Question:
I am an embedded software engineer. I wanted help in writing my
resume. Any help will be appreciated.
Answer:
-Keep it to one page. Include education, experience, special qualifications
(citizenship, security clearances now and in the past, etc).
Did I mention the one-page thing? Offer to provide more detail if needed.
-Whatever you do, DON'T include a paragraph that simply lists every and each
OS, RTOS, word processor, uC emulator, PCB layout application, FPGA design
application, software metrics generator, or other development and test tool
that you may have worked with, talked about, seen on a billboard, dreamt of,
etc. You get the idea. I've read a few resumes over the course of my
career, and those types of resumes are tiresome and really easy to ignore.
By listing all of these applications in a single paragraph, without any
context, it gives the impression that the author of the resume is trying to
project the impression that they are masters of all of these applications,
but we all know that this probably isn't the case.
Give context to your skills in your resume. Answer the question "How did
you use these tools and what problems did you solve?" or something like
that.
All of these things, plus stapling a crisp, new, multicolored US $20 to your
resume will help your resume a lot!
