@travisdh1 said in Resume work:

@CCWTech said in Resume work:

@travisdh1 I've been searching on Indeed, Monster, Linkedin, and DICE. But so far I have only had 2 interviews. One went well, made it to final rounds. The other went really well, and they said they thought I deserved more money than the job offered and wanted to see if I was interested in other higher paying jobs with the company...I said yes, but not to count me out for this one. Then I got the "you haven't been selected" letter.

This was from a fortune 500 company so it wasn't "Jimbo's or Pat's". I'm really trying nearly anything really.

I get called by 'recruiters' in India who can barely speak english but not much else. I guess it's a tough market right now.

It's funny, I'm not used to applying for a job and not getting it. In the past if I applied for 3 places I usually had offers from 2.

All job listing sites are going to have more jobs that either aren't real jobs or have already been filled. If you pay attention, you'll find the same job listed on every single one. It's just a mess, without any way to weed out what are actual active listings.

I've mostly had recruiters come to me, but when I was applying I had a decent hit rate.

My advice is stop spamming out a general resume and tailor it towards the position you actually want. Basically apply for less jobs, but tailor your resume towards them. Also study up on anything you may not be familiar with when approached for the interview..

No problem spinning up virtual lab to learn about a product for an interview you want to nail. You could say something like I've used product A, but have also extensively tested X (their product). Then go into detail about some things about X to show you've actually used it. Say something like I'm not super familiar with X, but from my experience with it. It's quite intuitive and easy use. Then state your lab project and some challenges or accomplishments achieved during it.

@IRJ Shamelessly stole your ideas and tweaked the wording a bit. 🙂

Draft 5

@Pete-S I'll look at drafting the other format over the next couple of days. If I come up with anything decent, I'll add it to this thread.

@IRJ said in Resume critique:

Bad resume skills look like this:

Customer Service Oriented Microsoft Windows XP, 7, 8.1, 10 System and Network Troubleshooting Network Configuration Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu, and Fedora Active Directory Server Migrations VPN Cisco Switches

Good Resume Skills would look like this:

Proficient in Active Directory - Experienced with AD upgrades, migrations, client deployments and domain trusts Strong in Linux Administration - Deployments, upgrades, scripting, and management of all common distributions (RHEL , Fedora, Ubuntu, and others) Secure Network Implementation - Managed deployments and configuration for routers , switches, VPN devices, all types of firewalls, and more. (Cisco, Palo Alto, Juniper)

I love this format. Going to apply it to my soon-to-be-updated resume. Thanks.

@Emad-R said in Simple Resume Fails:

@CCWTech @JaredBusch

The only remaining one in the middle east(not gulf) ) without war or blockade, thanks to weak - sway with the strong - stay next to the wall politics.

Jordan
Some people call it the
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Cause apparently it is owned by one family. go figure.

sorry for late reply

That's how basically all Arab countries work. Not really a surprise 🙂

@obsolesce said in Resume Review Please:

@scottalanmiller said in Resume Review Please:

@animal said in Resume Review Please:

@scottalanmiller said in Resume Review Please:

@obsolesce said in Resume Review Please:

@animal

When you leave out unrelated jobs to a position you apply for, the potential employer will notice those gaps. What does that tell them?

This is what I wonder... there is definitely a time to include and definitely a time to exclude. Avoiding gaps is often good, at least back to a certain point. And I like having a "starting point" on there, that shows what that "first job" is. For me this is an extra big deal because my starting job was long ago (1989), a very serious one (solo software engineering intern), and for a great company (Eastman Kodak was #19 on Fortune 100 while I was there.) Lots of people say they've been in IT or whatever and their starting date is based off of "I fixed my family's computer" or working in retail or something.

When I say that I've been in IT or SE for 30 years (technically not for a few more months) lots of people immediately say "we don't count playing with computers at home" and so having a Fortune 19 engineering job on there is pretty important.

I leave off my factory engineering work from a little later, or my restaurant and hotel management experience, and other things from about the same era, those are too unrelated.

Yeah, it makes perfect sense to include jobs that you worked at for a prestigious place, but that can also be done in a cover letter. We never got into the whole cover letter question whether they're worth it or not, but my feeling is that a resume is a bumper sticker, the cover letter is your story.

I've never worked anywhere that even received cover letters. They are normally, in my experience, stripped. I don't know any manager who gets them, or would look at them if received. To me, as a hiring manager, getting a cover letter tells me..

The candidate doesn't value their own time and is spending time fruitlessly writing up a cover letter than has nearly zero chance of being seen and nearly zero chance of being read if seen. The candidate is desperate and willing to commit a lot of resources to a job before knowing if it is real at all (most posting by far are not), still open, or something that they'd even consider. It's way, way too early in the process to "care" at all about the potential job.

I don't do cover letters. It would just include the stuff at the top of my resume anyways, but in more words. I think it's pointless. I did, however, include a cover letter to explain my reason for applying to international jobs, so they don't just toss out my resume when they see I'm from a different country. That seems to have worked a couple times.

Yes, sometimes you have to point out that you KNOW where the job is.

Stupid that the opposite isn't true. Jobs from other regions reach out to me all the time and just ignore the fact that I'm not local.

updated.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OmIwV1c2_Lr9N_EUxUe_YEpVrhfaF0V_/view?usp=sharing