On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Fri, 07 Oct: > > First advise I got from all job agencies I worked with when looking for > > jobs is "Make it in Hebrew". > > I think this is the main issue that seperates your advide from those > posted before - Placement agencies and most HR people don't like to get > resumes in English. it works great with startups and hi-tech when one of > the requirements is good English skills for International interaction of > the employees, and it was great up until "the bubble" burst. now that > people depend on placement agencies, the requirements have turned. > resumes indeed have to be one page and in Hebrew, preferable in tables, > etc.
every rule has exceptions. this is just a "rule of thumb" - if you think you have good reason to write a longer resume, and/or to write it in english, go ahead. ofcourse, when i write a resume in english, i guess no one assumes i'm a new immigrant, because my name is too israely. for gregory it could be different - if he writes in hebrew, people might assume he knows english (or russian?) because of his name. prejudice? no. statistics. i think the placement companies don't realy care, since they sort and filter resumes based on the buzzwords, and those are written in english anyway. also, the HR companies (at least those that sends resumes to the haifa area) always add a cover-letter of their own, with highlights from the resume - and this is what the HR people see first. if the cover letter (which does stand by your requirements of being short and in hebrew) is interesting enough - they'll read the resume, even if it is quite long. > The advice I gave Gregory though (off list) is to let the placement > agency translate and edit it for him. It's their job, damnit! now comes the question of whether you trust them to do this translation properly. there is no "their job", since you never payed them any money. it might be within their interest - and for that they write the cover letter. they don't translate resumes, and they have no reason to do so. -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
