I'm so sad that I didn't keep a copy of the BEST. RESUME. EVAR.
It was from a guy applying for an engineering position. It was something like 4 pages long.
The first two pages were his employment history, which consisted entirely of 2-3 month engagements.
Then he went into his educational history, which he decided to do in forward-chronological order...starting with how he was in a magnet program for kid geniuses when he was 5, and how he won a spelling bee or something. Needless to say, his academic achievements were all downhill from there.
The last page was a list of books he was reading. The part I remember from this was something like "I'm currently reading a book on object-oriented programming. Objects are useful for storing your data and doing things to it. I'm also reading a book about threads, which are good for making your program run faster. Please see my website if you want to learn more about objects and threads."
Do you have an example of a really really good rock-star quality type of resume that runs 3 pages? You could just blank out the names and dates and so on. I've been working for 12 years almost entirely on short-term contracts. I've never worked on a project for more than a year, so I've got close to 30 seperate projects to account for. Currently I can squeeze it to 3 pages, maybe 2, but it's night impossible to get it to 1. If it gets me a job I want, I've no problem to shortening them to terse telegraph like lines. WRKED ON UNIX STOP.
Not that I'm looking for a job at the moment, but that could change in the forseeable future as I look for position$ that u$e my $ucce$$ful $en$e of deliverie$ of project$.
What are these "pages" of which you speak? Resumes in this modern age come as one big, plain text, easily searchable email, with a pile of Recruiter-Value-Added-Nonsense summary headers attached and some kind of soul-sucking boilerplate at the bottom regarding acceptable salary ranges, travel preferences, and citizenship status. 3 pages of real project sumaries, no fluff, would be fine in this context.
I have such a weird broad renaissance woman background, that I keep a full CV online, which I digest to 1-2 pages of highlights for a specific job and refer folks to the full CV if they want it.
This kind of CV is really good for monster and suchlike sites, because you get to list EVERY keyword in your history. Great for us eclectic types. Since I don't have a degree, though, it's been suggested that I put a bit in to my CV that complains of how much BS I had to put up with at some job, just so the people who scan for degrees at least take a peek. ;) Not worth it.
I finally found an executive headhunter in Boston willing to pick me up! Huzzah! I'm looking forward to having a harness to pull against again -- not to mention some folding green in the pocket...:)
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Date: 2005-11-09 07:08 am (UTC)It was from a guy applying for an engineering position. It was something like 4 pages long.
The first two pages were his employment history, which consisted entirely of 2-3 month engagements.
Then he went into his educational history, which he decided to do in forward-chronological order...starting with how he was in a magnet program for kid geniuses when he was 5, and how he won a spelling bee or something. Needless to say, his academic achievements were all downhill from there.
The last page was a list of books he was reading. The part I remember from this was something like "I'm currently reading a book on object-oriented programming. Objects are useful for storing your data and doing things to it. I'm also reading a book about threads, which are good for making your program run faster. Please see my website if you want to learn more about objects and threads."
It was the funniest, saddest thing I ever read.
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Date: 2005-11-09 02:47 pm (UTC)Do you have an example of a really really good rock-star quality type of resume that runs 3 pages? You could just blank out the names and dates and so on. I've been working for 12 years almost entirely on short-term contracts. I've never worked on a project for more than a year, so I've got close to 30 seperate projects to account for. Currently I can squeeze it to 3 pages, maybe 2, but it's night impossible to get it to 1. If it gets me a job I want, I've no problem to shortening them to terse telegraph like lines. WRKED ON UNIX STOP.
Not that I'm looking for a job at the moment, but that could change in the forseeable future as I look for position$ that u$e my $ucce$$ful $en$e of deliverie$ of project$.
-Derrick
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Date: 2005-11-09 06:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-10 04:44 pm (UTC)six pages, digestible to one
Date: 2005-11-14 06:19 pm (UTC)This kind of CV is really good for monster and suchlike sites, because you get to list EVERY keyword in your history. Great for us eclectic types. Since I don't have a degree, though, it's been suggested that I put a bit in to my CV that complains of how much BS I had to put up with at some job, just so the people who scan for degrees at least take a peek. ;) Not worth it.
I finally found an executive headhunter in Boston willing to pick me up! Huzzah! I'm looking forward to having a harness to pull against again -- not to mention some folding green in the pocket...:)