Resume Critique Please - Advanced Degree

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I agree with all the above.

You don't need the exam topic.

All dates should be 3 letter month abbreviation and year. No date.

You don't need to label languages and software. It's obvious. Use commas. No period. Get rid of all the "MS"s.

I'd put all dates except for exams on the right margin where they're easy to find.

As proud as you are of having passed the qualifying exam, it doesn't really matter.

The education section is harder to read than most. It seems to run together and I expect it will look much worse once you add in long school names. I'd suggest a line with school and date. A line with degree, major, and maybe GPAs. Maybe a line with GPAs if they don't look good after the degree. Then maybe bullets for the citation and dean's list. Try it and see how you think it looks. I'd get rid of all the "/4.0"s as they add to the clutter. Don't use the semicolons or hyphens.

Think twice about why you put anything in parenthesis. Either it is extraneous or is stuff you should have said in the first place.

Your bullets don't hit the stuff they could. Your first is the most important and the best you give us is "Developed technical skills". I'd hope you did more than that. Did the company get anything out of it? The next couple "bullets" focus on what you used, not what you did. (and BTW, I'm not a fan of "utilized" when "used" works perfectly well, means exactly the same thing, and is far more readable) Expeditiously and accurately just sounds like BS. Etc.