I got my current job, five years ago, by having experience in a mostly-obsolete 1980's computer language, Clipper. I knew that the Clipper apps would eventually be phased out, so cross-trained for another department in the same company and now work in Perl and C.
-- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria -----Original Message----- From: Greg Donald <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:42:23 To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [nlug] OT: Resume for those who want it. On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Howard <[email protected]> wrote: > Howard, looked for over two years, White Out of everything, my PHP cert has gained me the most job contacts over the years: http://www.zend.com/store/education/certification/authenticate.php?ClientCandidateID=ZEND001332&RegistrationID=209213581 (Make fun of it all you want, I couldn't care less) My SEO has been the second most helpful way of landing new gigs: http://www.google.com/search?q=ruby+on+rails+nashville I got my Ruby on Rails interview (got hired later) at Vandy because of the time I invested in using the free Google webmaster tools to nail down my SEO. Neither of these methods require knowing anyone on the inside. My resume is much larger than 4 pages: http://gregdonald.com/ I've had more than a few compliments on the sortable skills lists in the software section. I've never once heard anyone complain that it was too much to read. It may have been that they just didn't bother to tell me, but either way. And finally, the prospective employer seeing that you care about learning new technology helps a lot. What have you taught yourself lately? Taken any classes? If you got your BS or MS 10 or 20 years ago and haven't bothered learning anything new since.. well that might be something to work on. I don't have a degree, but I don't have any problems getting interviews either, so I can only assume it's the other stuff I listed above that's getting me in the HR doors. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
