For students & recent grads
Education-first layout, space for projects and coursework, and AI that turns "worked on a group project" into something a recruiter reads twice.
Senior Software Engineer · Distributed Systems
Senior engineer with 8 years shipping payments and identity infrastructure at scale. Led the migration that moved 40M daily auth events off a monolith, cutting p99 by 62%. Bias for small diffs, honest estimates, and writing things down.
Honors thesis on lock-free data structures. GPA 3.87.
Why this matters
Most templates are built for mid-career professionals and make students look thin by comparison. The education section gets buried, coursework and projects have nowhere to live, and the whole resume reads like it's pretending to be something it isn't.
Section order
Hiring managers for students & recent grads read top-down and stop early. We surface the sections they care about first.
Vocabulary the ATS scans for
Bullet starters
Numbers to quantify
GPA (if 3.5+), honors, scholarships, group size in projects, event attendance (if you organized one), code/content produced (GitHub stars, published articles).
Live overflow warnings. Nothing spills to page 2 by accident.
Our rewriter turns duty lists into outcome statements.
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