.
If you want to send your resume to me, I'll be glad
to look it over and give you some feedback.
Do you have a personal website where your resume and
additional information about yourself is posted? That
is a good way to allow you to keep your printed resume
short and to the point and yet make some additional
information available.
Haven't seen yours, but many people try to include too
much info in their resume. Better to include just enough
intriguing information to arouse interest. The first
step/key is just to get interview opportunities.
Joe@Actionline.com
http://www.Actionline.com
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From:
FoulDragon@aol.com
To:
plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Sent: Tue, 23 May 2006 18:56:24 EDT
Subject: What's wrong with my resume?
> As you may have noticed from my general attitude of late, I'm having
> difficulty finding employment.
>
> Since I'll assume most of you have been able to acquire technical
> employment in the Phoenix area, I figure you're a reasonable lot to
> ask. If I were to post up my resume, would any of you be willing to
> venture opinions as to what's wrong with it? (I'd send it directly
> to those who enquire, rather than dump a 30k attachment on the list)
>
> I'm thinking there must be some sort of door-opener skill I'm
> neglecting to include, or possibly I have to figure out how to make
> OpenOffice attach a $10 bill to each resume I send out. :D
>
> Two points which can be addressed without showing the whole document,
> feel free to chime in:
>
> 1) What's reasonable for entry-level software engineer / programmer
> positions here? I see all these cute "estimator tools" and studies
> claiming numbers which frankly seem to not jive with what people say
> they're willing to offer. I can see being lowballed, but I almost
> wonder if they're going way below lowballing so they can say "well,
> we tried, write us a H1B authorization."
>
> 2) My resume gives another email address (hakfoo@gmail.com) because
> 1) I like the featureset of Gmail better and 2) I'm convinced even a
> free email site looks better than an @aol.com address. :/ Some
> friends insist I should get a firstname.lastname style address
> instead (the username I chose is an obscure cartoon character) but
> does that really make a difference? Frankly, there are plenty of
> equally obscure addresses out there, especially at popular sites
> where all the good names are taken. :D
>
> 3) Are there any employment agencies/temp firms that you'd reccomend?
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