I am doing career change into fashion after working as a telecom engineer for a few years. Please review my resume for this highly sought job that I really really want. thank you so much. Also, my current job tile is solutions engineer but I changed it to sales engineer to seem more appealing.
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ASSISTANT TO THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.
Highly self-motivated and goal oriented professional with over three years of experience assisting senior executives, engineers, and corporate clients at large corporations.
QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY
Organize and conduct weekly team meetings for the solutions team on technology and corporate updates.
Mentor and train a group of five interns and serve as a liaison between them and senior level engineers.
Prepare daily reports summarizing performance statistics for myself and the interns I am a liaison for.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe InDesign.
Ability to multitask developed by managing multiple large corporate accounts at the same time.
Ability to work under pressure in a highly demanding environment as evidenced by strenuous work hours exceeding 80 hours per week including working on weekends.
Excellent presentation skills developed through years of experience preparing and presenting research materials at large national conferences and symposiums.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2013 - Sales Engineer, Sprint Corporation New York, NY
2011-2012 Sales Engineer, Schweitzer Engineering Philadelphia, PA
2010-2011 Research Assistant, National Undergraduate Research Lab Flagstaff, AZ
2010-2012 Research Assistant, US Department of Defense Philadelphia, PA
EDUCATION
2010-2013 xxxx University Philadelphia, PA
BEEE, Electrical Engineering Magna Cum Laude
BSc, Physics Magna Cum Laude
2009-2009 xxxx University Evanston, IL
I think this should all be in the past tense and other small changes
QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY
Organized and conducted weekly team meetings for the solutions team on technology and corporate updates.
Mentored and trained a group of five interns and served as a liaison between them and senior level engineers.
Prepared daily reports and summarized performance statistics for others.
Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe InDesign.
Able to multitask multiple large corporate accounts simultaneously.
Able to work under pressure in a highly demanding environments requiring many extra hours and weekends
Excellent presentation skills developed through years of experience preparing and presenting research materials at large national conferences and symposiums.
Several comments…
- Employers want to know what you picked up and when - this gives them an idea of how much experience you have. For example, if you are saying you have good presentation skills developed through years of experience, does that mean you started delivering presentations in a corporate environment in 2010 as a research assistant or in 2014 as a sales engineer?
- A resume indicates your employment history and responsibilities. To that end, you should indicate what you did at which job. For example, for my previous job, I could claim a title of "Management Consultant" or a title of "Software Consultant." If anyone were to research my former company, they would find people who fit the definition of either title and be no closer to understanding what exactly I spent the past years of my career doing. More importantly, though, nobody is going to research a title. If a title comes across without context, I am not going to do the work to figure out what it means... I'm going to toss out the resume.
- Regarding titles, it is a good rule of thumb to use the title on your business card. If you say that you are a sales engineer, then I expect that you would be performing engineering work related to the sales process - for example, advising a sales person at a telecom company about what infrastructure would be needed to enable high quality video conferencing for an enterprise customer with two offices of 4,000 employees each.
- It can safely be assumed that anyone who has graduated from college within the past fifteen years knows how to navigate the Office suite - everyone knows how to use Outlook to send emails and create meetings, how to create basic documents and spreadsheets, how to set up attractive presentations, etc. Proficiency can be taken one of two ways - it could mean that you can do what anybody can do, which is not all that valuable anymore, or it could mean that you are substantially better than others (you know how to use Outlook as a task manager for colleagues, you know how to set up organized documents with internal links and bookmarks, you can create Excel workbooks with complex formulas to manipulate large sums of data, etc). Depending on the employer, true proficiency in Office can be highly valuable, but you need to explain what proficiency is. If it's basic understanding, leave it off (think of it like this: if you say you speak Spanish but are only at a novice level, you may be put in an embarrassing situation at an interview when someone starts off a conversation in Spanish... the same goes with Office proficiency)
- Ability to work under pressure is a given in today's business environment; if you have a really good story, however, it may be a good thing to include in a cover letter.
- You have experience "assisting" people ... that sentence doesn't tell me anything. What do you assist executives to do? What kind of executives are you working with? C-level? VPs? Directors? All can be considered executives.
Your resume should tell a story. It should be matter-of-fact. Avoid embellishing words; replace them with facts and figures. For example, it can be tempting to say that you are an “exceptional client account manager.” However, it is more powerful to say that you “managed ten client accounts for two years, growing annual revenue by 35% each year, with zero client losses.” There is nothing over-the-top about that second statement, but I can see that you are an exceptional client account manager; you don’t need to say it. When I finish reading your resume, I should have an idea of who you are, and I can use an interview to dive more deeply into the aspects of the resume that are pertinent to my business.