Optional Sections

Communicating Experience

Concisely summarize professional experiences that showcase your software engineering capabilities:

• Internships, jobs, freelance work

  • Company, team, position title and dates
  • Short description of role and your contributions
  • Technologies used and projects delivered

• Responsibilities and technical roles

  • Day-to-day coding tasks accomplished and systems built/improved
  • Leadership roles like tech lead, architect, team mentorship

• Teams worked on and leadership examples

  • Cross-functional roles and collaborators
  • Examples guiding projects, resolving disputes, coaching teammates

Quantifying achievements and conveying specialized responsibilities illustrates engineering competency beyond just a position title.

Showcasing Accomplishments

Highlighting academic and professional achievements provides evidence of your abilities:

• Academic, extracurricular or volunteer achievements

  • Awards, honors, scholarships, or distinctions
  • Leadership in student organizations and causes

• Test scores, certifications, courses completed

  • High test scores like SAT, GRE, HackerRank
  • Relevant certifications obtained
  • Specialized course projects completed

• Conferences, hackathons or events participated in

  • Speaking engagements and presentations given
  • Hackathons won or technically impressive projects built
  • Open source conferences and meetups attended

This section quantifies your technical knowledge and participation in the software community.

Conveying Personal Attributes

Share personal qualities and soft skills relevant to engineering:

• Collaboration and communication abilities

  • Detail team-oriented work style and cross-functional collaboration
  • Strong written and verbal communication abilities

• Problem-solving mindset

  • Analytical, logical thinker who breaks down complex challenges
  • Tenacity in researching solutions and learning independently

• Passion for technology and programming

  • Lifelong fascination with building software products
  • Constantly learning and staying updated on advancements

• Quick learner and desire to continuously improve

  • Rapidly picks up new languages, tools, techniques
  • Hungry to take on hard problems and develop new skills

This gives a well-rounded picture of you as an engineer beyond just technical ability.