Gonna try to get that bag in this coop cycle and would appreciate any advice on how to make my resume better. If it is over for me, please let me know so I drop out in advance and just join a goose cult.
P.S. The image looks a bit grainy after conversion sadly.
P.P.S. Using a burner account, so no worries.
Move education to bottom for WW?
How do you know you have a distinction this early into the term?
Good catch. I must have misunderstood distinction, dean's honor list, and the terms. I believe at least 1 of them have an average cutoff, but I might have messed it up. mb
Will remove that, thx!
It wasn't criticism, I am just a first year and I want to know it as well because I probably also got a distinction ;-;
I am actually searching around right now for the correct term. I will update you.
I think your first wat.ai experience there is super good! Maybe put more bullet points there and cut some out from awards / projects.
So maybe 3 -> 5 points? That’s manageable. I can tweak the vspace (while keeping it look nice) to add it tbh, but if you were me, would you still choose to remove one or two of the award’s section?
Thanks for your advice though!
Or another alternative is a super compressed awards, where the descriptions are cutoff and only the award names are listed.
I would compress it, unless you're applying for roles that specifically value / look for awards. I think you still have like 4-5 lines of space at the bottom, so those could be extra bullet points into your main experience as well.
One thing I would say for the 1st experience is that, since it's quite technical & impressive, you can afford the extra 1 bullet point at the top to give a high-ish level overview of what exactly you worked on. Something like "Developed high-fidelity simulations for <> using <languages>". It would take a recruiter or engineer dozens+ seconds to realize you're working on simulation engines, so having a 1) keywordable (i.e. what libraries & languages did you use) and 2) context framing 1st bullet is nice (what are those tasks for?)
Generally have a read at this: https://xierumeng.github.io/resources/resume-guide , it's good for resume basics / as reference.
My goat.
Skills section goes to the very top
Got it, boss!
For a first‑year, this is already a solid start – the fact that you even have a resume and some projects puts you ahead of a lot of people.
If you want it to convert better for co‑ops, keep it to a clean 1 page, trim weaker fillers, and make each project 2–3 bullets that clearly show what you built, the tech stack, and any tiny impact or numbers you can mention.
If you’d like more concrete help, feel free to DM me your resume and 1–2 sample co‑op postings and I’ll try to point out what to tweak.