I started at an insurance startup and eventually built a software engineering team from the ground up. After we got acquired, I moved to a data team to acquire a larger breadth of experience. I've gotten good feedback regarding my technical and people skills, but I'm not sure if my resume reflects that.
Any advice or criticism is welcome.
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EDIT: I have a second page of my resume that details side projects and my education. I didn't include it here as it would be hard to anonymize.
Likewise, "developed a roadmap to achieve goals" sounds so empty as a statement. What kinds of goals, were they actually achieved, what effect did the roadmap have, what was the follow-through? (Perhaps this is just an issue with anonymization. It's not that you need the minute details, but do provide enough information that your resume sounds different from a thousand other resumes in ways other than just changing the proper nouns.)
By contrast, something like "Developed engineering evaluation guidelines and career paths within the org" sounds much better; it's clear what scope you had, and it's a substantial scope. You helped fill a void within the broader organization, likely to the benefit of both your team and the organization. Put that together with your mentions of leveling up engineers at various levels, and you're telling a consistent story that shows you raising your team up and raising the tide for everyone in the process.
The bullet points on your first role sound much clearer as well.
In general, when reading any given item, I'd like to know how you saw a problem, figured out the right solution, worked to get that solution implemented, and followed through to make sure it solved the problem. Not all of those things need to be explicitly stated (and for the most part they won't all need to be), but I think all of them need to be evident in some way. If you also tell a consistent story in the process, people start to get a picture of who you are and what you can do for them.
- the right alignment of the dates is too far to the left
- the phone number / email header is not aligned correctly
- if you have a date range, then it should look like 2010-2012 and not 2010 - 2012
BTW I’ve literally never seen a resume that didn’t have at least one formatting error. Closest was one that had a comma that was accidentally italic.
Anyway in my experience people will likely spend < 1 minute on your resume, so you begin to get diminishing returns to improving it very quickly.
Most importantly, you could make your resume more accomplishment-oriented. You should take each job and ask yourself, "What are my 3-5 biggest accomplishments?” These should form the bullets of your resume.
As much as possible, quantify your accomplishments. How much money did you make for your company? How much time did you save your team? By how much did you improve customer retention? An estimation is okay here.