Resume Critique
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I agree, the more you can show the home lab as a long term, solid environment, the better. To some degree, this is for the interview, but getting the idea across is good.
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How many resumes should you have? Do you have 3 or 4 different offshoots depending on what position you are applying for?
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@irj said in Resume Critique:
How many resumes should you have? Do you have 3 or 4 different offshoots depending on what position you are applying for?
I use one, maybe two at most.
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@irj said in Resume Critique:
How many resumes should you have? Do you have 3 or 4 different offshoots depending on what position you are applying for?
This is a good question that I'd also like to hear other's thoughts on. I've seen resumes that made me think "Did you apply for the right job", and so I've always tailored my resume to each job I've applied for. However, recently I applied for a job with a tailored resume for the job, and then after my first interview they started getting ideas about other things they could use me for and my second interview was mostly just answering questions that would have been answered by my resumed if I hadn't tailored it as much.
My currently thinking is to make sure your resume is relevant to the field of the job you are applying for, and only do minor tweaks.
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@flaxking said in Resume Critique:
@irj said in Resume Critique:
How many resumes should you have? Do you have 3 or 4 different offshoots depending on what position you are applying for?
This is a good question that I'd also like to hear other's thoughts on. I've seen resumes that made me think "Did you apply for the right job", and so I've always tailored my resume to each job I've applied for. However, recently I applied for a job with a tailored resume for the job, and then after my first interview they started getting ideas about other things they could use me for and my second interview was mostly just answering questions that would have been answered by my resumed if I hadn't tailored it as much.
My currently thinking is to make sure your resume is relevant to the field of the job you are applying for, and only do minor tweaks.
Pretty much. Mine are basically "tech resume" and "management resume."
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@scottalanmiller said in Resume Critique:
Imagine if someone claimed to be saving the company $100K per year by ordering plastic Bic pens instead of gold plated ones. Everyone would laugh at them for making up such a silly alternative to show value. That's what is going on here. Its' a false comparison to make something trivial and standard appear like a big success.
No way I would laugh at someone being able to accomplish this. Unless the company was just going into administration and this was part of extreme cost cutting measures, the challenges this person must have faced, the endless number of meetings needed to try to convince people they no longer get gold pens and now get plastic bic.. hats off to you sir, that is quite an accomplishment
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@EddieJennings if it's of any value, here are my two main CVs I now use. Current Summary and Current
I used to make a lot of CVs but have now realised the waste of time that was and keep it to these two ones now mostly.
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@scottalanmiller said in Resume Critique:
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@jimmy9008 said in Resume Critique:
Why are you saying I'm comparing to failure? No failure here.
IT is business. Business buying fifteen servers to do the job of one is failure. Period. That's what failure means in business - not doing things that are good for the business. You are cherry picking a massive failure (wasting $150K for no reason) and using that failure assumption (where did that come from?) to compare against "what was done."
Buying sixteen servers to do the job of one is literally just like driving the taxi into the brick wall. It's insane, illogical and no one that knows how to drive would do it. So you don't use avoiding brick walls as the baseline for success. You don't use 16,000% overprovisioning as the baseline for success, either.
I didn't say but 16 to do the job of one. I said buy one, where 16 was proposed. Showing you can help a company and steer them in a better direction saving money is a great thing.
But how did sixteen get propose and why was the company talking to someone looking to screw them like that and why was that taken seriously? See the problem? To make the Hyper-V deployment sound "cool" we have to throw the company competence under the bus. And in doing so, we take any value proposition that we add to it along with it because we've only demonstrated that "business smarts" are what was missing.
If the goal is to show business smarts, you can't push business smarts in front of the bus.
Because, whatever reason for any bad project. Whoever can stop bad solution for far better, should say that. Stopping the bollocks up project and putting something better in place is a success.
Not success that you want to brag about to someone else. Telling them that the place you worked for was incompetent but that you were at least "less incompetent" is absolutely not what you want to be showing off on your CV. You want people to want to hire you, not want to avoid you.
Also, you can't explain purchasing scenario's on a resume line. There are too many factors. Maybe that other plan included a DR site and you cut those out in going to "1" server. Maybe you run mission-critical systems that people's lives depend on and you really should have app HA, FT, and VM HA, stretched clusters and other systems and you just went cheap. Maybe the application is used by 1 person and it does nothing and ZERO servers were the right amount. The only case where discussing "number of servers" matters is if the company hiring is looking for skills associated with managing at scale (Someone with 1 Host isn't going to likely know vCenter, OpenManage or SCCM very well). A single server shop tells me that you likely are not familar with remote datacenter operations.
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I believe I'm almost to where I have a final draft. Thank you to all who have provided feedback and discussed various points of relevance throughout the thread.
Here is the most recent revision.
I altered the formatting of the skills table, so it should now be better aligned. I also altered some wording of the Network Administration section. Most notably I expanded on the few things I did with group policy.
What I see as my final decision is whether or not to keep the couple of lines about the lab I'm building at home. Part of me believes it's an asset, as it would indicate that I'm doing training outside of the day-to-day work task. Part of me believes it's a liability as so far all I've done is create / destroy VMs in a Hyper-V and KVM environment. The only current VM in "production" is my DNS server.
I'm still young within my IT career, so it's not going to be possible for me to craft an impressive, look-at-what-all-I-have-built-and-managed resume and have that resume be connected to reality at this time.
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@eddiejennings said in Resume Critique:
I'm still young within my IT career, so it's not going to be possible for me to craft an impressive, look-at-what-all-I-have-built-and-managed resume and have that resume be connected to reality at this time.
It is not about age or time in the field. I had a resume better than most people with 10-15 years experience less than 3 years in the field. Find the right job (Consulting for a partner/VAR/MSP) and this can change VERY VERY quickly.
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@eddiejennings said in Resume Critique:
Part of me believes it's a liability as so far all I've done is create / destroy VMs in a Hyper-V and KVM environment
Go do a few of the free Hands on Labs so you can speak to knowing the interface and how things work.
Get your VCP class and cert for a few hundred bucks from vmware.stanly.edu online! -
@storageninja said in Resume Critique:
@eddiejennings said in Resume Critique:
I'm still young within my IT career, so it's not going to be possible for me to craft an impressive, look-at-what-all-I-have-built-and-managed resume and have that resume be connected to reality at this time.
It is not about age or time in the field. I had a resume better than most people with 10-15 years experience less than 3 years in the field. Find the right job (Consulting for a partner/VAR/MSP) and this can change VERY VERY quickly.
And focus on your lab, and what’s missing from your resume.
