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
Lots of recruiters in the UK use keyword searching so I have been advised by a few friends who worked as recruiters both for employment agencies, head hunters or in personnel departments for a while, to put a skills section on the top of the 1st page of my 2 page CV. I have also been told to put all experience that is not academic under employment whether the job was voluntary or not. I have basically been told to do: 1. name and contact details 2. personal statement 3. skills-technical and business 4. employment 5. education 6. anything else including personal details not part of contact details e.g. my sex, dob, other qualifications, hobbies AND to fit this on two pages in a reasonable size font with lots of white space. Lots of people argue whether its relevant to include hobbies, but I know personally of someone who only got a job because they had the same hobby as the person who interviewed them who was their immediate boss. The ones who worked for head hunters or agencies use to tell candidates with long CVs to cut them down otherwise they couldn't put them forward for a job as they knew they would automatically be rejected. The two that worked in HR departments simply put very long CVs in the rejection pile, and one of these worked for a large company. Olly NB By the way none of them work in recruitment of any form anymore as they described the job as soul destroying. -----Original Message----- From: Tom Nielsen [mailto:tom@neuro-logic.com] Sent: 24 August 2004 23:32 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Networking question On Tuesday 24 August 2004 3:19 pm, Jim Sabatke wrote: 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 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.742 / Virus Database: 495 - Release Date: 19/08/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.742 / Virus Database: 495 - Release Date: 19/08/2004