On the reviewing/receiving end, I generally find that unless it's a recent grad, one page is insufficient for a technical resume, two is about right, and a third page is generally only useful if the first two were pretty good.
On the other end, I figure that's exactly what I'll write. Two pages of meat, one page of e.g. nonprofessional experience that might be germane (I have technical hobbies). Trying to write a one-page resume is unbearable. Again on the receiving end, if a resume from a recruiter looks like hell but has a few interesting items, I'll sometimes email the prospect and ask for a copy of their resume that has not been ruined by recruiters. To any engineering recruiters on the list: Don't screw up your guys' resumes unless you are SURE you know what you're doing. It gets in the way more often than not, in my experience. I don't want to hear YOUR voice or get things in the format you think is important, I want to know what the ENGINEER thinks is important, in their voice, because that's what I'll be working with. Second/third putting education last unless you just graduated. Mine is last except for a one-liner indicating I've had a Secret clearance before, in case it's germane, and a standard references-on-request tag. * Drew Van Zandt Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld) Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D. Masquerade aVST * On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:06 PM, David Hardy <belovedbold...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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/ >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > >
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