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dated resumes
Dates are essential to show you were ina job long enouh to actually learn something and apply it and shwo soe evidence oif committment and follow through - job hopping, being opushe dor qutitng when it gets tough are the alternative impressions
Dont submit a pdf file - interviewers want to make notes or highlight key opoints
Dont hide your email in a header of footer or even worse forget to add it - make youself easy to copy and pastw and easy to find if you wnat someone tio make contact.
Don't semnd your cv wiht a file name of 'cv' or 'resume' - it willg e tsot - sue an intelleignt file formalt like MIckeyMouse_Accountant_Feb2012 so that if the file is saved it can be easily identified for suitable openings.
Don't ******** - state specific deliverables and numbers you can prove, not self opinions- dont cut and paste huge sections from IT manuals about products - IT Managers know what Oracle or SAP etc do, that is why they are hiring soemone with those skills- your cv is about you. the mrioe waffle you ou tin the mroe you sond likke everyone lese and the more ytour actual contribuitions get buried.
Dont make your cv hard or boring to read with waffle padding
Yoru cv is the agenda you wnat for th interveiw so don't fillit up by clinign ot be an expert on everything - if its on your cv then its reasonable for an interviewer to interrogate your claimed skill one candidate I interviewed had claimed to be an Oracle expert- when it turned out in the interview he would struggle to even spell Oracle, he then said it was covered itn 2 hours in his degree course one afternoon. So your cv should list the things you want to tall about in a way that interests the inteviewer to ask you questions about it. What is the hook in your statements to make me want to know more? 'I can programme in 25 coding languages' makes me think you have mastered none of those - whereas 'I billed 200 days last year 'or the programme I developed is now used by over 100 companies' or I raised system up time from 95% to -99.5% by developing automated audit tools" are the sort of thngs I wioukld like mys taff to do for me and I wan to knwo more aboutb how you did it and that will give you the chance to tell me how wonderful you are on a subject you know well and abou thwich have a good story to tell.
I could go on- i receive 5-10 cvs a day most are atrocious and a waste of my time. If you are a supposed IT expert and degree edcuated what standard of cv presnetation shoild I expect - do you need to bother? do you think that everyone else competing for the job has that attitude? You should at least be able to spell check format and align text and use - IT peole who can't communicate clealry and logically about themselves in a cv are unlikely to do any better with a project or a complex technical issue they have to report to sneior managers or clients so what should I conclude?
I could continue for several more pages but you get the idea. Th cv is ot get an interview not to get the job. - if in doubt make it much shorter - you will make fewer mistakes, and it will get read - and the less said the less chance of being eliminated. Just enough to show you have adequate relevant experience/qualification/skills and to set an interesting agenda for an interview.
Dont submit a pdf file - interviewers want to make notes or highlight key opoints
Dont hide your email in a header of footer or even worse forget to add it - make youself easy to copy and pastw and easy to find if you wnat someone tio make contact.
Don't semnd your cv wiht a file name of 'cv' or 'resume' - it willg e tsot - sue an intelleignt file formalt like MIckeyMouse_Accountant_Feb2012 so that if the file is saved it can be easily identified for suitable openings.
Don't ******** - state specific deliverables and numbers you can prove, not self opinions- dont cut and paste huge sections from IT manuals about products - IT Managers know what Oracle or SAP etc do, that is why they are hiring soemone with those skills- your cv is about you. the mrioe waffle you ou tin the mroe you sond likke everyone lese and the more ytour actual contribuitions get buried.
Dont make your cv hard or boring to read with waffle padding
Yoru cv is the agenda you wnat for th interveiw so don't fillit up by clinign ot be an expert on everything - if its on your cv then its reasonable for an interviewer to interrogate your claimed skill one candidate I interviewed had claimed to be an Oracle expert- when it turned out in the interview he would struggle to even spell Oracle, he then said it was covered itn 2 hours in his degree course one afternoon. So your cv should list the things you want to tall about in a way that interests the inteviewer to ask you questions about it. What is the hook in your statements to make me want to know more? 'I can programme in 25 coding languages' makes me think you have mastered none of those - whereas 'I billed 200 days last year 'or the programme I developed is now used by over 100 companies' or I raised system up time from 95% to -99.5% by developing automated audit tools" are the sort of thngs I wioukld like mys taff to do for me and I wan to knwo more aboutb how you did it and that will give you the chance to tell me how wonderful you are on a subject you know well and abou thwich have a good story to tell.
I could go on- i receive 5-10 cvs a day most are atrocious and a waste of my time. If you are a supposed IT expert and degree edcuated what standard of cv presnetation shoild I expect - do you need to bother? do you think that everyone else competing for the job has that attitude? You should at least be able to spell check format and align text and use - IT peole who can't communicate clealry and logically about themselves in a cv are unlikely to do any better with a project or a complex technical issue they have to report to sneior managers or clients so what should I conclude?
I could continue for several more pages but you get the idea. Th cv is ot get an interview not to get the job. - if in doubt make it much shorter - you will make fewer mistakes, and it will get read - and the less said the less chance of being eliminated. Just enough to show you have adequate relevant experience/qualification/skills and to set an interesting agenda for an interview.
Posted by magic1949@...
22nd Feb 2012
