I work for a firm that does about 50% project development and 50% consultant placement and, I can tell you from my experience that you are indeed correct about the amount of people looking for work. Every job opening that we have, elicits 100's of resumes.
The only way we can really differentiate candidates is by match their skills EXACTLY to those the clients are looking for. That means that if a job posting is asking for 4 years CF, HTML, JS and 3 years SQL 7.0 experience, if your resume doesn't very clearly indicate that you have at least those skill sets, you'll end up in the bit bucket. I see a lot of candidates submitting resumes with skills listed in the summary section of their resume but never listed in their job experiences. There's enough talent out there that most job screeners are going to take a quick glance at your experiences and, if it's not very obvious that you match the requested skill sets, they'll quickly move on to the next candidate. I guess my bottom line advice is; have several resumes available that are geared towards different skills and clearly reflect those skills (CF, Java, even just plain HTML [I know recruiters that, if they're looking for HTML and only see CF skills, you're out;stupid but true]). Keep the verbiage to a minimum and make it clear as mud where and when you've used certain skills. Hope that helps, Donn ----------------------------------------------------- Donn Morrill II DCM Consulting VP Development Services 914-944-3200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dcmconsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: Yonah Wolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 9:29 AM To: CF-Jobs Subject: Foot-in-the-door Strategies - A long shot All, I have been reading this list for a few weeks now, and I can only imagine that I am as frustrated as some of you to see that there are a lot more job hunters than employee hunters out there. But here is my dilemma - Whenever I respond to an add on a site like Monster or HotJobs, I know that I am one of a thousand people applying for that job. How do I make myself stand out? My experience only says so much about me. Since I worked for a dot-com, many of the sites I worked on no longer exist. I can say that I developed site XYZ.com in CF, but now the site has been merged five times over, and doesn't have a single line of my code! Does anyone out there have any suggestions or advice? Any strategies that work? --Yonah ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_jobs or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_jobs or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
