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Could anyone REVIEW my CV plz ??

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Hello

Happy new year :) Can anyone have a look at my CV and give me

his/her opinion? This may include: suggestions, comments or criticisms.

The CV is for a Digital Design / Embedded/ Hardware Engineer job.

Keywords: Digital, Design, Embedded, C, VHDL, Verilog, FPGA, MCUs, DSPs,
CDMA, MATLAB, Electronics, etc.

Thanks in advance for your kind help :)
 

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Seems ok.

But in some cases, if you have to much works and jobs to put at CV, is intersting put an introduction letter before first page, using main keywords at first phrase.
At my CV, I had 3 pages of informations, and I done it to avoid bore reader.

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Hi

Thanks very much :)

Yes I do have a cover letter.

Now some questions:

1) Do you think there's something I could do to enhance my CV ?

2) Do I have to mention my TOEFL mark (which is somewhat good) ?

3) Being from outside US and Europe, do you think this reduce my chances
of getting work in US and Europe ?\

Thanks very much
 

About improving:
1. Put your picture, if possible when you're in good mood
2. Birth day - people interest how old you are
3. Family status
4. When you mention a long list of Orcad, AutoCad... Visual Studio.. etc. you need to mention your skill level. It's enough to have supreme level in one of them (and you should be able to prove it) to find immediately job.

In Europe there are restrictions to hire people outside of EU, you need working visa. If you're genius and extremely skilled engineer and if you made several projects to someone he could probably pay ~7000EUR to issue working visa for you. You can't apply alone for working visa, a company in EU should hire you and also you're not allowed to search job in EU if you don't have working visa ("catch 22").

I would suggest you start making projects in freelance forums and then hopefully somebody could invite you, otherwise you have minimal chances.
 

luben111 said:
About improving:
1. Put your picture, if possible when you're in good mood
2. Birth day - people interest how old you are
3. Family status
4. When you mention a long list of Orcad, AutoCad... Visual Studio.. etc. you need to mention your skill level. It's enough to have supreme level in one of them (and you should be able to prove it) to find immediately job.

In Europe there are restrictions to hire people outside of EU, you need working visa. If you're genius and extremely skilled engineer and if you made several projects to someone he could probably pay ~7000EUR to issue working visa for you. You can't apply alone for working visa, a company in EU should hire you and also you're not allowed to search job in EU if you don't have working visa ("catch 22").

I would suggest you start making projects in freelance forums and then hopefully somebody could invite you, otherwise you have minimal chances.
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Thanks for your kind reply.

Regarding picture, birthday and family status, I though in western
societies these things are considered "private", that's why I didn't
include them...

Regarding the visa, I agree with you 100%. But does the same apply
for US? Does it cost the same?

Thanks everybody :)

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luben111 said:
About improving:

4. When you mention a long list of Orcad, AutoCad... Visual Studio.. etc. you need to mention your skill level. It's enough to have supreme level in one of them (and you should be able to prove it) to find immediately job.
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Should I mention the skill for all the softwares mentioned in the CV ?
How should I write the ranking? Good, V.Good & Excellent ?
What about the programming languages? Should I rank them also?

Kind regards.
 

belive me, showing picture, disclosing age and family status is not "private" for CV. If they hire you they would like to know such details which will impact your productivity. Notice that after they accept the CV they will invite you on interview, actually the CV is the smallest hurdle on the road.

For US things are even worse for visa

About the skills - the employer is strongly interested in your skill levels. There is no sense to mention a program where you have moderate skills, what counts is everything on excellent and professional level. mention only valuable things in the CV, no sense to fill the page with list of the programs/languages if you don't have good skills there. Also you need to put a list of made projects and if they ask you should be ready to bring details for them. To mention hacking skills (reverse engineering) is a bad idea. You can have rough idea about 10 different programming languages but what is valuable is probably one prog language where you're professional.

The competition is really strong, you need professional, world class level skills and knowledge
 

luben111 said:
There is no sense to mention a program where you have moderate skills
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Ok, I've Done the following:

1) Removed any skill where my profeciency level is below intermediate.
2) Ranked all other skills, now I have only those with V.Good or Good.
3) Even skills that I think I am excellent at (like C++), I ranked myself
only V.Good. I think one should never say that he is excellent as something
unless he is backed up with several years of experience- not my case :wink:
4) IDE softwares weren't ranked, after all the ranking is for the programming
language, no sense in ranking its IDE.
5) Removed the Reverse Engineering section :sad:

MR Mohammad, for visibility reasons, why not posting your CV in a new thread?
 

