paul if you will invite me at this email address I will do an edit for you, as long as you realize that I am pretty picky and promise not to get bent ;) It's your resume and if you don't like what I will do Google Docs gives you the option of just reverting back.
On 1/12/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dana wrote: > > there is a place where you have "there" that should be "their". > > Lots of spelling and grammatical errors like this sentence: "By > taking his designs and creating a photo album so that he can quickly > get his images to the publishing community." > > That doesn't make any sense. There are also places where you use the > wrong tense, e.g., "create" instead of "created". > > Also your objective is a summary, not an objective. Which, BTW, > should effectively answer the question of what you want to do with > your career and give a hint of where you see yourself in 5 years. > What do you want? Are you a heads down coder who works alone in the > dark or do you like teams or are you looking for more of an architect > role or would you like to move into management? etc. etc. Do you > want to learn new tech? be a trainer? I could go on and on :) > > A few sentences in your objective should tell me where you fit into my team. > > I'd also take out words and phrases like "highly functional" which > doesn't mean anything and put in lots of action word and phrases like, > "I delivered ..." Numbers are good too - anyplace you can say you > delivered "on-time" or "ahead of delivery date" and "under budget by > x%", etc is very helpful. > > Your experience should say that you can do what I need you to do > because you've done it and can prove it. You should show how you take > things you haven't done before, figured them out, and delivered them > on time and on budget. > > I should feel comfortable that you can fill a hole on my team, and > come up to speed quickly and cheaply. I need you productive in a > week: we've got a big project here with a diverse cross-functional > team that hasn't worked together before. I'm thinking you might work > well as the dev team lead, but ... > > your resume doesn't tell me if you could handle that or not. And if > it did, I don't know if you'd want too. > > (just an example, of the audience you might want to write for) > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:224481 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
