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[katiekat420]

Does anyone have a resume template that they feel is exceptional and would like to share with me? I need a "Knock-Their-Socks-Off" resume, and none of the online guides are quite good enough (10minuteresume just ain't doing it).

Any help is needed and appreciated. Thank you!

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[nhoward]

Post this in the austin community babe, just a suggestion

[katiekat420]

but it's not "austin related". maybe i should make a "austinresume" community. ;)

[nhoward]

b/c it's not austin related you can't post in there?.. What kind of shit is that, all you are doing is asking for help.

[katiekat420]

you know how those nazis are.

[thedarksyde]

There are resume templates in word.

[katiekat420]

thanks, this looks good. but i want something with more zhing! something that actually TELLS me the "action" words and how to whore myself out.

[thedarksyde]

What do you do? And what knock your socks off thing are you attempting to do?

[katiekat420]

currently, i don't do anything. hence the need for a resume. the only "special skills" i have are the ones i learned in college (no web type shit) and i'm pretty good at what i do know. i'm attempting to knock-their-socks-off so they will hire me.

it's all in the resume. it's just like a short story. if you don't grab their attention from the get-go and keep it...then you're not going to get hired.

[thedarksyde]

But what are you supposed to do.

My point is, Zingy resumes get thrown away by me. I want something to the point. At the top, all the programs and software you use, next your work experience, then a phone number. Everything else I don't even look at. If I see at the top name, and education, and voulnteen charity bla tee bla, and what not, I am not goign to get to what I need to know and throw it away before I get to what I want. But I am in software...so it is different on what you want to do.

I find the most information in the easiest way to find it, is what I look for MOST in a resume.

[katiekat420]

as i have NO experience in ANYTHING computer related, that doesn't help.

what DOES help about what you said is that i need to make my "selling-points" high on the list to grab their attention. thanks, mikey.

[jenni19]

do you want me to see if i can find a copy of my resume that my personnel agency did for me? it landed me a badass job with oxy! the key to a good resume is to keep it simple, 1 page preferrably but no more than 2 unless you're like some of these big whig geoscientists who have 5 page resumes listing all their corporate experience, international travel and published papers.

[katiekat420]

that would be awesome, jenni! some people are telling me to include a cover letter that details your objectives, while others say to keep it down to one page. i'd love to see a copy of yours so that i have a better idea of what to do. thanks!

[jenni19]

i emailed it to you but its in PDF format... let me know if you can't open it and i can re-scan it to a TIF file or try and convert it to word doc tomorrow. i'm bailing out for today... been here 11 hours and i can't even feel my toes from all the running around lol