I did like Jamie's rating of skills on a 1-5 scale. I've seen too many resumes that have a plethora of skills listed, many of which the person probably spent 1 day using. I like how practically every resume has C or C++ on it but I bet 98% of the people could write much more than a "hello world\n" program. I want to know what skills are primary and what skills are "use a little bit" skills. Most people lie (exagerrate) anyway. When I interview I tell the person to take some time, go through their listed skills and explain their level of knowledge of each. I've been amazed at how the story changes once you drill people on them. Jamie, more descriptive info of your past experience and what it entalied. More description of your school exper. and maybe tidy up the "look" (after all, even home ec. majors are HTML experts these days...in face isnt everyone? </SARCASM>). On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu wrote: > I'm afraid I have to agree :) The first thing any resume book/tutorial/etc > will tell you is to keep your resume trimed to page of dead tree. Keep the > most important stuff and toss out whatever doesn't fit. Anyone who wants > to can check out mine. It's not steller by any means, but I've gotten jobs > with it. > > http://www.cs.umn.edu/~gabe/resume.html > > It may be a bit over a page in HTML form, but I usually consolidate it if > I'm giving it to anyone. > > Gabe > > On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 05:16:59PM -0600, Muhlenkort, Mark wrote: > > Your Resume needs a lot of work. Either get a good resume book, have someone > > else write it for you or look at the resumes on the web and pull it from > > there. It is difficult to see exactly what your strengths are and if a > > company can use them. The resume tells a company a lot about you. Let me see > > if I can e-mail you a copy of mine and see what you can do to change yours. > > Hope this helps! > > > > > > Mark A. Muhlenkort > > Computer Service Trainer > > Best Buy Co., Inc. > > 952-995-7893 Office > > 612-867-4203 Cell > > mark.muhlenkort at bestbuy.com <mailto:mark.muhlenkort at bestbuy.com> > > > > We IMPROVE people's lives by making TECHNOLOGY and ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTS > > affordable and easy to use. > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jamie Ostrowski [mailto:jamie at floyd.getsetnet.net] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 5:15 PM > > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > Subject: [TCLUG:23907] Job (Was Unix/Linux sweat > > shops) > > > > > > > > Thanks for the tips. I did sign up with techies.com and > > have had a > > couple of pretty good entry level positions sent to me, but > > after sending > > my resume, I never heard much back. I think my main problem > > is I don't > > have any experience, so I am hungry for anything, and > > getting a little > > nervous with bills stacking up. I also signed up with the > > TCLUG-JOBS list > > but haven't gotten much there. I don't know, maybe it is my > > resume. If > > anyone would be willing to give criticism on it, or offer > > advice, I would > > REALLY appreciate it VERY much. I have a copy of it online > > at > > http://www.linux-laboratories.com/resume.html > > > > If you can maybe offer any kind of criticism you think > > might be helpful, > > I would be very appreciative. I know a lot of you have > > backgrounds in the > > IT field so it would be really useful to me to get feedback. > > Maybe I > > simply need more schooling? I don't know. I thought it would > > be enough for > > entry level work. > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > > - Jamie > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tclug-list mailing list > > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >