Resume work
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I wonder if chatGPT would be able to help. It certainly does structure things nicely when I've asked it to create a manual for example.
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What pay range should I be looking at? So many ranges out there it's hard to know what's real.
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@CCWTech said in Resume work:
What pay range should I be looking at? So many ranges out there it's hard to know what's real.
Most job postings won't be serious ones, so just accept that now.
With your experience, you for sure should be looking at better paying positions.
Spillman still sucks, if you haven't stayed current on that.
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@travisdh1 What is 'better paying' what range?
And how do you know Spillman?
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@CCWTech said in Resume work:
@travisdh1 What is 'better paying' what range?
And how do you know Spillman?
Pay range depends a LOT on location of the job offering. A couple examples from my life.
- Cleveland, OH ~$40,000/year. Basically poverty wage.
- Wooster, OH ~$40,000/year. Living well.
- Fairlawn, OH ~$60,000/year. Around the same as Wooster at 40k
Those values get to be hugely different depending on the area of the country, and I'd expect them to be around the lowest in the country because of the cost of living in Ohio compared to most of the rest of the U.S.
I have my CJIS cert and supported Spillman for multiple police departments and a county sheriff at my previous job.
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@travisdh1 That's a lot lower than I expected. Like you said, depends on the area...
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@CCWTech said in Resume work:
Here you go!Here's my constructive criticism. It's gonna sound harsh, but it's needed criticism.
I would throw this resume in the trash and start over from scratch.
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In my hiring and interviewing experiences, rarely are small business where you are owner even considered as experience. The exception being if you can show decent revenue and/or fortune 1000 customers. Your business was an actual full time gig, and not a side job. I get that. However, that doesn't change the fact nearly everyone puts their own company on their resume and 99% of time it's means virtually nothing.
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Also, I promise you that nobody cares that you were a cop 15 years ago. Not sure why that is even on your resume, let alone taking up 1/3rd of the page. If you absolutely most list it, make it a single line
What I would do to fix problem 1 is take your 2008-now job and break it up into small pieces (like 5-8 years) and create separate job titles and descriptions that describe projects you were doing at the time. Another thing you could do is add customers themselves (if you have any impressive ones you supported for years). You basically need separate IT job descriptions to make your experience feel much fuller and complete.
Lastly, build the resume for the jobs you want, don't spend so much time worrying about boring things you did or do on your job description. You're trying to sell me on calling you in for an interview. I don't care about mundane tasks...
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@travisdh1 said in Resume work:
@CCWTech said in Resume work:
@travisdh1 What is 'better paying' what range?
And how do you know Spillman?
Pay range depends a LOT on location of the job offering. A couple examples from my life.
- Cleveland, OH ~$40,000/year. Basically poverty wage.
- Wooster, OH ~$40,000/year. Living well.
- Fairlawn, OH ~$60,000/year. Around the same as Wooster at 40k
Those values get to be hugely different depending on the area of the country, and I'd expect them to be around the lowest in the country because of the cost of living in Ohio compared to most of the rest of the U.S.
I have my CJIS cert and supported Spillman for multiple police departments and a county sheriff at my previous job.
Ii don't know where you are getting this info from, but a quick search on LinkedIn for Cleveland, Ohio Jobs shows this is not the case.
Also, I get contacted for remote jobs on daily basis for well over $100k
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@CCWTech said in Resume work:
What pay range should I be looking at? So many ranges out there it's hard to know what's real.
What job do you want? If you want to be an IT generalist then pretty low as some others have trouble breaking out of that type of job.
If you want to do something more specialized, you'll get paid quite a bit more on top end. However, you'll have to take a junior role (likely) to get there. Junior roles will probably pay similar to IT generalist, but you won't have the level of power you do as a generalist
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@IRJ said in Resume work:
@travisdh1 said in Resume work:
@CCWTech said in Resume work:
@travisdh1 What is 'better paying' what range?
