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    • EddieJenningsE
      EddieJennings @IRJ
      last edited by EddieJennings

      @IRJ said in Resume Update:

      1. People reviewing resumes will appreciate it, because it is a 10 second spiel where you give a quick overview of yourself. It is a time saver for them.

      This is the greatest potential benefit I see from having the summary statement. Though many of these I've seen on the resumes that have come by me read as thoughtless filler.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @IRJ
        last edited by

        @IRJ said in Resume Update:

        @scottalanmiller sees this is a negative, but I see this as a positive.

        Not always a negative, but it's a risk. For example, you see a position that you are perfect for and you say so. They don't know what to call the position and perceive the same job as a different title and rule you out because you knew too much.

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        • IRJI
          IRJ @scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          @scottalanmiller said in Resume Update:

          @IRJ said in Resume Update:

          @scottalanmiller sees this is a negative, but I see this as a positive.

          Not always a negative, but it's a risk. For example, you see a position that you are perfect for and you say so. They don't know what to call the position and perceive the same job as a different title and rule you out because you knew too much.

          I don't put my position. I put my experience. Everything is pretty general and would not disqualify me for any position.

          bd4dee97-ef7e-4ef2-89bf-b17f409d73ba-image.png

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          • EddieJenningsE
            EddieJennings @IRJ
            last edited by

            @IRJ said in Resume Update:

            I don't put my position. I put my experience. Everything is pretty general and would not disqualify me for any position.

            bd4dee97-ef7e-4ef2-89bf-b17f409d73ba-image.png

            After work, I'll do some drafting of either bullets like that or a single sentence and see which seems better.

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            • EddieJenningsE
              EddieJennings
              last edited by

              With Draft 4, which I think is close to the final draft, I chose a one sentence statement to replace the horizontal row.

              Any more text (unless I kill some of the white space, which I hesitate to do for readability), and this spills into a second page. While second pages aren't the end of the world, I don't yet have enough substance to make good use of it.

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              • IRJI
                IRJ @EddieJennings
                last edited by

                @EddieJennings said in Resume Update:

                With Draft 4, which I think is close to the final draft, I chose a one sentence statement to replace the horizontal row.

                Any more text (unless I kill some of the white space, which I hesitate to do for readability), and this spills into a second page. While second pages aren't the end of the world, I don't yet have enough substance to make good use of it.

                I really like it. The only thing I'd say is your summary statement looks out of place. I think it needs a heading or something. Other than that it looks really clean

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                • EddieJenningsE
                  EddieJennings @IRJ
                  last edited by

                  @IRJ said in Resume Update:

                  @EddieJennings said in Resume Update:

                  With Draft 4, which I think is close to the final draft, I chose a one sentence statement to replace the horizontal row.

                  Any more text (unless I kill some of the white space, which I hesitate to do for readability), and this spills into a second page. While second pages aren't the end of the world, I don't yet have enough substance to make good use of it.

                  I really like it. The only thing I'd say is your summary statement looks out of place. I think it needs a heading or something. Other than that it looks really clean

                  Thanks. That's something I'm considering. To give it a heading, I'd need to remove some bullets from the experience section. If I did, these three are currently on the chopping block.

                  Managed integration between Active Directory and HR data sources
                  Configured load balancing and TLS offloading for line of business application servers
                  Served as escalation point for L1 / L2 technicians.

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                  • IRJI
                    IRJ @EddieJennings
                    last edited by

                    @EddieJennings said in Resume Update:

                    @IRJ said in Resume Update:

                    @EddieJennings said in Resume Update:

                    With Draft 4, which I think is close to the final draft, I chose a one sentence statement to replace the horizontal row.

                    Any more text (unless I kill some of the white space, which I hesitate to do for readability), and this spills into a second page. While second pages aren't the end of the world, I don't yet have enough substance to make good use of it.

                    I really like it. The only thing I'd say is your summary statement looks out of place. I think it needs a heading or something. Other than that it looks really clean

                    Thanks. That's something I'm considering. To give it a heading, I'd need to remove some bullets from the experience section. If I did, these three are currently on the chopping block.

                    Managed integration between Active Directory and HR data sources
                    Configured load balancing and TLS offloading for line of business application servers
                    Served as escalation point for L1 / L2 technicians.

                    It's an easy choice for me. Get rid of the training team members bullet point

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                    • IRJI
                      IRJ
                      last edited by

                      Also you don't have any Linux test systems or anything in your current role? If you did you might move those to front of skills and windows in the back. Keep the other skills in between.

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                      • EddieJenningsE
                        EddieJennings @IRJ
                        last edited by

                        @IRJ said in Resume Update:

                        Also you don't have any Linux test systems or anything in your current role? If you did you might move those to front of skills and windows in the back. Keep the other skills in between.

