Is my Resume' Crap?
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As someone that's been in IT a while, you may want to mention some of your major achievements, you know, the real head-grabbers. If they're front and center, they (and you) will have a better chance of getting noticed. 2 pages is the going length for an IT resume.
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@scottalanmiller An eight-page resume? Wow!
@Bill-Kindle When I hire, I love to see that people are active in forums. What a great way to find out how good they are at interacting with others and solving problems. If someone linked to their Spiceworks profile, or any other IT forum, I would definitely read it and would definitely consider it a plus over other candidates. If you're only applying to large firms, then maybe @scottalanmiller is correct and they don't recruit like that, but I really don't understand why they wouldn't. I can only talk about SMBs and startups, which may not be your thing.
I'm not alone. If you look at the job listings for VisualDNA (http://www.visualdna.com/careers/vacancy/?p_id=829), a hip London startup, you'll see that they actually request that applicants give details of where they can read more about you (forums, blogs etc etc). I think this is the future of IT recruitment. Resumes alone are just too limited. I definitely think you should drive people to those sites. I would definitely employ you based on your Spiceworks profile and your blog.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@scottalanmiller An eight-page resume? Wow!
Took one entire page of dense print just to list certs. I had over 150 of them.
What I found was that at the beginning of my career my resume was short maybe two pages. It slowly grew as I added more jobs, more certs, more schools, more technologies, more achievements. Eight pages is where I capped. When I was at eight pages I still had a second four page resume that was just a list of smaller jobs that I had worked that I had trimmed from the main resume! So to have the kind of info that most people expect, I would have been at twelve pages.
Now I've started cutting back. I'm around four pages today but I don't include things like certs or education in my resume because I don't see it as very important and actively negative to any job search I might be doing. I've cut a lot of technologies off too. It used to matter if I knew certain things that today are just assumed based on my experience level.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@Bill-Kindle When I hire, I love to see that people are active in forums. What a great way to find out how good they are at interacting with others and solving problems. If someone linked to their Spiceworks profile, or any other IT forum, I would definitely read it and would definitely consider it a plus over other candidates. If you're only applying to large firms, then maybe @scottalanmiller is correct and they don't recruit like that, but I really don't understand why they wouldn't. I can only talk about SMBs and startups, which may not be your thing.
I'm obviously serious about hiring active community participants as well. If you link to a SW, ML or similar profile to talk about social media and your community involvement, that's a plus. If you send people to a quirky online project resume system as a replacement for that info on your resume, that's a negative. One is about showing your value to the industry and your ability to network, one is a substitute for what is expected.
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@scottalanmiller But the project page is sorta like a blog, detailing a project. I also have another blog, which I really need to spruce up as I don't write about anything often enough to be really proud of it. I also don't use Linkedin for much beyond keeping a ready list of contacts of professionals I know or have worked with, and for recommendations that I have received from some for past work. I only started using those because you can't get people to write actual letters anymore.
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@Bill-Kindle said:
@scottalanmiller But the project page is sorta like a blog, detailing a project. I also have another blog, which I really need to spruce up as I don't write about anything often enough to be really proud of it. I also don't use Linkedin for much beyond keeping a ready list of contacts of professionals I know or have worked with, and for recommendations that I have received from some for past work. I only started using those because you can't get people to write actual letters anymore.
Exactly. Like a blog you would never send a hiring manager there. Maybe you mention it as filler, maybe. But rarely. But never use it instead if good resume content. Assume it will never be seen.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
I'm not alone. If you look at the job listings for VisualDNA (http://www.visualdna.com/careers/vacancy/?p_id=829), a hip London startup, you'll see that they actually request that applicants give details of where they can read more about you (forums, blogs etc etc).
Nope!
Once again, my internet life and my real life are separate, and never shall the twain meet.
Besides, do they really want to read my AdultFriendFinder posts?
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@PSX_Defector said:
@Carnival-Boy said:
I'm not alone. If you look at the job listings for VisualDNA (http://www.visualdna.com/careers/vacancy/?p_id=829), a hip London startup, you'll see that they actually request that applicants give details of where they can read more about you (forums, blogs etc etc).
Nope!
Once again, my internet life and my real life are separate, and never shall the twain meet.
> Besides, do they really want to read my AdultFriendFinder posts?
I guess that would depend on the job you were apply for no?
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@Bill-Kindle said:
I guess that would depend on the job you were apply for no?
When I was at AT&T I got a call from a guy. Was helping him out and needed to email him something, so he gave me a email @vivid.com. I had to ask him if that was Vivid Video. Indeed it was!
He sent me a login to the FTP site. Let's just say I was set for certain videos for years.
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If I were to point someone toward my SW profile, reading some of my posts could come off as bad for my company - or bad mouthing them at the very least... like PSX I don't really like that idea.. but understand what Scott is saying.
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@Dashrender said:
If I were to point someone toward my SW profile, reading some of my posts could come off as bad for my company - or bad mouthing them at the very least... like PSX I don't really like that idea.. but understand what Scott is saying.
The couple of times I have ever been asked I only say that I contribute and have been a part of some product testing panels and online presentations. I'm sure some of my posts would come off bad but there's a lot more good than bad IMHO.
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I'm obviously very public. I expect people to Google me. I make a point of matching my name everywhere.
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@PSX_Defector said:
@Carnival-Boy said:
I'm not alone. If you look at the job listings for VisualDNA (http://www.visualdna.com/careers/vacancy/?p_id=829), a hip London startup, you'll see that they actually request that applicants give details of where they can read more about you (forums, blogs etc etc).
Nope!
Once again, my internet life and my real life are separate, and never shall the twain meet.
Besides, do they really want to read my AdultFriendFinder posts?
Given your writing style, that could be rather entertaining.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I'm obviously very public. I expect people to Google me. I make a point of matching my name everywhere.
i'm gonna buy scotalanmillerporn.com .net .org and get to work!
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@Hubtech said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I'm obviously very public. I expect people to Google me. I make a point of matching my name everywhere.
i'm gonna buy scotalanmillerporn.com .net .org and get to work!
I'll send you some content to post.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Hubtech said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I'm obviously very public. I expect people to Google me. I make a point of matching my name everywhere.
i'm gonna buy scotalanmillerporn.com .net .org and get to work!
I'll send you some content to post.
Touche
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Brain bleach, please!
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@IRJ said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Hubtech said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I'm obviously very public. I expect people to Google me. I make a point of matching my name everywhere.
i'm gonna buy scotalanmillerporn.com .net .org and get to work!
I'll send you some content to post.
Touche
The website's tag line would be "Driving content to a whole new level."
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@Bill-Kindle said:
@IRJ said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Hubtech said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I'm obviously very public. I expect people to Google me. I make a point of matching my name everywhere.
i'm gonna buy scotalanmillerporn.com .net .org and get to work!
I'll send you some content to post.
Touche
The website's tag line would be "Driving content to a whole new level."
Or driving you over the edge. Whichever comes first.
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Sorry for the delay, Scott, but I finally shared my resume with you. If you could look at it, when you get a chance, I'd appreciate it.
