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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I rarely speak up in threads that heat up like this, but come on! The turn this thread took is not in any way called for. This started as a very good topic "What should I put on my online resume?" That is an excellent question. The answers given so far as I see them are basically these: [ulist] * Show professional work and hobby work separated. * Be harsh on yourself and what you want to show. * Select what to show based on the kind of work you are searching for, documented coding experience for coding jobs, perhaps examples as well. A variety of different types of designexamples if you are searching for design jobs. * Be aware that in todays work-climate you will be very very lucky to have your resume read/viewed from start to end. * Be aware that seldom are the ones deciding if your resume will be read or not the same people that will actually grade you by it.[/ulist] [b]This is good advice. Use it.[/b] I'd like to offer more: Today a very large part of medium to large companys recruiting are handled by outside recuiting companies that work the pile of resumes picking 5-10 that will be seen by the actual company. This means that the general online resume matters a lot less nowadays as it did yesterday. What you really need to do is to target the resume to the readers, it's not there for you, it's there for them to quickly see in a quick screen of the resume. If this means that you need to concentrate on buzzwords and short hooks to reel them in for a longer read you should do just that. Do include the stuff you are proud of but don't count on that beeing the thing that will catch their eyes unless it's totally mindboggling out of this world stuff and exactly what they are looking for! Today, here in Sweden even Doc's site would be hard pressed to make that sort of impression even as good as it is. And this I do know for a fact. Appr 2 years back, I got the Doc a job interview at a place I worked at. They wanted someone with solid, documented design & coding skills plus an exceptional ability to design AND code working webbased application interfaces for one of their products. Does this sound like the Doc? I thought so. They ended up hiring a younger guy with more focus on serverside coding and a decent to good interface knowledge. Why? One of the reasons that I found out later was that Docs site was too creative and intense. In this case the site actually worked against him. Now I don't live in the US or Switzerland, I've visited the US a couple of times and have family there, Switzerland I have no relation to at all so naturally I can't say how it works there. My assumption however from working full time for 22 years and beeing in the IT-business from the current buzzword "internet" to today is that it cannot be that different in either of the places based on the current world economy. Getting a job is hard, getting a job in this business is even harder, getting the job you really really want in this business is next to impossible if you don't create it yourself. This means that when asking the initial question asked in this thread, you take the advice given, you evaluate it and apply it as you see fit to your situation. All the replies given here are based on personal experiences and opinions that may or may not apply to your situation. One thing is for sure though, they are all given with good intentions! If not, you would not see posts that obviously took 10-30 minutes to type! If someone wants to insult someone else it can be done in a lot less lines of text and it sure wouldn't be mixed with good honest advice. Cheers/Dan [url=http://www.dmsproject.com/] [img]http://www.dmsproject.com/gif/newSiggie.gif[/img] [/url] [url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/FaqWiki/shownode.php?sortby=rating&id=260]{cell 260}[/url] -{ a vibration is a movement that doesn't know which way to go }- Loading...
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