                        Unfortunately no. Current role is truly 99% Windows with about 1% of appliances.

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                        • EddieJenningsE
                          EddieJennings @IRJ
                          last edited by

                          @IRJ said in Resume Update:

                          @EddieJennings said in Resume Update:

                          @IRJ said in Resume Update:

                          @EddieJennings said in Resume Update:

                          With Draft 4, which I think is close to the final draft, I chose a one sentence statement to replace the horizontal row.

                          Any more text (unless I kill some of the white space, which I hesitate to do for readability), and this spills into a second page. While second pages aren't the end of the world, I don't yet have enough substance to make good use of it.

                          I really like it. The only thing I'd say is your summary statement looks out of place. I think it needs a heading or something. Other than that it looks really clean

                          Thanks. That's something I'm considering. To give it a heading, I'd need to remove some bullets from the experience section. If I did, these three are currently on the chopping block.

                          Managed integration between Active Directory and HR data sources
                          Configured load balancing and TLS offloading for line of business application servers
                          Served as escalation point for L1 / L2 technicians.

                          It's an easy choice for me. Get rid of the training team members bullet point

                          Tough for me to let go of that particular bullet point. I think my teaching skills can bring value to whatever team I'm in.

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                          • IRJI
                            IRJ @EddieJennings
                            last edited by

                            @EddieJennings said in Resume Update:

                            @IRJ said in Resume Update:

                            @EddieJennings said in Resume Update:

                            @IRJ said in Resume Update:

                            @EddieJennings said in Resume Update:

                            With Draft 4, which I think is close to the final draft, I chose a one sentence statement to replace the horizontal row.

                            Any more text (unless I kill some of the white space, which I hesitate to do for readability), and this spills into a second page. While second pages aren't the end of the world, I don't yet have enough substance to make good use of it.

                            I really like it. The only thing I'd say is your summary statement looks out of place. I think it needs a heading or something. Other than that it looks really clean

                            Thanks. That's something I'm considering. To give it a heading, I'd need to remove some bullets from the experience section. If I did, these three are currently on the chopping block.

                            Managed integration between Active Directory and HR data sources
                            Configured load balancing and TLS offloading for line of business application servers
                            Served as escalation point for L1 / L2 technicians.

                            It's an easy choice for me. Get rid of the training team members bullet point

                            Tough for me to let go of that particular bullet point. I think my teaching skills can bring value to whatever team I'm in.

                            What IT role doesn't require training and/or documentation? Also, that bullet point doesn't say what you just told me. If you want to keep it, maybe you can tweak it to convince someone you bring extra value there.

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                            • IRJI
                              IRJ @EddieJennings
                              last edited by

                              @EddieJennings said in Resume Update:

                              @IRJ said in Resume Update:

                              Also you don't have any Linux test systems or anything in your current role? If you did you might move those to front of skills and windows in the back. Keep the other skills in between.

                              Unfortunately no. Current role is truly 99% Windows with about 1% of appliances.

                              Yeah that's unfortunate for sure.

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                              • EddieJenningsE
                                EddieJennings @IRJ
                                last edited by

                                @IRJ said in Resume Update:

                                @EddieJennings said in Resume Update:

                                @IRJ said in Resume Update:

                                @EddieJennings said in Resume Update:

                                @IRJ said in Resume Update:

                                @EddieJennings said in Resume Update:

                                With Draft 4, which I think is close to the final draft, I chose a one sentence statement to replace the horizontal row.

                                Any more text (unless I kill some of the white space, which I hesitate to do for readability), and this spills into a second page. While second pages aren't the end of the world, I don't yet have enough substance to make good use of it.

                                I really like it. The only thing I'd say is your summary statement looks out of place. I think it needs a heading or something. Other than that it looks really clean

                                Thanks. That's something I'm considering. To give it a heading, I'd need to remove some bullets from the experience section. If I did, these three are currently on the chopping block.

                                Managed integration between Active Directory and HR data sources
                                Configured load balancing and TLS offloading for line of business application servers
                                Served as escalation point for L1 / L2 technicians.

                                It's an easy choice for me. Get rid of the training team members bullet point

                                Tough for me to let go of that particular bullet point. I think my teaching skills can bring value to whatever team I'm in.

                                What IT role doesn't require training and/or documentation? Also, that bullet point doesn't say what you just told me. If you want to keep it, maybe you can tweak it to convince someone you bring extra value there.

                                I'll see about that. In my experience I've seen many folks provide poor training due to lacking any skills in teaching.

