Resume Review

Use this skill for engineering resume critique, rewriting, and formatting. Base guidance on the r/EngineeringResumes wiki principles: make the resume easy to skim, ATS-parsable, technically specific, concise, and biased toward the most relevant/impressive details.

Review Sequence

1. Identify the candidate context: student/new grad, no technical work experience, experienced engineer, senior/staff, or career changer.
2. Check layout and accessibility.
3. Check section order and section names.
4. Check contact information.
5. Rewrite work/project bullets for technical action, context, and results.
6. Check education, skills, projects, and portfolio links.
7. Remove weak, biased, stale, or unnecessary content.
8. Proofread grammar, punctuation, spelling, dates, capitalization, and ATS readability.

Resume Effectiveness Principles

Treat the resume as a 30-second elevator pitch on paper: