I signed up for the website called The Ladders, and paid for the membership that gave me a resume critique. I found that to be very helpful and I seemed to get more interest out of it than I did my old, one page resume.
I remember some of the comments, things like: - You have over 12 years experience, your schooling should no longer be the first thing on your resume. - You should start with a summary about yourself, followed by skill set - list all of your employment with bullet lists (handy because I love bullet lists) about what you did, things you accomplished - list facts, like 'developed an integration handoff plan that cut integration time by 40%' or 'cut development costs by designing for reuse, saving the company $12 million.' - end with your education now I was told that my education should be last, because it was the oldest thing on there, I don't know if you'd want to list things like a timeline, say if you just finished a masters or whatever. Pretty much exactly what Brian just sent. I've also had good luck with Linkedin 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/ > > -- Richard Kolb II
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