I'm nearly sixty and have had a bunch of jobs over the decades, not all of them IT and not all of them Linux. So I tailor the resume to the specific position and keep it to two pages, max. I then expand on whatever in a cover letter and interview, if I get one. I've seen other peoples' resumes and it is as you describe; no consistency and everything from cryptic geek-speak acronyms to web-based sound-and-video productions to eight pages of small print listing the person's detailed life history. I have also help to edit/fix resumes for people and had them down to nice, concise, informative two-page deals and then they insisted I hadn't included enough info and gone back to their four- and six-page horrors and never got called for an interview thereafter, because....yes....the screening HR drones tossed them instantly.
It is also worth noting that the last stat I saw on this indicated that there is a roughly four-percent retention and examination of resumes in general. The rest, 96%, are tossed. In my half-century of experience, jobs are gotten by getting via hook or crook to the hiring manager and showing them how you can help them/make their job easier. Period. Regards from northwestern Vermont, under the F-16s On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Kenny Lussier <kluss...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Not specifically Linux-related, but I was wondering what other people are > seeing/doing with resumes these days. I have seen everything from a 2-page > resume for someone with 20 years of experience to a 15-page resume for > someone with 2 jobs over 3 years (it looked like the output of cat > ~/.bash_history). How far back should a resume go? How long should it be > before you stop reading it? I'm seeing absolutely no consistency in > resumes, and the ones that come from recruiters seem to be the worst > formats. > > C-Ya, > Kenny > > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > >
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