Here are some tips for software engineering resumes!
Make your experience shine while following the software engineer specific resume tips!

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Keep it short. This will take some work and time. Whether you are a recent college grad, or an experienced software engineer - there are TONS of things to put on your resume (Java, C++, Visual Basic, Application Programming, C, HTML, Javascript, etc...the list goes on!) Rework your software engineering resume until it says as much as it can about you and your experience in the fewest possible words. One page is ideal, but if you have an extensive work history, you’re justified in going on to a second page.

Make it attractive. This is the “attract the eye” part (more for those graphic designer types!). Attractive in the world of resumes equates to clean - just like your code, you don't want a bunch of useless comments laying around everywhere - CLEAN IT UP!. You can achieve this by the judicious use of white space, headers, bold face, underlining and italics. You don’t need more than that.

B>Tell a story. You may be thinking, "Hey, I'm a software engineer not a writer!" Well you CAN do it because this is the story of your professional life (or undergraduate study). A prospective employer should be able to follow the thread of your software engineering career summary, and it should make sense. Detours are OK—most of us have at one time or another detoured into a different field—but in a resume, treat these like spice: you don’t want too much of them.

Keep it focused. Keep a strong focus on your goals in the field of software engineering, incorporating parts of your background to illustrate them. A statement of your goals is one of the clearest indicators to a prospective employer of whether or not there might be a match.

No mistakes, please! A resume with a mistake in it would translate to a big fat SYNTAX ERROR - not to mention a program that doesn't even run in the world of software engineering. This looks bad and is a traveling billboard advertising your carelessness and inattention. Proofread it. And ask somebody else to proofread it. Watch for mistakes in spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Check how the dates follow one another: does the chronology make sense?

For the Web, Make Two Versions of your Software Engineering Resumes. All of the above rules apply to paper resumes. For a Web-submitted resume, you may want to make two versions, one following these rules, the other following the peculiar rules of the Web. For the Web resume, you need to take into account resume-scanning search engines. They will be looking for keywords and key-skills, for example "Java" or "C++." Make sure that you include these key terms near the top of your Web-destined resume.