From English Major to Software Engineer

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by breyerjs • 6 years ago

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kashfi2• 6 years ago

I’m on a similar path.

I was wondering, hope this isn’t too personal to ask, when you were searching for that first internship, I am in that stage right now, what did your resume look like? What sort of projects did you include and did not include?

Besides my curious questions, I enjoyed reading about your experiences and I hope to read more on your blog.

Cheers!

breyerjs• 6 years ago

Good luck with your switch! I tried to highlight that it's a difficult but highly rewarding path, if you stick with it.

The first time I (unsuccessfully) applied for internships, I listed my paralegal work experience and a few programs I'd written. The chatbot I mentioned in the post was the highlight, even though it was not very impressive.

When I applied to internships successfully, I was in grad school. So I listed most of the courses I'd taken. I had more projects to my name at that point too. The most exciting was a Python script that used machine learning to figure out who wrote a passage of text. I'd done that for one of my Computational Linguistics classes and was really jazzed about it.

Hope that helps!

kashfi2• 6 years ago

That little bit of advice helps a great deal. Many thanks!

From English Major to Software Engineer

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