Computer Programming Jobs: How to Write the Resume
May 18, 2009 by admin
Filed under Information Technology Jobs
The development of a strong resume is a key component in any job search. This article includes content that should be focused on when writing a summary of computer programming jobs.
1. Start with your contact information at the top. This is the easy part. Include your name, address, phone number and email address.
2. Optionally includes a career objective. This would be one or two sentences that describe what are your career goals. Personally, I have not had one goal in my career resume in many years and I see many resumes as they like me without them. The career goals if I see that are usually so generic that does not mean anything. You can always discuss your career goals in a letter sent with the curriculum, as it generally aims to adapt the company to which you are applying.
3. Includes a section called “Skills”, which is a list of all programming languages and technologies with which they have experience. This list is for you by recruiters and HR people are just a selection of your resume for specific keywords. It will also facilitate the recruitment of directors to make a quick scan to see what you know. List of things that only you know enough about intelligently discuss in an interview. It will not do any good to get to the interview if you can not talk about things in their curriculum. Categorize the technologies so that the list is easier to read. An example list might look like this:
- Programming Languages: C, C + +, C #, JavaScript
- Protocols, Mark, and Libraries: MFC, WPF, STL, TCP / IP, HTTP, XML, HTML, CSS
- Operating System: Microsoft Windows, RedHat Linux
- Software Process: Scrum
4. Add a section for each position of the program which was held in reverse chronological order. If you are leaving college and have no work experience, skip this step. List the company name and dates of employment. Detail your responsibilities and achievements. Do not write about what the product did or not your team, focus on what they did separately. Include what technologies they use and what you used to. If the hiring manager sees a “C + +” in his abilities that we want to see what they did with C + +.
Bad example: Worked in a team that has developed an application
Good Example: Implementing a TCP / IP communication module in C + + for an application
Also be sure not to mention the experience of coding and dealings with customers and interacting with engineers and quality control of technical support staff. Writing code is only a small part of being a professional software developer.
5. Add a section for education. If you have a university degree after the list degree, year of graduation, and GPA (optional). If you do not have a degree of programming then the list of names related to the previous program has completed. If you have minimal or no experience then go into detail about the projects he worked on. Refer to step 4 for information to be included.
6. Correct and then have someone with significant experience developing software for review of their curriculum. Spellcheckers are going to have difficulties with the terminology of programming and non-technical people will not be able to give almost as good advice as someone who has worked in the industry. Read the article in the Resources section for details on what an employer might look for in a resume.