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The Hound

Just Monika
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Today I learned we have to stop wasting time on gay people because there's crocodile attacks... What if the crocodile's are attacking because of the gays? First hurricanes, now crocs?
 

Zircom

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So you're gonna wanna have most if not all the content above the fold, or where its visible without scrolling as soon as you open the page. I cut out a bunch of empty space, shrunk the footer, and deleted your social media icons from the top since you have them at the bottom anyways, and also moved your contact information to the top. Also maybe you could have it so clicking each element expands it and slides downward to show some relevant examples for each section, and have you resume open inline with a link to download it at the bottom, and maybe name it "andy mcmemester resume.pdf" instead of just "resume.pdf". Also maybe don't put your personal social media on your professional website, but that's up to you.

poor mockup of my ideas
https://imgur.com/a/BIlPh

also since your full name is in your email it might look cool if you like combine your name and email on the website like this with the email parts a different color than your name but you know, better looking colors, or maybe all the same color but bold or underline your name? idk.
 
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Steal Thy Kill

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Make the punctuation consistent on your resume. Either end everything with a period or don't (I personally prefer don't. It looks a little weird on the stuff that's not a full sentence and looks really weird if you have half your stuff punctuated and half not).

I have no idea what credit average means but I assume it makes sense down there. Rule of thumb in the US is that if your GPA (I assume this is the Aussie equivalent) isn't worth bragging about don't include it, though idk what "Credit Average" is on the scale. Try to find an additional bullet point about something that isn't standard and routine. Something that's a bit more distinctive about your education, I guess. Putting your graduation date in the header for your Bachelor's is weird, as you haven't graduated yet and that format kinda gives the first impression that your Bachelors is completed. Just change it to Feb 2016 - Present, as you are currently a student. I'm going to assume that SRC and School Captain make sense to any other Australian, but maybe have your tenure as School Captain listed like for SRC Rep? Maybe unabbreviate SRC, but idk. I have no idea what the Above and Beyond Award is but at least putting the year on it or something would help.

Add an extra space between the Experience header and the Education section. Spacing should be consistent with the spacing between the Experience section and the Technical Skills header, plus it helps break up the sections. Change Work to Worked/ing on the first bullet point, and "at home" to "from home". Unless it's an Australian dialect thing, change learnt to learned. Actually, no. Learn implies you couldn't at first or beforehand which is bad in this case. Just go straight to "Took" or something along those lines. Change "often had to learn" to something else, as that implies your education has been insufficient (yes, I know it's in progress but still). "Was able to" or something similar is more complimentary to yourself. "Requirements" sounds weird to me as a word choice but I'll chalk it up to Australian vernacular.

The Technical Skills section is very well formatted, however the spacing between the header and the content needs to be increased to be consistent with the rest of the resume and feel a bit less cluttered.

Seconding the hell out of Zircom saying your resume should drop down with a link to download. Keep it all on the webpage.

Your last name is a tongue twister particularly to read. Consider legally changing it.

The three buttons on your website aren't actually buttons. They don't do anything but highlight when you mouse over them, and that's real damn annoying. They should drop down into examples to prove your talent in each button. Digital Editing should open up to highlights from your portfolio with a link to the larger selection in the bottom right of that tab. Software Engineer should likewise open up to a software portfolio with a link to your github in the bottom right (having a second github button at the bottom of the page is fine). Make sure to have a brief description of each item in your software portfolio highlighting not just what it is but any relevant skills/techniques you used. I'm not that knowledgeable about programming but the languages used seems like a basic inclusion. Leadership obviously doesn't have a portfolio but you should still have examples to back up your claim. Your resume says you were a school captain. I don't know what the fuck that is but if that's leadership-y include it with a brief elaboration. But make sure you include things more recent from university/work, even if it's a standard "group leader in class project x, y, and z". Recency matters, and high school relevancy drops off considerably over time.

Also doubling down on what Zircom said about all the empty space and repeating your social media icons. If you could get your email at the bottom to turn into a link that'd be a good touch.
 

AndyM03

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Oh wow that's a lot of feedback, thanks so much guys. Yeah the website isn't complete, I definitely want to showcase a lot more stuff on there, that's why I had the repeated icons since I just assumed I was gonna be making the page longer, but I'll see how I go now prioritising info above the fold.

It's actually crazy seeing you post that zircom cause that's exactly how I wanted to expand it haha. Your rearrangements look great, will definitely implement them. Legend!

Yeah most of the written stuff on the site at least is a first draft, I'll make things consistent Stealthy. Interesting you suggested taking out the graduation date, almost every internship I apply for knows I'm studying and wants to know when Im expected to be done. Might be a difference in our fields. Requirements is a technical term, at least locally, but there's a lot of stuff you've pointed out I can work on! Might have to keep the last name though ;)

I thought I had the resume down pat but looks like there's a lot more to do. Thanks again for all the feedback boys!
 
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13thforsworn

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This isn't a suggestion per say, since I have no conclusive insight one way or the other, but I'm wondering how other people feel about this. Is having Andy's social media accounts on his personal website (with prospective employers as the primary audience in mind as far as I can tell) advantageous to him? I took one look at his Twitter and it's all politics stuff. Now that's fine, I don't have a problem with that, but I'm just wondering if that would be a good thing for a prospective employer to see. What if the recruiter disagrees with what Andy thinks politically? Or the manner in which it is expressed? They're human, I imagine that bias will work against him, even if they're not suppose to take stuff like that into account. I know that employers look through prospective employees' social media anyway, but does making it easy for them work in his favour? Thoughts?
 

AndyM03

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If there was anything I would remove when putting a link to the site on my resume and sending it to employers it would be my twitter haha, the others, though not professional, are clean and offer a nice insight to my personal life.

Definitely wouldn't recommend advertising something like that to an employer, even if you can convince them your political life stops at the office door. For now the site is a mix of who I am personally and as a professional but yeah I will end up culling the Twitter link or creating an alternate account.
 

Easy

Right Honorable Justice
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And man, put an accent above the "e's" on the "Resume" button. I honestly wasn't sure if it wasn't meant to be the button you click to continue on to the homepage.

Am very definitely the wrong guy to ask about advice as far as writing a resume (I'm not doing the accents here, cause fuck the bother). Ended up giving up and paying someone to rewrite for me, was honestly very worth it (for me). However, I will say that as far as my experience goes, putting your expected graduation date on there is actually preferable to just "200X-present." Gives people a better idea of just what you're really able to sign up for, and when.

Otherwise, just listen to Stealthy. Dude's impressed the hell outta me with his resume-framing superiority here.
 
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