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College of Computing

Career Development Toolkit

A perfectly crafted resume is your key to making a standout first impression and opening doors to opportunities in a competitive job market.  Below are several CS resume templates to help you craft a flawless one-page flashing neon billboard of your awesomeness.

• Sample Resume 1
• Sample Resume 2
• Sample Resume 3: CS and Analytics
• Sample Resume 4: CS and Data Science
• Resume Crafting Guide

Cover Letter

A well-crafted cover letter highlights your unique strengths and enthusiasm, setting you apart from other candidates in the competitive field of computer science.  Below are several cover letter samples relevant to technical applications. While the applications for many technical positions do not require a cover letter, you will find that some make a cover letter optional.  By submitting a well-written articulate and position-specific cover letter, you signal to prospective employers that you have communications skills that are generally lacking in the tech industry.  The cover letter may be the difference that lands you the interview!

• Sample Cover Letter: Internship
• Sample Cover Letter: Entry-Level Job
• Cover Letter Writing Guide

Technical Interviewing

Skillful preparation for an interview boosts your confidence and ensures you can effectively showcase your skills and fit for the role.

Exponent is a CoC-exclusive free resource to help you prepare for tech roles. It includes extensive interview prep, job referrals, and much more. There is also great advice on how to ace the behavioral-based interview as well.

• Student Login Guide (SSO)
• Student Orientation Video (How to use Exponent)  

Additional Technical Interview Practice resources:

• https://leetcode.com/
• https://pramp.com/
• https://www.hackerrank.com/
• www.careercup.com
• http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/
• http://www.crazyforcode.com/
• https://interviewing.io/

Behavioral-Based (Traditional) and Case Interviews

The thought behind behavioral interview questions is that the best predictor of future performance is past performance. Employers who ask behavioral interview questions will expect specific stories that demonstrate your abilities/capabilities.  Case interviews are most frequently used in the management consulting recruiting process and by some other large corporations. In a 30-, 40-, or 60-minute time frame you duplicate the consulting process of six to nine months, supporting your case with data and logic.

• GT All Campus Career Center Interviewing 101 Guide

Networking helps college students build crucial connections, gain industry insights, and access opportunities that can significantly enhance their career prospects and professional growth.

• GT All Campus Career Center Networking Guide
• General Tip Sheet for CoC students
• Vault Guide to Networking

LinkedIn/Social Media Branding

 LinkedIn is a powerful tool for networking and job and internship searches. From searching and connecting with alumni to learning a new skill, think of LinkedIn as your lifelong career management tool.

• LinkedIn Profile and Job Search Checklist

Reputation Management

Remove any current content that could be found professionally unflattering, and refrain from posting similar content in the future. This includes inappropriate photos, negative comments about current or previous positions, profanity, and references to alcohol and drugs.

If you have questions regarding your social media content, meet with your consultant for review.

Personal Brand

Proactively promote yourself and relevant work content under a professional username. Check privacy filters often to manage your public profile.

Market yourself by posting what projects you are working on or have accomplished. Consider sharing articles that are relevant to your expertise.

Follow employers (both companies and campus recruiters when applicable) on social media and like/comment on their posts when the opportunity arises.

Portfolio  

An outstanding GitHub portfolio highlights your coding expertise and project experience, offering employers tangible proof of your skills and making your job application more compelling.  Likewise, an exceptional personal website showcases your skills, projects, and achievements in a professional, easily accessible format, making a strong impression on potential employers.

• GeeksforGeeks.org Step by Step Guide to building an awesome GitHub Portfolio
• Moldstud.com Guide to building impressive CS Portfolio
• GeeksforGeeks ePortfolio Website Guide

Professionalism

Professionalism sets the tone for your work ethic and interpersonal skills, establishing credibility and paving the way for career advancement in your first job or internship.

• Transition to Work and Professionalism

Career Services Workshops

The College of Computing Career Services offers numerous workshops focusing on the tools and skills necessary for success in securing an internship or full-time job and successfully transition into your new role.  Check CareerBuzz for list of programs (search “Computing”) and review our weekly newsletter for upcoming events.

Iris Photo Booth

The Headshot Photo Booth is a resource for Georgia Tech students to get their professional headshot taken for their  Linkedin ,  CareerBuzz , or professional profile photos.

