The most important piece of paper you will graduate RIT holding, along with your diploma, is your resume! RIT has one of the strongest co-op and experiential education programs in the nation, ...

Ritvika Nagula, an engineer at Microsoft Azure, said these résumé tips helped her land four offers. Nagula said engineers should highlight individual projects and show their work on GitHub. See her ...

Your resume is the most important part of the job application process because it is the first thing that employers see. Research suggests that recruiters spend an average of 7.4 seconds skimming a ...

Job searches are often described as akin to looking for a needle in a haystack. That could be even more so in the digital age, an era when online job boards feature hundreds, if not thousands, of ...

Question: I took time off after the Navy to travel and then care for my mother who’d just had surgery. How do I explain that on my resume? Answer: Today, the thinking around resume gaps is evolving.

When sorting through dozens—or hundreds—of résumés and cover letters, certain patterns start to wear thin fast. Whether it's vague bullet points, inconsistent formatting or overused buzzwords, small ...

This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Ritvika Nagula, a senior software engineer at Microsoft Azure. She's worked at the company since 2019. Her employment and job offers were ...