| I can :)... Your resume usually serves two different audiences — the screener, and the person interviewing you. You should optimize for both audiences, and possibly work on breaking up "Skills" a bit. Your resume should be scannable, and most of the English before the important info can probably be dropped: Developing applications leveraging
Parsing, querying, scraping, and transforming
Object-Oriented Programming with
Worked with and developed for You're mixing technologies with programming languages with disciplines with applications. I prefer just seeing: Programming languages (fluent): C#, Java, and VB.NET
Programming languages (studied): C, C++, VBA, VB6, classic ASP
Disciplines: Database administration, GIS programming, unit testing, mobile development
IDEs: Eclipse, Visual Studios I might just drop things like Eclipse, Firebug. -- Re: experience. In general you want to highlight the things that are different. In particular seeing "VB.NET Programmer" and "C# Programmer" over and over isn't illuminating. I want to know the places you've worked, so swap the company and position, and put the company and bold. You're working at Amazon which looks fantastic. So that should stand out. Similarly in your projects, "URL:" is redundant and not the piece of data that's changing. Drop it and put the project names in bold instead. Formatting things: In education, the list of classes don't need to be on separate lines. The choice of green checkmarks is a little strange. Simple dots might work better. The blue subheadings don't line up with the text, which is distracting. Are you copyrighting your design or the resume? Either way it seems unnecessary. |
You are right, some of it is repeated. I did this mainly for SEO reasons, which has worked wonders by the way (Amazon and Microsoft both found me through my website, among others).