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Header:

You need a better looking header as a resume. Something like this:

http://www.livecareer.com/resume-examples#.UvCBPbR4_-o

Objective:

I am an enthusiastic electrical/electronic/programmer (pick whichever is relevant) seeking for a new challenge in the electronics industry. I have previous experience in <fill in the blanks with general skills>. Thus, my long term passion is to embark a managerial role in leading the future of <fill in the blanks> industry with innovation and management quality.

Education:

The "2nd class honours 2nd division" is an eye catching achievement. Keep that. 

Kindly take out the diploma grade. It looks bad on your resume. It is no longer necessary.  I can bet with you they wont bother considering the fact that your are working already.

Trash that SPM. No one really cares about it.

Only keep your degree and diploma as your education background would be more than enough.

Work Experience:

Dont need to tell people how many years and months. It is not required.

The experience bullet point is good. Keep that. Do correct your grammar mistakes (you have a lot of mistakes, it is very important to keep your resume error free. Most HR will throw your resume away once they see an error).

But, most important thing you need to sell is "what you have achieved? what difference you had made in your previous company?" You can state a nice summary of your achievement after each work experience:

Achievements

-improved the factory production by XX%-XX%
-implemented a newly created technology and reduce the opex cost by RMXXX,XXX
-effective communication skills with the client that keeps them happy and updated (with proven records and experience)
-outstanding time and task management skills by working with XXX number of people in XX departments
-successfully trained XXX amount of new staff members with increased workforce by XX%[/B]

Do this for each work experience. You can play around with this to make your resume look superior. But do not blow your bubble too big, experienced people can smell bullshit easily.

Personal particular:

Make these details in the header of your resume. Please refer to header URL link for more details. There are a few good examples there.

Skills:

Lose that jargon for advance, intermediate, and beginner.

Just cluster your skills in category form. Like:

high level programming language
<fill in the blanks>

low level programming langauge
<fill in the blanks>

simulation programming language
<fill in the blanks>

operating systems
<fill in the blanks>

administrative software
<fill in the blanks>

management software
<fill in the blanks>

CAD software
<fill in the blanks>

Languages:

Keep that. It is fine.

Activities:

Scrap that warcraft 3 game thing. Try using more professional activities like rock climbing, swimming, programming... State why you like those sports that indirectly relates to your job. Example:

Rock Climbing - A high risk endurance sport that increases my stamina in multiple folds. I am able to make critical and logical decision in very difficult situation.

Academic Projects:

Keep your project descriptions in bullet point. 1-2 lines per bullet point.

References:

Can I safely assume you mean "Work Referees"?

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Try to use some tables as well to keeps your resume tidy.

<<I really like the programming part, but usually because of failures or codes doesn't work, I give up too fast. >>

Then, programing is NOT for YOU.  You should do something else.

<<I wanna work with brilliant programmers and learn about it. >>

You can't.  Good programmer LOVE programing.  They like the challenge and difficulty.

One of the most important thing is career planning is to find out what you LOVE.  As far as we can tell, PROGRAMING is not the right one for you.  But, it is not bad.  You just have to find something else.

TS,

I do have friend that he said he like photography.
He bought a DSLR after he start working as engineer.
At the end, he seldom takes any pictures, he did not learn how to use DSLR efficiently.
But, he said he like photography. Even now, after 2 years and half, never see any pictures from him.
This is the problem, he actually do not know what he likes.
Because he think his friend as photographer very cool, then he think he also like photography.
A person like photography will takes pictures at every moments. They study the angle, contrast etc (This I no expert at all).
After you realised what you really like, your path will be clear.

Wow, u are really very detailed with your academic achievements. I think this works to your disadvantage as your grades are not outstanding. I would do more to not tell (remember not telling everything is not lying) some aspects of your academic achievements.

For the degree, just put 2nd class honours. Only tell what division if forced to.

For the Diploma, just write diploma. Why need the CGPA? Only tell it if you are forced to.

SPM. Its been some time since my SPM. If they still have the pangkat system(e.g: pangkat 1 and so on), just state your grade, no need to specify in detail your grades.

brightjoey,

<< I agree I don't intend to be a programmer as a final career choice. But I do like programming, otherwise I wouldn't have went through so much pain in learning and spending countless hours in the lab just working on programming.>>

No, you do not like programing. STOP LYING to yourself.  You only do it because you need to pass your course.  For example, I LEARN 8 programing languages through self study INDEPENDENT of any of my course work.

I studied 167% (20 semfester hours) of full time student course load.  I worked 40 hours per week.  But, I still spend another 20 hours per week learning programing and computer stuff because I LOVE IT.  I slept on the average of 4 hours per day for 6 years in order to do all those things.  it was so much FUN!!!

<<But hey I hope you're wrong and I'm right. I can't tell but the future will.>>

If you LOVE something, you do it for FREE just for the FUN for it.

<< I love shooting films and writing storyboards. I still do. I daydream about it sometimes when I see a particular event or a funny situation where I wish I have a camera right there and then. >>

What is there to STOP you for doing your own short film publish it via YOUTUBE??

<<But filmmaking doesn't put food on the table >>

So what?? You have ENOUGH FOOD on the table NOW.  What is there stopping you for doing this in YOUR FREE TIME?? I forgot!! You DARE NOT say no so you have NO FREE TIME.

I have 500K lines of code in dBASE.  I know 8 different programing languages.  And, I still do not consider myself as LIKING programing.

STOP GIVING EXCUSES!!! Life is too short!! Do not live in regret later when you are old as to what you could had done NOW.

