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In Oregon you don’t need any certifications whatsoever to call yourself an engineer. I have referred to myself as a waste disposal and sanitary engineer (washing dishes) jokingly, but I bet someone more clever than me could spice their real CV up quite a bit just by creatively titling their previous positions.

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For better or worse, I think the importance of the resume has gone down a little bit over the past few years. There are so many people blasting resumes to 1000 places with LLM generated cover letters that the only resumes that make it to the people with hiring power are through referrals.

To actually answer your question, though, I think a link to a personal website (or LinkedIn if you use it) is nice to give more space to elaborate on work you’ve done, especially of there are things that are better explained by photos.

For many positions, especially if you have a “foreign sounding” name, it’s good to specify if you are a citizen/permanent resident/etc. Companies may or may not be able to sponsor visas, and many positions, depending on the type of work, can only be done by citizens or permanent residents.

It is good to brag about yourself, but definitely avoid making your resume too wordy or long. Even people with really impressive careers will have a 1 page resume because people reviewing them need to be able to see the highlights immediately.

If you have a list of skills, it might make sense to try and be really explicit about how skilled you are with each thing. It’s going to be dependent on the job, but for example, if you were listing JMP and R on there, but you spent years on R and only did a class project once with JMP, the company might want to know that. You could put “R (expert)” and “JMP (familiar)” or something like that.

Obviously, you need a job to eat and pay rent, but if someone hires you specifically to do something you are only slightly competent at, it’s really a lose-lose.

you should have a specific CV tailored for each different type of role that you are applying for

Prominent open source projects you’re involved with or have contributed to.

I think it kind of depends on your career up until that point. I have a lot of certifications and work experience. I list my past jobs, bullet point out my accomplishments. There is no about me section, or paragraphs. It’s bullet points and a section for clubs, volunteer work, certifications and school.

If you have less experience then you may want to do schooling first, with projects and accomplishments, clubs, etc and then any work experience.

The idea is be truthful, but not modest. This is what you are capable of, tell them. I completed project a for b reason by doing c things which resulted in d success. Define those variables over and over again.

Isn’t that very country/culture/field specific?

Be ready to talk about anything mentioned in your CV.

HR may-want to evaluate whether you’re fluent in English by having some small talk about your hobbies, a hiring manager may also be passionate about basket-ball and looking for a new member in the corporate team. Also, in some case, hobbies may even make some link with the position you look for, let’s say that you’re responsiblity involve giving training, an amateur acting experience shows you won’t be afraid talking in front of 20 persons

If you are going to list job experience, make sure to use active verbs to describe tasks and try to show that you were working beyond the role.

If you get an interview, be able to talk about what is on your resume.

If you are into 3D printing, put it on your resume. That shows incredible problem-solving capabilities. We hired someone recently and only found out afterwards that she was into 3D printing as a hobby. If she’d have put that in her resume, she would have gone right to the top at the start. This was for a technical problem-solving, support role.

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