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by seiji 4614 days ago
Random thoughts:

Projects: If they are open to the public, link to them. Show, don't tell. If they aren't public, then they go under the job history section as brief descriptions.

Schooling: One line, degrees and years separated by semicolons. If your last schooling was over eight years ago, drop any non-national-level honors/awards.

Start dropping details of jobs that ended over five years ago. They get two or three lines only. More recent jobs can have 5 to 8 lines of details each.

A resume is a conversation starter, not the conversation.

1 comments

Really sound advice here. Let the code talk for you when possible and keeping the education short will eliminate several lines for some. Older engineers that list jobs from 20+ years ago often provide too much unnecessary detail on those jobs where a single line may suffice for irrelevant experience.