On Wed, 31 May 2000, Bob George wrote:

> "Jarvis Mark-MC33419" <Mark.Jarvis@motorola.com> wrote:
> 
> > [...]
> > FWIW, most technical people are NOT wordsmiths--get competent help on the
> > wording, etc. of your resume--it's worth it!
> 
> Now there's a thought: Would helping folks out with their resume count as
> good karma by the Open Source world? I'm not much of a programmer, but I
> write a pretty slick resume!

Aside from programming there are many ways to help in the Open Source
community. Helping others get jobs in it is one way :). There are also
many documenation projects and let's not forget turning in bug reports. If
there's a bug we want to know about it! We might not do anything about it,
but we want to know it's there :).

> I'm doing the job search myself. I've updated my resume, but am unwilling to
> chop it out to any less than four well formatted pages. I figure a resume is
> like a good novel: I need to make it compelling enough in the first couple
> of paragraphs to get anybody to read on. A page and a half of pure jargon
> without listing actual accomplishments strikes me as worse than too much
> detail (having done a fair amount of resume reviews myself lately.) If
> someone skimming it decides it's too damn long, then I'd be happier working
> elsewhere.

My feelings as well :).

ciao,

der.hans
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