Stop Getting Ignored: Build a Resume That Stands Out

0:00You're a junior level software

0:01engineer and you finally have a

0:03little bit of real world work

0:06experience

0:07It isn't something monumentally

0:09substantial

0:10Maybe it's just you're working

0:11at a research lab at your

0:13institution

0:14Maybe you won second place at

0:16a hackathon

0:17Maybe you had an unpaid internship

0:20which was really just your friend

0:21Greg and building up his website

0:23But you put it on your

0:25resume as a software engineering

0:26intern at Greg LLC Technologies

0:29You have a little bit of

0:31real world work experience I'm

0:35going to teach you how to

0:36turn that experience into a resume

0:37that attracts the attention of

0:40these big tech recruiters So if

0:43you want to be a software

0:45engineer commanding 100,000

0:48150,000

0:50200,000 per year then save

0:53this video and send it to

0:55your friend that always talks about

0:56how AI is going to take

0:58your job AI is going to

0:59take his job but it's not

1:01going to take yours because you

1:02did these steps to prepare yourself

1:05for the industry So step one

1:08you need to find a good

1:10resume template that you like You

1:12can Google things like Stanford

1:15Resume Template or Harvard Resume

1:17Template or just Google Resume

1:19Template and fill it out yourself

1:22or hell give it to Codex

1:24and it can fill it out

1:26for you And actually let's do

1:28a little bit of an aside

1:29because the rest of these steps

1:30will require you to use an

1:33agentic coding tool So this can

1:35be Codex This can be Claude

1:38Code You can be the weirdo

1:40that uses Hermes

1:41I wouldn't really use Hermes but

1:43if you want to use Hermes

1:44and it has access to a

1:47browser in your docs you can

1:48And if you did that that

1:49can even be a project on

1:51your resume Let's be real An

1:52Hermes agent can be a project

1:54on your resume but you need

1:55to have an agentic coding tool

1:58You're going to give the agentic

2:00coding tool your resume

2:01I'm going to fill in all

2:03of your experience

2:04It should likely be just one

2:06page and it should look like

2:08this as follows the top of

2:10your resume will have your education

2:12Unless you just didn't go to

2:14college then you might want to

2:16skip it out but preferably you

2:17have an education on the top

2:20Below that is your experience It's

2:22not your skills It's not your

2:26projects unless you have no relevant

2:28work experience

2:30The next part is your experience

2:33and then below your experience

2:35is your projects

2:38After that you want to have

2:39your skills and your skills should

2:41include any technology that you

2:43can talk intelligently about This

2:45could include Python CSS

2:48HTML and JavaScript

2:49It might include React You might

2:51have taken a course in Java

2:53It can be all these things

2:55but it should also include the

2:57technologies that these big tech

2:58recruiters are actively looking

3:00for Things like Postgres MongoDB

3:02and yes even agentic coding tools

3:05like Cursor

3:06Codex and Claude Code After you've

3:09done all of this you want

3:11to give your finished resume to

3:13a fresh session in an AI

3:16chat tool like ChatGPT

3:18Google Gemini

3:20or Claude

3:21And then you're just going to

3:22say this simple thing

3:24grade this resume

3:26It's going to give you an

3:28unbiased account of your resume

3:30and it's going to give you

3:31a grade for it

3:33And with that grade it's going

3:35to give you specific feedback that

3:38you can improve on Some of

3:40the things that are really important

3:42are making sure your experience

3:43doesn't just explain what you did

3:46but it explains what your impact

3:49was Did you reduce the latency

3:50of this service by 50

3:54How? Did you optimize a query

3:56and made it more performant Did

3:58you add a caching layer to

4:00the system What did you do

4:03and what was the impact

4:05That should absolutely be on the

4:07experience for your resume You

4:10want to have selective bolding

4:11so if a recruiter reads your

4:12resume and they look it over

4:14in three seconds they have an

4:16idea of what you actually did

4:18You don't want just large blocks

4:20of text You want to have

4:23direct links to your GitHub profile

4:26You want to have the experience

4:27organized in a way that makes

4:29sense likely in chronological order

4:32unless you have an extremely special

4:35circumstance which you probably

4:37don't so put it in chronological

4:39order The top of your resume

4:40should have your name

4:42It should have a U S

4:44citizen if you're a U S

4:46citizen It should include an email

4:48address you want recruiters to

4:49contact you You might even want

4:50to include your phone number and

4:52yes your LinkedIn profile and GitHub

4:54profile are also strong candidates

4:57and yes spend a little bit

4:59of time polishing these profiles

5:02You're going to keep grading the

5:05resume over and over and over

5:07again until at least two different

5:09independent language models grade

5:12your resume to be an A

5:13or better

5:15Once you have a resume that's

5:16A or better you're ready to

5:18start finding the software engineering

5:20jobs of your dreams Good luck