Java/J2EE Resume Tips
A CV or a Resume is
an essential marketing tool in your job search or career progression.
When writing a CV look at it from your employers' point of view in order
to stand out against the competition (i.e. other candidates). Preparing
effective CV presents a real challenge due to length, which can make
them boring and result in important information being buried or lost in a
long document. As a result your CV should be concise, your top skills and experience should be prioritized in the first or upper most section of your CV, well organized with the following sections: Profile, Achievements, Experience & Skills and last but not least your CV should be nicely formatted.
Profile: Convey
your technical expertise in Java/J2EE . Don't list all the skills here
(you can include the rest in the skills section).Just pick your major
strengths like design experience, team lead experience, mentoring
experience etc and highly sought after and relevant experience like
Spring, Hibernate, EJB, JSF etc. Also can mention the relevant industry
experience like finance, insurance, telecommunications, software house
etc.
- 4 years of experience in design/development of Java/J2EE (Sockets, EJB, RMI,Servlets, JSP,JMS,JDBC,JNDI etc) based systems.
- 3 year experience in financial sector and 1 year in insurance sector.
- 2 year working experience and excellent knowledge in Spring, Hibernate and JSF.
- Experience in Websphere, MQSeries, and JBoss
- Solid background in Object-Oriented analysis and design.Good at various design patterns (GoF, J2EE patterns etc) and UML.
- Excellent knowledge of XML, SQL, XSL and Web Service.
- Experience in Test Drive Development (TDD) and agile methodology.
Achievements: Convey your achievements in Java/J2EE, which had
benefited the application, department or organization. In addition to
technical skills bring your personal qualities like passion, ability to
communicate effectively with technical staff as well as business users
(i.e non-technical), problem solving skills, ability to think in high
level as well as drill down to detail, ability to handle pressure,
ability to recognize and respond to objectives of an organization,
ability to work in a team as well as independently etc. You can also
mention your teams' achievements in addition to your specific
contribution.
- Migrated a poorly performing and outdated application to Spring, Hibernate, JMS and JSF based system for MQR Banking Ltd.
- Identified and fixed performance and transactional issues for Fine Australia Technology.
- Reduced the monthly commission Java based batch runs from 75 hours to 18 hours at Sure Insurance Corporation .
- Mentored junior developers, provided technical guidance and motivated them to meet the tight deadlines at Online Banking Ltd.
Experience: List your current and previous posts (Most recent
first) and how you applied some of the major strengths and highly sought
after skills in Java/J2EE. List all the major projects you have worked
on and your specific contribution. Also mention where you applied some
of the key areas like design, fixing performance issues, concurrency
issues, transactional issues, memory leaks etc. Also be aware not to
turn this section into only technical stuff. In addition to technical
areas mention any team lead experience or mentoring junior developers,
how you managed to meet a tight deadline?, how you worked well with the
business users? how well you applied your knowledge? etc.
IT Skills: List
all your current & relevant Java/J2EE related skills. This section
is not only vital for the employer but also for the employment agency to
match your skills with the employer requirements.
Finally never settle with the first draft and always find ways to keep improving your CV. Spending enough time in your key marketing tool is definitely worth it.
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