|
There is no need whatsoever to send me a copy! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
|
|
|
|
|
Are they worth the money, or is it just a scam? Does anyone here have any experience with them? Their sites obviously tout their own effectiveness, but I'm rather sceptical about them.
I've been job hunting for some time and I'm starting to get desperate enough to try anything short of actually padding my resumé (which some people say I have to do, because everyone else does it and being truthful puts me at a disadvantage).
I have enough experience to fill five pages (keeping it as short as possible), but I'm probably doing something wrong because I get so few interviews. Do they want to see an online profile like LinkedIn? Articles on CP? Contributions to open source? A thousand "friends" on Facebook? Daily tweets of nonsensical crap? Every site I Google offers various opinions and it gets confusing after a while.
|
|
|
|
|
5 pages is way too long; keep it to a maximum of 2 pages.
Prune your experience list down to the last 2, 3 meaningful employment with only 1 important thing/feature/improvement you did for each job, and just list the other employments.
Maybe they feel you have too much experience and will just skip your resumé, or maybe they feel you've had too many jobs and feel you are not "stable" enough.
Do not forget to have a nice cover letter that you will customize for each job prospect; it should highlight your global experience in regards to that job prospect (for example if you did graphic stuff, then say it in more details in the cover letter for a graphic oriented job)
Good luck.
I'd rather be phishing!
|
|
|
|
|
Snap! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
|
|
|
|
|
5 pages? Too long!
Put yourself in the place of the employer: he wants the best person, for the least money, as quickly as possible. He gets in the morning and BAM! he has a pile of CV's that thick to wade through. How's he to choose which to interview (because interviews are a seriously long and expensive process)? Start by whittling down the pile. In the old days: bin anything with a second class stamp. Bin anything printed on a dot matrix. Bin anything too long to read quickly.
Nowadays, bin anything ugly. Bin anything misspelled. Bin anything in Comic Sans. Bin anything too long to read quickly.
What's left, you read. Then bin some, and read again.
Basically, tailor your CV to fit the role you apply for: that isn't padding, it's making the relevant parts more noticeable and the less relevant parts more "impression" than detail. Older stuff gets less detail than newer stuff, unless it's relevant and still current. 2 pages is about the limit, with an individualized cover letter.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
|
|
|
|
|
Member 12000837 wrote: I have enough experience to fill five pages
Really? After 40+ years I would struggle to fill three, but perhaps you use more words than I would.
Most employers/recruiters are only interested in the first page, and if that is not enough to sell you then they just toss your CV aside and go on to the next one. I don't know whereabouts you are but in the UK we have a surplus of young people with or without dgrees chasing very few jobs.
|
|
|
|
|
Richard MacCutchan wrote: in the UK we have a surplus of young people with or without dgrees chasing very few jobs
Yet in .NET, we have a shortage and are importing developers from all over the world.
It's weird that although there's good money to be made, a decent career that's interesting a lot of the time but most British youngsters won't consider it, or can't be bothered using their own initiative and buy a book or two and use one of the many PCs lying around dormant in people's homes across the country.
Kids from outside of the UK are doing it and reaping the rewards while ours sit round complaining about not being able to find a job putting potatoes in sacks..
Oh well. 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
|
|
|
|
|
You want chavs to take up programming?
|
|
|
|
|
Why not? Might help them overcome their affliction (or at least replace it with ours)
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
|
|
|
|
|
|
I agree with the others - two printed pages should be the maximum, and be sure to list your skills in a summary box. Scanning if you can do C#, JavaScript and some Perl without reading descriptions is a big plus.
But, in my view, the most important part is the cover letter. If I take the time to write a personal letter for a particular job that I am actually interested in and explain why I fit this particular situation, then I get a far higher rate of response. I have been lucky enough (thus far) to apply for jobs whilst having one, which allows for confidence (but not arrogance) to surface in the cover letter, and for me, it's worked extremely well to write sharp, detailed, unique and intelligent correspondence.
|
|
|
|
|
I thought I had a pretty good resume after I completed it. Just about two pages long. I've had many recruiters reach out and I would submit it to them. I always thought to myself that I hoped to have all the keywords to help me land a new position along with a detail description of projects I've worked on. I've had friends and colleagues review my resume, but I never had a professional resume writer review it. So recently, I had one done on a site called Top Resume. They did a very nice job critiquing my resume. There were many things that I didn't have on my resume that I should. Keywords that are being missed when employers are searching for them. I think it's worth to have a resume writer review and critique your resume (It's free). Then decide to pay the $100-$200 to have a pro write it for you. It could be an investment towards the job you're looking for.
|
|
|
|
|
Hmm - don't work for Top Resume at all, do you?
PooperPig - Coming Soon
|
|
|
|
|
waiting for me to let him in. He has been doing this for 12+ years now.
Would you wait at a door, for an indefinite period of time, for someone to let you in? I know I would not.
Anyhow, it is a good thing he is not a lion or tiger, for I fear that I would have been a meal, a long time ago. 
|
|
|
|
|
Slacker007 wrote: Would you wait at a door, for an indefinite period of time, for someone to let you in?
Nope, and I wouldn't let my cat wait for hours in front of the door either. Get a cat flap[^] goddammit!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
-
The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
-
I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
|
|
|
|
|
No can do. We have wild critters in the area that will come into your house (fox, raccoon, squirrel, etc.)
Also, he is an "in and out" cat. If you let him control you, then you will be letting him in and out of the house, at least 25 times a day.
|
|
|
|
|
There are cat flaps that will let only some animals in. Some work with a small badge that can be attached to the collar, and if he doesn't like wearing a collar, there are others that can read the chip under the skin and let only specific chip marked animals in.
Because he IS chipped, RIGHT?
I'm not sure if the one I posted an image of is either one, but less will do as well... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
-
The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
-
I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
|
|
|
|
|
Slacker007 wrote: We have wild critters in the area that will come into your house (fox, raccoon, squirrel, etc.)
And? Actually it's extremely unlikely that they'll use a catflap but if they do I'd rather that than having them creeping in somewhere I didn't even know there was a hole and revealing themselves only after they've set up a colony!
Slacker007 wrote: Also, he is an "in and out" cat. If you let him control you, then you will be letting him in and out of the house, at least 25 times a day.
Yes. That's your job! Are you sure you've passed your feline care licence?
|
|
|
|
|
Mine taps on the window and meows to be let in the front door.
Then walks through the house and out his cat flap in the back door... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
|
|
|
|
|
Dij just wants attention from you. That's why he makes you open the door for him
Go pet him for a while
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
|
|
|
|
|
Mine does the exact same thing.. In one door and right to the other to be let out.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
|
|
|
|
|
Most of the time I let the cats in (I have 4) when they tap on the front door. However, they often stay out over-night, and are waiting for me to let them in, in the early morning. Who knows how long they have been waiting to come in.
|
|
|
|
|
Oh, that's where my cat goes during the day, at your home! 
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
|
|
|
|
|
Mine just meows to go out of the back door. Catflap? That's only for when I'm not there to open the door.
Yup, I'm meowned.
|
|
|
|
|
Slacker007 wrote: Would you wait at a door, for an indefinite period of time, for someone to let you in?
That all depends on who that "someone" is. 
Marc
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
