Ferrari Mailing List: Re: NFC: Who's really good at critiquing resumes?

[JAshburne (JAshburne]

You may already know this:  just because you might have 10 or 20  slightly 
different versions of your resume, never ever send them out as  
"reynolds_resume_version_20"!  You don't want the recruiter wondering what  the 
first 19 
versions looked like!

 
You can save them that way on your computer or with an identifier for the  
company that it went to but what you send out should always be in the format 
of  something like "ReynoldsResume" or "Reynolds_Tom_Resume" so that your 
name is  prominent.
 
 
John
 
 
In a message dated 8/8/2009 2:41:37 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
JAshburne [at] aol.com writes:


Keep  it to two pages maximum.  Don't leave out the dates, they can   
figure 
it out if they try but most won't bother and it will go in the  discard  
pile.  Remember that most HR people and headhunters  spend less than two  
minutes 
before deciding to keep or pitch the  resume.  Besides they will  catch on 
when you show up for the  interview.  

Your age and experience is valuable even though  admittedly it is tough  
finding a job over 50.  You can't "fix  it" by hiding it so you may as well 
 
feature it and let people know  that you are not some wet behind the ears 
rookie 
but that you have lots of  experience and that you have been around and 
have  already had to  deal with most of the situations that the new job 
will   
encounter.

Make sure that you include lots of buzzwords for your  industry or 
expertise 
as resumes these days are all culled out of the  masses using search 
programs  looking for certain terms.  This  is true for online postings 
especially 
but  also for resumes  submitted directly to a search firm or a company.  
You 
want to make  sure that you trigger as many of those search criteria as   
possible.

Look at job postings that are of interest to you and  incorporate the terms 
 
used in them in your resume.  Since all  resumes are in electronic  format 
(even old fashioned paper resumes  sent by snail mail are scanned in to  
databases), modify your resume  slightly for each job application to custom 
 fit 
it to the job and to  make sure that those words and phrases appear in  the 
resume. There  is no need to have a "one size fits all" resume in this  day 
of 
easy  editing in word programs.

I'd be happy to look over your resume and  give you my 2 cents on it.

John



In a message dated  8/7/2009 4:15:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
kjtar [at] cox.net  writes:

I have a  couple versions of my resume, and I do need to  update it to 
include my latest  job at the Tulsa World.  But,  the help I need now from 
you is 
to find  someone or a few people who  have (or have recently had) day to 
day 
experience  looking at and/or  evaluating resumes.  
What should I include?   How much  detail should I provide? Do I need to 
give dates (which age me) or  do  I just need to provide the jobs I've had 
in 
order without dating  them (and  me.)?  
Anyone want to play guinea  pig/mentor/helpful  lister?
:)

Thanks very much again.
Kind  regards,
Tom   Reynolds
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