On 04/09/2013 11:49 AM, Kenny Lussier 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
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
I just landed a temp-to-perm job at a pretty awesome company with a 3-page
resume that goes back to my first computer job in 1999. My resume is heavy
on job experience because I only have an AS degree and the jobs I
was looking for were Bachelors or equivalent level.
If you want to take a peek,
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
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
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
1st know your audience. Is it going through a keyword scanner? Is a
friend bringing it in? Even if it has to go through the scanner?
I'll have a keyword section at the end nowadays. I've heard of someone
being passed over by the scanner for lack of unix even though they had
linux. They had a
There has been some good advise posted here already, but I will just add
that I have landed my last 2 jobs with nothing more than a LinkedIn
profile. My current one was a cold submission electronic submission to a
company where I knew no one. I had an offer about a week after sending the
email.
Kenny:
Having been forced back into the job market back in October of last year, I
was afforded training by my last company in the most recent resume trends.
Longer is not necessarily better, and the standard these days is anywhere
from 1-3 pages, depending on the job and amount of experience
When Alliant (mini-supercomputer company) folded in 1992, I came up with a
two page resume that covered my whole career, but then wrote one page addenda
tailored to the company and job I was interviewing for. Having worked on
everything from PDP-10s and the ARPAnet to dot matrix printers to
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