Dreamer

few things I need to understand/clarify:

Since I have worked for a year+ after graduating, is my work experience that much important in securing an entry position? I understand that any improvement is a good thing, but do I need to stress on my academic performance since my current work experience has nothing to do with softwares?

Focus on what you can offer to be a programmer. Even there is a small task that you did in the previous job it is something that you can offer as a skill to sell. That was my point. There is no such thing as one industry that fits all.

Even experienced people have to learn new industry and skills as well. It is all down to your ability to learn quickly and apply those skills. That is what the employers are looking for. There is no sweet time learning a skill in a working industry. Learn to break from that mind set and you are highly in demand.

Objective:

Noted.
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Education:

Noted.  Even if I work only for a year my CGPA isn't necessary? okay.

I was just pointing out that you must not show your bad grades when it is not needed. Focus on your selling points. I am sure you dont see a fruit seller showing his moldy stocks to you right?

Work Experience:

Noted. I never noticed the grammar mistakes. Is it the -ed's? Okay I will change that.

Regarding achievements, so I include the achievements after listing out some of the job's responsibility?

Yes. Not only it is a good method of summarizing, it also tells the potential employer what you had learned and which skills you could offer to them that is useful. It is all about selling yourself to the employer.

Personal particular:

Noted.

Skills:

Noted. Previously I followed the jobstreet's format which includes years. Is that better?

It is up to you. But I didnt bother to put the calculations in my resume. Usually I will just round it so it is easier to understand. No one really care if you add or minus a few months just to make things easier to read.

Languages:

Noted. thanks.

Activities:

I used to co-organize blood donation for my college. I think I shall include that?

Noted. I'll add certain interests. I do play ultimate frisbee which improves teamwork and logical thinking.
Scrap that warcraft 3 game thing.

Anything is better than a gaming hobby in a resume.

Academic Projects:

Noted.

References:

Sorry I've only had universities referees. Should I try to find a work referees? I'm afraid if I ask my boss as a referee, he could view me as a quitter and not be much kinder to me.

Here comes a nifty trick, learn to make friends outside work that is neutral or in favor to you. Usually your referees are trusted colleague or your clients. Plan who will be your referee, it is important to do so. Your boss is never a good thing to use as a referee until you finally get the job (when potential employers are already interested in you then bad boss is not an obstacle).

Most of them will bad mouth you in a very drastic manner. If you are in good terms with your boss then it is a good thing to add him. If they did bad mouth you, then play the neutral card. There is a lot of ways to talk your way out of this situation.

brightjoey,

STOP LYING to yourself!!

1) Ask what do you REALLY WANT TO BE in 5 years??

2) What are you willing to DO NOW to get there??

At this moment, you just want to get out of your current job but you DID NOT ASK what you want to be.

<<If possible kindly be specific,>.

How can WE be SPECIFIC when you keep on LYING on what you really want??

Just want to ask you simple questions,
What do you want to become in the future? Maybe next 2-5 years...
Work in engineering? become own boss, open a restaurant? running ecommerce? become lecturer? making movie? or prefer unemployed stay at home?

Just a honest answer..

Seems this time you have some firm answer for us. For design machinery, normally you will exposed to CAD, for example AutoCAD, SolidWorks, ANSYS and etc.
During my FYP last time, I did propose and do projects of verifying fatigue life of certain steel using ANSYS via Finite Element Analysis.
I'm only one in the course proposing such computational method and compare with real experiments. Most of the 99% undergrad that time only taking titles given by lecturers/supervisor.
The ANSYS do have programming features if you want to custom run some extra simulations for those not available in the software itself.

Below is only illustration of the software.

Had a quick glance through at your resume and my suggestion would be :-
1. Remove diploma CGPA. It is too low to do you any good and might harm your chances.
2. Remove SPM results. It is not even relevant when you have a degree and diploma.
3. Work experience might be too boring for HR. Suggest you try to make it more interesting? Maybe add in some accomplishment?
4. Remove expected salary. No point to tie down your negotiation power.
5. Remove irrelevant personal particulars i.e. IC number, transportation.
6. Seems like you have leadership and event organising experience. I would suggest you re-phase these to your advantages and park it under skills. For example, list out communication skills and you go on to show how you are the MC for the event. Fully attended by students is too vague. If there are thousands of participants, do not be shy and make sure you quantified it in your resume as a key strength.
7. I would suggest you remove the Warcraft 3 name from your resume. Some interviewers might interpret it as being too childish. Instead, you could maybe list it as an event organising skills. For e.g. organised inter school computer game tournament whereby xxx number of participants attended.
8. Why the heck is FYP included? Is it applicable? If not, remove it.

<<I like to see myself working in engineering, >>

Why??

<< The main thing is to get a job that I love spending time with, and it involves going through different industry and finding out what I love and passionate about. >>

That is a long and wasteful way to find out...  It will be wrong anyhow.

It is VERY SIMPLE.

What are you doing with YOUR FREE TIME now?? What are the stuff that you GLADLY do that without getting pay for??

If you have to get pay (a job) to DO SOMETHING, you do not love and passionate on that thing.

<<In 5 years, I see myself being a leading professional in designing machinery. >>

Why and what is there to stop you now??

http://3d.about.com/od/3d-Electronics/tp/L...eady-To-Use.htm

You can buy a 3D printer for less than USD $1,000.  And, they are dropping to less than USD $500.

You can manufacture almost anything now at home.  What is there to stop you??