Welcome Andrew Peters!

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This is your master resume file.

The working resume is the most detailed version of your resume. It includes your education, coursework, technical skills, projects, work experience, campus involvement, service, honors, leadership, career notes, and extra details that may not fit on a shorter resume.

This document should not be sent to employers.

Instead, think of it as your resume bank. When you apply for a specific internship, full-time role, scholarship, co-op, research position, or engineering opportunity, you will pull the most relevant information from this working resume and use it to update your targeted resume.

How to use this document:

• Keep it updated as you gain new experience.
• Add new projects, senior design details, technical skills, coursework, awards, jobs, and leadership roles.
• Use it as the source document when tailoring your resume for individual applications.
• Do not worry if it is too long. It is supposed to be long.
• Do not send this full version to recruiters or employers.

The working resume gives us a place to keep everything so nothing gets lost.

This document explains how to think about your current resume, career direction, and next steps.

The assessment is not a resume. It is a strategy document. It looks at where you are now, what strengths you already have, where your resume needs to grow, and how you can begin positioning yourself for mechanical engineering opportunities.

This document helps answer the bigger question:

What kind of engineer are you becoming, and how should we present that to employers?

How to use this document:

• Read it before career fairs, interviews, or recruiter conversations.
• Use it to understand your strongest themes: academic consistency, teachability, reliability, technical growth, and desire for hands-on experience.
• Review the recommended career paths and role types.
• Use the interview language when preparing to talk about your goals.
• Use the action plan to guide what you should work on before graduation.

This document is meant to help you build confidence and direction. You do not have to know your entire engineering career path right now. The goal is to take the next best step toward real engineering experience.

This is the resume you can begin using for engineering-related opportunities.

Unlike the working resume, this version is shorter, more focused, and designed to be closer to what you would actually send to an employer. It is targeted toward mechanical engineering, manufacturing, quality, testing, validation, project engineering, CAD, aerospace, automotive, defense, and related technical opportunities.

This resume is built to show that you are:

• A Mechanical Engineering student
• Academically strong
• Technically developing
• Reliable in real work environments
• Experienced with SOLIDWORKS, MATLAB, Excel, and engineering coursework
• Ready to gain hands-on engineering experience

How to use this document:

• Use this as your starting resume for applications.
• Save a new copy each time you apply for a specific role.
• Edit the summary, skills, project bullets, and experience bullets to match the job description.
• Keep the most relevant information for each opportunity.
• Remove less relevant information if the resume needs to be shorter.
• Use keywords from the job posting when they accurately match your experience.

This resume can be sent to employers after it has been reviewed and adjusted for the specific role.

For example, if you apply for a quality engineering role, we may emphasize accuracy, process awareness, fulfillment work, simulations, and documentation. If you apply for a CAD/design role, we may emphasize SOLIDWORKS, modeling, simulations, and the bike frame project. If you apply for a testing or validation role, we may emphasize simulations, engineering calculations, lab exposure, Excel, and attention to detail.

This document gives you copy-ready content to update your LinkedIn profile.

Your LinkedIn should not just show your previous jobs. It should clearly communicate that you are a Mechanical Engineering student who is building technical skills and seeking hands-on engineering experience.

The LinkedIn document includes:

• Headline options
• About section
• Experience descriptions
• Education section content
• Project section content
• Volunteer section content
• Organization descriptions
• Skills to add
• Featured section ideas
• Connection request message
• Recruiter message
• Short bio
• Job search announcement post

How to use this document:

• Copy and paste the sections directly into LinkedIn.
• Start with the recommended headline and About section.
• Add the Bike Frame Design Project under Projects.
• Update your Experience section so Target and Kaleidoscopes show transferable skills, not just job titles.
• Add your engineering organizations, honors, and relevant coursework.
• Add the skills listed in the document.
• Use the connection request and recruiter message when reaching out to professionals or companies.

The goal is for your LinkedIn to support your resume and help recruiters understand your engineering direction.

Each document has a different job.

The working resume stores everything.

The assessment explains your strategy.

The targeted resume is the version you edit and send.

The LinkedIn document helps you update your online professional presence.

Together, they create a strong foundation for your internship, full-time job, networking, and career exploration process.

Do not send the working resume to employers.

The working resume is your master file. It is intentionally long and detailed. It exists so we can keep all of your information in one place and pull from it when needed.

For job applications, you should use the general targeted resume as your starting point, then tailor it for each individual opportunity.

Before submitting a resume, ask:

• What kind of role is this?
• What skills does the employer seem to care about most?
• Which project or experience best supports that role?
• Which bullets should move up?
• Which bullets should be shortened or removed?
• Are the right keywords included?
• Does this version show why I am a good fit for this specific opportunity?

A strong resume is not one-size-fits-all. Your best resume will be adjusted for each role.

Start by reviewing all four documents.

Then:

1. Read the assessment first so you understand the strategy.
2. Review the working resume and let me know if anything needs to be corrected or added.
3. Use the general targeted resume as your main application resume.
4. Refresh your LinkedIn using the copy/paste LinkedIn document.
5. Begin saving project files, screenshots, senior design details, and technical examples so we can strengthen your resume even more before graduation.

As you gain more experience, especially through senior design, tutoring, technical coursework, interviews, internships, or engineering-related projects, we will continue updating these documents.