Kenny: Having been forced back into the job market back in October of last year, I was afforded training by my last company in the most recent resume trends.
Longer is not necessarily better, and the standard these days is anywhere from 1-3 pages, depending on the job and amount of experience that your needing to convey. They typically want to see the last 10 years of job experience, if possible. When adding a job, you should be creating each point in the job's experience as what is referred to as a CAR statement ( http://www.careerealism.com/executive-resume-good-car/). Doing this takes a bit longer, but it is definitely worth it. If you are having to redo your resume, I quite possibly still have the resume writing guide that was provided to me. If you wanted to borrow it, I could bring it in to work and hand it to Paul for you, just hit me up off list and I would be happy to let you borrow it. Regards, Jeff On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Alan Johnson <a...@datdec.com> wrote: > There has been some good advise posted here already, but I will just add > that I have landed my last 2 jobs with nothing more than a LinkedIn > profile. My current one was a cold submission electronic submission to a > company where I knew no one. I had an offer about a week after sending the > email. When the fit is right, it is right, and a good resume will get you > in the door. That said, it was surely an outlier. I fully support the > idea that it is usually more about finding some way to make a personal > connection, especially if the fit is not glaringly obvious, but you had > better have something decent to submit into their system to back up your > charm. > > I stopped bothering to keep a separate resume up to date many years ago. > You can export LinkedIn to PDF which is what I use when asked to submit > something electronically when requested. For my current job (interviewed > almost 2 years ago) I don't think I even bothered to bring paper copies to > the interview. When I was on the flip side of things, I always wished > people would stop doing that, but I'm sure there are still stall-warts out > there who will check to see if you are "prepared" by asking for a copy of > your resume. Frankly, I don't want to work for those folks if I have other > options. These days, I'd just bust out my android. > > My last job was with one of the top recruiting firms in the world. We had > the leading technical offering for recruiters to find candidates. When I > started there, resume-handling was mostly electronic and shifted heavily > toward it over the years. Now, it is nearly all electronic. Even most > small businesses do candidate sourcing on the web. For tech jobs, it is > almost exclusively electronic. > > I only say all this because the 2 page limit is not terribly relevant in a > well formatted and easily searched (visually that is) electronic document, > especially for IT folks. I just keep all the work history in there. Well, > everything relevant to any job I might want in the future. =) I dropped > my high school jobs a while back, but I've been paid to do computer stuff > since college and, for example, I think it still impresses employers to see > that I worked a help desk on the largest trading floor in New England > between my Freshman and Sophomore years. You have to decide for your self > if each bit of work experience is necessary, but be wary of putting time > holes in your work history as well. If you have more than 2 "pages" worth > of work history, rely on the job title line to indicate to your potential > employer if the position is relevant to them. Again, formatting is key and > good luck beating the experts at LinkedIn on that. > > Similarly, don't bother with irrelevant padding to fill some > artificial minimum of this "paper" stuff that is still around, but don't be > afraid to say who you are either. The text in your resume is an example of > your written communication skills, so if you are job hunting, you should > review it every day looking for mistakes and improvements in getting to the > point and clarity. Take this email as an excellent counter example. ;-) > > I think the cover letter (or submission email in modern terms) is where to > do your customizing. Highlight a few keys things that are most relevant to > the job in question. If they like those bits, they will likely read the > rest and probably want to talk to you. > > > _______________ > Alan Johnson > a...@datdec.com > Date Format PSA <http://xkcd.com/1179/> > > > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Kenny Lussier <kluss...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Not specifically Linux-related, but I was wondering what other people are >> seeing/doing with resumes these days. I have seen everything from a 2-page >> resume for someone with 20 years of experience to a 15-page resume for >> someone with 2 jobs over 3 years (it looked like the output of cat >> ~/.bash_history). How far back should a resume go? How long should it be >> before you stop reading it? I'm seeing absolutely no consistency in >> resumes, and the ones that come from recruiters seem to be the worst >> formats. >> >> C-Ya, >> Kenny >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnhlug-discuss mailing list >> gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org >> http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > >
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