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                                • EddieJenningsE
                                  EddieJennings @IRJ
                                  last edited by

                                  @IRJ said in Resume Update:

                                  @EddieJennings said in Resume Update:

                                  @IRJ said in Resume Update:

                                  Also you don't have any Linux test systems or anything in your current role? If you did you might move those to front of skills and windows in the back. Keep the other skills in between.

                                  Unfortunately no. Current role is truly 99% Windows with about 1% of appliances.

                                  Yeah that's unfortunate for sure.

                                  Part of the reason why it's time for me to start looking for the next opportunity. There's zero chance of me acquiring any Linux experience where I am.

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                                  • IRJI
                                    IRJ @EddieJennings
                                    last edited by

                                    @EddieJennings said in Resume Update:

                                    @IRJ said in Resume Update:

                                    @EddieJennings said in Resume Update:

                                    @IRJ said in Resume Update:

                                    @EddieJennings said in Resume Update:

                                    @IRJ said in Resume Update:

                                    @EddieJennings said in Resume Update:

                                    With Draft 4, which I think is close to the final draft, I chose a one sentence statement to replace the horizontal row.

                                    Any more text (unless I kill some of the white space, which I hesitate to do for readability), and this spills into a second page. While second pages aren't the end of the world, I don't yet have enough substance to make good use of it.

                                    I really like it. The only thing I'd say is your summary statement looks out of place. I think it needs a heading or something. Other than that it looks really clean

                                    Thanks. That's something I'm considering. To give it a heading, I'd need to remove some bullets from the experience section. If I did, these three are currently on the chopping block.

                                    Managed integration between Active Directory and HR data sources
                                    Configured load balancing and TLS offloading for line of business application servers
                                    Served as escalation point for L1 / L2 technicians.

                                    It's an easy choice for me. Get rid of the training team members bullet point

                                    Tough for me to let go of that particular bullet point. I think my teaching skills can bring value to whatever team I'm in.

                                    What IT role doesn't require training and/or documentation? Also, that bullet point doesn't say what you just told me. If you want to keep it, maybe you can tweak it to convince someone you bring extra value there.

                                    I'll see about that. In my experience I've seen many folks provide poor training due to lacking any skills in teaching.

                                    Another option is building up your summary of qualifications and increase your text size to make this bad boy 1.5 pages. Your summary becomes your 1/4 page resume, so you can extend the total length and still have the courtesy of allowing potential employer to get a quick summary.

                                    Really talk about Linux and designs you've done. Talk about training as well if you want to make it a main point on your resume, and talk about consulting projects in whatever fields

                                    • LPI certified with 6+ years experience on Linux based operating systems ( CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu, appliances, etc)

                                    • Passionate about training and good documentation

                                    • Hands on experience in all aspects of managing and administration of IT infrastructure (Basically elaborate on generalist role)

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                                    • EddieJenningsE
                                      EddieJennings @IRJ
                                      last edited by

                                      @IRJ said in Resume Update:

                                      Another option is building up your summary of qualifications and increase your text size to make this bad boy 1.5 pages. Your summary becomes your 1/4 page resume, so you can extend the total length and still have the courtesy of allowing potential employer to get a quick summary.

                                      Really talk about Linux and designs you've done. Talk about training as well if you want to make it a main point on your resume, and talk about consulting projects in whatever fields

                                      • LPI certified with 6+ years experience on Linux based operating systems ( CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu, appliances, etc)

                                      • Passionate about training and good documentation

                                      • Hands on experience in all aspects of managing and administration of IT infrastructure (Basically elaborate on generalist role)

                                      I like those ideas, as they've got me thinking some more.

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                                        1337 @EddieJennings
                                        last edited by 1337

                                        @EddieJennings said in Resume Update:

                                        @IRJ said in Resume Update:

                                        Another option is building up your summary of qualifications and increase your text size to make this bad boy 1.5 pages. Your summary becomes your 1/4 page resume, so you can extend the total length and still have the courtesy of allowing potential employer to get a quick summary.

                                        Really talk about Linux and designs you've done. Talk about training as well if you want to make it a main point on your resume, and talk about consulting projects in whatever fields

                                        • LPI certified with 6+ years experience on Linux based operating systems ( CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu, appliances, etc)

                                        • Passionate about training and good documentation

                                        • Hands on experience in all aspects of managing and administration of IT infrastructure (Basically elaborate on generalist role)

                                        I like those ideas, as they've got me thinking some more.

                                        Eddie, you might want to search for skills-based CVs for some ideas.

                                        Typical CVs are reverse chronological which basically is a list of where you worked, aka experience. But if you want to change direction (more linux) that is not optimal because your work experience doesn't align 100% with that.

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                                        • EddieJenningsE
                                          EddieJennings
                                          last edited by

                                          @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.

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