The Georgia Tech Career Center (located in the  Bill Moore Student Success Center ) and the Student Center (located on the 3rd floor of the  John Lewis Student Center ) now offer professional headshots! With our new self-service professional headshot photo booths, you can stop by any time  Monday – Friday  from  10 AM – 4 PM  to take your headshot with no appointment needed ( NOTE:   Our Student Center photo booth is open seven days a week when the building is open). The headshot photo booths are offered to  ALL  Tech students

• Office of Outreach, Enrollment & Community
• Student Organizations
• Internships & Co-Ops
• Career Fairs
• Startups & Entrepreneurship
• Mentoring Program
• Tutoring Assistance
• Career Services 
• Career Services for OMSCS

Office of Undergraduate Education

• Work at OUE

Career Bootcamp 1: Resumes, Cover Letters, & Job Searching (In-Person & Virtual)

Need to get ready for the fall hiring season? Join us to learn about resume writing, cover letter, and job search best practices.

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Graduate Education

Office of graduate and postdoctoral education, 8 ways to revamp your resume.

Aug 23, 2021 - Atlanta, GA

Article by Emma Ryan

Should your resume be one page or two? Should you include school projects? You’ve probably asked yourself these questions at least once. 

Deciding what to include on your resume can be overwhelming. Fortunately, Georgia Tech’s career professionals are here to help. Read on for their eight tips to revamp your resume. 

• Start with an ad for your dream job or internship. Do this before you ever create your resume, said Jenny Strakovsky, associate director of Graduate Studies and Career Education in Modern Languages. She recommends setting up filters on LinkedIn, Indeed, and Google Jobs for the specific job you’re looking for. Once you’ve found a job that interests you, keep it in front of you as you build your resume. It will offer insight into the skills that the employer is looking for and the language you can use to talk about those skills, Strakovsky added. 
• Build a different resume for each type of job you’re applying for. For example, if you’re studying global media, then you might qualify for jobs in marketing, international diplomacy, and education, Strakovsky said. Each of these fields will require you to emphasize different strengths. On each resume you build, prioritize the experiences and projects that are most relevant to that specific field, she said. 
• Keep in mind that relevant content is more important than length . A strict one-page rule is more applicable for undergraduates, said Clarence Anthony Jr., assistant director of Graduate Career Development at Tech’s Career Center. Graduate students applying to upper-level jobs should use their resume to show off their higher level of education and experience, he added. Place an emphasis on coursework and projects that are specifically related to the job or industry you’re applying to. “The ultimate goal is to present as much relevant information as possible,” Anthony said. “If you go over a page, you'll be ok — I promise!”
• Don’t overwhelm your recruiter with your life story. The purpose of a resume is not to get you a job — it’s to interest the recruiter enough that they’ll want to interview you, said Kevin Stacia, an MBA career coach and corporate relations manager at the Scheller College of Business MBA Career Center. “Your resume is an appetizer, not the entrée,” Stacia added. “You can expound on your skills and experiences during the interview, and your job offer will be the dessert!” 
• Name your projects section with keywords. Use section names like “Analytics Projects” or “Strategy Projects” vs. “Academic Projects” or “School Projects,” said Ann Blasick, a career coach and corporate relations manager for the M.S. Analytics program. “Don’t underestimate the importance of these projects — whether they’re class projects, competitions, or personal passion projects, they show that you can apply your classwork to real-world problems,” she added. This section should go directly after your “Work Experience” section, unless your projects are more relevant to the job you’re applying to than your experience. In that case, put the projects section first, Blasick said.
• Showcase the impact of your previous roles — not just your day-to-day tasks . Employers want to see that you can think critically, see the big picture, and care enough to be an asset to the company, Strakovsky said. Ask yourself how your work contributes to the larger problem the company is trying to solve, and then describe your role with effective bullet points. “When students bring me drafts of their resumes, they often list a set of tasks like ‘writing press releases’ or ‘organizing files,’” Strakovsky said. “But once they start explaining the backstory, I learn that they were involved in amazing, high-impact projects, like rethinking the strategy of an organization or liaising with policymakers. You do important work, and your resume should reflect that!” 
• Describe your jobs and projects with the formula of Strong Verb + Action Taken + Impact/Result. Include the specific actions you took to address a problem, the tools you used, and the outcomes or insights you gained from the project, Blasick said. For example, Blasick said, “Analyzed how spending patterns of citizens in several South American countries influenced government technology adoption policies, resulting in Best Research Paper Award.” If it was a team project, highlight your personal contributions. Order your bullets with the most relevant ones at the top, so that the recruiter sees them first.  
• Review your resume with Skillsyncer . Skillsyncer is a free keyword optimization tool that shows you how your resume matches up to a specific job description and which keywords may be missing. This will help your resume do a better job of making it through a company’s applicant tracking system, which will scan your resume for the keywords that the job requires, Blasick said.

Emma Ryan Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Faculty Development

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ECE Student Engagement & Well-Being

Career resources, career fairs.

All-Majors: Fall & Spring Annually ECE: Fall & Spring Annually CoC: Fall & Spring Annually

Undergraduate Student Resources

ECE Specific Career Guidance: Please check out the UPCP site for Resume Templates, and other career resources under Resources>Career Resources/Writing Resources.

