It's difficult to stand out without internship experience.
Are any of your projects visible on the web? The best projects are ones where I as a reviewer can click a link and start instantly interacting with your software. Projects like this are directly responsible for at least 3 people I know who graduated last year getting their jobs (based on feedback from interviewers who reviewed their resumes, they did not have referrals).
It's hard to critique your resume without seeing it but in general:
- Your resume should be submitted as a .pdf file, nothing else is acceptable
- Your resume should contain your name and contact info as well as links to github/linked in at the top
- Your resume should contain a skills section with a list of technologies you know, this will get you past keyword filters
- Your experience section should be broken up by project, and each project should have bullet points outlining the task you accomplished and any technologies you used to to accomplish it.
> Your resume should be submitted as a .pdf file, nothing else is acceptable
Given how I have seen that pdf-to-text ATS systems sometimes generate a completely blank set of text out of a text-rich pdf, no. A docx is perfectly acceptable.
Are any of your projects visible on the web? The best projects are ones where I as a reviewer can click a link and start instantly interacting with your software. Projects like this are directly responsible for at least 3 people I know who graduated last year getting their jobs (based on feedback from interviewers who reviewed their resumes, they did not have referrals).
It's hard to critique your resume without seeing it but in general:
- Your resume should be submitted as a .pdf file, nothing else is acceptable
- Your resume should contain your name and contact info as well as links to github/linked in at the top
- Your resume should contain a skills section with a list of technologies you know, this will get you past keyword filters
- Your experience section should be broken up by project, and each project should have bullet points outlining the task you accomplished and any technologies you used to to accomplish it.