[0 YoE] New grad looking for first job. Had some questions about content (see question 1) and titles (see question 3).
Hi everyone, hope everything is awesome possum. I just filed to graduate from my university for a masters of engineering (same as a course-based masters) and I'm now starting looking for my first job. I'm mainly aiming at roles like process/manufacturing/quality engineers because it's most similar to what I did in my grad research. I had some luck on an initial search a few months ago, but 2 final interviews returned no offers. I'm born and raised on the west coast, so I'd ideally like to stay in the area but honestly a job is a job so I'd be okay to go anywhere if I don't land something soon. Now some questions:
I included the analytical techniques in red because I have done/understand them, but I am not nearly as familiar with them as I am with the techniques in black. For example I had a grad class and lab focused on electron microscopy with some hands-on experience with TEM, but I've never operated it independently nor do I have formal training via my university's equipment center. I know it's a hot commodity in some metrology groups, so I included it but that may be misleading in terms of my familiarity with it.
My research project and Graduate Student Researcher work are of the same project. I separated it since the primary focus of the project ended up secondary to my day-to-day work, which was on the process improvement aspect. It feels like too much to talk about as a single section, but disingenuous to format as 2 seemingly distinct topics.
Should I be doing something else to distinguish the title of each item more? They don't stand out very much right now
Really appreciate your thoughts. Thanks for your help.
Posted Sep 10, 2026, 7:13 PM UTC · locked