Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4237 mails)

[Tom Nielsen <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 24 August 2004 3:19 pm, Jim Sabatke wrote:
> > Yours is darned long, though.  Trim it down.  I'd be bored by the third
> > page and skip the rest. :)  Just MHO, of course.
A couple jobs ago I was in charge with doing initial findings for a CFO for 
our company. I had to make a Top5 recommendation. In doing so I had to go 
through over 400 resumes in less than a week. I hate to say it, but I just 
started looking at the format and length and I made my first cut based on 
that. As I started going through them I noticed that the really good guys had 
a certain look about their resumes. I ended up doing the same for mine and 
had a lot of compliments from it. 

The key I found was to keep it short and sweet. One line per item if possible. 
Keep in mind folks doing the hiring have to look at hundreds of these and 
that they don't want to read a lot.....unless they are really big companies 
and use OCR with keywords. 
-- 
Tom Nielsen
Neuro Logic Systems, Inc.
1.805.389.5435 x18
www.neuro-logic.com