This is both for Mulix and Choo, for reading me too literally :) Quoting guy keren, from the post of Fri, 07 Oct: > > 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.
that much is true for most but some DO interview the people and try to get an idea of what kind of person the applicant is and what type of work environment he's looking for, and some actually DO have some basic understanding of the buzzwords. The problem with placement agencies is this: 1. starting around 2001 almost nobody can do without them. unless your field of expertise is wide and you have friends who help you, finding a job in your specific niche means going to 10 agencies that have lists of clients and maybe one or two will even get you an interview. they don't like the fact that you went also to other agencies but they don't need to know, and you have to do what you need to get a job after all. 2. after handing in your resume, with or without an interview, they WILL edit it. they send it to the employers without your name. they will insist you send it to the, in editable format so they can cut your name out and easely summerise it into their letterhead. When I said youy should let them translate and edit it for you I didn't mean they should then use it without your approval first! of course you must OK every change they make! 3. not just agencies - Israelis like to see your life summed up on one page. never mind how much you have accomplished in life. if it's too much text they get suspicious that you are just pouring in buzzwords and subconsciencously demerit you. > 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. that is quite possible, and that relates to my last point - be short and to the point or someone will cut you short for you. > 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. well, they represent both you and the employers I think, and my reasoning is, that if they don't help me represent my skills in an optimal way to their clients, I don't get picked and they don't get their commision. Every placement agency I ever interviewed with, I always bother to ask for feedback on the look of my resume. I usually get some, sadly it sometimes contradicts earlier advice I got. I try to steer the best I can between the advice and produce the nicest looking, best read resume I can, with minimum repeatative segments, important aspects and achievements in bold. still, I don't know how much all this advice is really relevant. Other than one workplace I got through "Dialog" and a lot ofuseless refferences from others to sysadmin jobs when I strictly asked them to help me move out to new job types, I got all my jobs to date through personal contacts... -- Media Manipulator Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= 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]
