12 Tips on How to Level Up Your Resume

Tips on How to Write a Resume — Check out www.vaco.com/taylor and then go to free guides for my template!

However, if you don’t want to click the link here is a summary on how to write it

• Name and Email in the header (stop taking up ¼ of your resume with personal info)
• NO phone number or address — you need to direct all leads to one centralized place aka email
• Get a separate email address for resumes — you don’t want to accidentally email your mother about a family vacation and it went to a recent hiring manager you interviewed with
• Consistent bolding and spacing
• Summary (this takes place of the ‘objective’ no one cares about that) — main technical skill sets or your main accomplishments (4–5 bullet points)
• 10+ years of overall software engineering experience
• 8+ years of Javascript development
• 5+ years react experience
• 3+ years of Angular
• Any technical degrees or certifications
• Professional Experience — Company, start date (mm/yy) end date (mm/yy) position held, location, city, state
• Add a summary of the company
• List project specific overview then a few bullets about the project
• Technical Skills — Platforms, tools, languages, technologies, frameworks etc.
• Certifications — include if you have Azure, AWS or GCP
• Education — If you are new in your career put education at the top. If you are senior in your career, put it at the bottom. If you have a technical degree and you are senior in you career you need to include it in the summary section

Key Takeaways

• If you are a junior developer seeking your first gig, professional experience can still be any volunteer experience. If you have deployed code outside of a code school or bootcamp…put it in professional experience
• If you have not done any volunteering, no coding bootcamps and nothing on your own. Get on them asap.
• Write your resume so the recruiter CAN understand what you have accomplished