Feedback on Resume
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@wirestyle22 said in Feedback on Resume:
@gjacobse I've always been under the impression that you should highlight your strongest stuff first. My experience is stronger than my knowledge on paper although I do have a lot of stuff to add.
In your skills section, yes. In your job history do it chronologically.
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@wirestyle22 said in Feedback on Resume:
@gjacobse The hard part of that is honesty. Most of the people I'll be competing with will be lying. I've seen it everywhere. It's hard to compete with people that might as well not exist (they aren't actually who they are presenting). I will typically get the job once I stop becoming a name on a piece of paper, but it's hard to get past that point.
To be fair, I think candidates do this less than the jobs themselves do!
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A System Administrator is just that. There is not and never has been a thing called "System's Administrator".
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Take out your address. City is okay, major city is fine. Actual address is a security vulnerability and makes you look like you don't think well about security.
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@scottalanmiller said in Feedback on Resume:
A System Administrator is just that. There is not and never has been a thing called "System's Administrator".
There has been, you just don't recognize it. My title could be called Krinkle Dink the Elf and it would be a thing, just unrecognized.
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@wirestyle22 said in Feedback on Resume:
@scottalanmiller said in Feedback on Resume:
A System Administrator is just that. There is not and never has been a thing called "System's Administrator".
There has been, you just don't recognize it. My title could be called Krinkle Dink the Elf and it would be a thing, just unrecognized.
No, this is a job description field, not a gibberish some idiot wrote on a form field. No matter what someone in HR got wrong, there is no JOB called "system's administrator".
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@scottalanmiller said in Feedback on Resume:
@wirestyle22 said in Feedback on Resume:
@scottalanmiller said in Feedback on Resume:
A System Administrator is just that. There is not and never has been a thing called "System's Administrator".
There has been, you just don't recognize it. My title could be called Krinkle Dink the Elf and it would be a thing, just unrecognized.
No, this is a job description field, not a gibberish some idiot wrote on a form field. No matter what someone in HR got wrong, there is no JOB called "system's administrator".
So you're saying I should give myself a title?
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There is only one Linux called "Red Hat" and it was discontinued over a decade ago. Red Hat Linux is long gone. But it is what you highlight on your resume. The current Linux that is what CentOS is based on is called RHEL or Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Getting the name of the top skill wrong is a big deal. It looks like you don't know the product that you are listing.
Also, you've never worked with any Windows prior to 2016?
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@wirestyle22 said in Feedback on Resume:
@scottalanmiller said in Feedback on Resume:
@wirestyle22 said in Feedback on Resume:
@scottalanmiller said in Feedback on Resume:
A System Administrator is just that. There is not and never has been a thing called "System's Administrator".
There has been, you just don't recognize it. My title could be called Krinkle Dink the Elf and it would be a thing, just unrecognized.
No, this is a job description field, not a gibberish some idiot wrote on a form field. No matter what someone in HR got wrong, there is no JOB called "system's administrator".
So you're saying I should give myself a title?
No, you should be honest about your job, never post a lie or a title. Titles are totally useless. If you are lucky your job and your title are the same. But if I saw this and you put System Admin (even with the words right) you'd be straight to the bin for obviously lying. Title nor not, it's a lie to put it here.
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@scottalanmiller Then after I write these descriptions we will have to go over what to title myself as based on my description of the responsibilities
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I think a lot of the title stuff depends on your audience. In my experience, giant corporations love the ridiculous titles, where in small business, a title could easily land your resume directly in the garbage can. This is what we look at every day sifting through resumes, but then again, we are essentially a mom and pop shop.
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@bnrstnr said in Feedback on Resume:
I think a lot of the title stuff depends on your audience. In my experience, giant corporations love the ridiculous titles, where in small business, a title could easily land your resume directly in the garbage can. This is what we look at every day sifting through resumes, but then again, we are essentially a mom and pop shop.
Seems like that should be the opposite. A mom and pop store shouldn't care about title they should care about work experience and skills. Actually no one should really be looking at a title it doesn't really mean a whole lot to the industry as a whole (outside of extremely large companies).
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@coliver said in Feedback on Resume:
@bnrstnr said in Feedback on Resume:
I think a lot of the title stuff depends on your audience. In my experience, giant corporations love the ridiculous titles, where in small business, a title could easily land your resume directly in the garbage can. This is what we look at every day sifting through resumes, but then again, we are essentially a mom and pop shop.
Seems like that should be the opposite. A mom and pop store shouldn't care about title they should care about work experience and skills. Actually no one should really be looking at a title it doesn't really mean a whole lot to the industry as a whole (outside of extremely large companies).
Here Here.
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@coliver said in Feedback on Resume:
@bnrstnr said in Feedback on Resume:
I think a lot of the title stuff depends on your audience. In my experience, giant corporations love the ridiculous titles, where in small business, a title could easily land your resume directly in the garbage can. This is what we look at every day sifting through resumes, but then again, we are essentially a mom and pop shop.
Seems like that should be the opposite. A mom and pop store shouldn't care about title they should care about work experience and skills. Actually no one should really be looking at a title it doesn't really mean a whole lot to the industry as a whole (outside of extremely large companies).
If I only took a job with people who understood this I'd be homeless though
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If somebody puts an outlandish title it likely means that they're coming from an environment we cant relate with or looking for a fluffer position that we aren't offering, that's why it could be seen as a negative. We work a lot in the automotive field, and it's pretty easy to spot somebody that just likes to progress through the ranks and may not actually bring much to the table.
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@bnrstnr said in Feedback on Resume:
If somebody puts an outlandish title it likely means that they're coming from an environment we cant relate with or looking for a fluffer position that we aren't offering, that's why it could be seen as a negative. We work a lot in the automotive field, and it's pretty easy to spot somebody that just likes to progress through the ranks and may not actually bring much to the table.
How do you progress through the ranks if you have nothing to offer though
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@wirestyle22 said in Feedback on Resume:
@bnrstnr said in Feedback on Resume:
If somebody puts an outlandish title it likely means that they're coming from an environment we cant relate with or looking for a fluffer position that we aren't offering, that's why it could be seen as a negative. We work a lot in the automotive field, and it's pretty easy to spot somebody that just likes to progress through the ranks and may not actually bring much to the table.
How do you progress through the ranks if you have nothing to offer though
OH, that's easier than you might think. But it realizes on being that scummy sales person you talked about, and finding bad hiring managers (bad meaning they don't do a good job of hiring good people).
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@bnrstnr said in Feedback on Resume:
If somebody puts an outlandish title it likely means that they're coming from an environment we cant relate with or looking for a fluffer position that we aren't offering, that's why it could be seen as a negative. We work a lot in the automotive field, and it's pretty easy to spot somebody that just likes to progress through the ranks and may not actually bring much to the table.
Hence why looking at a title means literally nothing. Look at work experience and skills. Those will tell you more about someone then a title ever could.
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We had that at my last company in the desktop support group. Management hired someone that looked good on paper, was a silver tongued devil, said all the right things, and management just glossed over.
When rubber met the road, the reality was he knew next to nothing, but he was hired as a tech level 2 (above me no less) and pawned all of his work off on me, mostly because he was unable to do it.
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@wirestyle22 Exactly why I said you should consider your audience. I don't know where you work now and I don't know what companies your applying at. I'm just saying if we're looking at a resume that said "senior petroleum logistics engineer" it's probably somebody that doesn't fit our culture.
