The goal is to maintain a 1-page resume, unless you have significant relevant experience to showcase on your resume, which most early career engineers do not have. Feel free to substitute in/out optional sections that best fit your current experience.

👀For a practical example of how these elements can be incorporated into a resume, check out page 6 of CodePath’s Resume checklist: go.codepath.org/resumechecklist.

Resume should include the following in this order 👇🏾

Contact Information

• Name
• City, State (Optional)
• Contact information (phone number & email address)
• LinkedIn
• GitHub
• Portfolio

Education

• University or College name
• Computer Science Major or related field such as Cybersecurity and IT
• Mathematics Minor can be beneficial for understanding cryptography at a deeper level but not mandatory.
• Graduation Date
• Relevant Coursework Examples

Skills

• Tools : Very important section to showcase experience, can reference how students used these tools in their projects or work experience
• Languages: Being able to program is not a requirement in cybersecurity but extremely helpful. Here are the most commonly used languages in the field: