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Entrepeneur for over 11 years getting back into corporate - How to optimize my resume?

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Mid-Level Software Engineer at Goldman Sachs5 months ago

Hello everyone,

Excited to be a part of the community. I have been out of the work force for a while and have worked on different projects for my own consulting company for a while. I was wondering if I could get my resume critiqued by someone with experience and get some feedback?

All the best,

Rob

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    Tech Lead/Manager at Meta, Pinterest, Kosei
    5 months ago

    I'd start with the resume masterclass and then find people to swap resume reviews with from the networking tab.

    You have an interesting background that I'm sure people would love to learn about, and I hope that comes through in the resume!

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    Mid-Level Software Engineer [OP]
    Goldman Sachs
    5 months ago

    Hi Rahul,

    Thanks for the response. Any samples of good resumes I can download or anywhere you can direct me?

    Thanks!

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    Tech Lead/Manager at Meta, Pinterest, Kosei
    5 months ago

    Here is Alex's latest resume that I can vouch for. Aside from that, you can ask folks in the Taro community to share their resume (and there are probably good online repositories).

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    Mid-Level Software Engineer [OP]
    Goldman Sachs
    5 months ago

    Thank you!

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    Tech Lead @ Robinhood, Meta, Course Hero
    5 months ago

    The good thing about writing a resume is that I pretty much consider it a solved problem. The optimal format and presentation of your experience is very well-known, and it doesn't really change across levels (the sole exception is that students should sometimes have "Education" at the top). After you have refined format/presentation, you can only get improvement by improving the core content and what Taro is all about: Actually going out there and building stuff, working with others, and adding value to the world in general.

    Since resume best practices are fairly universal, these other resources should be very helpful as well:

    Also, if you work at Goldman, you should (obviously) try to connect the work you've done directly to revenue. That was one of the benefits of working on Instagram Ads for myself: The added business value (literally just $$$) of my work was very clear.

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      Mid-Level Software Engineer [OP]
      Goldman Sachs
      8 days ago

      Thank you for the detailed response!

Goldman Sachs is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. 

Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered in Lower Manhattan, with regional headquarters in London, Warsaw, Bangalore, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Salt Lake City. Goldman Sachs is the second largest investment bank in the world by revenue and is ranked 57th on the Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue
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