And how do you know Spillman?
Pay range depends a LOT on location of the job offering. A couple examples from my life.
- Cleveland, OH ~$40,000/year. Basically poverty wage.
- Wooster, OH ~$40,000/year. Living well.
- Fairlawn, OH ~$60,000/year. Around the same as Wooster at 40k
Those values get to be hugely different depending on the area of the country, and I'd expect them to be around the lowest in the country because of the cost of living in Ohio compared to most of the rest of the U.S.
I have my CJIS cert and supported Spillman for multiple police departments and a county sheriff at my previous job.
Ii don't know where you are getting this info from, but a quick search on LinkedIn for Cleveland, Ohio Jobs shows this is not the case.
Also, I get contacted for remote jobs on daily basis for well over $100k
I hear that from a much larger amount of people here than any other groups I've ever interacted with. Good for you, but that's far from the norm.
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@travisdh1 said in Resume work:
@IRJ said in Resume work:
@travisdh1 said in Resume work:
@CCWTech said in Resume work:
@travisdh1 What is 'better paying' what range?
And how do you know Spillman?
Pay range depends a LOT on location of the job offering. A couple examples from my life.
- Cleveland, OH ~$40,000/year. Basically poverty wage.
- Wooster, OH ~$40,000/year. Living well.
- Fairlawn, OH ~$60,000/year. Around the same as Wooster at 40k
Those values get to be hugely different depending on the area of the country, and I'd expect them to be around the lowest in the country because of the cost of living in Ohio compared to most of the rest of the U.S.
I have my CJIS cert and supported Spillman for multiple police departments and a county sheriff at my previous job.
Ii don't know where you are getting this info from, but a quick search on LinkedIn for Cleveland, Ohio Jobs shows this is not the case.
Also, I get contacted for remote jobs on daily basis for well over $100k
I hear that from a much larger amount of people here than any other groups I've ever interacted with. Good for you, but that's far from the norm.
Jimbo's Corner Manufacturing or Pat's Consulting isn't going to pay anyone in IT more than $45k-$85k base a year. Ignore all of those jobs, and search for remote jobs and jobs in cities. Tailor your resume for those and push for remote. Look for more specialized roles and sys admin/eng or product owner types. Those are the ones paying $120k-$220k base.
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@Obsolesce said in Resume work:
@travisdh1 said in Resume work:
@IRJ said in Resume work:
@travisdh1 said in Resume work:
@CCWTech said in Resume work:
@travisdh1 What is 'better paying' what range?
And how do you know Spillman?
Pay range depends a LOT on location of the job offering. A couple examples from my life.
- Cleveland, OH ~$40,000/year. Basically poverty wage.
- Wooster, OH ~$40,000/year. Living well.
- Fairlawn, OH ~$60,000/year. Around the same as Wooster at 40k
Those values get to be hugely different depending on the area of the country, and I'd expect them to be around the lowest in the country because of the cost of living in Ohio compared to most of the rest of the U.S.
I have my CJIS cert and supported Spillman for multiple police departments and a county sheriff at my previous job.
Ii don't know where you are getting this info from, but a quick search on LinkedIn for Cleveland, Ohio Jobs shows this is not the case.
Also, I get contacted for remote jobs on daily basis for well over $100k
I hear that from a much larger amount of people here than any other groups I've ever interacted with. Good for you, but that's far from the norm.
Jimbo's Corner Manufacturing or Pat's Consulting isn't going to pay anyone in IT more than $45k-$85k base a year. Ignore all of those jobs, and search for remote jobs and jobs in cities. Tailor your resume for those and push for remote. Look for more specialized roles and sys admin/eng or product owner types. Those are the ones paying $120k-$220k base.
It's because of advice from everyone here that I finally broke the 40k salary range. It'll be because of advice like yours @Obsolesce that I'm confident I'll continue to imporive when it's time to move on.
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@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.
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@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.
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@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.
