhanced security through item barcode scanners via [xyz] and PostgresSQL”

    i.e. “Refactored backend code achieving a 20 times increase in performance of DB queries.” - This line is great

    i.e. “* Improved user experience by fixing bugs which caused silent failure in customer journey. * Improved consistency and reliability of the system by fixing bugs which caused duplicacy of customer applications.”

    Change to “Improved user experience by fixing 50+ bugs in customer journey and application portal over a 12-month period”

    i.e. “Extensively used XP practices of pair programming and TDD to deliver quality and value.” - What metrics do you have to prove value?

    Change to something like “Fostered culture of using XP practices of pair programming and TDD to reduce regressions by 30% over a 6 month period”