John Carter wrote:
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, david merriman wrote:
I want to get a new CV/Resume written, and being a bit of a geek I'm
not being that good at self-promotion ;-) , so I'd like a little help
doing this. Does anyone have any recommendations for companies that
produce good 'technical' CV's for IT personnel (programmers in
particular) ?
You need to change your self image for awhile.
Your self image is that of "Geek", but when you haven't got a job, have
have got a job.
Salesman.
You're a salesman of a single, big ticket item.
Yourself.
So for now lose the "Geek" self image and think of yourself as a
"Salesman" for a rather pricey item.
As a Geek you would never say, "I can't do tech X", you would say I
would love to learn to do tech X. I'm going to sit down and work at it
until I can.
So you've got a job. Get to it. Sit down and get to work and learn to
sell yourself.
Once you have sold yourself, you can shuck off that skin and get back to
being a comfortable Geek.
On the other hand, keep some of the old Salesman personality around, you
never know when you are going to need him again to sell your great idea
to management, convince a big customer that your tech is best, ....
John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639
Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632
PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New Zealand
Carter's Clarification of Murphy's Law.
"Things only ever go right so that they may go more spectacularly wrong
later."
From this principle, all of life and physics may be deduced.
And I have a C/V writer program you can have a copy of if you want it.
Graeme.
