Good news!
Who's got two thumbs and will be starting a new job in June?
This girl!
So, special thank-yous once again to searchyoursoul, a_real_phony, Pete, Holly, Randi, MIT, and everyone else who helped me with advice and encouragement. A special NO THANK YOU to CPHS career lab/class, which has the unique distinction of being more or less dead wrong in everything they taught me. ( ( Read more... )
This girl!
So, special thank-yous once again to searchyoursoul, a_real_phony, Pete, Holly, Randi, MIT, and everyone else who helped me with advice and encouragement. A special NO THANK YOU to CPHS career lab/class, which has the unique distinction of being more or less dead wrong in everything they taught me. ( ( Read more... )
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But what I really mean is, thank you! You are of course wonderful and I will continue to shower you with praise and gratitude.
And things that career class taught me that were wrong:
-Use an MS Works template. (um, no. they are too dense and hard on the eyes.)
-Pad your resume out to make yourself as awesome-sounding as possible. (Rather, keep it brief and relevant to your position.)
--an extension of this: 1 or 2 pages depending on your experience level is MORE than sufficient in the real world.
Things that were useful that they did not mention:
-Use specifics and achievements. ("I lowered costs on X product by 5%.")
-Mimic language used in the job posting.
-Avoid tautologies like "my experience speaks for itself" or "I've honed my skills to their sharpest"--it sounds arrogant.
The big one that got me was the brevity thing. It was such a chore to pad out semi-fake resumes for a high school class, and it's positively criminal that they wanted us to get in the habit of it.
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and yeah, fair enough that's not great advice. with MS Works though, that's probably just a technology issue. The world has come a long way since then and nearly everyone can open a pdf file these days. My preference for pdf has only been in the last year or so and came along with my paranoia about people messing with my resume for no good reason. though many online applications, i find, still SUCK SO HARD, so you have to work within their shitty limitations.
and yeah, i revamp my resume every few weeks, adding or changing little things, and then do big revamps every once in awhile. i agree specific achievements are great to list but i have a hard time deciding what is relevant...
(and see? we are old.)
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