I don't know where 7000 EURO for a Visa comes from. **broken link removed**

I wouldn't include a picture or marital status. Date of birth (or at least age) is important.

Keith
 

Here's the CV after revision :)
 

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keith1200rs said:
I don't know where 7000 EURO for a Visa comes from. **broken link removed**

I wouldn't include a picture or marital status. Date of birth (or at least age) is important.

Keith
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Why is picture not needed ?

For marital status, why isn't it needed?
 

The purpose of a CV is to interest a potential employer enough so you get an interview. If you were applying for a job at Hooters then a picture may be relevant but I assume we are talking about engineering jobs. I doubt a photo will help your chances of an interview.

Similarly for marital status. Are you more likely to get an interview if you are married? I doubt it.

Leave out the irrelevant stuff.

Keith
 

ali8 said:
Regarding the visa, I agree with you 100%. But does the same apply
for US? Does it cost the same?
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H1-B application costs about $2000, but if you use a lawyer it will probably jump up to $5000 or more in total.
Legally, the employer is responsible to pay all the visa related fee, but some of them, especially small companies, sometimes circumvent the regulations and force the employee to pay the visa fee.

In the US, nobody puts information other than job related stuffs. i have never seen anyone puting pictures and marital status or such. Also the age discrimination upon employment is illegal in the US and no one puts the age since technically the age shouldn't matter.
 
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lostinxlation said:
H1-B application costs about $2000, but if you use a lawyer it will probably jump up to $5000 or more in total.
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And for this reason, no one is going to pay to bring an engineer 12,000 Km
away while there is abundance of qualified engineers in the US. :???:
 

Hi Keith,

Actually what you think is payfree is when you go in the embassy to get the final working visa in your passport (~100 EUR). This is the last task you have to do before you are allowed to work in UK. Before this your employer have to apply for working permission in Home Office and believe me it costs a lot (lawyer + fees) and also you need to fulfil many boring requeirements. In short to get working visa in EU if you're born outside EU is quite painful process.

I agree that if you're EU resident you can skip information about age, family status and all kind of "personal data", but I don't think anybody will even read your CV if you're outside of EU. Keep in mind than when your employer will apply for working permission you'll need to disclose much more personal details like incomes in last 12 months, assets, criminal records, detailed family status, health status... everything. Of course you can simply deny to disclose this data and thus you'll reduce your small chances to get working permission.
 

I think this is muddling up two requirements - working visa application and CVs. I have no experience of visa applications but I do know companies who employ non-EU nationals. It does happen!

I think a CV should be concise and not full of irrelevant information. I never said anything about refusing to disclose it, I just don't think the CV should be padded out with it. Faced with a few hundred CVs I like a clear, concise layout so I can shortlist them as quickly as possible.

Before everyone starts sending me CVs, I don't actually employ anyone but I have been involved in helping recruit engineers for my clients as well as selecting engineers at my previous companies.

Keith
 
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I agree with you Keith - CV and visa have different requirements. Unfortunately the gentleman was born outside of EU and his request to review the CV was mainly from perspective to get job in EU. In all cases the CV should be cristal clear and tide, otherwise it will be rejected and thrown in the litter before it was read. It should show clearly what he can really do and the level of his skills.
 

Thank you for your kind interest.

Just want to ask: If you are 90% expert in, say, Java, should you

mention it like this: Java (excellent) , or Java (V.Good) ?

I don't think that the 'excellent' suit me seeing that my experience

is less than two years, what do you think?
 

No need to refer excellent or good, as if you mention hands on experience ,, depending on experience and post required they will shoot questions on you...

why do you want to dig a virtual grave for yourself by self proclaiming good or excellent....

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It would be ok if you can put your passport details as it is a must in every company now a days
 

It's important to show your strong sides in the CV, to tell the employer why he have to hire you. It's the first and probably most important battle in the task. Showing a long list of OS & programs you know like Windows, DOS, Word, Excel, PowerPoint will not impress anybody. From this view point is advisable to show on how many programs you have excellent and very good skill levels. Also it's important to tune your CV according to the company where you're applying the CV - if it's PCB design company put first in the list programs like ORCAD, ALtium, SolidWorks, etc, if it's embedded firmware company - put the skills with uP like Atmel, Microchip, Cypress, if it's PC software development company - put Visual Studio/Delphi, etc. on the top. The CV should be taylored to the company, making an universal CV is a common mistake.

The problem of the bad CV is that you'll never get the chance to explain to the employer more details about your skills simply because the CV was thrown in the bin.
 

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