1. Making a Good CS Resume Terence Parr & Chris Brooks USF

2. Resume Goal  Have a simple one-page summary people can discuss  Gets you an interview only  so don’t dump everything you know/have done on there. That is what the interview is for

3. What to include  Education  Related work experience  Interesting course projects  Open source projects  Publications, presentations  Unusual experience

4. What not to include  unrelated jobs; don’t list your babysitting jobs  some of your entry level positions if resume > 1 page  No personal stuff; no one cares if you skydive and can burp the national anthem

5. Length  One page! (Or, short as possible)  The more impressive your experience, the shorter it can be  The president can have a one-line resume

6. Skills  No laundry lists!  Don’t just list technology. Any idiot can cut/paste that list from a job site  Incorporate your skills into your project descriptions

7. Writing style  “Punchy” sentences starting with action verbs:  Developed 8000 line mail server in Java that stored email in mysql db.  Saved company $2.3M in 2006 by creating email tech support robot  Be terse  Be specific  What was your role?  Anybody can be a “valued member of a team”

8. Objectives  …are meaningless; don’t waste the space  Everyone knows you want a job  Unless you are a very high level and want a very specific job such as CEO of a small manufacturing firm in the midwest

9. Cover letters  Important in some cases  Shows you can write (or not)  Tailor to each company

10. Tailor resume  You can package yourself in different ways  Present yourself appropriately for the company you are applying to  Emphasize your AI course work if you are applying to an image recognition company, for example

11. Don’t lie  Don’t exaggerate  You’ll get busted, then fired  I’ve seen uninvolved people claim to be the project leader!  Fundamentally, you should be about truth anyway

12. Appearance  sparse as possible  don’t use gaudy borders, fonts etc..

13. Details matter  Speling ;)  English  Don’t use these email addresses:  hotstud@gmail.com hotstud@gmail.com  ilikechocolate@yahoo.com ilikechocolate@yahoo.com