Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
Shlomo Dubrowin wrote:
I'm sorry if this is off topic. I'm starting my job search and was wondering if I should translate my resume into Hebrew?
I don't know if this is the general case, but as a prospective employer I would accept resume in Hebrew, English or Ladino, so long as:
1. Take are directed to a specific offering and sent to the right channles. That is, no random posts to an jobs@ address.
2. Came with a proper head letter explaining who you are and what opening you are apllying to.
3. Lists releveant experience first and TLD soup later (or better yet - inside the expereince description) or lacking experience - lists relevant knowledge first (with the obligatory TLD soup) and then mentioned non relveant experience.
Hope this helps, Gilad
I may also add some general advice, based on bad examples I've experienced. For example, if you are going to call a prospective employer you know, say, from this list:
1. Don't assume I know who you are. A lot of people post here (and other Linux forums).
2. Don't interview me on what I can offer you. Tell me, instead, what you can offer me.
3. Answering "what can you do" with "what do you want" is a bad idea. It tells me that you're not sure why I should employ you, and am seeking advice from me. Sorry, you will get none during a first phone call.
4. If we agree that you should send a resume, send it. Promptly. Same evening, if you can. Next day if not. Anything later than that, and your best case scenario is that I don't remember who you are.
5. Be ready before you call. When someone calls me for the first time, I expect them to know what they want. Some want to hire my services, and that's ok. Some want me to hire them, and that's also sortof ok. Someone who talks vaugely about a "certain initiative" by "certain people", and wants to form "some sort of partnership" if we just met 100 Km from where I live, well, I'm not interested. If you can't trust me with some details over the phone, you can't have three hours of my time in exchange. Sorry. Same goes if you don't want to give me your name, phone number or email. I'm not driving for an hour to meet someone if I can't even call them and ask where they are after they don't show up.
In general, calling is not a good way to get a job interview. You never know where I am when I answer. It has it's own up sides, but use with care.
Regarding the original question - I really couldn't care less whether a resume is in English or Hebrew. I am, however, likely to spot if it's unprofessionally written, has grammar or spelling mistakes, misuses terms etc. If you are more likely to write your resume well in Hebrew, by all means go ahead and translate it. Triple proof-read it, though. Ask someone else to proof read it too.
Shachar
P.S.
If these advices seem horribly trivial to you, well.... All I can say is that I have, personally, had calls from people who did not find them so obvious.
I've even documented a few of those in my blog. http://israblog.nana.co.il/blogread.asp?blog=35850&blogcode=693941 is one, http://israblog.nana.co.il/blogread.asp?blog=35850&blogcode=746423 is another.
Sh.
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