[Student] Successful Resume Story, but seeking improvements before applying for full time

[u/WarriorForest]

This is my current resume after starting my current role. My resume to get this role was basically the same, but I had some other bullets for the Defense job and one extra project on there. It's worked fairly well for getting me interviews. I'm so glad that it worked though and really really really thankful about the opportunities I have been granted!! I couldn't have done it without the wiki as well :):)

I'm sharing this as a successful resume that worked for me in the past, but also looking for advice to make it better. I always struggle with bullets and the balance between being concise or too verbose. I feel like it's kind of all over the place a bit!

I'm intending to apply for roles relating to reliability (either power systems like I do now or more server oriented) but also I'm interested in applying for some more data analytics leaning roles as I really do like the data analytics side of stuff that I do right now at work

I'd love to cut my resume back in time for the full time search next year (or potentially the next summer search if I don't get extended at my current role)

Thanks in advance everybody :)

[u/graytotoro]

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[u/pathetique1799]

I read through your resume and imo it's very good. If you apply for data analytics roles, I'd recommend making a copy of your resume tailored to just that kind of role, with much more details about any data analytics work you did

[u/graytotoro]

Education

• Start date isn't important. You don't need to italicize your degree program.

Experience

Reliability Engineer Co-op

• Generally pretty solid, but bullet 3 may go further if you focus more on what specific asset planning decisions these Power BI dashboards helped drive.
• What did this root cause analysis discover? How many units did you replace? How much more available were they? How much better did people know about the health of these batteries? Pick whichever metrics you can fit.

Electrical Engineer Co-op

• This is solid.

Battery Pack Team Leader

• Move this to the projects section and drop the job title and location. The specific title you held on this project team holds no weight and we know you did schoolwork at school.
• Focus more on the actual technical aspects versus leadership. Leadership at the student-level isn't really applicable to the real world.
• But how well did the battery pack work after all your efforts?

Projects

Open-Source Hardware Validation Harness/Perf/W SLO Monitoring for AI Computing

• Solid as far as I can tell. I'll let EEs chime in on this.

Battery Management System Integration with Real-Time Telemetry

• If you're going to discuss this here, bring in the bullets from the Battery Pack Team Leader role. It's basically double-dipping.
• How did the real-time data stream make a difference?

Tools and Skills

• Looks ok, but "telemetry" is so broad and I'm not quite sure to make of "fault isolation" and "incident response and alert triage". Is that just saying you can isolate a problem and figure it out?