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You should include the following sections in the following order
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1. **Name and Contact Information**
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2. **Skills**
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3. **Experience and Employment History**
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4. **Projects**
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5. **Education**
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6. **Awards and Certifications**
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If you’re applying externally (i.e. outside of the WaterlooWorks platform), then the education section should go above the Skills section
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#### **Name and Contact Information**
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- Put your full name in large and bold text!
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- Include your contact information, primarily your phone number and email
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- People may argue that a phone number is not necessary; however, it’s not uncommon for an employer to contact you via phone, so it’s better to include it than not
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- For your email, ensure you include a professional looking email
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- The most safe option for your email is your school email
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- For University of Waterloo students, use your “Friendly Email Address”
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- E.g. firstname.lastname123@uwaterloo.ca
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- This can be set up at https://uwaterloo.ca/watiam
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- Login to your WatIAM
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- Click “Manage Email Address”
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- Select your “Friendly Email Address”
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- Click Submit
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- This makes it easier for a recruiter to remember your email and identify you based off your email
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- If you wish to use a personal email address as opposed to your school email, then your email should only consist of your full name, one or two additional symbols, and a few numbers
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- Include links to any of your portfolios and your LinkedIn
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- Your LinkedIn should utilise a custom Profile URL consisting of your full name as well, which makes it easier to access as opposed to a random assortment of characters
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- E.g. linkedin.com/in/firstname-lastname
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- Your main portfolio link to include would be your preferred Git repository website(s), such as GitHub or GitLab
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- And include any other additional portfolio pages that may be applicable to a job posting
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#### **Skills**
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- For software development jobs, you should only include hard skills such as languages, tools, frameworks, and libraries
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- Avoid including built-in libraries that are part of a programming language (such as the os library in Python), or API libraries (such as Discord.js)
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- If you’re wondering if you know a skill well enough to put it on, think whether…
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- Worked with it during a co-op
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- You’ve done a project with it
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- Could answer questions on it if asked during an interview
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- You are comfortable with it?
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- If you’ve answered yes to these questions, then you should include it
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#### **Experience and Employment History**
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- You should ideally only include experiences and employment history that have some relevance to your desired industry
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- If you have other experiences, you may need to consider whether to include it as opposed to saving space for other sections
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- An example would be considering between mentioning an experience working in retail as opposed to a project you worked on during a hackathon
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- It may be preferable to include your project as opposed to your job experience if you begin to run out of space
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- For all the experiences you list, mention the employer, your job title, the time that you worked in this position, and the location of this position
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- Give a description of what you’ve done at this job, what languages/tools/libraries/frameworks you used, and you’ve accomplished
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- Highlight some of the things that you may have improved or any successes that occurred
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- Some people may argue that you can include extracurriculars and volunteer experience
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- Only include it if you have skills and experience that are relevant to the job you’re applying to AND you don’t have other projects or experiences you can mention
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- You should order your experiences/history from most recent to least recent
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#### **Projects**
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- Include a link to all your projects
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- Mention everything you’ve used such as your language, frameworks, libraries, tools, etc.
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- It’s unnecessary to mention Git as a tool here, especially if you link to a Git repository
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- Describe what was done, what you accomplished, any successes, etc.
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#### **Education**
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- Mention your degree(s), program(s) and specialisation(s)/option(s)
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- Example: Bachelor of Mathematics - Honours Computer Science Co-op (Bioinformatics Specialization), Combinatorics and Optimization
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- Include your school and graduation date
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- Graduation date may not be applicable if you’re a first and second year as some jobs only give offers to third years and above
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- If you’re a University of Waterloo co-op student and plan to apply externally (outside of WaterlooWorks), then you should only state your planned graduation date as a regular graduation date as opposed to the co-op graduation date (4 years ahead as opposed to 5 years ahead in co-op)
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- If you have a high average and GPA (average >=80% and GPA >=3.8), you should include them
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- If you don’t have a high average/GPA, it’s fine to exclude it
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- GPA is an iffy topic at Waterloo, due to the fact there’s no official conversion at Waterloo
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- If you’re a Waterloo student and wish to calculate your GPA, you can use the GPA conversion table from OUAC (Ontario Universities’ Application Centre) or an online converter
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- One website includes https://whatsmygpa.ca
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- You **convert** your overall average directly into GPA, you must convert the grade of each course into a GPA value then you can calculate an average from there
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- The main difference between a GPA and an average is GPA shows consistency in your performance as opposed to average which shows your overall performance
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- Include some of the relevant courses to the jobs you’re applying to
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- If you’re a first/second year student, you may have difficulty with this; however, if you have partially completed a course and on track to complete it, it is generally safe to include it
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#### **Awards and Certifications**
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- This section is often excluded by many people, and depending on the jobs you’re applying for, you may also exclude this section
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- You should avoid including common awards, such as the University of Waterloo President’s Scholarship
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- Highlight the prestige of a given award, such as being in the top percentile of a given population
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