Educational area and degree

[jordiorlando]

I am currently a student attending university and I'm trying to convert my jrs resume to the FRESH format. I am a bit confused about the education field: what is the difference between "level" and "degree"? Also, what is "title" used for? I am an Electrical Engineering student working towards my BS, any advice on how I should represent that? Is there an equivalent to jrs's "area" field?

Btw, great work on this whole project, it's fantastic when compared with JSON Resume (no offense to them, jrs is great too!).

[hacksalot]

Hi @D1SC0tech thanks for the note of support and welcome to the FRESH community! The education section will receive some polish in the next version (this week, actually), but here's essentially what the fields mean:

• The title field is the freeform display name of your degree, program, or role at the institution. For most cases, this should just be the name of your degree. Most FRESH themes will associate this closely with the name of the institution:

  [title], Somewhere University
  Somewhere University - [title]

  So if title is (for example) BSEE (in progress) you'd get:

  BSEE (in progress), Somewhere University
  Somewhere University - BSEE (in progress)

  Think of title as the friendly display name of your degree, cert, program, role, etc. We make this a freeform field because there's so much variation in academic degrees, to model this any other way would increase the complexity of the education section beyond what makes sense for typical resume use.

• The level is an indication of your overall level of education and corresponds to the drop-downs or multiple choices you may have seen on some employment submission forms: 'some college', '4-year degree', 'high school diploma', 'advanced degree', etc. This applies to your entire education history, not a particular stint.
• The degree is the formal statement of your degree's (or cert's, or program's, etc.) name. Where title is really more for display purposes, degree is informational.

So assuming a Western-style resume, probably the simplest thing for your case would be:

1. Set title to BSEE.
2. Set level to some college or in progress (no themes currently display this, so it won't matter yet).
3. Set degree to Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering or whatever your school uses on official letterhead. You could also simply use BSEE here but as you're already using the abbreviation in title, degree can contain the formal statement.
4. Ignore other fields until the next version of FRESH/FRESCA later this week : )

[jordiorlando]

Wow, fantastic response, thank you! That clears up a lot, and I look forward to the next version!