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[Sijray21]

i agree with what Jake mentioned about the background photo; i find it distracting (albeit neat). I also agree with converting the track experience with non-track lingo to appeal to more IT oriented people. i like the use of numbers and quantifiable results.

when i listed 'Madison Motorsports" as a hobby when i first started looking for jobs (first 3-4 years after graduating), just those two words at the bottom of my resume, it sparked a conversation with the interviewer with my first job who happened to race his 911s at PCA events. We chatted for an hour just on car/track stuff and said the interview was a formality and that he looked forward to meeting me in-person.

Now that i'm in the position of interviewing people small tidbits of information like a hobby actually give me a segue into discussing something with the person that they're passionate about (outside of work, if they're even passionate about work) to get an idea of how this person communicates. We've had issues with hires not communicating effectively and it's actually something i pay close attention to without being too obvious as to what i'm doing since that usually changes the behavior of the interviewee to appeal to me instead of just being themselves. As you gain more experience i'd drop the hobbies thing on the resume as an interviewer will ask about that if they're trying to gauge your personality anyway.

I'd also avoid placing things on your resume that you DON'T want to do (not sure if you did this, since that's subjective). You can talk about the experiences, however you'll get a lot of hits from recruiters looking for certain keywords that are placed on your resume when it's actually something you don't want to do. (ie: placing mobile/android/ios development when that's not what you want to do - instead put something like application development for non-pc platforms).