(For guidance on resumes, interviews, and career questions.)

• Courses: ECE 1100 (First-year and Transfer Students) & ECE 3005
• Resumes/Professional Communication: Christina Bourgeois ([email protected])

Career Guidance By appointment only: Dr. Lakshmi Raju ([email protected])

Institute Wide Career Support:

• Career Center: https://career.gatech.edu/
• Job Board: https://career.gatech.edu/careerbuzz-job-board

Graduate Student Resources

ECE Specific Career Guidance:

• Career Guidance and Resumes: Olivia Kulitz ([email protected]), Dr. Lakshmi Raju ([email protected])
• Academic Career Guidance: Dr. Daniela Staiculescu ([email protected])

The annual Career, Research, and Innovation Development Conference (CRIDC) is Georgia Tech’s professional development event for graduate students. CRIDC is held annually at the beginning of the spring semester and is designed to connect graduate students of all degree types with professionals in research, industry, consulting and government, nonprofits, management, and entrepreneurship. CRIDC is designed to equip on-campus and online graduate students with tools and knowledge to thrive in an ever-changing job market. ​

Professional Education

If you are looking to bolster your education beyond BS/MS/PhD course offerings, consider the PE courses. https://pe.gatech.edu/courses

GT 1000: First-Year Seminar Textbook

Undergraduate transition seminars  ·  undergraduate education.

You have more control in your career launch process than you think you do.  The first step to really feel in control is crafting a resume that reflects your hard work and attention to detail.  Putting it down on paper can be tough because you have to recall and prioritize achievements and accomplishments.  Where do you start?  What do you include?  How detailed do you need to be?  Take heart, because resume work doesn’t mean you have to be especially creative, nor do you need to show deep proficiency in a range of skills and experience areas right now.  All you have to do with your resume is show a hiring manager that you have potential, and that the work you’ve done demonstrates what you’re capable of doing for the target employer.

You’ll begin by organizing your experience into easy-to-identify sections.  You’ll see how to construct your resume through the details and examples on the following pages, but for now, here’s some rationale for you to use:

The best way to succeed with your resume creation is to visualize another person—a hiring manager—reading it.  Typically, industry professionals spend no more than a few seconds scanning a resume to decide if they want to read for details.  By dividing your resume into clearly defined sections and using words and phrases designed for rapid comprehension, you can grab a hiring manager’s attention.  You probably will never have a complete sentence on your undergraduate resume, and should rely on (technical) nouns and verb phrases only, often formatted with bullets.  Again, more on this later. For now we’re just hitting the highlights to help you get into a resume-development mindset.

What about length?  Here’s a simple rule:  confine your resume to one page until later in your undergraduate career.  By around your third year, when you’ve been engaged in class projects in your concentration, have acquired an internship or co-op, added to your skills, and been active on campus, it will be difficult to confine yourself to one page.  At that point, you’re likely to go to a two-page resume, and can sometimes squeeze in a third page addendum of project details if necessary, unless a company specifically calls for one-page resumes.

Finally, don’t try to craft your resume at one sitting because you might forget some important details.  Create a draft and go back to it as needed.

To learn more about the specifics of crafting your resume:

• Watch C2D2’s GT 1000 “Crafting Your Resume” video
• Read more about Resume Appearance and Organization
• See sample resumes written by Georgia Tech undergraduates

All materials in this section are licensed under  Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0.

Pre-Teaching Advising

Pre-graduate & pre-professional advising  ·  office of undergraduate education, resumes and cover letters.

Resumes and cover letters should be customized for each position that you apply for in your job search. Materials for a job at an engineering firm or a publishing house will look different than those for a K-12 teahcing job. For this reason, using templates found online are often not the best way to create your professional presentation of yourself.

Elements to include on a teaching job resume for K-12 positions should be those that are directly related to teaching and those that have given you skills that transfer into teaching.  For example, effective communication, creative expression, organization, and other skills are key to being a successful teacher, and you can gain these types of skills in a number of ways. Some information that should be on your resume:

• evidence of experience working with K-12 aged students (tutor, mentor, camp counselor, coach, nanny, etc.)
• evidence of experience of teaching in general (peer tutoring, teaching assistant, etc.)
• internships and co-ops
• skills category with headings [e.g., Spoken Languages: French (fluent); English (fluent)]
• community engagement (on-campus and off) and leadership
• awards and scholarships
• study and work abroad
• significant projects (course and capstone)
• collegiate-level competition experience (music, athletics, mock trial, etc.)

