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I'm reviewing resumes for a co-op position in a engineering role and I want to give a few tips for those of you preparing resumes. In reply because I'm irritated at stupid resumes.
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"What do you want to do?"
"Oh, I enjoy everything!"
No thanks. Tell me you liked your stats class, or you like fixing your family's computer, or you like figuring out how to help people. If I get you in for an interview and you can't tell me what you like, or what classes you enjoy then you are out the door. You won't know what kind of job you want, but you better know what kind of shit you enjoy from the things you've already done.
In college you don't know what you want to do. You don't even know what these jobs mean. But you can tell me what you enjoy. You can tell me what you want to get out of the co-op experience. If you don't even know what you want to get out of it other than "work experience" then I don't have time for you.
Mind you, there are quite a few people that DON'T fuck it up. They do tell me what they enjoy working on. The resume does tell me what classes they've taken and what kind of skills I can expect them to have. They don't ramble all over the place with their hobbies and their random grocery store clerk job experience when they are looking for a research co-op job. Those people get interviews. I'm trying to tell people how to end up in the small resume pile, not the big pile.
Even without a job description, you can't possibly argue that a college junior should have a 2-page resume.
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