GEORGIA TECH CAREER CENTER RESOURCES

The Center for Career Discovery and Development offers many resources. They include:

Pre-Teaching Advisement and Website

• Pre-Teaching Advisor,  Susan Belmonte

Susan can help you discern if teaching is a good fit for you.  She can help you with your job searches (public and private schools), graduate school applications, and creation of resumes and cover letters for teaching jobs. Susan can also help you network with recruiters and alumni who are teaching.

• Pre-Teaching website – You’re already on it!
• Pre-Teaching listserv –  Subscribe  to  [email protected]  and stay informed about jobs, volunteering, scholarships, etc. related to teaching.

Online Resources

• Career Tools  and  Job Search Resources
• Video Series: How to Craft a Resume; How to Craft a Cover Letter That Will Get Read , etc.

Office of Undergraduate Education

• Work at OUE

GT Career Center VIRTUAL Resume Reviews

Meet virtually with professionals to have your resume reviewed. Each student who signs up for a slot will have 30 minutes to meet with an employer. To maximize your time, please be prepared with a copy of your resume pulled up on your computer and questions written down. TO PARTICIPATE, YOU MUST SIGN UP FOR A SLOT    This is not a drop-in event. The deadline to sign up for a resume review is Wed, Aug. 21 @ 11:59pm , but note that slots will fill quickly. Once you sign up to meet with an employer, you are committed to participating in the program. Missing your appointment or no showing = taking the opportunity away from another student and wasting a volunteer's time. No shows are not acceptable. Registration Instructions 1. Log in to your CareerBuzz account 2. Click on the Employers tab on the top navigation bar in CareerBuzz 3. In the Keyword search box, type in FALL 2024 [AUGUST] VIRTUAL RESUME REVIEWS & MOCK INTERVIEWS 4. From the results, select FALL 2024 [AUGUST] VIRTUAL RESUME REVIEWS & MOCK INTERVIEWS and click on the Jobs option 5. Sign up for an open meeting time that works with your schedule   *****You will receive a virtual meeting link from the Career Center by Tuesday, Aug. 27. Block your calendar once you secured a slot in CareerBuzz**** Available Interview Times:  10:00-10:30am 10:30-11:00am 11:00-11:30am 11:30-12:00pm 1:00-1:30pm 1:30-2:00pm 2:00-2:30pm 2:30-3:00pm

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Career Center

Office of undergraduate education  ·  graduate & postdoctoral education.

CareerBuzz is a state-of-the-art interview and job posting management system. The CareerBuzz system will enable Students to upload resumes, search and apply for full time, part time, and internship positions, sign up for on-campus interviews and more. The system will allow Employers to post job openings, review applicant resumes, request space for on-campus interviews, select and invite students to interview, and many other job management functions. Online access to CareerBuzz is available 24 x 7 !

• ON-CAMPUS PARTNERS

STUDENT LOGIN

YOU SHOULD ALREADY HAVE AN ACCOUNT

As an actively enrolled Georgia Tech student, you should be able to access your CareerBuzz student account by simply logging into the system using your student credentials.  IF CareerBuzz does not have your student information, you will be presented with a registration form which will allow you to enter it.  Please provide 24-48 hours for your submitted registration information to be reviewed and approved.

QUESTIONS OR PROBLEMS?

If you still have issues accessing your CareerBuzz account, send an email to [email protected] and we will be more than happy to assist you.

ALUMNI LOGIN

CareerBuzz Access for Alumni

Alumni may continue using CareerBuzz after graduation to search for jobs in the Experienced Positions ( 2+ years exp ) category and attend on campus Career Fairs.

If you have questions concerning Alumni access to CareerBuzz, please contact [email protected] .

GEORGIA TECH ALUMNI CAREER SERVICES provides networking, job search and professional development opportunities for all GT alumni. For more information about career services, programs and other Alumni Association activities, visit www.gtalumni.org/career .

EMPLOYER LOGIN

CareerBuzz is your one-stop shop to connect and recruit Georgia Tech talent. CareerBuzz accounts are free of charge and allows employers access to the following features:

• Post jobs, internships, and co-op opportunities.
• Create on-campus and virtual interview schedules.
• Review candidate resumes to job postings, internships, and co-op opportunities.
• Request on-campus or virtual information sessions as well as customized events.
• Register for Career Center signature events including the Fall and Spring All-Majors Career Fair, Diversity First, Resume Review and other upcoming events.

Want to learn more, check out our Employer Connections pages.

• On-Campus and Virtual Recruiting
• Posting a Job and Internship Opportunities
• Information Sessions

FACULTY LOGIN

CareerBuzz Faculty Access

CareerBuzz has a new faculty engagement module that provides a unique portal for faculty to:

• view job postings
• send job recommendations to students
• search for employers
• get information about upcoming events
• access other career related resources

On-Campus Partners

• Student Instructions (Adobe PDF file)
• On-Campus Partner Instructions (Adobe PDF file)